Don’t forget to come to the uTOpia launch this Sunday at the Gladstone Hotel. Come by during the day and bring the kids or at night only with kids who have fake IDs. Spacing is sponsoring a panel on public space at 2pm, and advance copies of our new issue on public art will be on sale, a whole 4 days before our launch at the Arts and Letters club. It’s also a chance to pick up a [murmur] map (by Marlena Zuber who also did one of the uTOpia maps). This week’s Now Magazine has re-printed John Lorinc’s uTOpia piece on stripmalls (Lorinc also wrote agreat piece on RC Harris in Spacing‘s new issue). All the info is below.
uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto
Launch | Sunday, November 20, 2005
The Gladstone Hotel | 1214 Queen St. W., Toronto
$5 or free if you buy a book | 2.00 to 5.00 p.m.
Panels, activities and more. We’ll talk public, private and political space, hold mayoral auditions, teach you how to garden like a guerrilla, ask you to redesign your favourite building on a napkin and give the CN Tower a makeover. Bring your kids!
2:00 p.m: Panel 1 — Public Space — Sponsored by Spacing
A look at how Toronto functions as a community in the use of its public spaces, with emphasis on how we can better use our public spaces in the future.
Featuring:
Mark Kingwell
Jonny Dovercourt
Lorraine Johnson
Erik Rutherford
Shawn Micallef (Moderator)
3:00 p.m.: Panel 2 — Private Space — Sponsored by Pages Books & Magazines and Coach House Books
The city is made up of individuals. Each of us has our own version of Toronto. This panel will examine how individual contribution and vision shape the city.
Featuring:
Sheila Heti
Bert Archer
Sally McKay
Misha Glouberman (Moderator)
4:00 p.m.: Panel 3 — Political Space — Sponsored by rabble.ca’s book lounge
Panelists will examine how the public and private meet in the political realm and how we can improve the city through political action.
Featuring:
Dave Meslin
Heather McLean
Darren O’Donnell
Adam Vaughan
Edward Keenan (Moderator)
8.00 p.m. to midnight
A TOast and some TOmfoolery, featuring music by Republic of Safety, Free School and special guests.
Sponsored by
Pages’ This Is Not a Reading Series, NOW Magazine, Spacing, and rabble.ca’s book lounge.
