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Tomorrow night, scores of arts collectives and community groups will be putting on impressive exhibits, performances, and workshops as part of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. The Toronto Public Space Committee thought it would be neat to do something, too, but guess which word in the event title made the TPSC uncomfortable.

The Toronto Public Space Committee last night Art Attacked every single Astral pillar in the city. Photos are here and here, with more to come.

The subject on everyone's mind at Spacing this morning is Regent Park's revitalization project. Our favourite public space newswire will be featuring a series of documentaries on YouTube called Regent Park TV, a project by the Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre. The Toronto Public Space Committee will be screening another series on Regent Park at the Toronto Free Gallery on Thursday, December 14 @ 7:30.

The Toronto Public Space Committee's excellent new Municipal Elections website contains a veritable treasure trove of information about each candidate in the 2006 election (and a pretty sexy Google maps mashup). The site also features sometimes-hilarious quotations from and anecdotes about our to-be-elected officials in poster format. We have selected some gems from the site for your reading pleasure:

The Toronto Public Space Committee has revived Art Attack, an evening where members of the public are invited create works of art and then place them over advertising in our public spaces. So if you're sick and tired of looking at that SUV ad go and do something about it.

Is transit in Toronto on the upswing for 2006? A few weeks ago an eye weekly editorial admits "the TTC is getting better", and several upcoming events and publications by the usual suspects promise more transit celebration:

Howdy! It’s Christmas time again, that time of year where you’re either so insane with loneliness that you’ll choose to be in a cold dark cinema just to feel like you’re near people, or that you’ve been driven so mad by the constant attention of your family that you’ll choose to be in a cold dark cinema just to feel like you’re alone. So what will you see?

Special thanks to the folks at the Toronto Public Space Committee, and their eight-month fight against video ads in our subway cars. Yesterday, TTC commissioners voted 4-3 against allowing Viacom Outdoor to proceed with what would have been a new level of intrusiveness to our journeys around the city.

The Toronto Public Space Committee wants you to check out and review the city's mammoth new garbage bins. They've streamlined the process to make it easy as pie for you to visit the bins, review them, and let shorty Mayor Dave know how you feel about them. It's a pilot project, which means your feedback will help the City decide what to do about the humungobins. TPSC has even gone to the trouble of doing up a red-penned report card. So visit your nearest electric garbage pin, and let Torontoist, and the Mayor, know what you think.

The ads for Nike's 10K RunTO event have invaded subways, bus shelters and Toronto streets. The orange ads which poke fun at the habits of various Toronto neighbourhoods have been the talk of the town and Torontoist has heard many people praise the ads for their tongue in cheek attitude.