2010 Media Coverage
Monday September 27th, 2010
redcatFILM
Saturday September 18th, 2010
Online London
Friday September 17th, 2010
A-Channel
London Free Press
Day in the PARK(ing spot)
By: Kate Dubinski
You could have learned to tap dance, tried your hand at disc golf or signed up for a library card.
Not your cup of tea? You also could have chilled out on a park bench, grass between your toes, done some yoga or shared your vision for London.
Metered parking spots in downtown London, most along Dundas and King streets, were transformed Friday into parks, play areas, reading nooks and thinking corners between 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
It was all part of Park(ing) Day, an international event organized for the first time in London by Kevin Van Lierop.
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PARK(ing) Day Arrives in London
Instead of cars, SUV’s and trucks, you might see beds, reading areas and lemonade stands setting up shop in downtown London parking spots today.
An event that started five years ago in San Francisco, before spreading to other cities around the world, has now come to London.
It’s called Park(ing) Day — and while it may frustrate some drivers, organizers hope it’ll also make them look at their city in a whole new way.
While it may do that, it isn’t good news if you’re looking for a place to park your ride downtown around lunch-time.
London Short Film Showcase
Monday July 26th, 2010
London Free Press
Park your creativity downtown
By: Geoff Turner
That parking spot where the Escalade sits idling? It might just become a
miniature forest. And that spot across the road, where the beat-up Cavalier blights the streetscape? Well, that might become a tiny movie theatre.
Or at least they might if Kevin Van Lierop has his way with downtown London on Sept. 17. Van Lierop’s vision? Park(ing) Day London 2010.
The scheme is borrowed from San Francisco, where an arts collective called Rebar launched the Park(ing) Day concept in 2005.
Troubled by a lack of outdoor space in that city’s downtown, Rebar hit upon a novel way to reclaim space from the almighty automobile. Members decided to put the money in a meter and transform a parking spot into a tiny park — thus the “park” in Park(ing) Day — with real turf, a live tree and a park bench.
About PARK(ing) Day
PARK(ing) Day is an annual, one-day, global event where artists, activists and citizens collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spots to help promote creativity, civic engagement, critical thinking, unscripted social interactions, generosity and play.
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