Each Monday, Spacing will bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montréal. We’ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto.
• If Calgary can do it, why can’t we? is a post about postering. Montréal has fewer legal postering spaces than Calgary (or Toronto, thanks to the defeat of the anti-postering bylaw a few years ago), which is a shame, since Montréal’s posters are often amazing.
• Check out An elegy for Griffintown, featuring a new music video for the song “à‰mile Bertrand,” by the group United Steel Workers of Montréal. Named after a local watering hole, the video is rich in visual imagery of the city.
• This September marks the return of an exciting public art event — the 8e manifestation internationale de Champ Libre. Founded in 1992, Champ Libre is “a nomadic electronic arts organization and research laboratory that presents in situ events” and “transforms a different public space and building and proposes to the visitor an original intervention, a sensitive experience and knowledge of these places stamped with new urbanity.”