Culture
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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...
By Michelle Kasprzak -
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 -
Public Dublin
Though only in Dublin a very short time, I got the feeling it’s a happy city. And a public one. The streets in the city centre are absolutely full...
By Shawn Micallef -
East Toronto Greats
Eminent Easterners are being featured along Queen Street over the next few months (by current and former Spacing contributors, would-be Lytton...
By Shawn Micallef -
In-Site Montreal
In-Site Montréal is a collection of site-specific art presented on the portal pages of five wireless internet hotspots. Artists Nicolas Fleming...
By Michelle Kasprzak