The mythos of life here
Last week, Nuit Blanche. The first two weeks of September, Waking City. Word on the Street. Beyonce in Dundas Square. The Winking Circle. new mind space. TIFF. The new ROM. The new AGO. The new CoC. OCAD. Living in Toronto.
Something's changing in Toronto. Culture has arrived. It may be rather modern and new, and all the better.
I spent a lot of time in San Francisco expecting and finding the most amazing art, and culture to support it. But things have changed. It's growing, commercializing, and the rents are higher. Very high. And artists are moving away, perhaps many already have. It's not a scene that produces cultural outputs much any longer, unless its a website company.
Toronto seems to have undergone a seachange. Is it our new mayor? A magically reached population density? Simply more funding and support for the arts? Changes in the smoking laws? Let's keep it going.
In the past, summers in Toronto had a few key milestones. The Jazz festivals. Caribana. The Ex. A smaller TIFF. And then back to school.
But Nuit Blanche and the ARGs and public space games are changing our streets. Art is between people. Large shared experiences as if we lived in a mardi gras all summer are opening doors and smiles.
And magazines and blogs and websites to suport all these things. Spacing. Infiltration. Living in Toronto.
I'm very curious to see if winter can open similarly here. I want that too. More than skating at NPS, or visiting the museums between snow storms.
I'd like to live in the new Haight Ashbury here. Have you noticed this happening too?
Links:
Something's changing in Toronto. Culture has arrived. It may be rather modern and new, and all the better.
I spent a lot of time in San Francisco expecting and finding the most amazing art, and culture to support it. But things have changed. It's growing, commercializing, and the rents are higher. Very high. And artists are moving away, perhaps many already have. It's not a scene that produces cultural outputs much any longer, unless its a website company.
Toronto seems to have undergone a seachange. Is it our new mayor? A magically reached population density? Simply more funding and support for the arts? Changes in the smoking laws? Let's keep it going.
In the past, summers in Toronto had a few key milestones. The Jazz festivals. Caribana. The Ex. A smaller TIFF. And then back to school.
But Nuit Blanche and the ARGs and public space games are changing our streets. Art is between people. Large shared experiences as if we lived in a mardi gras all summer are opening doors and smiles.
And magazines and blogs and websites to suport all these things. Spacing. Infiltration. Living in Toronto.
I'm very curious to see if winter can open similarly here. I want that too. More than skating at NPS, or visiting the museums between snow storms.
I'd like to live in the new Haight Ashbury here. Have you noticed this happening too?
Links:
- TorGame: Waking City
- newmindspace
- Canadian Opera Company
- Royal Ontario Museum
- Nuit Blanche
- Live with Culture
- Spacing magazine
- Infiltration
- Word On The Street
- Yonge-Dundas Square
- City of Toronto Development Projects
- The Winking Circle
- TorFun
- Art Gallery of Ontario
- Toronto International Film Festival
- Canadian National Exhibition
- CARIBANA
- Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival
- Toronto Beaches International Jazz Festival
Can I compare a whole downtown to a single neighbourhood - Haight Ashbury Global Village - in another city, a nieghbourhood of 40 years ago? Why not aim for it all!
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