To coincide with the launch of Spacing's first national issue, the magazine is hosting events in 10 Canadian cities this summer. The Spacing Road Show is sponsored by BMO SmartSteps for Homeowners and supported by Autoshare and the Canada Council for the Arts. When: Tonight!  7-10pm Where: Wosk Centre for Dialogue, 580 West Hastings St. Cost: $5 (gets you copy of magazine) Facebook: RSVP to our event listing PARTNER: City of Vancouver Panelists: Erick Villagomez (Spacing Vancouver), Gordon Price (SFU City Centre), Erin O'Melinn (Vancouver Public Space ...

To coincide with the launch of Spacing's first national issue, the magazine is hosting events in 10 Canadian cities this summer. The Spacing Road Show is sponsored by BMO SmartSteps for Homeowners and supported by Autoshare and the Canada Council for the Arts. The Spacing Road Show has kicked into high gear with events in Calgary tonight and Vancouver on Tuesday. The Victoria event is the following Tuesday.  PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS AN EVENT IN CALGARY TONIGHT...

To coincide with the launch of Spacing's first national issue, the magazine is hosting events in 10 Canadian cities this summer. The Spacing Road Show is sponsored by BMO SmartSteps for Homeowners and supported by Autoshare and the Canada Council for the Arts. Over the next week the Spacing Road Show is kicked into high gear with events in Edmonton, Calgary, and Vancouver. PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS AN EVENT IN EDMONTON TONIGHT EDMONTON When: Wednesday, June 22, ...

To coincide with the launch of Spacing's first national issue, the magazine is hosting events in 10 Canadian cities this summer. The Spacing Road Show is sponsored by BMO SmartSteps for Homeowners and supported by Autoshare and the Canada Council for the Arts. This week the Spacing Road Show kicks into high gear with events in Saskatoon, Edmonton, and Calgary. SASKATOON When: Monday, June 20, 7-10pm Where: Persephone Theatre, 100 Spadina Crescent East Cost: $5 (gets you copy of magazine) Facebook: RSVP to our event listing PARTNER: ...

This week marks the start of the Spacing Road Show! Spacing's publisher Matthew Blackett is setting out on a 10,000km journey across Canada in June and July to promote the new national issue and to host launch parties/discussion panels in 10 cities (senior editor Shawn Micallef joins the tour in Edmonton). There are two parts to this tour: a western swing from Winnipeg to Victoria (June 16-July 5), and an eastern swing from Toronto to Halifax (July 12-25). First up: Winnipeg on Thursday, June 16th at the RAW Gallery. Events on the western swing will take place in Saskatoon (June 20th), Edmonton (June 22nd), Calgary (June 24th), Vancouver (June 28th), and Victoria (July 5th). The eastern swing starts in Toronto (July 12th), and heads to Ottawa (July 19th), Montreal (July 21st), and Halifax (July 25th).Check out the Spacing Road Show micro site for all the details of each event. You can also visit Spacing's Facebook page to RSVP to the events in your city.

HALIFAX - Welcome to our "vacant city" ideas hub. If you're a downtown roamer, worker, or driver, you may have noticed a new addition to the city's vacant lots this week: DIY idea bubbles. On this Saturday's 'Public Space Day' — the final event of the 4 Days 'unconference' — Spacing Atlantic cohosted a 'Jane's Walk' inspired walking tour through the downtown's blank spots, leaving behind a trail of participant-generated ideas for interim and long-term uses. Here these ideas will continue to be collected and expanded on, and you're invited to contribute to this virtual gallery of thinking around public space. Starting at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the tour set out to explore a variety of vacant and semi-vacant spaces, with a focus on day-use parking lots and areas awaiting development — the idea being to turn these "anti-spaces" into sites of creative opportunity. With cohosts David Clark and Léola Le Blanc, we learned about new genre public art and locative media projects they have already established in Halifax and Dartmouth, respectively. (Clark's interactive sculpture, Waterfall, remains at the ferry terminal, and a quick ride across the water will take you to Le Blanc's DAMMsel Day — an experiencial piece where participants traverse Dartmouth armed with iPhones which cue a recorded narrative along the way.) With these creative examples to inspire us, we dedicated the next three stops along the tour — the Waterfront Development Corporation's string of harbour parking lots, the graffiti-pit-turned-rubble-pile on Morris, and the site of the once proposed 'Twisted Sisters' development — to our own idea generation, mounting hand-crafted idea bubbles as we strolled. Layered onto this physical trail is also a virtual trail, which can be tapped into via cellphone. The barcodes affixed to each idea bubble, when scanned using a cellphone camera, ask a question of the viewer relating to public space and Halifax vacancies. These questions are:

HALIFAX - About 25 people gathered in front on the Halifax Farmers' Market last Saturday to take part in Halifax's Jane's Walk. This year's walk, "Change of (s)Pace," wandered through the downtown, stopping to muse about all kinds of transformations the city is undergoing. photo by Alison Creba Hosted by Spacing Atlantic contributors, we followed the participatory principle that everyone is an authority on their community.  Anyone interested was given the opportunity to share thoughts and knowledge on their neighborhoods and city, taking up the megaphone whenever the urge arose.

Spacing is happy to announce that the summer-fall 2009 issue of the magazine was nominated for Best Single Issue by the National Magazine Awards. This is the second year in a row that we've been nominated in this category. Many thanks to our cast of contributors who made this one of the 10 best issues in Canadian magazines in 2009. We'll find out June 4th just how good of an issue it was.