Last night, Spacing celebrated the release of our People Issue, the 12th installment of the magazine. We had a blast in the rec-room-styled Canadian Corps legion hall near the Bathurst-King intersection. Rannie Turingan set-up a photo station that captured Spacing’s readers at their best — the results can easily be viewed on our Flickr account.
We’ve pulled out a few gems (click on the continued reading link to see more), while you can also see random photos throughout the venue taken by Yvonne Bambrick.
Chris Carlsson, founder of Critical Mass; Yvonne Bambrick of Pedestrian Sundays and Toronto Cyclists Union
Peggy Nash, MP of Parkdale-High Park; Cheri DiNovo, MPP of Parkdale-High Park
MPP Michael Prue, and NDP leadership candidate
Gord Perks, Parkdale-High Park city councillor
Our host George from the Canadian Corps
Spacing’s editorial team
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I see hipsters really are the end of civilization as we know it.
Did their dads drink Canadian Club?
Great party guys and gals! It was amazing to see such a wide variety of people show up tho your events: politicians, bike activists, the nerdy, the regulars, and the hipsters. Its great that you can pull together a mix like that as these cliques seem to rarely overlap. Derision of one group (like the above comment) either is case of bad skills of communicating sarcasm or from someone who didn’t attend.
And since when did Michael Prue and Peggy Nash become hipsters? 😉
Haha it was a cheeky reference to an Adbusters article, Sonia. Joe actually loves us.
Although the author of that piece should have realized in Toronto some hipsters have a radical streak like Spacers. Maybe the hipsters in Vancouver just suck.
what is it with white people and scarves? Like bees to honey…
You mean one white woman and her scarf?
It was chilly out Tuesday night, this weird early fall, so there were some scarves out. Maybe Canadians and scarves are bees to honey? Scarves are a helluva’n accessory. I suspect, though, Will reads too much of that “Things white people like” blog and thinks anything a white person does can be applied to all white people and then softly ridiculed.
Regarding Hipsters — what is a hipster? I admit I too think they are the end of civilization sometimes — in the sense of the decadent folks running around during the fall of Rome, or those seen in La Dolcha Vita (though that would be the Eurotrash Jet Set being the end of civilization — but kind of the same, with less money).
I may be protesting too much, because I probably fall into somebody’s definition of hipster, but I define that word as the cool hedonists who are into the right bands and bars, but it doesn’t go so deep to be committed to anything in particular. I don’t think hipsters vote. On the other hand, there are lots of people who dress in that direction, but have no idea what the good bands are, and would be ridiculed by a hipster for suggesting anything, because they just-don’t-know.
The folks at the Spacing launch were well dressed, as you can see — I think Toronto in general is fairly well dressed (quiet, Montrealers & Londoners) but what Kevin calls radical I simply call “committed” to civic things (big umbrella — I don’t know where all these people fit on the spectrum but my feeling is people are generally moving around the post-ideology space that is opening up in Canada — though that’s another long essay someday). So to write off people because of how they look is silly. We care about the aesthetics of curbs, bus shelters, buildings and fonts — why shouldn’t people care about their particular personal look as well?
Peggy Nash was on MTV live with me for a little clip about “Bike Friday”… that is probably when she got hip 😉
What is a hipster?
A scape-goat! What are the worlds problems? I’ll blame it on this group of quiet awkward artsy kids from the burbs who feel they can finally be all artsy and weird together.
Instead of introspection and making a difference through my own actions- I’ll bash some ambiguous group skinny kids with scarfs so I can feel better about my own social short-comings.
Yes! The world’s problems are all because of someone else. Not me! And look how cool I am by bashing the ‘cool’ kids!
I’m so proactive!
(Can somebody define hipster before they bash it? And how does everyone like being grouped in as a hippie? Labeling prevents us from true understanding and working with each other. A name is a name is a name. Stop the categorizing and maybe start a conversation.)
Spacing magazine and what it’s doing is great. I have nothing against you fine people. Keep it up.
One comment on here brought up the issue of scarfs and white people. First off, lets not be so ignorant and intolorable. Not only white people are wearing these afghan and TFC scarfs, it’s the general mainstream folks. And that’s fine, let them. What puzzles me is when TFC supporters wear them in 35+ degree weather in the middle of summer(or even indoors for that matter) What’s up with that?
Anywho.. no more fashion bashing, as probably someone’s dissing me(haha) That’s just how we are.
wow,toronto’s people are just lame.
they look lame.
they have some kind of false coolness about their expression.
i can only imagine what a toronto paty is like.
one beer, maybe a small glass of locally produced wine. posture to look cool. and then nothing.