{"id":1383,"date":"2006-12-12T17:36:21","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T21:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:26:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:26:45","slug":"regent-park-take-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/12\/12\/regent-park-take-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Regent Park Take I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nO4GnctinOA\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nO4GnctinOA\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catchdaflava.com\/Regent_20Park_20Focus\">Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre<\/a> have been around since 1989 as a not-for-profit organization that gets area kids involved in media production. Not only do they give them skills and experience, they produce some really good mini-documentaries on Regent Park &#8212; but they were hard to find. The great thing about the internet is suddenly distribution isn&#8217;t an issue.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be featuring a few of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/profile?user=RegentParkTV\">Regent Park TV<\/a> episodes over then next while. This well-done documentary here looks at the revitalization, and most importantly explores where the displaced residents have gone, and what they feel about having to move &#8212; something I know many people wonder about since the buildings were vacated last year. It&#8217;s interesting that, at least in this film, the people interviewed are not sad to leave the the decrepit Regent Park buildings, and they&#8217;re largely pleased with their new homes, but they do miss the community &#8212; the people &#8212; they lived with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre have been around since 1989 as a not-for-profit organization that gets area kids involved in media production. Not only do they give them skills and experience, they produce some really good mini-documentaries on Regent Park &#8212; but they were hard to find. 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