RELEASE PARTY DETAILS:
DATE: Tuesday, August 25, 2009
LOCATION: Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West
COST: $10, includes a magazine. $5 for subscribers
TIME: 7:30pm to 1am
RSVP: Please visit our Facebook listing to rsvp
As with each issue, Spacing throws a release party to bring together the editors, writers, readers and subscribers of the magazine. The night includes games, door prizes, good conversation, and good tunes to dance along to late into the night.
The revenue generated at Spacing’s release parties helps keep the number of ads within the magazine to a minimal amount. Your attendance at our parties helps keep the magazine afloat.
Update: We’ll be giving out two weekly TTC pass doorprizes + t-shirts, donated by TUFF, the Toronto Urban Film Festival.
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The new issue of Spacing will be out on newsstands August 25th. If you’re a subscriber you’ll be receiving it in the mail around this date.
As you can see by the above cover image, the issue’s cover section focuses on Toronto’s suburbs. The city faces its greatest challenges and opportunities in these areas. Spacing senior editor Dylan Reid presents compelling examples of how the suburbs can evolve instead of trying to be reinvented. Spacing’s other senior editor, Shawn Micallef, examines the walkable community of Dorset Park in Scarborough. Our writers explore such things as plans for a downtown Mississauga, environmentalists in Markham, urban farming in subdivisions, the makeover of downtown North York, Burlington’s successful waterfront, and how youth are being engaged to shape the future of their suburban communities.
If you want to grab an issue in a store, you can look up a location near you or you can make the editors very happy and subscribe to the magazine.
6 comments
I was thinking, it might have been fun to launch your suburbia issue in suburbia. I’m sure the Scarborough Civic Centre would have loved to host it. =)
Laura — we talked about and poked about for a long time trying to find the right venue for this launch — we wanted to do it in the suburbs. However, the reason we settled on downtown again is simply because it’s too risky for us. The launches are such an important part of our economic model that we can’t risk throwing the party outside the core (though we’d love to) and then not enough people show up. We debated “will they come” and while we’re pretty sure lots would (and new people, too) the element of financial risk was just too much, so we played it safe.
Have fun – I’m off on an airplane today.
Will you have a subscriber list handy or do we need to bring some sort of “proof” like an address label from the magazine? Thanks!
Yes we have a list of all of our subscribers
Have a great time. I really would have wanted to come but I’m flying out tonight. I am excited for this issue, as I live out in Vaughan. Once again, enjoy tonight and take pride in our incredible city!