Spacing’s Road Show in Ottawa: Tuesday, July 19th

Spacing, a magazine/blog/movement started in Toronto and dedicated to all sorts of things about urban life and public space, is in the middle of a cross-Canada Road Show. Matthew Blackett, the publisher and “face” of Spacing, is spending the summer visiting cities across the country and holding events where presenters talk about what it means to be in a city and everyone shares their ideas on how to make them better places to live, work and play.

The Spacing Road Show comes to Alternate Accordion City — a.k.a. Ottawa — tomorrow evening (Tuesday, July 19th) from 7:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.at the National Arts Centre (53 Elgin) and will feature a panel discussion with the following people:

• Matthew Blackett, Spacing publisher, as moderator
• George Dark, partner at Urban Strategies, urban designer and landscape architect
• Allegra Newman, community planning advocate
• Evan Thornton, editor of the Spacing Ottawa blog

I’ll leave it to the event’s Facebook page to explain more:

This event will be held in the 4th Stage part of the NAC. 

In support of Spacing’s first national issue, publisher Matthew Blackett is heading out on a cross-Canada tour to celebrate the launch of the national issue and to lead discussions on urbanism and city design in the nation’s big cities.

The eighth stop on the tour is Ottawa! Come out to our event/party and pick up an issue. From 8-9pm, the Spacing team will be joined by three local panelists to discuss the top 10 public spaces in Ottawa as well as the state of good design on the streets of Ottawa. A more casual party will follow.

COST: $5 (gets you a copy of the new national issue)

I’ll be there, and if anyone want to join me afterwards, I plan on holding court at D’Arcy McGee’s fine drinking establishment across the street afterwards.