Results tagged “murmur”

If you happen to look up, just slightly above eye level, at hydro poles and streetlights around Toronto lately, you might notice some misplaced Trans-Canada highway signs. No, Yonge Street isn’t becoming a part of the Trans-Canada, and yes, the Spadina Expressway is still dead. These are not the work of some signage installer for the city who has gone rogue, but a project called Art + Identity created by Toronto’s own Ella Cooper.

[murmur], the "documentary oral history project that records stories and memories told about specific geographic locations" (God help us if we try to explain it any better than they can), has installed six new stories in the Gaybourhood just in time for Pride. The stories were done with help from Chris Bentley, "a researcher from York University looking into queer oral histories in the neighbourhood who thought it might be a good idea to do his recordings in the [murmur] format and make those stories accessible on the street, where the events occurred."