Culture
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STREET SCENE: ROYAL
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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FAVOURITE FRIDAY: Which piece of local public art is your favourite?
Across the Spacing Blog Network today we are asking our readers in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Otttawa, and the Atlantic cities to let us know which...
By Matthew Blackett -
Still a few days to cast your vote in the Toronto Urban Film Festival
Our friends at the TUFF — the Toronto Urban Film Festival — have 63 silent, one minute films for you to vote on. Go check them all out here...
By Shawn Micallef -
Park(ing) Day!
Today, Friday, September 16th, is PARK(ing) Day! In cities around the globe, artists, activists and citizens will transform metered parking spaces into...
By Hilary Best -
Free City Press: Turning Gallery Space into a Community Hub
It’s Thursday afternoon, and though the Free City Press’s submission deadline was yesterday, Editor-in-Chief J.P. King is still hashing out ideas with his...
By Hilary Best -
Event Guide: Raucous Caucus – Creating Theatre in Outdoor Landscapes
WHAT: Raucous Caucus – Creating Theatre in Outdoor Landscapes WHEN: Saturday, July 23rd at 11am. WHERE: Ward’s Island HOW MUCH: $60 This...
By Bronwyn Clement -
SPACING RADIO: David Anderson (Clay and Paper Theatre)
Spacing Radio is very pleased to announce a partnership with The STEPS Initiative! STEPS (Sustainable Thinking and Expression on Public Space) is a...
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LORINC: The potential locked up in Pecaut Square
Earlier this year, Mayor Rob Ford re-dedicated the interstitial space next to Metro Hall as David Pecaut Square — a classy tribute to a classy guy, whose...
By John Lorinc -
Hot Docs: Foreign Parts
Foreign Parts has the aura of a Discovery Channel special: the audience’s job is to watch and learn. The tone and pace of the film make it feel like an...
By Jacqueline Whyte Appleby -
Hot Docs: The Interrupters
Thoughout The Interrupters, the streets of Chicago are repeatedly called a “war zone.” While this is a phrase repeated by wide-eyed, blonde Fox reporters...
By Jacqueline Whyte Appleby -
Hot Docs: St-Henri, the 26th of August
In 1962, three Quebec filmmakers collaborated on St-Henri, le cinq Septembre, a project documenting working class life in the Montreal neighbourhood of...
By Jacqueline Whyte Appleby -
Hot Docs: Battle for Brooklyn
It was once said of Robert Moses that, “He loves the public, but not as people.” Moses was of course the modernist “master-builder” of 20th -century New...
By Brett Story