{"id":138,"date":"2005-08-21T12:13:12","date_gmt":"2005-08-21T16:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=138"},"modified":"2005-10-28T15:10:33","modified_gmt":"2005-10-28T19:10:33","slug":"paris-artists-need-your-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/08\/21\/paris-artists-need-your-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris artists need your help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/images\/la-generale.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We know this happens all over the world but we still wanted to bring your attention to it: A group of artists in Paris have taken over a big, abandoned ministry of education building which has sat empty for 10 years. The artists cleaned it up, renamed it La G&eacute;n&eacute;rale, and now it is home to studios, a gallery, musical and drama practice spaces, a theatre and a public cafeteria. The artists have reached out to local youth, schools, businesses. The mayor of the district supports the artists&#8217; reclamation of the building. But the ministry of education has suddenly awakened to find all this activity, and now is declaring that the building is &#8220;unsafe&#8221; and is in court to obtain an order evicting the artists and other groups. They claim that the building will soon be converted into, ahem, a psychiatric hospital. You can find out more, and sign a petition as well, on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lagenerale.org\/indexeng.html\">La G&eacute;n&eacute;rale website<\/a><\/strong>.  If you can read French, there is other info for you <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lagenerale.org\/\">to check out<\/a><\/strong> including a 14-page PDF <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lagenerale.org\/images\/lagenerale.pdf\">for download (675k)<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know this happens all over the world but we still wanted to bring your attention to it: A group of artists in Paris have taken over a big, abandoned ministry of education building which has sat empty for 10 years. 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