Toronto’s Live With Culture campaign is taking artwork and performance out of the galleries and theatres and bringing it to where people live, work and commute. Eglinton subway station has been transformed into a “culture station” featuring visual arts, film and in-station performances for the month of October. Ten “Culture Cars” are also travelling the city featuring in-car entertainment, ranging from poetry readings to musical performances.
The art has taken over all of Eglinton Station, including a photographic mural of Yonge Street from the waterfront to Finch Avenue and a synthetic forest populated by tree-like forms and armor clad critters displayed in a natural landscape of grass and bark mulch hills. It’s a little like an “authorized” version of the subway parties some folks like to throw — good things in the spaces we use everyday.
The recently launched Live With Culture website is becoming quite a portal for arts and cultural events in the city. Check it out. You can submit events you want listed as well, and they seem to be listing a wide range of things — from independent sidewalk level stuff to the fancy art parties — all the reasons why we choose to live in the big city.
