Results tagged “artscape”

Creative Place and Spaces is an occasional conference (it was held once in 2003, once in 2005, and is being held again right now) that brings together an assortment of thinkers to discuss how creativity can help shape and improve our cities. In case you couldn't manage to make it out yourself, we thought we'd give you a bit of a play-by-play.

FUNDRAISER: Fight AIDS and the bare walls of your woefully under-furnished apartment all at once at the Cape Town Shakedown: Silent Auction and Fundraiser tonight. Proceeds from the sale of art produced by local talent will go to The Cape Town Children’s Scholarship Foundation and provide scholarships to youth in Khayelitsha Township (just outside of Capetown), South Africa. We're a media sponsor, and this is a really great cause, so we'll take it very personally, un-friend you from Facebook, and delete all your texts if you don't show up. Studio Gallery (294 College Street), 7–11 p.m., FREE.

Torontoist got a sneak peak at the newly redeveloped Wychwood Barns earlier this week and our verdict can be pithily summarized as "yippee!" A veritable playground for the ecologically and socially conscious, the newest Artscape endeavour lives up to the hype and anticipation. The Barns project represents a new and particularly hopeful kind of urban redevelopment, and we can only hope to see many more such ventures breaking ground soon.

Torontoist is ending the year by naming our Heroes and Villains of 2007––the people, places, and things that we've either fallen head over heels in love with or developed uncontrollable rage towards over the past twelve months. Get your dose, starting Boxing Day and running into the new year, three times a day––sunrise, noon, and sunset.