Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto (Updated Edition)

Name: Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto (Updated Edition)
Start: 2024-9-29T14:15-5:00
End: 2024-9-29T15:00-5:00

29sep2:15 pm3:00 pmStroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto (Updated Edition)Shawn Micallef, moderated by Kerry Clare2:15 pm - 3:00 pm(GMT-04:00)

Event Details

“Unofficial Mayor of Toronto” Shawn Micallef joins us to talk about the newly updated edition of his Toronto favorite book, Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto.

What is the ‘Toronto look’? Glass skyscrapers rise beside Victorian homes, and Brutalist apartment buildings often mark the edge of leafy ravines, creating a city of contrasts whose architectural look can only be defined by telling the story of how it came together and how it works, today, as an imperfect machine.

Join Shawn Micallef in conversation with local author Kerry Clare about meandering our city’s unique neighbourhoods and celebrating a city in motion.

Speakers for this event

Kerry Clare

Kerry Clare

Kerry Clare is the author three novels Asking for a Friend (out now from Doubleday Canada), Waiting for a Star to Fall and Mitzi Bytes, and editor of The M Word: Conversations About Motherhood. A National Magazine Award-nominated essayist, and editor of Canadian books website 49thShelf.com, she writes about books and reading at her longtime blog, Pickle Me This. She lives in Toronto with her family.
Shawn Micallef

Shawn Micallef

Shawn Micallef is the author of Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto and Full Frontal TO (nominated for the 2013 Toronto Book Award), a weekly columnist at the Toronto Star, and a senior editor and co-owner of the independent, Jane Jacobs Prize–winning magazine Spacing. Shawn teaches at the University of Toronto and OCAD University and was a 2011-2012 Canadian Journalism Fellow at University of Toronto’s Massey College. In 2002, while a resident at the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab, he co-founded [murmur], the location-based mobile phone documentary project that has spread to over 20 cities globally. Shawn is the Toronto Public Library’s urban-focused Writer in Residence until December 2013.Explore the city with him on Twitter @shawnmicallef.