{"id":1162,"date":"2006-09-27T08:30:51","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T12:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2006-09-25T14:57:16","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T18:57:16","slug":"liberty-village-reaches-new-benchmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/09\/27\/liberty-village-reaches-new-benchmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Village reaches new BENCHmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/images\/benchmark.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>photos of previously installed BENCHmark benches &bull; photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/aidanfotos.com\">Bouke Salverda<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>New BENCHmark benches unveiled on Thursday <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>September 29 at 1:00 pm<br \/>\nStreet between Atlantic and Jefferson Avenues<\/p>\n<p>Winning designs for nine new public art benches will be unveiled at an official ceremony in Liberty Village. The designs are part of Liberty Village Business Improvement Area&#8217;s unique BENCHmark 2006 Program that transforms park benches into public art pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Lupe Rodriguez, a visual artist, educator and CBC radio artiste-at-large, will officially unveil the nine BENCHmark 2006 designs.  The unveiling is Friday, September 29 at 1:00 pm on the north side of Liberty Street between Atlantic and Jefferson Avenues.<\/p>\n<p>Winning entries reflect Liberty Village&#8217;s industrial past, creative present and unlimited future, and include: Miklos Legrady&#8217;s Liberty Village skyline photo transfers, Michael Brown&#8217;s painted Toronto Carpet Factory fibre optics network, Renata Mohamed&#8217;s thaumatrope interactive film images and Steve Richards sculpted metal manufacturing marker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>photos of previously installed BENCHmark benches &bull; photo by Bouke Salverda New BENCHmark benches unveiled on Thursday September 29 at 1:00 pm Street between Atlantic and Jefferson Avenues Winning designs for nine new public art benches will be unveiled at an official ceremony in Liberty Village. The designs are part of Liberty Village Business Improvement<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/09\/27\/liberty-village-reaches-new-benchmark\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Liberty Village reaches new BENCHmark&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[3340,307,3345,3341,3342,3344,372,3343,3339,3338,3346],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-events","tag-atlantic-avenues","tag-cbc","tag-fibre-optics-network","tag-jefferson-avenues","tag-lupe-rodriguez","tag-metal-manufacturing-marker","tag-michael-brown","tag-miklos-legrady","tag-renata-mohamed","tag-steve-richards","tag-visual-artist"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Liberty Village reaches new BENCHmark - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/09\/27\/liberty-village-reaches-new-benchmark\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Liberty Village reaches new BENCHmark - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"photos of previously installed BENCHmark benches &bull; photo by Bouke Salverda New BENCHmark benches unveiled on Thursday September 29 at 1:00 pm Street between Atlantic and Jefferson Avenues Winning designs for nine new public art benches will be unveiled at an official ceremony in Liberty Village. 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