Dear City Canada

Write a public love letter to your city

Do you love your city? Or perhaps your feelings more complex? If you can fit it in 140 characters, we want to share it with the rest of Canada on a billboard as part of a new public art project. Your voice matters. Join other urbanists in a public dialogue about the issues affecting our daily lives in the cities we inhabit.

Tweet a 140 character letter to your city using @DearCityCanada. All acceptable* letters will be displayed on mall screens across Canada for two weeks this June, reaching five million people a week. The best letters will be displayed on outdoor digital billboards across Canada this summer, and of course letters will be retweeted via the @DearCityCanada account.

Start your tweet by indicating your city. For example "@DearCityCanada Dear [name of your city] ..."

Participating billboard cities: Vancouver, Surrey, Pitt Meadows, Surrey, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg, Sudbury, Kitchener, Hamilton, Toronto, Peterborough, Kingston, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Moncton, and Halifax.

Public space is no longer only comprised of physical structures; it's now a place where the complex interaction of physical and electronic spaces happens. Public screens and digital billboards offer new sites for public conversations.

Deadline for your letters is June 1st, 2013.

Only letters to the digital billboard location cities will have a chance of being seen in those cities. Other Dear City letters will have the opportunity to be seen in malls across Canada. Due to Quebec french language laws, letters to Quebec cities must be in french.

Co-Produced by Pattison Onestop and Spacing Magazine.

*We can't include letters that violate the Canadian human rights act, are libelous or slanderous, give out personal information, or include profanity.

Dear City Canada is part of Art in Transit, Pattison Onestop's ongoing arts and culture programme, presenting thought-provoking projects that enhance our shared environment and transport city-dwellers, if only momentarily, out of our daily routines. www.artintransit.ca
For more information contact:
Marie Nazar, Arts Publicist, Pattison Onestop – 416.762.7702 or mnazar@idirect.ca

(Information in this post was retrieved from AKIMBO posting 5/2/2013; http://www.akimbo.ca/57237)