The Bloordale BIA
Welcome to the the Bloordale BIA.
Bloordale BIA is a proud sponsor of both the June 2008 and 2009 BIG FESTIVAL,
Bloor Street from Lansdowne to Christie Pitts. Thank you everyone for your participation and support.
The special event organized by the BIA was the
Bloordale Free Exchange Free Information, Goods, Services and Activities at the BIG Festival, June 20, 2009, Bloor Street at Margueretta, Toronto, 1pm to 9pm
Free School: Information, Advice and Discussion Ask our experts: find out how to start a small business, do your taxes, fix your bathroom, fill in immigration papers – all free.
Free Giveaways Bike, posters, balloons, coupons for free stuff at local stores, previous used and new household item and more.
Exchange Line Have something you don’t need? Need something you don’t have? Post it on the exchange line. Examples: exchange childcare, plumbing services for accounting, a used freezer for a bike, dental care for art, home made red wine for white wine.
Free Activities “Get Off On Bloordale” free T-shirts in exchange for colouring in the letters.
Background: Jonathan Horowitz made a Free Store in April at London’s Sadie Coles Gallery. In March, Athena Robles and Anna Stein opened a Free Store in New York City. Toronto Free Gallery also hosted a Free Store in March. Jeremy Deller’s exhibition: It Is What It Is, at The New Museum, New York in February, included informed speakers freely available to discuss Iraq. The Diggers, a group in San Francisco in 1967, set the precedent with a free store called Free Frame of Reference that was organized to help returning Vietnam Veterans. Efforts to make things free is a viral response reacting to our times and existing models of organization and behavior that have fostered plunging economics, rising unemployment, homogeneous consumer culture exhaustion, unsustainable environmental practices and war.
Bloordale BIA Free Exchange at the BIG Festival, June 20, 1pm to 9pm, Bloor Street and Margueretta area, Toronto. The BIG Festival is continuous from Lansdowne Ave. to Christie Pits along Bloor Street. For updates please check www.bloordale-BIA.com, Contact Information: Dyan Marie projects@dyanmarie.com
Images On The Website:
Pictures on this website that were made at the BIG festival were spontaneously organized as people gathered to be included - if anyone has a concern with their image being presented here please contact us and it will be removed.