Clubs, co-ops, and Toronto artists in flux

Clubs, co-ops, and Toronto artists in flux

West Toronto, satellite view. Via Google Earth.

National Housing Day @ LAMP

As the poster says, Toronto needs more housing co-ops! Join community organizers from LAMP CHC, the South Etobicoke Community Land Trust, CBASE, St. Margaret's New Toronto, and the Lakeshore Affordable Housing Advocacy & Action Group on Wednesday, November 20 at 6:00 pm to learn about new co-op developments in South Etobicoke and to support the growing movement to build more of them. Visit LAMP's website for event details.

Social card for National Housing Day. Click on the image for event details.

Club Classics screening @ Innis College

Curated by Jonathan Petrychyn and co-presented by Pleasure Dome, Vtape, Images Festival, CFMDC and the Feminist Recycling Group, Club Classics is the third of the four-part screening series This is the Feminist Archive: Canadian Film & Video 1970s-1990s.

The screening takes place at the Innis College Deluxe Screening Room on Tuesday, November 19 at 7:00 p.m. and will be followed by a discussion with artist Judith Doyle and LVAC's Lilian Radovac. Tickets are available below.

This is the Feminist Archive: Club Classics
Our four-part screening series highlights groundbreaking Canadian feminist film and video.

Artists in Flux: Community, Space, Gentrification

How can Toronto-based artists survive in a city that is experiencing a housing crisis, an affordability crisis and a culture crisis, all at once? Start by attending this free community forum at the Church of the Epiphany and St. Mark in Parkdale next Saturday, November 23 at 2:00 p.m. Visit the Eventbrite page for details and to register.

Social card for Artists in Flux. Click on the image for event details.

You should also pick up a copy of the latest issue of Spacing magazine, on the state of the arts in Toronto, available now.

NEW ISSUE: State of the Arts in Toronto - Spacing National
A city’s arts form an ecosystem. It’s easy to focus on the big features – the trees, as it were – but the true health of the system lies in the understory, in the buzz of life at the ground level, in the shoots springing up and creatures hustling in the earth that supports theContinue reading “NEW ISSUE: State of the Arts in Toronto”

People & Places exhibition

Opening this week, Vladimir Topal presents new work in People and Places at the LVAC Gallery/MPS. The reception will take place on Saturday, November 23 at 6:00 p.m. at 115 Birmingham Street. Check the LVAC bulletin boards for posters.

Lilian Radovac, Editor

Lilian Radovac, Editor

Dr. Lilian Radovac is a writer, curator and community archivist and the editor of LVAC News. She can be reached at lvac.news [at] gmail [dot] com.
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