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Call for Submissions: The Neighborhood Time Exchange Residency in Philadelphia

September 15, 2014 by BCL

Very excited to finally be able to announce this — it’s been almost two years in the making and marks the launch of a brand new project and model for artist residency, which Justin will be curating. The Neighborhood Time Exchange: West Philadelphia Artist Residency (Time Exchange) -€“ an initiative that will explore how embedded artistic practice can … [Read more…]

Posted in: Blog, Slider Tagged: BCL, Philadelphia, residency, social practice

Varying Proximities: A New Series of Works by Broken City Lab

July 31, 2014 by Josh

For the past year or so, we’ve been working on a residency with Watershed+ in Calgary, Alberta. Watershed+ is a unique public art residency program that creates a climate of opportunity for water initiatives to build an emotional connection between people and Calgary’s watershed. Our task was to embed ourselves within the Water Centre (and Calgary … [Read more…]

Posted in: Blog, Slider Tagged: candy, exhibition, hotline, installation, Stride Gallery, telephone, water, watershed+

The Best of Awards: A Celebration of Windsor Documented

May 26, 2014 by Josh

Earlier this month we held an event to celebrate both the closing of Civic Space–our storefront workspace project generously funded by The Ontario Trillium Foundation–and the people who make Windsor such a unique place to live. This project called upon the residents of Windsor to nominate someone they knew for a “Best of” award in … [Read more…]

Posted in: Blog, Slider Tagged: awards, Best of Awards, celebration, ceremony, trophies, trophy, Windsor, Windsorites

SoVA Artist-in-Residence Speaker Series May 5th – 7th at Civic Space

April 29, 2014 by Josh

Artist-In-Residence Speaker Series (May 5th – 7th) CIVIC Space – 411 Pelissier Street, Windsor, Ontario We’re pleased to announce that we have a full week of events next week at CIVIC Space. Not only is The Best of Awards happening next Thursday, May 8th, but University of Windsor’s School for Arts and Creative Innovation is holding a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Blog Tagged: artist residency, artist talk, program, SoVA, Windsor

Flagged For Review Launch & Open Studio and Social Practice Pot Luck

April 20, 2014 by BCL

Can you believe it’s already almost the end of April? We’ve been working out in Vancouver on a new project since January and it’s been an amazing experience, we’ve met so many incredible new friends, we’ve got to dig into our work face to face again, and we’ve got to make a bunch of new … [Read more…]

Posted in: Events, Slider, Vancouver Tagged: BCL, Burrard Marina, CAG, flags, party, potluck, social practice, Vancouver

The Best of Awards: Join us Thursday, May 8th at 6pm!

April 10, 2014 by Josh

Thursday, May 8th at 6pm – CIVIC Space (411 Pelissier Street, Windsor, Ontario) First and foremost, we want to give a huge thanks to everyone who made a nomination for the Best of Awards and helped uncover the things that make Windsor such a unique place to live. Also, thank you so much for your patience. We had … [Read more…]

Posted in: Blog, Slider Tagged: Best of Awards, celebration, civic space, examples, final, form, nominate, nominations

Flagged For Review: Projecting Forward (Wish List) Projections on the Burrard Bridge

April 2, 2014 by Justin

Above: Caitlin and Lois exchanging answers to a series of fill-in-the-blank questions We’re currently artists in residence at the Burrard Marina Field House, aka the Contemporary Art Gallery‘s Field House Studio and our work continues until the end of April. Our four month project, Flagged for Review is based on imagining the symbolic and lived potential of a city. We’re wondering … [Read more…]

Posted in: Blog, Featured, Slider Tagged: BCL, Burrard Bridge, Contemporary Art Gallery, Flagged for Review, projection, Vancouver

The Best of Awards

March 14, 2014 by Hiba

We know that a city is more than just buildings, roads, political decisions, pools, telephone poles, and parks. We know that it’s all of the little things that make this city great, or better yet, it’s all the little things that so many people we know do for us, knowingly or not, every day that … [Read more…]

Posted in: Blog, Events, Slider Tagged: awards, Best of Awards, celebration, community, event, nomination, party, project

Mirror Fence by Alyson Shotz

March 11, 2014 by Josh

American artist Alyson Shotz constructed this large-scale picket fence from strips of mirror and placed it in a natural setting as a sort of suggested barrier or delineation of space. The project was a commissioned installation for Storm King Art Center in New York. What intrigues me most is the variety of views that are possible with this … [Read more…]

Posted in: Blog Tagged: fence, forest, installation, land, mirror, outdoors, reflect

DIY Community for Youth – A Great Model for Learning Independently

February 27, 2014 by Josh

This is a bit of an unusual post I suppose, but something about this resource, DIY.org, struck a chord with me. Independent learning can be an incredible way for people to acquire skills outside of or alongside traditional education. An issue that seems to be gaining popularity in the discourse around traditional education is the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Blog Tagged: community, DIY, do it yourself, education, learning, resource
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