WHAT: Michael Cook of CITY REPAIR from Portland, Oregon will speak on the Magic of Placemaking: the Art of reclaiming urban spaces to create community-oriented places. WHEN: Monday, June 21st  at 7pm WHERE: Dalhousie School of Architecture (room H19) 5410 Spring Garden Road, Halifax Michael will share the story of City Repair's radical and enchanting beginnings: how a journey into the indigenous cultures of the world sparked the creation of a guerrilla tea house, the transformation of a street intersection into a village commons, and a culture of neighborhood placemakers ...

HALIFAX - Tie your shoe laces, dig out your fluorescent track pants, strap on your reflectors and bring any other walking devices/favourites (friends included) for this not to be missed backwards walk!  Look out for Eryn Foster, your friends and anyone else who wants to join her, in her last scheduled performance walk for Wanders in the Yonder, Going Backwards/Moving Forwards. Going Backwards/Moving Forwards is a reverse wander which will commence at the Point Pleasant Lodge on November 29, 2009 at 1pm. Eryn and participating wanderers will walk backwards from Point Pleasant Park to ...

HALIFAX - Interdisciplinary artist Eryn Foster organizes public walks in Point Pleasant Park titled Wanders in the Yonder. You may have seen her beautiful posters shimmering behind storefront glass or tucked on arts bulletins. Fosters' Wanders in the Yonder is the product of the new Artist-in-residency program in Point Pleasant Park sponsored by the Halifax Regional Municipality. Since October, Foster has been utilizing her residency project to do further research on the art of walking. Walking is not new to Foster; she has been walking around the Maritimes since 2007, when she first initiated her art project New Canadian Pilgrimages. Like her New Canadian Pilgrimages project, Fosters' wanderings through the park are unmapped and flow with the consciousness and collective movements of whoever participates in the performance. The overall idea to Fosters’ walks is to wander; to not set out on an etched out path and to not talk about the current performance of wandering.  When participants are done walking, they wander off without telling anyone. But the group does talk! In fact, Foster records the sounds from the walk, park and human chatter, for an undetermined archive project. Foster has been applying her performance research at conferences like Walk21 in Barcelona, Spain or at other artist residencies, such as the one at Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax, NS (learn more about what Foster worked on at her Artist Talk on December 5th at 1pm at Point Pleasant Lodge).