My film, “lay claim to an island”, is showing tomorrow BAMPFA as part of their Undoing Time: Cinema and Histories of Incarceration series: bampfa.org/event/rabbit-m…

I met with City staff as they solicited bids for a new operator of the arts space at 32 Lisgar. As a former operator of the space, we wondered why they were rushing the process without addressing the myriad of deficiencies. Ana was pushing for it before she left council.

Fun fact: on rainy days like this, 32 Lisgar floods on the main floor and on the third floor due to Ana Bailão rushing the certification of the community so the developer could collect their money. The developer then went bankrupt. The benefit unfinished. And now it sits empty.

A colleague forwarded me this letter from Artscape and, frankly, nothing about it is shocking. But it *really* illustrates the City's short sightedness and lack of working directly with community groups for community arts spaces.

Another venue cancelled Toronto’s Palestinian fundraiser. You know which venue wouldn’t have? TMAC. We hosted the Palestinian film festival. Meanwhile, the City continues to embarrass itself after forcing us out and revising “calls for operators”. It has been empty for years.

Feels ghoulish: The City is allowing the Toronto Biennial to use 32 Lisgar as its central venue— the space they evicted TMAC from. The theme? Precarious Joys, the "vulnerability and grief" around the loss of workers and space in the arts. ocula.com/magazine/art-n…

The Gamma Space community released TWO games this month as a direct result of working with impact investors Weird Ghosts & Baby Ghosts. Not only are @RocketAdrift's Psychroma and @daffodildil's @StreetUniX fantastic games, but they have such a positive effect on their communities.

City Hall asked us to "dream" about 32 Lisgar while erasing decades of community work. The truth? TMAC was promised OWNERSHIP of this arts space in 2014, not just a lease. Time to honour the original deal for the future operator. Full story: tomediaarts.org/articles/an-em…