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City on the Move: A Festival of Young Artists in Transit
A New Performance Platform on the TTC (PDF)
About
The City of Toronto transfers and connects underground cultures with the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) by creating a new artistic and audience platform for urban dance and music, visual art and performance art.
From August 2009 through the summer of 2010, this new program aims to bring your transit experience to life by regularly featuring the artistic creativity and culture of emerging and more seasoned young artists performing in a fluid, public living environment - subway stations, on subway cars, buses and streetcars.
Part of Toronto's 175th anniversary celebrations, this Toronto Cultural Services initiative offers artists aged 18 to 32 (PDF) an expanded public audience and the opportunity to make money through their art by providing an honorarium and the ability to receive donations from the public like regular TTC performers. This will also be the first time that dancers and visual artists will be regularly showcased on the TTC.
Get into the action. Check out the City on the Move Flickr page for vibrant photographs and video of participating artists. You can also be the photographer, uploading your own City on the Move images.
The Mobile City Winners
City on the Move also features the photography of the 10 Toronto winners of The Mobile City Toronto/Milan project - a 2008 joint initiative of The Italian Chamber of Commerce, Toronto Culture and Economic Development, which engaged youth in community building through photography in the twin cities of Toronto and Milan.
The Mobile City Project offered urban youth in both cities a platform to share their dreams and insights about urban life through the creation of digital photographs and a photography contest. The winners in each city also traveled to the other city for an exciting cultural exchange.
Call for Artists
City on the Move is currently seeking emerging and more established local artists and performers (PDF) ages 18 – 32 to showcase their art on the TTC – stations, subways, buses and streetcars from
August ‘09 till the summer of 2010.
Submission deadline is March 31, 2010.
Artists (to date)
Dance
Diana Viselli
LadyNoyz with guests
Moon Runners
Kwasi McKnight’s Project Origin
rad
Rated X
Sanskriti Arts Ensemble
Supernaturalz
Tova Kardonne
Fashion
Freedom Clothing Collective
Music
Ania Soul
Linda Luztono
Ruben Esguerra
Performance Art
Tova Kardonne
W.H.Y. Collective
Spoken Word
Angelica LeMinh
Memo (PDF)
Visual Art
Adrian Forrow
Ayesha Stewart
Jim Mezei
Juan David Gaviria
Kellen Hatanaka
Xiaojing Yan
Schedule
2009
August
September
October
November
December
2010
January
February
March
April
May
June
Media
Shane Gerard
Senior Promotions & Communications Coordinator
SDF&A Communications Unit
sgerard@toronto.ca
416-397-5711
Programming Contact
Nawfal Sheikh
Cultural Outreach Officer (Acting)
Toronto Cultural Services, Arts Services
nsheikh@toronto.ca
416-392-6371
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