Movable Hype
Full list of events happening Sunday June 3rd
- The Dandy Warhols at the Phoenix
- VIVA! Youth Singers present Inspired by the Muses
- World Short Film Fest free screenings in Dufferin Grove Park
FOOD TRUCKS LAUNCHING | 99MRKT & Oakville Farmer’s Market
For the most part it has been outdated bylaws and a whole lot of red tape that has been keeping Toronto’s food trucks a few steps behind cities like San Francisco and Portland. But because of advocacy groups like Toronto Street Food Project, Ontario Food Trucks, and the work of Suresh Doss, the movement is making great leaps forward, albeit while still jumping through hoops for the city.
To get around some bylaws, trucks are gathered together in large festival type events until the day when things change at city hall and the trucks can be out on the streets, in a variety of locations serving different communities. If you sign up with Toronto Food Trucks you can receive emails and get a heads up on when these events will be. The site is also updated daily with locations and times for established trucks that are out in the wild.
This weekend sees two newcomers launching their eats. Hogtown Smoke will be serving up pulled pork and barbeque on Sunday at 99 MRKT (99 Sudbury) from 12PM-5PM. Curbside Bliss Cupcakes is the GTA’s newest mobile gourmet cupcakery and will be at the Oakville Farmer’s Market on Saturday.
99 MRKT (99 Sudbury) & Oakville Farmer’s Market (Hopedale Mall, 1515 Rebecca Street)
inspiraTO FESTIVAL | Alumnae Theatre
Theatre can be a hard platform to write for. Even the most talented and well seasoned writers have to shy away from the stage. Expressing a comprehensible story with limited devices and constrained vantage points is hard enough but just imagine having your time in which to do that limited to ten minutes. Could you do it? The InspiraTO Festival asked its playwrights to do just that and 24 took up the challenge. In its seventh year the festival has colour coded “Eye” shows. You’ll have to read the synopsis and decide which block of 6 minute plays you want to see, or see them all if you can’t choose.
Alumnae Theatre (70 Berkeley St), $12 each or $38 for 4-Show Pass, June 1-10
Minhaj (aka Blue Neptune) asked me to do the cover for his next EP, Broken Flowers. Since the album is a digital release only there wasn’t much work to be done. The most work was convincing Minhaj to do away with his usual Arial only font choice. I found a new font that I’m sort of in love with right now, Edmondus, that was a perfect fit for image we used. The EP will be available for as a free download for 30 days soon so keep an eye out, but until then check out Blue Neptune on SoundCloud.
3 notes (via paperapostle)
109OZ POP-UP URBAN GARDEN CENTRE | 109 Ossington
You can look down your nose all you want at the condo developments that are slated for construction all over downtown, but urban density is good for the environment, and good for the city. Also good for the city is urban gardening. Toronto’s Reserve properties is using it’s presentation centre at 109 Ossington tohost two weekends of workshops, plant sales and food trucks on May 26/7 and June 2/3. It’s a pretty good way to get people on board with those glass towers. Get advice from expert gardeners, pick up some local produce and soak up some sun.
Toronto the Good, Toronto that Could.
109 Ossington, Free, 10AM-4PM
VISITING ARTISTS + OPEN DOORS TORONTO | 401 Richmond
Each year Open Studio, Canada’s leading printmaking centre, invites four professional artists, whether they have printmaking experience or not, to pair up with an artist in the studio to create traditional or experimental works using an array of printmaking techniques. The popular program was started in 1983 and receives applications from artists the world over.
Arthur Desmarteaux & Allison Moore, Micropolis, screen and digital prints on cardboard, 2010
This of course coincides with Open Doors Toronto. It’s also the bicentennial of the War of 1812, which I guess, is the theme of this year’s weekend. Looking back on 200 years of peace 135 architecturally, historically and culturally significant buildings will open their doors to showcase the buildings that made this city what it is and the people who made them.
Open Studio (Studio 104) 401 Richmond, Free, May 25, 2012 to Saturday June 23
THE FILMS OF LILLIAN SCHWARTZ | National Film Board
When computers first entered the public consciousness, the room filling technology was somewhat alarming to the average person. So pervasive was the fear of computers that when IBM began working on Personal Computing projects the company hired legendary designers, filmmakers and tastemakers Charles and Ray Eames and their firm to create films to ease the public into the idea of letting computers enter their lives and homes.
American artist Lillian Schwartz was on the forefront of computer-aided art during this period and created many videos using computer imaging. In 1976 Schwartz created “The Artist and the Computer”. Produced by American telecommunications giant AT&T, the film doesn’t have quite the same effect as the Eames’ IBM films, in fact the screening of her films at the National Film Board this Friday comes with a warning to people who are prone to seizures or are epileptic, suggesting it might be better that they just sit this one out. Nine of the artists films created between 1971 and 1993 will be screened. The event is free but you must reserve a seat here.
National Film Board (150 John St), Free, 6PM
It’s not really a secret that I love Teen Daze (and all other offshoots), so I’m excited for the release of All of Us, Together on June 5th. But here in the is a video for ocean ebb-ing “Treten”.
The first episode of Parental Advisory, a 30 minute show co-produced by AUX TV and Exclaim! that mixes interviews with music videos, features Austra’s Katie Stelmanis talking about her love of opera and how her parents just didn’t get it.
Etobicoke’s own Al Spx, better know as Cold Specks, sees her much awaited debut, I Predict A Graceful Expulsion, released today. Out on Arts & Crafts, Pitchfork has pinned the album for ”a peerless Sunday afternoon record,” and the Guardian UK has called is haunting and healing in equal measure.” Watch Cold Specks preform “Winter Solstice” at Hoxton Hall in London (Thee London, not London, Ontario) below.
