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Spacing release party: issue 2
Thursday, June 17, 2004
El Mocambo * 464 Spadina, just south of College, $10 with musical guests The Bicycles
The Toronto Public Space Committee (publicspace.ca) is very excited to announce the launch of the second issue of Spacing. The magazine is the only publication entirely devoted to public space issues in Toronto.
Spacing's second issue focuses on the many joys, obstacles and politics of walking in Toronto. Humans have been walking upright for a few million years, but over the last century we've sat back and watched our species do everything it can to abandon this unique ability. Our culture and minimizes travelling by foot in every possible way - cities are designed to accommodate cars, kids count down to their sixteenth birthdays, and people look at us funny when we choose to walk home from work. Even our language takes a jab at walking: "pedestrian" is a synonym for boring or common.
The magazine is packed with thoughtful and interesting articles, as well as gorgeous photography and layout.
Writing contributors include: Sheila Heti (The Middle Stories author), Jim Munroe (No Media Kings indie-publisher), Ryan Bigge (Marketing columnist and CBC Radio's Go! producer), Nicole Cohen (Shameless magazine publisher), Carly Zwarenstein (Now regular contributor), Shawn Micallef (murmur mastermind).
Photographers and illustrators who contributed: Davin Risk (lowresolution.com), Adam Krawesky (inconduit.com), Kevin Steele (kevinsteele.com) and Gayla Sanders (makinghappy.com), and Marc Ngui (Zak Meadow comic). Layout design and art direction was done by Matthew Blackett (m@b/mattbcomiccom, eye weekly).
website: www.spacing.ca
Matthew Blackett matt@publicspace.ca Dale Duncan dale@publicspace.ca
publicspace.ca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Spacing magazine out June 17th spacing.ca (dale@publicspace.ca)
June 5, 2004
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