Lancement de Spacing Montréal launch party: Sept. 23, 2007

www.spacingmontreal.ca

QUOI? WHAT? Lancement de Spacing Montréal launch party!
QUAND? WHEN? Dimanche le 23 septembre, 19h30 / Sunday, Sept. 23rd, 7:30pm
OÙ? WHERE? Le Cabigi (5490 St-Laurent coin St-Viateur)
COMBIEN? HOW MUCH? Gratuit/Pay What You Can
LINK http://spacingmontreal.ca/?p=80
FACEBOOK http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=17771717368

The award-winning magazine Spacing is expanding its online coverage — say bonjour to the new daily blog Spacing Montréal!

“Spacing is extremely excited to be launching our Spacing Montréal blog,” says publisher Matthew Blackett. “We’ve had great success in Toronto with both our printed magazine and our daily blog. We feel that adding a blog based out of Montréal that focuses on a variety of public realm issues is a natural extension of our editorial mandate. We want to help residents understand the importance of local public spaces as well as increase the awareness of how each citizen can shape our urban landscape.”

Spacing has assembled 12 fantastic Montréal contributors (including urban affairs writer Christopher DeWolf and one of Montréal’s most popular photobloggers Daniel Seguin) to explore the streets of the city and examine neighbourhoods, architecture, traffic, transit, cycling, environmental issues and just about anything that involves the public realm of Montréal.

Spacing’s editors and writers are excited to report on how this great city deals with the challenges of building a healthy and sustainable future. We’re also pleased to have a handful of bilingual writers that allows Spacing Montréal to publish posts in either French or English.

Spacing Montréal contributors have been posting since the end of July, building up the archives, and we’re happy to share this new blog with the world now. Come meet the contributors and editors on Sunday, Sept. 23rd at Cabigi (5490 St-Laurent) and celebrate Montréal’s newest online publication.

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ABOUT SPACING
Spacing is a Toronto-based magazine publisher that focues on the joys, obstacles, and politics of the modern cityscape. The printed magazine has been published since the fall of 2003. Spacing has won numerous awards for its editorial content including: 2007 Small Magazine of the Year (Canadian Society of Magazine Editors), 2007 Editor of the Year (Canadian Society of Magazine Editors) awarded to Spacing’s Matthew Blackett and Dale Duncan, 2006 National Magazine Award (Gold) for ‘Best Editorial Package’, 2006 Heritage Toronto Award, plus multiple nominations from the Canadian Newsstand Awards and International Independent Press Awards. Spacing publisher Matthew Blackett was recently recognized with an Urban Leadership Award from the Canadian Urban Institute.

Spacing’s daily blog, Spacing Toronto is one of the city’s most popular online destinations and is the preeminent source for news and commentary on local city issues.

http://www.spacing.ca
http://www.spacing.ca/toronto/

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QUOTES ABOUT SPACING

“Spacing is an innovative magazine that makes you believe in a better Toronto.”
— Toronto Star

“Spacing…is a joyful rebellion. Read it, support it – the city is better for it.”
— Lisa Rochon, Globe and Mail

“I love living in a city that has Spacing as a magazine.”
– Ron Mann, film director and producer of Go Further, Grass, and Comic Book Confidential

“Spacing…exudes a real love of the local and offers charming odes to city life experiences that are usually ignored by the rest of the media.”
— Eye Weekly

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MEDIA CONTACT:
Matthew Blackett, publisher: 416 992 1439, matt@spacing.ca
if you wish to contact any of the Spacing Montréal contributors please email us at : spacingmontreal@spacing.ca