Yesterday marked the beginning of the Gladstone Hotel’s inaugural year of Gladstone Grow Op: Exploring landscape and place. The four-day event (on now until Sunday) celebrates innovative ideas and conceptual responses to landscape and place across a broad range of creative practices. UWSA’s F_RMlab is participating this year with their project Field Guide, but the event also features another UWSA project: Play the Walk by Masters student Talayeh Hamidya in collaboration with creative partner Gelareh Saadatpajouh.
Play the Walk is a story of a neighbourhood played out and retold by those who explore it. At the core of the project, the city is owned by its people, and anywhere in the city can be a place of gathering, meeting, or play. We want to befriend a neighbourhood: evolving yet unfamiliar to most of us. So awaken all your sense to play the walk and adventure your way through nooks and crannies of your city. Plan your walk: Today you are an explorer, wear comfortable clothes, pack your food, bring a binocular, a harmonica perhaps: pick up a map at the Gladstone Hotel to discover Play signs in the West Queen West Triangle. Suggested amount of time: 40 minutes
For those interested in the Grow Op event, an opening reception will be happening tonight (April 26) from 7-10 pm at the Gladstone Hotel with DJ Iris Fraser-Gudrunas.
Play the Walk: WQW Triangle, Toronto from Play the Walk on Vimeo.
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