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    Zine Night Continues this Summer: Wednesdays Biweekly at Civic Space

    Zine Night: A Free Biweekly Micro-Publishing Forum, Open to All! Zine Night, a biweekly micro-publishing workshop series hosted by BCL’s Rosina Riccardo continues throughout the summer. Join us as we cut, paste, tear, discuss, remove, rethink, reshape, bind, print, and share (in no particular order). Upcoming Dates June – 5th & 19th July – 3rd, [...]

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    New Publication Out Now: Invented Emergency (For Small Cities & Big Towns)

    We just received a few boxes of our newest publication, INVENTED EMERGENCY (For Small Cities & Big Towns), published through White Water Gallery. They look so good, we can’t wait to give them out! INVENTED EMERGENCY is built on the research developed for Surviving North Bay, a residency and exhibition by Broken City Lab, hosted [...]

  • Artist in Residence Mary Tremonte Printing at the Windsor May Day Parade

    Mary Tremonte of Justseeds Artist Cooperative Printing at the Windsor May Day Parade in Drouillard Park.

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    Spirit of Windsor: An Outsider’s Guide by NICOLE LAVELLE & SARAH BAUGH Opens April 18 at 6:00pm

    Image courtesy of Nicole & Sarah’s blog – blog.sincerelyinterested.com If you haven’t checked out our recent video of Nicole Lavelle and Sarah Baugh interviewing one another about their residency and project here in Windsor, then you’re missing out on all the interesting ideas and experiences framing their new project, Spirit of Windsor: An Outsider’s Guide. This [...]

  • Nicole Lavelle & Sarah Baugh Discuss Their Plans at Civic Space

    Late last week, two Portland artists–Nicole Lavelle & Sarah Baugh–arrived at CIVIC SPACE in a brown Volkswagen Westfalia camper van to spend a couple weeks exploring Windsor and eventually designing a Windsor Tour Guide publication. They took a few minutes yesterday evening to ask each other questions about what their collaborative project at CIVIC SPACE [...]

  • Windsor is Forever: A Short Documentary

    With Portland-based artist-in-residence, Jason Sturgill, we reframed his previous project, Art is Forever, as Windsor is Forever  – a community-driven art and tattoo project that gave Windsor residents an opportunity to make a permanent commitment to the city. Participants chose from a flash tattoo set created in collaboration with local artists and illustrators to receive as their free tattoos, which were [...]

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    Blog Party: A New Biweekly Get-together

    Blog Party We’re very excited to announce a new biweekly blogging night, Blog Party, starting Thursday, April 11th here at CIVIC SPACE! Blog Party aims to bring together local bloggers to discuss ideas, inspiration, and issues in the city and beyond, providing a time and space for writing, learning, and creating together, regardless of skill level. [...]

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Windsor is Forever Tattoo Day: Third Batch Completed

The third batch of appointments for Windsor is Forever, a collaborative project with Jason Sturgill, have been finished. Here are the results: three Windsor tattoos by Dave Kant, Steve Jones, and Jon Jimenez. Here is another version of the Windsor seal Dan Bombardier found (tattooed by Dave Kant). Here is Dave Kant tattooing a Windsor “W” on a participant’s lower [...]

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Rod Strickland’s first tattoo #windsorisforever

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So this just happened. #windsor #windsorisforever #ontario #canada #brokencitylab #tattoos #art #wutang

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Windsor is Forever Tattoo Day: Second Batch Completed

The second three appointments for Windsor is Forever, a collaborative project with Jason Sturgill, have been finished. Here are the results: three Windsor tattoos by Dave Kant, Steve Jones, and Jon Jimenez. Here is a detailed mayfly design done on the shoulder by Dave Kant. Here is a design Jon Jimenez did of a rose with the Ambassador Bridge nestled [...]

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Drawing more tattoos out!

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Windsor is Forever Tattoo Day: First Batch Completed

The first three appointments for Windsor is Forever, a collaborative project with Jason Sturgill, have been finished. Here are the results: three fine tattoos by Dave Kant, Steve Jones, and Jon Jimenez. The first appointment was a simplified Windsor seal completed by Dave Kant. Process shot of the second appointment, a mayfly done on a [...]

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Windsor is Forever Tattoo Day Begins!

The first tattoo of the day as part of Windsor is Forever is in progress! This fellow chose a Windsor crest design provided to us by Dan Bombardier. The tattoo artists pre-printed a batch of each design. This is one of the largest designs in the set.

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It’s starting! #windsorisforever #brokencitylab

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