Culture
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Herb tea now, coffee later
Art lovers, start saving up sleep now… In just over one week (well, 8 days, 6 hours, 24 minutes and 45 seconds, really) Toronto’s first-ever...
By Leah Sandals -
In a Significant City
Local troublemaker and sometimes Spacing contributor Darren O’Donnell is doing a mobile bike thing this Friday and you are invited to join in: Using...
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Rogue public art hits Disneyland
The BBC reports that graffiti artist celebre Banksy (hey, how many graffiti artists have their own monographs?) hit the Rocky Mountain Railroad at...
By Leah Sandals -
Artful Street Furniture
Imagine a city where street furniture is designed by psychiatric survivors and artists. It’s a far cry from a city with fully harmonized street...
By Tammy Thorne -
The Streets of San Francisco painted and lubed up
Toronto has been called “San Francisco upside down” because where they have hills, we have ravines. Their Victorians are wooden, ours are...
By Shawn Micallef -
How to Upholster a Tree Stump
Madelon Galland reports on his Tree Stump project in SuperNaturale. I remember seeing one of the stumps last time I was in New York and always wondered...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Saturday’s public space headlines
• Roadsworth getting his street cred [ Toronto Star ] • A problem with the Beav on Ward’s Island [ Toronto Star ] • A garden of...
By Matthew Blackett -
Weekend headlines
• Bike sculpture built for 300 [ Toronto Star ] • HUME: Glorious kick in the asphalt [ Toronto Star ] • Toronto’s east-west divide ...
By Matthew Blackett -
Cyclists Wanted!
As was posted earlier in Spacing, Queen’s Quay west from Spadina to York will be partially closed to car traffic from August 11 – 20th as part...
By Tammy Thorne -
Calinfrastructure
I’m not sure if it’s boring or interesting or just weird to post pictures of foreign garbage cans — but I’m always struck at the...
By Shawn Micallef -
Front yard art
Spacing’s very own Leah Sandals was asked to curate Toronto’s front yard art scene by the Toronto Star — the piece ended up being a...
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Alley Jaunt and the evolving fence
Alley Jaunt will take over the laneways in the Little Italy neighbourhood this coming weekend (August 12-13). I am a sucker for laneways and find this...
By Matthew Blackett