Facilitating Change

Liam beatboxing

Liam and I went for a walk in the Maguire District meadow. It was snowing. He started beatboxing. Good thing I had my camera already set to video. He went back to DC early Sunday morning. Took the plane all by himself and did a great job. I miss him so much already. Liam beatboxing from [...]

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Designer wanted for book on urban ecology, activism, local history

We are looking for a print designer to create a 40- to 70-page book to be published in April 2009. The book, Memorial of Weeds: Wildest Dreams for Our Urban Cores, will document “Sprout Out Loud!” (an environmental art project) alongside community reflections about a controversial piece of land soon to be developed by the [...]

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Contribute to the Memorial of Weeds

Memories, stories, dreams, visions, photos, newspaper clipping, city plans, archives — you name it, we want to include it in an upcoming book: Memorial of Weeds: Wildest Dreams for Our Urban Cores. I’m helping Montreal artist Emily Rose Michaud, the force behind the Mile End’s Roerich Garden, to produce a book that will document community happenings [...]

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Montreal

Almost 3:30AM. Instead of sleeping I read the thoughts and followed the connections between the people I’ve been meeting in Montreal. I am so aware of coming in to the middle of a conversation. Into the middle of something that’s already busy and vibrant and been going on for a long time now. And what [...]

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