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.

Contact Information:

Dyan Marie

projects@dyanmarie.com