WHAT: Release party for Spacing’s 2nd national issue
WHERE: CSI Annex, ground floor (720 Bathurst, 1 block south of Bloor)
WHEN: Thursday. Feb. 16th, 8pm-1am
COST: free! (mags for sale for $5)
RSVP: Feel free to let us know you’re coming at our Facebook listing
Come out to celebrate the new edition of Spacing, the magazine’s second national issue. We are taking over the ground floor of the Annex location of the Centre for Social Innovation. We’ll have a DJ playing music, a photobooth station, lots of merchandise and back issues.
We’ve also secured a handful of awesome prizes to be raffled off. You’ll be able to win stuff from these retailers and businesses: Gladstone Hotel (free night’s stay), Curbside (bike lights), Bike Union (year membership), Autoshare (family car-sharing membership), Stasis Preserves (jams), Outer Layer (gift card for cool tchotchkes), True North Climbing (gift pass), Blue Banana (gift pack), Midoco (gift card for art supplies), Kula Yoga (month of classes), and Carrot Common (event rental space). And more to come!
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ISSUE:
• Q&A with Mayor Gregor Robertson: Can he become North America’s greenest mayor?
• The Rise of Roadsworth/Peter Gibson: Contributing editor Christopher DeWolf looks back how this stencil graffiti artist transformed the streets of Montreal and changed how we view street art
• Urbanism for a New Century: Spacing senior editor Dylan Reid outlines the urban design trends of the last decade and where city-building is headed in Canada
There are also loads of photos, book reviews, and features on the details of Canadian cities.
Copies of this issue will begin to arrive for subscribers after Feb 6th. Newsstand copies will be available across Canada the week of Feb. 6th.
Roadsworth photo by Tristan Brand /// Gregor Robertson photos by Mischa Bartkow
