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New & Future Social SpacesIllustration: © Thomas van Ryzewyk

Urbanism
 New & Future Social Spaces

For a year, online platforms have become venues for all aspects of social life. Clubs, cafes and offices were closed and apartments were transformed into multifunctional event spaces. We've tried to make a city out of our living rooms. But what happens when the world reopens - will public spaces from before the pandemic be the same? Which parts from the newly created online existence will remain and which new physical –or hybrid– environments will be created? 

 

Tea Base © Morris Lum

Asian-Canadian Arts Collective
 Tea Base

Through embroidery, painting, photography and even gardening, the work of the Asian-Canadian arts collective Tea Base explores the spectrum of their experiences, from anti-Asian racism to what one of them, illustrator Christie Jia Wen Carrière, describes as “the joy of community in Chinatown”

THF Radio x Goethe-Institut Toronto

THF Radio and the Goethe-Institut Toronto are pleased to present a panel of DJs, party organizers, researchers and activists to talk about the new social spaces that have been made during the Pandemic and what the future of nightlife looks like once we’re allowed to gather again with strangers. 

With Sarah Farina (Rec:Room, Transmission.org), Lutz Leichsenring (Clubcommision, Creative Footprint), Andreina Seijas J. (Night Tank), Brad and Ceréna (Club Quarantine).

 



 

Tubman © Joan Latchford

Funding Black Culture
 A Former Black Arts Centre Offers Lessons for the Present

Legends like Isaac Hayes, Bob Marley, BB King and more came to the Harriet Tubman Centre at St. Clair and Oakwood in the ’70s – a thriving hub for Black Torontonians. Its founder, Ken Jeffers, recalls its impact and finds in its undoing a familiar story

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