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Spring 2014 Volume 21, Issue 1

ERIN MACKEEN

The 401 Richmond Update is a community-building initiative of Urbanspace Property Group. The newsletter began in June 1994 and over the years has documented the eclectic activities and fascinating people who make a home in our historic factory in downtown Toronto. If you would like to be added to the 401 Update mailing list please email: update@401richmond.net

401 Richmond Ltd. Staff


Alanna Beitz, Executive Assistant Bob Chandler, Security Rosanna Ciulla, Administrative Assistant Bogale Gebreyes, Security & Maintenance Erin MacKeen, Director Community Development and Communications Mike Moody, Property Manager Cynthia Mykytyshyn, Event and Gallery Coordinator Pamela Lampkin, Janitorial Services Rodentar Paragas, Janitorial Services Manager Dalton Rodgers, Assistant Property Manager Vicki Rodgers, Chief Executive Ofcer Ronel Ruiz, Maintenance Luisa Scofano, Ofce Manager Michael Siklos, Leasing Administrator Brian Silliphant, Maintenance Greg Spooner, Parking Attendant & Security Renato Villanueva, Maintenance Margaret Zeidler, Founder

Newsletter
Erin MacKeen, Editor Lisa Kiss Design (Studio 435) Warrens Waterless Printing Published by: Urbanspace Property Group 401 Richmond St. W., Studio 111 Toronto, ON Canada M5V 3A8 tel 416-595-5900 fax 416-595-5904 www.401richmond.net

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Pipes + Lights Photo: Erin MacKeen

Printed on Rolland Enviro 100.

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Spring 2014 Volume 21, Issue 1

MOVING IN
ADVERTISING AND DESIGN CLUB OF CANADA has a new clubhouse in Studio 235 where the non-prot group will foster their work encouraging excellence in Canadian advertising and design.

MOVING UP
CONSULTING MATRIX might have the easiest move weve ever seen as they slide across the hall to Studio 392. Necessary Angels former space will give them room to grow their work in organizational development. NECESSARY ANGEL THEATRE COMPANY hopped down one oor to Studio 205 to a space that better suits their needs. Watch out for some of their work in the 2014/15 season at Canadian Stage . SKYWORKS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION has moved upstairs to Studio 371 to accommodate organizational shifts.

Jacquie Greens Collage Shop table at Practice Practice

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MOVING ON
CENTRE FOR INDIGENOUS THEATRE moved to a studio at Artscape Youngplace where they nally have their ofce and rehearsal space at the same location. KARTINI INTERNATIONAL left Studio 235 to downsize to a home ofce where they will continue their work as a social change management rm.

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IN THEIR OWN WORDS // SWIPE DESIGN by Frances Lemon

The term independent bookstore is almost an oxymoron these days, but thats what Swipe Design is. For more than twenty-ve years, Swipe has catered to the needs and whims of design fans and practitioners, with an extensive selection of books and magazines (from the inspirational to the technical), a thoughtful selection of well-designed objects, a range of imaginative books and toys for children, and an intriguing assortment of greeting cards. Cocooned in the centre of the 401 Richmond building, Swipe offers a respite from the outside buzz and bustle and a rare browsing experience, whether youre a graphic designer, web designer, advertising creative, industrial designer, interior designer, architect, urban planner, or a lover of all things design.

Over the coming weeks, new drink wares from Kinto, clocks and watches from Mondo and Braun, construction toys from Plus-Plus, gadgets from Molla Space and innovative napkins from MYdrap will bring fresh style to the store. They join proven favourites from Marimekko, iittala, Chemex, imm Living, Bosign, Bialetti, Georg Jensen, Wusthof, Areaware, Lamy, Caran dAche, Pantone, Hape, PlanToys and Fidoodle. Whether youre a regular, or a one-time visitor, complimentary gift-wrapping and friendly service round-out the Swipe experience. (Though, if you need an extra incentive, the regularly updated Swipe Sale Table is a great opportunity to pick up a bargain, with prices reduced by up to 50%). www.swipe.com

FROM THE COLLAGE SHOP


If you came by the building last year during our Scotiabank Nuit Blanche program Practice Practice, you might have found yourself at Jacquie Greens (Studio 253) Collage Shop table cutting and pasting your own miniature creation. Did you wonder what would happen to it next? Well, Jacquie has taken these collaborative collages and molded them into gurative vignettes that capture the moment of their making using photos she took of their makers as inspiration. Adding oil paint and marker, each little square is a memory from the night and youll be able to see them all in an exhibition in the Roastery Coffee House from March 10 to June 10.

Two of Jacquie Greens miniature creations

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IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK


Were celebrating our twentieth anniversary this year and marking the occasion with an exhibition in the Urbanspace Gallery titled If These Walls Could Talk: The Ongoing Story of 401 Richmond. We will showcase never-before-seen treasures from our archives, alongside contemporary artifacts to tell the story of the commerce, community, and culture that has thrived in this building for the past two decades. The show runs from May 1 to July 5 and will be an introspective and retrospective journey from industrial factory, to mixed-use arts and cultural centre. It also coincides with Doors Open Toronto on May 24 and 25 where you can catch a guided tour.
TOP: A historic etching of 401 Richmond St. W.

FlashBacK!
Twenty years ago this June, the very rst 401 Richmond Update newsletter was published. The Update continues to be central to our community-building initiatives providing a space to tell the story of all the creative, dedicated, innovative, and world-changing people who come to work here every day. You can nd all our newsletters online at www.401richmond.net

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ICLEI Canada: Local Action Moves the World Studio 204


ICLEI Canada is not an easy organization to describe, so we were lucky to have Acting Director Ewa Jackson help us understand this box-busting non-prot. At the heart of what ICLEI does is the motto local action moves the world and we cant think of a better phrase to keep in mind as we step through their work in sustainability, climate change, and urban biodiversity. ICLEI was created in 1990 at the United Nations Rio Summit to operationalize a sustainability initiative called Agenda 21. From the beginning, it was decided that governance should be participatory and people need to be involved if they wanted to see results. The highest concentrations of people are in cities, so Local Agenda 21 became the municipal component. The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, or ICLEI, was born with two hundred cities coming on board as the founding members. As Ewa explains, were a membership based association of cities that want to implement sustainable development and understand the global benets through the accumulation of local action. If you add up the efforts of all the participating cities, it is often more substantial than what national governments can do on their own. Until late 2007, the bulk of ICLEIs programming was focused on greenhouse gas mitigation until the science came out that things had simply gone too far for mitigation alone and attention needed to shift to climate change adaptation. Were going to have more extreme weather (were already seeing it), the average temperatures are going to get hotter, and its going to be wetter. Cities need to prepare their own hard infrastructure (our roads and electrical systems arent meant to withstand this kind of activity) and at the same time help their residents prepare. 4 So what does this look like? The complicated answer is that it looks a little different for each city. ICLEI has created a new online tool called Building Adaptive and Resilient Communities that takes into account the fact that no two Canadian cities are the same, so no one program is going to work for everyone. Instead, its about asking the right questions and creating frameworks that can be used to reach their goals. The tool is also designed to encourage staff participation and ownership of the plan a key ingredient to its success and is built to step a city through constructing their own custom made action plan. We want cities to be able to tangibly do something, not just create plans with many goals and objectives, but actually put them into practice. Urban nature is another hot topic for ICLEI Canada at the moment as they work with cities to conserve their urban parks, promote biodiversity, plant native species, and nurture pollinators. For many city dwellers, their experience of nature happens in these spaces, not by taking a four hour drive to see Canadian wildlife. As Ewa pointed out more people interact with the green roof here at 401 in the summer than they do with what we traditionally call nature. ICLEI will be in Vancouver from April 2 to 4 hosting the Livable Cities Forum that will explore how to build healthy, sustainable, and economically resilient communities.
Above Clockwise from bottom left: Ewa Jackson, Acting Director; Megan Meaney, Director (on maternity leave); Leya Barry, Adaptation and Resilience Project Coordinator; Mike Dean, Project Assistant; Shireen Aslam, Project Assistant; Lili Gao, Accountant/Bookkeeper; Holly Vaughan, Adaptation and Resilience Planner; Bahareh Toghiani Rizi, Climate and Energy Planner; (centre) Nicole Marzok, Biodiversity Project Coordinator

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Dubbeldam Architecture + Designs Pop-Up Ofce

DUBBELDAM ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN


The rms Pop-Up Ofce was the recipient of Canadian Interiors Best of Canada Design Competition. It is the only design competition of its kind in Canada, focusing on interior design projects and products without regard to size, budget, or location. You can see Dubbeldams (Studio 258) award-winning, mobile workspace (that includes a free library and WiFi from Wireless Toronto ) on the second oor of 401 Richmond, just around the corner from the Dubbeldam ofces.

SOUTH ASIAN VISUAL ARTS CENTRE


Look whos also twenty this year! SAVACs (Studio 450) milestone anniversary coincides with three years of funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation for the Mapping Genealogies, Building Futures project to create an oral archive exploring themes around art, identity formation, and social justice within their community. 2014 also marks the ten year anniversary of their experimental lm program Monitor: New South Asian Film + Video coming up this April. The year will be guided by plans to draw inspiration from the centres own history, to imagine possible futures.

INSIDE OUT LGBT FILM FESTIVAL


Hot on the heels of Inside Out s (Studio 219) annual festival from May 22 to June 1, they will be teaming up with the Toronto International Film Festival to host a multi-day lm series for WorldPride 2014 from June 20 to 29. The series will feature screenings, artist talks, and installations that highlight the creative vision, diversity, and talent of Canadian and international LGBQT lm and lmmakers. Toronto is the rst North American city to host WorldPride and the event is expected to attract up to three times the attendance as Torontos annual Pride Festival.

SUSTAIN ONTARIO
The province-wide, cross-sectoral alliance that promotes healthy food and farming has received one of six Greenbelt Fund grants to assist municipalities in implementing buy-local programs. The project will include a partnership with neighbours Local Food Plus (Studio 220) to provide mentorship, support, and resources to help establish and increase local food purchasing.

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March to May 2014


MARCH 5 29 The Red Head Gallery Nina Leo, Lee Henderson: Galileos Falling Bodies Opening Reception: Friday March 7, 69 pm MARCH 8 APRIL 19 Gallery 44 Aura Satz: Colour Opponent Process Maryse Goudreau: Memory is a Weapon Opening: Saturday March 8, 25 pm MARCH 22 APRIL 19 Abbozzo Gallery Keeping Current: Art Work From Our Countrys Eastern Edge featuring David Blackwood, Anne Meredith Barry, Arnold Zageris, Jennifer Walton, Will Gill, Scott Walden, Michael Gough and Scott Goudie Opening: Wednesday March 26, 58 pm MARCH 22 APRIL 26 YYZ Artists Outlet Sara A. Tremblay Opening: Friday March 21, 810 pm MARCH 24 APRIL 26 Urbanspace Gallery Spacing Presents: A Decades Dose of Imagery by Sam Javanrouh Opening: Monday March 24, 68 pm APRIL 2 26 The Red Head Gallery Lynn Christine Kelly: Brief Encounters Opening: Saturday April 5, 25 pm APRIL 4 MAY 10 Open Studio Bill Burns, Emmalee Carroll, Sue Coe, Roger Peet and Jenny Pope: Threatened, Endangered, Extinct: Artists Confront Species Loss Hazel Eckert Sarka Buchl Stephenson Opening: Friday April 4, 6:308:30 pm

The Listings Board is your opportunity to communicate with other tenants and keep them informed about what is happening in your organization. If you are having a sale, exhibition, or event you would like advertised, email details to update@401richmond.net. Listings are open to all tenants. DEADLINEFORNEXTISSUE: Friday April 25, 2014

GALLERY DIRECTORY
A Space Gallery (Studio 110) Contact 416-979-9633 www.aspacegallery.org Abbozzo Gallery (Studio 128) Contact 416-260-2220 www.abbozzogallery.com Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography (Studio 120) Contact 416-979-3941 www.gallery44.org Open Studio (Studio 104) Contact 416-504-8238 www.openstudio.on.ca Prex Institute of Contemporary Art (Studio 124) Contact 416-591-0357 www.prex.ca Red Head Gallery (Studio 115) Contact 416-504-5654 www.redheadgallery.org Trinity Square Video (Studio 376) Contact 416-593-1332 www.trinitysquarevideo.com Urbanspace Gallery (Studio 117) Contact 416-595-5900 www.urbanspacegallery.ca Vtape Video Gallery (Studio 452) Contact 416-351-1317 www.vtape.org WARC Gallery/Womens Art Resource Centre (Studio 122) Contact 416-977-0097 www.warc.net YYZ Artists Outlet (Studio 140) Contact 416-598-4546 www.yyzartistsoutlet.org

EXHIBITIONS
continues to MARCH 15 Urbanspace Gallery Hands-On Urbanism: How to Make a Difference Curated by Elke Krasny. Presented by the Centre for City Ecology A Space Gallery Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Juan Ortiz-Apuy: Space Fictions Trinity Square Video Heather Cassils: Compositions continues to MARCH 18 Abbozzo Gallery Red : A Valentines Day Themed Exhibition On the Labrador, photographs by Arnold Zageris (with accompanying book) continues to MARCH 29 Open Studio Yael Brotman, Laura Bydlowska, Pamela Dodds, Elizabeth Forrest, Libby Hague, Isabelle Hmard, Jae Lee, Liz Menard, Liz Parkinson, Irina Schestakowich and Penelope Steward: O.W.N. (Object Work Notation) Paul Cloutier, Sadko Hadzihasanovic and Kurt Pammer: The Print Process Drypoint Elizabeth DAgostino

Maryse Goudreau at Gallery 44 (March 8 April 19)

Nina Leo and Lee Henderson at The Red Head Gallery (March 5 29)

APRIL 10 26 YYZ Artists Outlet Mathieu Abonnenc Opening: Saturday April 12, 25 pm
part of the images festival

EVENTS
MARCH 12 & 20, APRIL 18 Red Moth Collective (Studio 389) March 12, 13 pm Sketching Party March 20 & April 18, 6:308:30 pm Group Critiques Free Admission To register: artgroup389@gmail.com MARCH 26 401 Richmond Last Wednesdays: After-Hours at 401 Richmond Galleries, shops, and a pop-up bar! Time: 58 pm, Free Admission MARCH 26, APRIL 30, MAY 28 World Literacy Canada KAMA Reading Series featuring authors on the topics Editor-in-Chief, Another Place, and Another Time Offsite: Park Hyatt Toronto Tickets: www.worldlit.ca/kama APRIL 3 & 24, MAY 15 Prex Institute of Contemporary Art Urban Field Speaker Series Fulya Erdemci with Srimoyee Mitra Lara Almarcegui with Gina Badger Theaster Gates with Pamela Edmonds Tickets: www.prex.ca APRIL 10 19 Images Festival The 27th annual festival showcasing experimental and independent moving image culture. www.imagesfestival.com MAY 22 JUNE 1 Inside Out LGBT Film Festival The 24th annual festival featuring the best queer lm from Canada and around the world. www.insideout.ca MAY 24 25 401 Richmond Doors Open Toronto Explore Torontos built legacy as we open our doors along with close to 150 architectural, historic, cultural, and social spaces. Time: 10 am5 pm Guided tours: 1 pm both days JUNE 20 29 Inside Out LGBT Film Festival WorldPride 2014 : a multi-day lm series
co-Presented with the toronto international film festival

APRIL 12 MAY 12 Trinity Square Video Ibghy & Lemmens: Is there anything left to be done at all? Opening: Saturday April 12, 24 pm APRIL 26 MAY 10 Abbozzo Gallery Justin Pierce: I AM J PIERCE Opening and live painting of a cedar strip canoe: Wednesday April 30, 510 pm APRIL 30 MAY 24 The Red Head Gallery Matthew Schoeld: A Specic and Peculiar Temperament MAY 1 JULY 5 Urbanspace Gallery If These Walls Could Talk: The Ongoing Story of 401 Richmond
Presented by Urbanspace property group

MAY 2 JUNE 7 Gallery 44 Sheree Hovsepian: Soft Landing Jrme Nadeau: Ruins Opening: Saturday May 3, 25 pm MAY 8 JULY 26 Prex Institute of Contemporary Art Steve Payne: False Fronts Opening (Artist in attendance): Thursday May 8, 710 pm
Part of the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival

MAY 10 JULY 5 YYZ Artists Outlet Maura Doyle Michael Robinson Opening: Friday May 9, 810 pm MAY 17 31 Abbozzo Gallery Photography MAY 23 JUNE 21 Open Studio Shaan Syed and Roula Partheniou: Visiting Artists Exhibition Laura Bydlowska Emma Nishimura Opening: Friday May 23, 79 pm

www.worldpridetoronto.com

press check

YYZ ARTISTS OUTLET s Executive Director Ana Barajas talked about artist-run centres and their new lending library for an installment of Akimbo Connects , a new project from Canadas online source for visual art information, Akimbo.

SOLARSHARE
generated some buzz in Corporate Knights Magazine as they celebrated the co-operatives $3 million milestone of funds raised through community bonds for their solar projects. They installed twenty-two solar arrays last year and have thirteen already scheduled for 2014.

MUSIDEUM
was dubbed both a musical wonderland and a hidden gem by the Toronto Sun and we would have to agree with them. The intimate performance venue has made a name for itself over the last couple of years as a destination for world-class, live music.

GALLERY 44, OPEN STUDIO, A SPACE, PREFIX,ABBOZZO, RED HEAD, WARC, Y YZ, & VTAPE
received some attention from NOW Magazine in their special Think Free issue. The Free Art feature celebrated the many opportunities in Toronto to see visual art free of charge. As an added bonus, well be open until 8 pm on March 26 so you can see art after hours during Last Wednesdays.

THE BacK page

A map created by Kyle Baptista from Park People (Studio 119) showing 1600 of Torontos parks

If youd like to be onTHEBACKPAGE, please submit your drawing, painting, illustration, photograph or architectural plans at 300 dpi as a photoshop or illustrator le on cd or dvd disk. Please include a word le with your name, the title of the project, your website, your studio address and a brief description of 50 words (maximum) on the disk. The best entry will be chosen for each issue. Disks will not be returned. This space is to showcase the talent in the building. It is not for advertising an event or sale.

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