Culture
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The nights nobody saw
Tommy Taylor is a Hamilton/Toronto-based playwright, documentary theatre artist and former frontline shelter and harm reduction worker. For years, I...
By Tommy Taylor -
Bringing art to cemeteries
Looking through a bright and colorful door set against an open grass field, the serene landscape of Mount Pleasant Cemetery shifts. Framed by the doorway...
By Aiden Fung -
Wicked transportation
Remember Wicked: For Good? This time last year the internet buzzed with analysis of the trailer before the second movie hit theatres. Now, as spooky...
By Emily Macrae -
2026 Winners of the Toronto Heritage Awards
On Wednesday night, Heritage Toronto announced the winners of the 51st Annual Heritage Toronto Awards, presented by Aird & Berlis. Six winners were...
By Spacing -
Intersections of print culture in Toronto’s laneways
The handprinted broadside below was one of my first and most memorable encounters with the works of Glenn Goluska (1947-2011), celebrated today as one of...
By Leora Bromberg -
VIDEO: Art of Maintenance
In this walk, roll, and talk, Artmap visits two of their most-loved public art spaces, each commissioned 10 years apart: Diamond Jubilee Promenade (2015...
By Artmap.ca / AccessArt -
OP-ED: What Does Toronto Remember?
Lisa Ditschun is an artist, urbanist, educator, and PhD candidate at Trent University whose ongoing research-creation project, Cities for Seven...
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Zine gives space to unheard cycling voices (part 2)
Read part 1 of this conversation. Sabat Ismail (SI) met with Rachel Wang, Sylver Sterling, and Jess Nachman, creators and editors of the Journey Lines...
By Sabat Ismail -
Zine gives space to unheard cycling voices (part 1)
Sabat Ismail (SI) met with Rachel Wang, Sylver Sterling, and Jess Nachman, creators and editors of the Journey Lines zine, to discuss the zine and its...
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LORINC: Toronto becomes RogersTown
Amazingly and shockingly, after years of public hand-wringing in Canada about the inflationary consequences of over-concentrated sectors (banking...
By John Lorinc -
Porch Perspectives
This story is published in conjunction with Spacing’s upcoming “summer reading” issue, which will be available on bookstore shelves shortly. I approach an...
By Kaede Ashizawa -
What youth want for the 2026 World Cup
This article is published in conjunction with the new issue of Spacing focused on soccer in Toronto. Soccer may be the beautiful game, but this summer’s...
By Josh Fullan