Free Exchange

Thank you everyone that participated in the Bloordale Free Exchange: You made this a successful event!

Thank you for contributing items for the Bloordale 2009 Free Exchange at the BIG Festival:

Adam Giambrone, City Councillor Ward 18:DAVENPORT
http://www.adamgiambrone.ca/
City Hall 100 Queen Street West, Suite C42 Toronto, M5H 2N2
Phone: 416-392-7012 Fax: 416-392-7957 Email: councillor_giambrone@toronto.ca
Contribution: Book-Toronto Pictorial Celebration

Bloordale BIA:
http://www.bloordale-bia.com
Contribution: Balloons and T-shirts

Broadway Cycle Inc:
www.broadwaycycle.com
1222 Bloor St West Toronto, ON M6H 1N3, Canada (416) 531-1028
Contribution: 1 helmet

Infinity Home Decor:
www.infinitihomedecor.com
1207 Bloor Street West Toronto, ON M6H 1N4, Canada (416) 536-8386
Contribution: Model Ship

Price Chopper Galleria Shopping Centre
1245 Dupont Street, Toronto, ON M6H 2A6 415-533-2317
Contribution: Lots of candy!

Sweet Pete’s Bike Shop:
www.sweetpetes.com
1204 Bloor Street West Toronto, ON M6H 1N2, Canada (416) 533-4481

Tt Trading:
1298 Bloor Street West Toronto, ON M6H 1N9, Canada (416) 533-9899
Contribution: Ipod Cable

VINE PEOPLE
www.greenspots.info/vinepeople/vinpeoplemovie.html
Contribution: Posters

Wig Boutique:
1185 Bloor Street West
Toronto, ON M6H 1M9, Canada (416) 538-0391
Contribution: hair pieces

Thank you for your volunteer help:

Thank you to the many out-standing volunteers that helped organize, fund, manage, contribute and participant in the BIG Festival

Special thanks to Massive Auto Collision for help with the signage -  1367 Dupont Street near Lansdowne Ave.

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.