Good news! The City of Toronto web site has announced plans for another nuit blanche night in 2007 - September 29th.

From the site:

"If you are an individual artist or collective, read the Open Call Projects submission guidelines and submit a completed submission form:

Open Call Projects Submission Guidelines
Open Call Projects Submission Form

Open Call Projects deadline: Tuesday, April 10, 2007"

( See http://www.toronto.ca/special_events/nuitblanche/ for more details. )

I CAME TO DANCE!

Part of the on going Cityshoots series at Le Petit Déjeuner, I CAME TO DANCE! is a collection of photos taken at various House parties in Toronto over the last year from venues like 99 Sudbury, Sunnyside Pavilion, The Rivoli, and West.

I'm inviting you all to come and check out my work over the next six weeks. Sign the guest book (if I have it ready in time), and spend a little cash while you're there. LPD has a good brunch, and great artwork up for sale (wink, nudge).

Le Petit Dejeuner
191 King Street East

for more information visit:
www.down.ca
www.petitdejeuner.ca

Dear Friends,

The second annual "Picture the Cure" is underway and we'd like to invite you to be a part of this special event to raise funds for the Canadian Cancer Society.

First and foremost, you are cordially invited:

Picture the Cure 2006
August 21 (Monday)
6pm-midnight
The Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen Street West

Advance tickets: $10
At the door: $15

Our goal for this year is to raise at least $5,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society who, along with the Terry Fox Foundation, is the primary source of funding for the National Cancer Institute of Canada. The Canadian Cancer Society:

* funds research on all types of cancer
* offers comprehensive and credible information on cancer, risk reduction and treatment
* provides support for people living with cancer, family members and friends

We have the support of the Ontario branch, and have their endorsement to include their logo and name to promote the event.

Our plan for August 21:

300 attendees
100+ matted and framed prints on display for silent auction with artist information
live entertainment
door prizes/raffles
light fare

How you can help:

1. Photography/digital imagery/painting

You can enter up to three pictures to the auction gallery, but once your submission is accepted, there will be an entry fee of 35$ CAD per photograph to cover the printing/framing costs (lower price for smaller pictures, minimum $20 CAD). You will be provided with a ftp account to upload your full resolution picture to a secure server. This picture will also be featured on the "Picture the Cure" website (in the works), along with your biography and link to your personal website.

There will be no other hidden fees required from you. The reason I am asking for a participation fee is because all prints will be handled at once and printing/framing costs are much more affordable this way. The goal is to donate as much money as possible to the foundation and we can only achieve this by minimizing expenses.

The costs for printing, matting, and framing for photography/digital imagery are as follows:

12x18, 12x12 - $35
8x12, 8x10 - $30
5x7 - $20

Please note the above prices are at cost. If you wish to provide the print, contact us for adjusted prices. We'll need ALL SUBMISSIONS by the end of June so they are ready in time.

2. Sponsorship

We are also still searching for sponsors for the following:

- catering
- live entertainment
- items for raffle (autographed merchandise, books, certificates, spa vouchers, or the like -- Botox injections? subscriptions to "Martha Stewart Living"?)

If you've got friends who do catering, are in the entertainment biz, or have any goods or services we can promote the hell out of on August 21 in the name of charity, send them our way!

3. Volunteers

If you would like to lend your assistance at the Gladstone, we will be only too glad to delegate. Please let us know.

Last but not least, thank you in advance for all your help -- we greatly appreciate it.

Your devoted organizers,
Irina and Gail

TIME IN SPACE

Featuring the first official
photographic exhibit of

Pramesh Attwala

Opening Reception
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
7:00 - 9:00 pm

M-ONE-11
561 Queen Street West

for more information visit:
www.contactphoto.com
www.mone11.ca
www.down.ca

The tenth annual Contact Photo Festival is just around the corner and I thought I would take a minute to invite any and all Toronto bloggers/photobloggers to come down and meet the DK Photogroup at our opening May 3rd at Steamwhistle Brewery.

For more info, click here. Hope to see you all there!

Hi all,

Just wanted to share some news about exciting blog related initiatives happening at the AGO.

I've been working with the gallery to start embracing the blogging community in the city as media. As a first initiative, a group of bloggers - photo, video, podcast & others - will be reporting from the opening launch of the Frank Gehry exhibit next Tuesday. The group will have almost total access and I'm hoping some wonderfully creative work will be produced.

There's some more info here: http://singer.to/2006/02/09/blogging-at-the-ago/

As well, you may want check out the AGO blog: http://www.artmatters.ca/

Cheers!

Eli Singer
http://www.singer.to

Tonight, Sam will be doing a presentation on Photoblogging Toronto at Hart House at the University of Toronto. It's at 7:30pm and free to the public.

The official Launch Party for U and I Magazine is this coming Thursday. I luckily had a chance to get my copy last Thursday. It's a wonderful photography publication by Taku Kumabe. It features the images of local photobloggers, Tanja-Tiziana Burdi, Sean Galbraith, Jonathan Day-Reiner. As well as Lorissa Shepstone, Lana Stewart, Jessyel Ty Gonzalez and many other photographers. Yes I'm featured in it as well.

You can purchase the magazine at the launch party, or if you are not in the Toronto area you can pick it up online through lulu

Toronto Flickr (October) Meetup & U&I Magazine Launch Party!
Thursday, October 27th, 2005
7:00pm to whenever
Gypsy Coop Lounge (back part of the restaurant)
815 Queen Street West, just west of Bathurst..

Didn't have time to write individual entries for all these events, if you want that, you can always check photojunkie.ca But for now, here's a quick and easy listing. Lots of cool shooting opportunities here.

Thursday, October 20th 2005

[murmur] Spadina Launch
Grossman’s Tavern (379 Spadina)
6pm to 9pm

Access All Areas: A users guide to urban exploration Book Launch
Gibsone Jessop Gallery
55 Mill Street, Building 4,
Distillery District, 7-10pm

Friday, October 21st, 2005

Capture the Flag U of T campus
University of Toronto downtown campus
100 St. George Street.
8:30 pm start time

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

Toronto Zombie Walk 2005
Necropolis Cemetary
2 pm start time

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

Canzine
The Gladstone Hotel
1 pm to 7pm

The New Photography: how computers and the internet are revolutionizing the world of images.
Yorkdale Apple Store
Geo Perdis, Kevin Steele and Yuri Dojc
7 pm

Just wanted to personally invite you all to....

PHOTOBLOGGERS, UNPLUGGED
An offline photography exhibit featuring the works of Tanja-Tiziana Burdi & Sean Galbraith.

Opening gala event:
Friday, Sept 16th, 6-10pm
@ the Magic Pony Gallery (785 Queen St W, 2nd flr)
Enjoy a cash bar, snacks, music, merriment and yes, works are also for sale!


Exhibit runs Friday 12-10pm, Saturday 11-7pm, Sunday 12-6pm.

Hope to see you there!!!



-tanja

As mentioned previously, don't forget that next weekend is the Toronto Camera Show at the Thornhill Community Centre. Fans of vintage gear should be sure to check it out.

Sunday September 11th
Thornhill Community Centre
7755 Bayview Ave. at John St.

10am - 4pm, $5

Also, in two weeks the Buffalo Camera Show runs from 9:30am-1:30pm and has forty tables of classic and vintage kit to peruse for an entry fee of only five bones.

Saturday September 24th
Hearthstone Manor
333 Dick Road
Depew, New York

9:30am - 1:30pm, $5

Contact Doug Napier at (905) 994-0515 or email to dduglas at dugwerks dot com for more info.

... and of course the Photographic Historical Society of Canada is hosting the second installment of the biannual "BIG ONE" show on Sunday, October 2nd at the Soccer Centre in Woodbridge. Yowza!

Jon

Hello,

I recently picked up a flyer to an upcoming camera show and thought it might be of interest to the group. I have some old things to get rid of, so I'm planning to check it out. I don't see a weblink on the flyer, so I'll make it brief.

Location - Thornhill Community Centre
7755 Bayview Avenue (looks like it's close to the 407)
Date - Sunday, Sept. 11, 2005 - 10:00 am to 3:00pm
Admission $7.00
for more info contact suewootten@hotmail.com

The flyer I picked up at Vistek has a $2.00 cupon attached.

Michelle
http://www.lensbender.com

It's my pleasure to officially announce a new project called "Portraits in the Park". Starting next week, once a week, throughout the summer, I will set up shop at one of our local parks armed with a tripod and my Yashica Mat 124G. At the beginning of each week, I will announce a location and time where I will be shooting.



I will take photos of any and all willing participants. One shot per person. Come in costume, come dressed up, come as you are, just come to the park. I will do this as a free service to all who participate, but I will accept a suggested 5 dollar donations for each portrait [for film and processing]. Each participant will recieve a copy of their photo and a scan. Please spread the word and check back at http://www.photojunkie.ca on Monday, July 18th to find out when and where the first location will be.

Rannie mentioned Doors Open Ontario a month or so ago, and the details for Doors Open Toronto is now available at http://www.doorsopen.org Mark Saturday, May 28 & Sunday, May 29, 2005 on your calendars.

I've never been before, I'm curious to hear what experiences people have had in the past, and to see the pictures you've taken. Any hidden gems out there we've passed by for years without realizing the beauty behind, well, the closed doors?

You can find details on most of the buildings on the Doors Open web page, and I've found John Sewell's book Doors open Toronto - Illuminating the City's Great Spaces very helpful too.

Many of the locations are well known photo-blog sites, but there looks like other interesting places as well. I'll start the list with a link to my archive of shots at seems Artless. My favorite (so far) is the shot of City Hall using a Lensbaby.

Spring is here, the snow is melted and the flowers are beginning to bloom. It's the perfect opportunity to hop in a car and go on a road trip.

Many of you are aware of Doors Open Toronto, which opens the doors to many historical buildings and places to the public. This year, Doors Open Toronto will be taking place on May 28th and 29th. But did you realize that several other cities and towns throughout Ontario also have Doors Open events? Between April and October there are several locations across southern Ontario that are opened to the public.

Check out the Doors Open Ontario website for details. Perhaps if there are specific locations that of interest, maybe we could do a couple of group field trips over the next few months.

Hi all,

I think this looks really cool. I blogged it over at my site & am pasting the post below.
Cheers!

Eli

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Again with the Neistat brothers - a great short involving the Holland Tunnel in NYC. I'm looking forward to checking them out Saturday night at Camera.

From EYE Weekly:

"Van, 29, and Casey, 24, grew up in Connecticut, where they earned the attention of law enforcement officials for such offences as dealing pot, setting fields on fire and shooting air rifles out of car windows.

They are now based in New York City, where they have made 127 films in the last five years. That's more than enough movies for the Neistats to justify throwing their own festival. At Camera on the weekend of April 1-2, they host two nights of screenings in their first-ever live appearance, where they will be offering viewers complimentary tequila.

The movies are the real reason to look forward to the Neistat brothers' appearance, they're part of a new wave of wiseass, web-friendly, ultra-prolific filmmakers. These dudes revel in the freedom they get from working outside the traditional channels of movie production."

Hi all,

I was at the press launch of Massive Change at the AGO yesterday. I've posted photos and videos of the exhibit on my blog. You can also use this trackback link.

Cheers!

Eli

The newest issue of Spacing Magazine is coming out at the end of the week. Thursday night is the release party, which will feature visuals by Toronto's Top Photobloggers. Here are the details.

Spacing issue 3 release party
Thursday December 9 2004

El Mocambo 464 Spadina (@ College + Spadina)
doors open at 9pm
$10 cover - gets you copy of new issue
$5 if you are a subscriber

musical guests:
Reid Jamieson
Audible

Spacing's third issue, Work and Play in Public Space, hits the streets this Thursday. You can find it in independent book and magazine stores starting Friday Dec. 10. For a list of stores in Toronto visit: http://www.spacing.ca/stores.htm

You will also be able to pick up a subscription at the party. We offer a 6-issue subscription for $25, and a 3-issue sub for $15. The holidays are upon us and a subscription to Spacing is a perfect gift for all your friends who claim to be urban explorers and enthusiasts.

We are also offering up new Toronto subway station buttons! You will be able to buy a button of almost every subway station. We will also be offering a set of each subway line (Danforth, Bloor, Yonge, University-Spadina). These little beauties will make a perfect stocking stuffer. Check out some of the buttons here: http://www.spacing.ca/buttons.htm

UPDATE : The Spacing Magazine Photoblog is now up and running and well be featuring work from various Toronto Photobblogers through the month of December.

The editorial team of Spacing is pleased to announce that our third issue, the Work and Play In Public Space issue, will hit newsstands on Friday Dec. 10th.

Issue 3 cover section features articles on: early morning bird rescuers; Chinatwon street vendors; the un-wired worker; street youth; street hockey; the city as a playground; outdoor theatre; subway parties; and what it's like to be a graffiti cop. Contributors for this issue include Ryan Bigge (CBC Radio), Ed Keenan (Eye weekly), Michelle Kasprzak (Montreal new media artist), Misha Glouberman (Trampoline Hall), Shawn Micallef (murmur), and Graeme Parry (Toronto laneway expert and tour guide). A variety of Toronto's top photobloggers also contributed: Sam Javanrouh (Daily Does of Imagery), Matt O'Sullivan (thenarrative.net), Rannie Turingan (photojunkie.ca), Jonathon Day-Reiner (groundglass.ca), and Davin Risk (lowresolution.com). Spacing also used the illustrative skills of Julia Breckenreid (Globe and Mail, National Post), Marc Ngui (Zak Meadow, and CBC's Zed TV host), Marlena Zuber (Boston Globe, Washington Post), and Jen Hsieh (recent Applied Arts illustration award winner). The issue was designed and art
directed by Matthew Blackett (m@b comic, Eye weekly).

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Release Party!

When: Thursday December 9th, 2004
Where: El Mocambo (462 Spadina Ave. and Spadina and College)
How much: $10 cover, which includes a copy of new issue
As usual, Spacing will throw a big bash to launch our new issue on Thursday Dec. 9th, at Toronto's legendary El Mocambo. Show up anytime after 9pm. Musical guests are Reid Jamieson and Friends, and Audible. Also performing will be Dylan Studebaker, a punk rock street magician. We will be projecting large images captured by Spacing photographers. You can also win a subscription to Spacing by entering our raffle that night.

Lastly, if you are a subscriber, you will be placed on a list that allows you to enter the club for only $5. See -- we said you were special and we backed it up.

JANIETA EYRE
November 12, 2004 - Ryerson University, Lecture Hall LIB-72
7:30 p.m., Free - show up early

Toronto-based photographer and filmmaker Janieta Eyre has quickly gained notoriety in the contemporary art world with her surreal portraits of herself as twins. Starkly graphic, her carefully composed photos explore notions of the uncanny and the double in a playful yet disquieting fashion.

With the 2000 Lady Lazarus series, Eyre used 19th century spirit photography as a reference point for her explorations of death, resurrection, and genetic engineering. Drawing inspiration from a dream and the series title from a poem by Sylvia Plath, the colour and selenium-toned black and white images of the series "seemed to exist in a place at once the past and the future."

What I Haven't Told You , Eyre's current body of work, continues her exploration of the theatrically staged photograph and the affinity of photography for phantom presences which can be sensed but not seen. Eyre has also recently made the jump from photography to filmmaking with her first short film, entitled So Now We Understand Each Other . Based on a short story she wrote about a woman who believes her two dolls are her children, the film continues Eyre's exploration of motherhood as a complex and strange human relationship.

Janieta Eyre was born in London , England and was educated in Toronto where she received a philosophy degree from the University of Toronto . She also studied journalism part-time at Ryerson University and photography at the Ontario College of Art and Design. She lives and works in Toronto and is represented by the Christopher Cutts Gallery (Toronto) and Diane Farris Gallery (Vancouver).

Eyre has exhibited widely in Italy, Germany, Iceland, the United States and across Canada and was recently invited to participate in the Kwanju Biennale in South Korea. Eyre has been featured in several recent publications including Hive Magazine, Collezione Edge, and Faking Death and recently won a "Shine" award for Best Digital Imagery from Horizon Zero. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (Ottawa), Microsoft (New York), and the National Gallery of Iceland (Reykjavik).

http://www.dianefarrisgallery.com/artist/eyre/

Kodak Lecture Series

Hey everyone,

If you are like me, and are a fan of FOUND Magazine, you might want to check out founder Davy Rothbart tonight at the Drake. Not sure if i can make it, but i'm a gonna try.

Drake Official Link

cheers,
chris @ freedelivery

Time to dusk off your tripods and pull out your telephoto lens. There will be a Total Lunar Eclipse tonight. It will begin at 10:23 this evening and end at 11:45. Hopefully the skies will clear up so we can see something. For more info check out this Nasa Press Release.

If anyone tries to shoot it, I expect to see pictures.

The Kodak Lectures is an ongoing international lecture series programmed by the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. It is now in it's 28th year. The 2004-05 Kodak Lecture Series begins with Phil Bergerson this coming Friday.

PHIL BERGERSON
Friday, October 15th @ 7:30pm
Lecture Theatre L-72
Jorgenson Hall, 380 Victoria Street
Ryerson University

Tuesday, October 12 - 7:30pm
Lecture: Photographer Naomi Harris
Velma Rogers Graham Theatre (Rogers Building)
333 Bloor St East (@ Jarvis)
Free Admission

Born and raised Toronto, Naomi moved to New York in 1997 to study at the International Center of Photography. Following ICP, Naomi assisted photographers Bruce Davidson and Lauren Greenfield. A personal project documenting the lives of elderly residents of a Miami Beach hotel was acknowledged with the 2001 Agfa Young Photojournalist Award, as well as being a finalist for the W Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. In 2002, Naomi was recognized by PDN as one of 30 Emerging Photographers to watch and in 2003 received the gold award for photojournalism from the National Magazine Awards. Presently living in New York, Naomi is working as an editorial photographer for a variety of publications including The New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, ESPN, Stern and Toro. Her personal documentary projects are ongoing, including her most recent Swingers. Based on the work from the Swingers project, this year Naomi became the first Canadian to be invited to participate in the prestigious World Press Photo Joop Swaart Masterclass program this November in Amsterdam.

(via Carrie)

Tuesday, October 12, 2004, 8 pm
FREE at The Rivoli (334 Queen St. West)
[murmur] and Spacing Magazine (spacing.ca) are participating Hubbub!, an avant-variety show of sorts organized by the Power Plant gallery. This one is going to be fun. We’re going to talk about upending hierarchies, activating public participation, and propose some new ways of looking at living in the city.

More info: www.thepowerplant.org

Apparently Matt B from Spacing Magazine will also be talking about photoblogs and how we are the eyes, and the explorers, of the current rise in urban issues.

Henry's is hosting it's 4th Annual Photographic and Digital Imaging Show from October 22nd to October 24th at the International Centre (Hall 6). There will be free consumer seminars, various suppliers and vendors and plenty of toys on hand to view, try and buy.

I went last year and had a good time checking out the various vendors. The free seminars were a good primer on basic lessons. Of course they try and sell you on their full featured courses that  Henry's offers at their School of Imaging.

For a mere 10 dollars, it's a fun day filled with fun toys. You can get your tickets to the show at any Henry's location.

Toycamera.com has announced that  this year's World Toy Camera Day will be on Saturday October 23rd. I know there are plenty of Toronto folk who own Holga's, Diana's  and various other plastic wonders. Dust off your cameras, get a fresh roll of film (or maybe something outdated would be fun too) and get ready to load up your cameras to participate in this years celebration.