Culture
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Playing aground with installation in Parkdale
Do you like making art but find that Nuit Blanche keeps you up too far past your bedtime? Well, maybe submitting to PLAY/GROUNDS, a new festival of...
By Leah Sandals -
Making CONTACT with transit art issues
As ample local coverage reminds us, the CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival — which is apparently, now the world’s largest photo fest in...
By Leah Sandals -
Lukewarm doc on global hotness & cool city politics flick
Hot Docs is almost — but not quite! — over and there’s still lots of films worth seeing. Here’s one for Mr. Baird & Mr. Harper to kick...
By Leah Sandals -
Urban Field Speakers Series — Nelson Brissac lecture
Tonight at Prefix Gallery in 401 Richmond, Nelson Brissac will be talking about recent changes in global industry (particularly mining and steel...
By Shawn Micallef -
Let’s all love movies about hating Toronto and about what terrible gentrifiers we are
Last night, a few Spacing editors had an opportunity to screen two, I would say, very important new documentaries about Toronto: Let’s All Hate...
By Leah Sandals -
Call for Urban Interventions: Madrid
Pictures, an intervention by Mandla Reuter that featured at Madrid Abierto 2007. MADRID ABIERTO 2008: CALL FOR ARTISTS Deadline: 15th June 2007 For more...
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Got public space issues? Doc ’em, hotly, this month
Though our city is dang cold, Hot Docs excitement is building. In sifting through the program I spotted the following films of special interest to various...
By Leah Sandals -
Vimy Ridge
An interesting fact about the square kilometer of land surrounding the Canadian National Vimy Memorial found on Hill 145 in the the Pas-de-Calais is that...
By Shawn Micallef -
My street furniture includes… chalkboards
While debates rage on about the future of Toronto’s sidewalk-styled chesterfields and such, a Halifax art student is taking the question of...
By Leah Sandals -
Hometown airbag
Yesterday the wind was howling through downtown Windsor and the snow was fading the Detroit skyline in and out. There were few pedestrians to break...
By Shawn Micallef -
Mobile Nation in Toronto
Later this week, from March 22 to 25, artists, designers, researchers and engineers from around the world are heading to OCAD for the Mobile Nation...
By Shawn Micallef -
Pulling an all-nighter at Montreal’s Nuit Blanche
It has started to fade from memory, but I swear my sleep schedule is still screwed up. Two weeks ago, Montreal hosted its fourth annual Nuit Blanche, an...
By Christopher DeWolf