Culture
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Urban Oases
The amazing Jeff Chapman has a wonderful website called Urban Oases that chronicles his, uh, times spent in Toronto fountains. He writes: “What is...
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Alley Jaunt
If you need an art fix this weekend, Alley Jaunt is your poison. This Saturday and Sunday, the back alley garages surrounding Trinity Bellwoods Park are...
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Graffiti Is Art
Graffiti Education: A seminar, from the Artist’s perspective History, significance, appreciation, culture, style, future? Next Seminar: Tuesday...
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Home Tours with Darren O’Donnell
As part of the Summerworks festival, Darren O’Donnell’s theatre company brings you Home Tours. Darren will take an audience around the...
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Subway to Nowhere
German artist Martin Kippenberger envisioned a sort of global underground system, with stations as far apart as Greece and Germany, and in his art...
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Halftone Conspiracy this weekend
The Halftone Conspiracy is a collaborative poster project open to anyone. Monthly, the co-conspirators gather, with posters they’ve created in hand...
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[murmur] wants your Spadina Stories!
[murmur] is happy to announce we have started on our biggest project yet: Toronto’s Spadina Avenue. We are currently searching for and recording...
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Parking Lot of Dreams
The Toronto Star has a good story today dispelling myths about public space in the burbs. The dance troupe Rated Inc. reclaims a Jane and Finch area...
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Transmedia 29:59 Launch in Dundas Square
TRANSMEDIA :29:59 A project by Year Zero One Curated by Michael Alstad and Michelle Kasprzak This Wednesday, August 3rd, a programme of one minute videos...
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Coke wants billboard removed
An interesting battle is going down in India between Coca-Cola and photogrpaher Sharad Haksar. He has been using a billboard space for three years to...
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The Beautiful City Billboard Fee
Them.ca, a Toronto-based non-profit street art organization, announced today the launch of a new project called The Beautiful City Billboard Fee (BCBF)...
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Get to know the city this weekend
This weekend there are a number of excellent public space related events that are worth checking out. 1. Sorauren Park Summer Festival. Saturday. Spacing...
By Matthew Blackett