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Jane Jacobs’ Portrait by John Scott and Deborah Waddington on the second

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MOVING INSANDER DESIGN has brought his land-scape design office (and his pomeranian rambo) back to the building making a home in Studio 404.

JANNA WATSON joins our community of artists setting up her painting studio in Studio 282.

RAFUSE CONSULTING GROUP has moved in to Studio 244 where they will create strategic marketing and communi-cations for baby boomers and seniors.

MOVING UPSUSTAIN ONTARIO is moving from Studio 282 to Studio 365 to form a collaborative work space with Meal Exchange.

WORLD LITERACY OF CANADA has moved to the other side of the bridge from Studio 236 to Studio 281, a space that better fits their current needs.

MOVING ONTHE FOUNDERS’ NETWORK has closed its doors literally at Studio 281 and figuratively due to the death of Dr. Fraser mustard (see page 2).

CONNECT WITH USWe have more ways than ever for you to connect with what’s happening at 401 richmond. Visit www.401richmond.net to subscribe to our What’s On monthly email, and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

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Janna Watson’s Sublime of Blasted Passion (detail)

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CINEMA CITYat 401 richmond the Images Festival (Studio 448) feels

a bit like a block party. neighbouring galleries and artist-

run centre’s open their doors for the Off Screen exhibition

line-up, resident festivals and shops partner up for

programming collaborations, and the community comes

out in full force. It’s fitting then that after twenty-five years

of Images, they’re celebrating their silver anniversary by

spotlighting what community means…and they’re doing

it right here at 401. the Urbanspace Gallery will be

transformed into a festival hub from april 12 to 22

providing a place for screenings, gatherings, and talks

that will compliment the programming taking place in other

venues throughout the city. In the same space Images will

be guest curating Toronto: Cinema City from march 22 to

april 28 an exhibition that looks at the history of our city’s

moving image venues. www.imagesfestival.com

IN MEMORY OF DR. MUSTARDon november 16, 2011 we lost one of our longest-

standing tenants and most loyal community members,

Dr. Fraser Mustard. a renowned medical doctor and

researcher he was most passionate about the importance

of early childhood education to humanity. after retiring in

1996 from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

(which he founded in 1982) he began the Founders’ Network at 401 richmond. Devoted to early childhood

development he released three influential reports on the

subject called The Early Years Study. Dr. mustard believed

all workplaces should have early learning centres and was

instrumental in founding our own Studio 123. he was an

avid supporter of the philosophies that guide 401 and

made a significant impact on the course of the building’s

evolution. We will miss him terribly.

Below (left to right): Urbanspace Property Manager Mike Moody, Founders’ Network’s Dorothy McKinnon, and Dr. Fraser Mustard in the roof garden at 401 Richmond circa 2001

Joshua Bonnelta, Strange Lines and Distances at YYZ Artists’ Outlet.

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BUILDING A CITY the Centre for City Ecology (Studio 119) started off the year by launching the City Builder Book Club

with their first selection: Jane Jacob’s Death and Life of Great American Cities. the book celebrates its

50th anniversary this year and the club partnered with Swipe Design Books + Objects (Studio 121) to

offer a shiny gold covered edition at a discount to participants. a joint venture with Creative Urban Projects

the intention of the club is to spark discussions and create a deeper understanding of how cities work.

each chapter is accompanied by online commentary from an urban thinker such as former mayor John Sewell (Studio 206) and comments are encouraged. you can join in and catch up on the conversation, or

keep an eye on when the next book will be announced by visiting: www.citybuilderbookclub.org

Top: 50th anniversary edition of Jane Jacob’s Death and Life of Great American Cities

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Former Chief City Planner Paul Bedford returns to offer his popular tour of the King-Spadina area for Jane’s Walk (May 5 and 6). Starting things off at 401 Richmond, he talks about the neighbourhood’s development history and the unprecedented growth that’s on its way. We’re also gearing up for another Doors Open Toronto weekend on May 26 and 27 — this year’s theme is 200 Years of Building the Urban City and we have some special programming up our sleeves to compliment building tours. To keep up to date with event details, visit www.401richmond.net

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the Toronto Renewable Energy Cooperative (trec,

Studio 405) bears a fitting acronym. trec has had to

trek through its share of uncharted territory in ontario to

establish the foundations for community-owned power.

the organization started things off with a single mandate:

Windshare, which erected a turbine on the Exhibition Place grounds in 2002 and was the first community-

owned wind project in canada. Since then, trec has

been advocating for policy changes reflected in the

Green Energy Act and implementation of Feed-in-tariffs,

they are close to starting the blades spinning at Lakewind a twenty megawatt wind farm outside kincardine, and

have a four million dollar portfolio of solar power

generators feeding the grid through SolarShare.

mapping the relationship between the solar, wind, and

education arms of trec is no simple task. Judith shared

a venn diagram that we didn’t have the space to include

so we’ll try to explain it like this: the cooperative is the

entrepreneurial arm of a family of organizations. trec

is an incubator, developer, and capacity builder for the

other organizations (both not-for-profit and charitable).

they contract services and share resources (such as

board members and expertise) and the strength of each

organization compliments and contributes to the whole.

they also all have a shared goal. as executive Director

Judith Lipp explains, “the overall purpose is really about

enabling ontarians to participate in the green energy

economy in a concrete way. Whether it’s as an investor

on the generation side or by engaging families with

renewable energy concepts on the education side —

those are the two pillars.”

Whether its wind or solar, direct participation is central

to trec’s initiatives. Judith believes that a participatory

model is often what really engages people: “a whole

community power sector was developed out of this one

idea: if individuals can invest their money in local

projects and keep the profits local, people start to get

comfortable with renewable energy and there’s a

snowball effect.” In order to build the sector trec is

looking strategically at how to provide consultation

services to new coops starting their own community

ownership projects and to deliver education and

outreach programs for developers, who often have to

deal with hostile communities.

one of the ways to become a community power

participant by purchasing a SolarShare bond. trec

has been running information sessions in our meeting

room (Studio 408) with the next one planned for

april, or you can visit them in Studio 405 or online at

www.solarbonds.ca. It’s a great way to find out what

investing in renewable energy looks like and how you can

get involved. SolarShare’s plan is to have 750 members

by the end of the year and expand their solar portfolio to

ten million dollars. “people want to invest in something

that’s doing good and there aren’t many of those that

provide a 5% return on investment.” www.trec.on.ca

TORONTO RENEWABLE ENERGY COOPERATIVE Studio 405

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Back (left to right): Education Program Coordinator Kelly Park, Office Manager Mary Warner, Education Director Kirsten Vanstone, Executive Assistant Melissa Barbosa, SolarShare Member Relations Coordinator Julie Leach, Development Coordinator Wesley Normington. Front (left to right): Project Manager Matt Zipchen, Executive Director Judith Lipp, TREC Services Coordinator James Law.

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ALISON ROSEALISON ROSE of Inigo Films (Studio 213) was honoured with the order of ontario on January 26. among twenty-seven appointees, rose was recognized for her documentary film and reporting work and her time spent volunteering to serve people in need through St. Andrew’s Out of the Cold, and the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Lawyers Feed the Hungry Program. www.inigofilms.com

GARETH BATEGARETH BATE received more news coverage than we could fit in press check for his recent installation at the Gladstone Hotel’s Come Up to My Room. So we’re applauding him for making a splash with The Jewel Net of Indra. www.garethbate.com

FROLICDecember 8 to 11, 2011

Top Left Musideum’s Donald Quan

Above Artisans Marketplace participant and Contemporary Textile Studio Cooperative member Roohi Qureshi

Left Artisans Marketplace shoppers in the Urbanspace Gallery

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listings March to May 2012

EXHIBITIONScontinues to MARCH 10, 31 & JULY 21YYZ Artists’ OutletJulie Lequin, keith Langergraber, Jacob horwood

continues to MARCH 20Urbanspace GalleryMind the Gap: Inequality in Toronto and What to Do About It

continues to MARCH 31Open Studioerik Waterkotte: InvocationSusan collett, Sadko hadzihasanovic & elena roginsky: The Print Process–Monotypes on Paper Jennifer Linton: An Account of Some Strange Disturbances

MARCH 2 – 24The Red Head GalleryXiaojing yan: A Grasp of Shadowsopening: Friday march 2, 6–9 pm

MARCH 2 – 31Gallery 44Laura St. pierre, Immony men: Constructing SpaceVitrines: maria raponi: From Aboveopening: Friday march 2, 6–9 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.

DEADLINE FOR NEXT ISSUE: Friday April 20, 2012

GALLERY DIRECTORY

A Space Gallery (Studio 110)contact 416-979-9633 www.aspacegallery.org

Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography (Studio 120) contact 416-979-3941

Open Studio (Studio 104) contact 416-504-8238 www.openstudio.on.ca

Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art (Studio 124) contact 416-591-0357 www.prefix.ca

The 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/Women’s Art Resource Centre (Studio 122) contact 416-977-0097 www.warc.net

Wynick/Tuck Gallery (Studio 128) contact 416-504-8716 www.wynicktuckgallery.ca

YYZ Artists’ Outlet (Studio 140)contact 416-598-4546 www.yyzartistsoutlet.org

MARCH 22 – APRIL 28Urbanspace GalleryToronto: Cinema Citypart oF the 25th annIVerSary ceLebratIonS oF the ImaGeS FILm FeStIVaL

MARCH 27 – APRIL 21YYZ Artists’ OutletJoshua bonnettapart oF the ImaGeS FeStIVaL oFF-Screen proGram

MARCH 28 – APRIL 21The Red Head GalleryZev Farber: Greg McRoberts opening: Saturday march 31, 2–5 pm

APRIL 5 – 21Gallery 44Deanna bowen: The Paul Good Papers opening: thursday april 5, 6–9 pmpart oF the ImaGeS FeStIVaL oFF-Screen proGram

APRIL 12 – MAY 19Open Studiomark Franchino: Proofbrenda Joy Lem: Longing and Belongingkurt pammer: Lakeland Driveopening: thursday april 12, 6:30–8:30 pm

APRIL 25 – MAY 19The Red Head GalleryJoan kaufman: In Betweenopening: Saturday april 28, 2–5 pm

MAY 1 – 31Urbanspace Gallerycoach house books presents patrick cummins: Full Frontal T.O.part oF the ScotIabank contact photoGraphy FeStIVaL

MAY 1 – JULY 31Roastery Coffee Housebarry prophet: Dwellings & Incursions: Photographs opening (artist present): Saturday may 5, 1–4 pmpart oF the ScotIabank contact photoGraphy FeStIVaL

MAY 4 – JUNE 9 Gallery 44Gender and Exposure in Contemporary Iranian Photography Featuring: Samira eskandarfar, amirali Ghasemi, abbas kowsari, Zeinab Salarvand, arman Stepanian, Sadegh tirafkan curated by andrea Fitzpatrickopening: Saturday may 5

Catherine Lane at Open Studio (May 25 to June 23)

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MAY 5 – JULY 21YYZ Artists’ OutletLibby hague, Jamie angelopoulos

MAY 25 – JUNE 23Open StudioVisiting Artist Exhibition: mark crofton bell & catherine Laneamber albrecht: The Summer HouseDaryl Vocat & peter kingstone: Sissies and Psychopathsopening: thursday may 25, 7–9 pmartist talks: Friday may 25, 6–7 pm

EVENTSMARCH 1 – MAY 27MusideumCoffeehouse Concert Series featuring: Lara Solnicki and George koller, medicine Wheel, mark Sepic, conrad Gayle, charles cozens and Lance elbeck, Louis Simão and carlos bernardo, cairdeas, Susan cogan and bob cohen, alex Leggett, Steve koven, Gary Diggins, rita DiGhent, pat clemence For various dates, times, and ticket prices visit web.me.com/qmusicinc/MUSIDEUM_Fall_Winter

APRIL 19 – 22Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance CompanyCelebrating 30 Yearsoffsite: harbourfront centre, Fleck Dance theatre times: thursday to Saturday 8 pmSunday 3 pmwww.flamencos.net

MAY 3Prefix ICASpring Exhibition Opening Reception & Prefix Photo Launch Partytime: 7–10 pmcelebrate the release of issue 25 of prefix photo magazine and the opening reception of the Spring exhibition curated by Scott mcLeod

MAY 17Open Studio100 Printsopen Studio’s annual fundraising event where only 100 art draw tickets are sold guaranteeing each ticket holder an original fine art printoffsite: palais royale time: 6:30 pm MAY 17 – 27Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film and Video Festivalthe international leader in the presentation of queer film celebrates their 22nd annual festival at the tIFF bell Lightboxwww.insideout.ca

WORKSHOPSAPRIL & MAYContemporary Textile Studio Co-operativeWorkshops: Screen Printing Workshop (april – may), Creative Mixed Media Design (thursdays from april 5 – may 10) Repeat Textile Pattern Design (Sundays april 22 – may 13), Embroidered Potentiometers: Crafting Fabric Sensors Using Conductive Yarns (april 15), and Create a Skirt Workshop (Wednesdays april 4 – may 23). contact info@textilestudio.ca to register or visit: www.textilestudio.ca

Clockwise from top: Barry Prophet at The Roastery Coffee House (May 1 – July 31), Amirali Ghasemi at Gallery 44 (May 4 – June 9), Xiaojing Yan at The Red Head Gallery (March 2 – 24).

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press check

HILDITCH ARCHITECTreceived praise from the Globe and Mail’s architecture

columnist John Bentley Mays for the design of their Regent Park housing complex, 40 Oaks.

jOHN SCOTT and Murray Whyte talked about oppression and

despair in the Toronto Star’s review of Scott’s show at Nicholas Metivier Gallery last fall.

DERIVATIVEappeared in a Live with Culture post about artist Michael’s Snow’s show in new york earlier this year. the creators of touchDesigner collaborated with Snow to create The Viewing of Six New Works.

HOWARD PODESWAwas spotted in his own house…in the pages of Design Lines Magazine. the artist shared how he made his “ramshackle home into something picture perfect.”

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THE BACK PAGEPatrick Cummins at the Urbanspace Gallery this May

Garages and Dead Stores from Full Frontal T.O.

If you’d like to be on the back paGe, please submit your drawing, painting, illustration, photograph or architectural plans at 300 dpi as a photoshop or illustrator file on cd or dvd disk. please include a word file 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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