{"id":1790,"date":"2013-04-26T09:06:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T13:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/?p=1790"},"modified":"2013-06-20T10:00:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T14:00:25","slug":"dear-city-write-a-public-love-letter-to-your-canadian-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2013\/04\/26\/dear-city-write-a-public-love-letter-to-your-canadian-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear City \u2014 write a public love letter to your Canadian city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you love your city? Or perhaps your feelings are more complex? If you can fit it in 140 characters, we want to share it with the rest of Canada on a billboard as part of a new public art project. Your voice matters. Join other urbanists in a public dialogue about the issues affecting our daily lives in the cities we inhabit.<\/p>\n<p>Tweet a 140 character letter to your city to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dearcitycanada\">@DearCityCanada<\/a> Twitter account. All acceptable* letters will be displayed on mall screens across Canada for two weeks this June, reaching 5 million people a week. The best letters will be displayed on outdoor digital billboards across Canada this summer, and of course letters will be retweeted via the @DearCityCanada account.<\/p>\n<p>Start your tweet by indicating your city. For example \u201c@DearCityCanada Dear [name of your city] &#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Participating billboard cities: Vancouver, Surrey, Abbotsford, Pitt Meadows, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg, Sudbury, Kitchener, Hamilton, Toronto, Peterborough, Kingston, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Moncton, and Halifax.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deadline for your letters is June 15th, 2013.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Public space is no longer only comprised of physical structures; it&#8217;s now a place where the complex interaction of physical and electronic spaces happens. Public screens\u00a0 and digital billboards offer new sites for public conversations to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Only letters to the digital billboard location cities will have a chance of being seen in those cities. Other Dear City letters will have the opportunity to be seen in malls across Canada.<\/p>\n<p>(Due to Quebec french language laws, letters to Quebec cities must be in french.)<\/p>\n<p>For more information visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artintransit.ca\/archives\/portfolio\/dear-city-canada-summer-2013\">Art in Transit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Co-Produced by Spacing Magazine and Pattison Onestop.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>*We can&#8217;t include letters that violate the Canadian human rights act, are libelous or slanderous, give out personal information, or include profanity.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you love your city? Or perhaps your feelings are more complex? If you can fit it in 140 characters, we want to share it with the rest of Canada on a billboard as part of a new public art project. Your voice matters. 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