Spacing Senior Editor Shawn Micallef will be in Ottawa tomorrow, May 3rd, to give a talk on walking at the Jane’s Walk Ottawa kickoff event at the Hub at 7PM. Come on out and get your pre-walk walk-on (or something like that). More from our friend’s at Jane’s Walk:
Jane’s Talk will be held at The Hub, 71 Bank Street (6th Floor)
Shawn Micallef loves to walk–and he’s thought a lot about why. Since moving to Toronto in 2000, he’s been taking to the streets and has captured his wandering in his writings, micro-blogging, and ultimately in his book Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto, (Coach House, 2010).
As we launch Jane’s Walk 2012, we’ve invited Shawn to help us re-think how we walk. How can wandering the streets of Ottawa help us better understand our city? How can we have fun getting to know our city through psychogeography and what are some practical tools we can use to engage with our city though walking? (And just what is psychogeography anyway?)
Jane’s Talk is an annual event launching the Jane”s Walk Ottawa weekend of free, citizen-led walking tours. Admission is free, thanks to support from the City of Ottawa. Visit www.janeswalkottawa.org for a full listing of walks or email jane@janeswalkottawa.org for more information.
More on Shawn Micallef
Shawn Micallef is a Canadian Journalism Fellow at Massey College, the author of Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto (Coach House, 2010), and a senior editor and co-owner of the independent, Jane Jacobs Prize winning magazine Spacing. In 2002, while a resident at the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab, he co-founded [murmur] the location-based mobile phone documentary project. Begun in Toronto’s Kensington Market, the project has spread throughout the city and to more than twenty cities globally. He was the founding editor of the weekly Toronto web magazine, Yonge Street, is an instructor at the Ontario College of Art and Design, and was a columnist with Eye Weekly. He writes about cities, culture, buildings, art, and politics in books, magazines, newspapers, and websites.