Starting on Thursday, Style in Progress will be hosting a four day graffiti festival: DJs, Hip Hop events, wall murals and art shows. The events take part all over downtown — in Kensington, along the back alley of Queen West, Dundas Square, the Berkley Church….
I’m excited to see Rush Lane get a facelift. The alley is one of my favourite parts of the city. Click here to see the posters and event details.
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Congratulations on the one thousandth post to the Wire.
I don’t understand why you denounce an ad placed flat on a sidewalk and then celebrate an event that has a poster where the stately Great Hall at Dovercourt and Queen is splashed in truly obscene graffiti.
^Of course I know that the Great Hall won’t be desecrated by this “graffiti festival”, but the poster is in really poor style (no pun intended).
This festival is sanctioned by property owners and the city. Sidewalk stencil ad campaigns are not.
These nerds had to run right onto the web to hate on a festivle funded and supported by the city. David Miller spoke on it recently while talking about our Bell Box restoration project. I understand that some of you can’t relate to it because you’re not involved in hip hop culture. Stencil ads were not done by Style In Progress. If they were, don’t you think we’d spell “Yonge” right?
The poster is a fantasy drawing by that artist. You see mock art all the time in many different scenarios.
Anyway, thanks for promoting the event. If you don’t understand it then it’s simple. Don’t attend. The tens of thousands of people who did attend our events over the last 4 days DID understand it and as a result they had a blast.
Nice said Sonny.