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Introducing the Toronto Poster Project!
This weekend, we launched a continuing series in which artist Sarah Lazarovic reminds us why we should celebrate our city. “We live in such an incredible, rapidly evolving metropolis, it deserves to be posterized,” Lazarovic explains. Our monthly placards will aim to enlighten and inspire. From geography to taco-ography, we’ll explore T.O. visually, frequently inviting your collaboration. Save them, hang them, love them, use them. Click here for full size: http://natpo.st/PNq5Ax
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Toronto artist Erica Brisson sends her civic love
It’s the collective exploration of public space that informs Brisson’s first solo exhibition in a public gallery, Local Colour Info Centre, which opened last week in Toronto as part of the Koffler Centre of the Arts’ off-site gallery. Curated by Mona Filip, the exhibit is inspired by local tourist information centres — something you might see just off the 401 or in the heart of Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square — which acts as both a social space and a gallery. Visitors are greeted with minimalist postcards of the city along with maps and blueprints, all meant to heighten interest in the physical environment around us. [Photo courtesy the Koffler Centre/Erica Brisson]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbqn1avoKN1r59dcio1_1280.jpg)
Toronto artist Erica Brisson sends her civic love
It’s the collective exploration of public space that informs Brisson’s first solo exhibition in a public gallery, Local Colour Info Centre, which opened last week in Toronto as part of the Koffler Centre of the Arts’ off-site gallery. Curated by Mona Filip, the exhibit is inspired by local tourist information centres — something you might see just off the 401 or in the heart of Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square — which acts as both a social space and a gallery. Visitors are greeted with minimalist postcards of the city along with maps and blueprints, all meant to heighten interest in the physical environment around us. [Photo courtesy the Koffler Centre/Erica Brisson]
Photos of the day
Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) goers run to take cover from the rain as a massive storm hits Toronto, Wednesday evening, August 24, 2011. (Aaron Lynett/National Post)
Toronto media got a chance to try out the CN Tower’s new, vertigo-inducing attraction, Edgewalk. Steve Murray sent back this terrifying video.
On Wednesday, Toronto media get a chance to try out the CN Tower’s new, vertigo-inducing attraction, Edgewalk. The Post’s Captain Americ-err, Steve Murray will be reporting back on an experience we have no doubt he will handle with brave, manly aplomb (and a few girlish screams). In the meantime, to hold us over until his tales from 356 metres up arrive, enjoy this primer on how Edgewalk works.
New CN Tower attraction to offer hands-free, outside pod walk
Extreme junkies take note: you’ll soon be able to take a hands-free walk along the outside of the CN Tower’s main pod — 356 metres up in the air.
EdgeWalk is billed as the highest full circle walk on a 1.5-metre ledge in the world.
Similar to another attraction in Auckland, New Zealand, visitors will be attached to an overhead safety rail with a trolley and harness system and will travel in groups of six to eight.
“I’m trying to psych myself up slowly to try this. It will be on my bucket list,” said Mark Laroche, president and CEO of the Canada Lands Company, owner and operator of the CN Tower.
