Tuesday Night Chats Begin Again at basekamp
Every Tuesday night during 2010 was a night that basekamp, Philadelphia’s collaboration-driven art/organizing space, lit up screens and filled bellies with their Plausible Artworlds potluck series. While that series served as a way to share knowledge about alternative models of creative practice, it concluded after its 52-week run, and it seems that basekamp’s 2011 chats [...]
Toronto’s Guerrilla Gardeners Think Outside the Planter Boxes
Planter box intervention designed by Sean Martindale, photo courtesy of the artist FEAST Toronto grant recipient Sean Martindale and a team of about a dozen urban interventionists took part in a weekend-long installation of Outside the Planter Boxes, intended to highlight some of the neglected city tree planter boxes that line our busy streets by [...]
Update: Paths Through Utopias
Still from Paths Through Utopias. More can be seen here. Earlier this year, Paths Through Utopias was released in France. Described previously on Groundswell as “a brilliant speculative fiction, a look at the crisis folklores of tomorrow through the lens of today’s post-crash resistant spaces,” the film toured a small circuit of Paris’s urban gardens [...]
Come FEAST with Us! Toronto’s FEAST 02 Call for Proposals
UPDATE: Tickets to FEAST 02 are now available! Toronto’s second FEAST will be held at XPACE Cultural Centre on Wednesday, June 15, 2011. Artists who are interested in presenting their work for a chance to be awarded the night’s grant money – which includes both the money raised from the dinner and a dedicated $300 [...]
Mayworks: Toronto’s Festival of Working People and the Arts
For the 25th year, next week Mayworks will gather class-conscious artists in Toronto for a week-long festival that aims to mainline working-class culture into the city’s cultural activities. The festival addresses and includes audiences and artists who are systematically disadvantaged with works ranging from film to cabaret. Appropriately, Canada’s largest and oldest labour arts festival [...]
