Torontoist » Blindness http://torontoist.com Torontoist is about Toronto and everything that happens in it Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:00:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The AGO Makes Visual Art Accessible for Those Without Vision

Volunteer tour guide Jessica Duarte describes a painting of Maharana Amar Singh to Lynda Spinney (centre) and Joan Caswell (right). Photo by Lodoe Laura Haines-Wangda/Torontoist. The last time Joan Caswell visited the Art Gallery of Ontario, she could see. That was before a rare genetic disorder caused both her retinas to detach—the first when she [...]

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There are a lot of films out this week, and a lot of them played at TIFF. In fact, we caught a few of them at TIFF after their public screenings, so let’s take a break from our usual format and give them proper capsule reviews! Blindness (Fernando Mereilles) – It was written by local [...]

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Really we were. Between the alcohol and the giddiness and the fact that we couldn’t think of anything intelligent to ask him about his new movie, Coopers’ Camera, we opted instead to snap a few photos from afar. And then when we finally did work up the nerve to approach him, he had just left, [...]

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