Results tagged “queene”

When it’s minus something degrees outside and minus more degrees with the windchill, sitting and knitting in the warmth of your home is a good way to pass the time. Since indoor knitting is a luxury, why not throw something together for the less fortunate folks on the streets?

Two of our contributors, Shari Kasman and Jenelle Rupchand, are all about arts & crafts this weekend. In this roundup, Shari brings you some of the many weekend fairs going on, while Jenelle's stocking up on some fair trade goods.

This week’s listings come at you one day late but better than ever. Ok, maybe not better than ever. More like as adequate as before.

One of the complaints of the Toronto arts scene is that it's far too downtown-centric. Yet interestingly many of its artists, and many many Torontonians actually come from and some still live in the suburbs. Couple this with the gentrification happening all over downtown Toronto and you can come to the conclusion that sooner or later artists will be priced out of their downtown live/work spaces and crappy basement apartments. This is what Brenda Goldstein, curator of the exhibit The Centre Cannot Hold argues. She's asked a number of Toronto artists (some urban, some not) to examine their vision of the suburbs. Pieces include Emily Hogg's Luis Vuitton/Highway Architecture mashup, Anthea Foyer's exploration of Rochdale and Lorraine Oades' tongue in cheek look at aging, modernism and the Garden City school of urbanism.

Torontoist wants all of you to take a deep breath and relax. We also think you should go see the opening of The Cult of Speed Meets The Slow Movement at Toronto Free Gallery tonight 8-10pm (660 Queen E.). The group show features work from artists such as Franco DeFrancesca, Fran Freeman, Brenda Goldstein all on the theme of slowness in contemporary society.