Gallery Talk & City Stroll: Shawn Micallef on INTERGALACTIC PLANETARY: Tracey Snelling
- Talks & More
Sunday October 19 | 2 - 4 PM
Join us for a dynamic program led by writer and urbanist Shawn Micallef, who connects the themes of place and storytelling in INTERGALACTIC PLANETARY: Tracey Snelling to the lived experience of Toronto’s neighbourhoods and streetscapes.
Micallef will begins with a talk exploring how our built environment influences the way we inhabit the city, followed by a walking tour that uncovers hidden histories and unexpected narratives in the urban landscape.
Also, pick up the updated edition of Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto (Coach House Books) and have it signed by Micallef.
Shawn Micallef is the author of Frontier City: Toronto on the Verge of Greatness (2017), The Trouble With Brunch: Work Class and the Pursuit of Leisure (2014) and Full Frontal TO: Exploring Toronto’s Vernacular Architecture (2012). The updated and expanded edition of his first book, Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto, was published in 2024. He’s a Toronto Star columnist, civics instructor at University of Toronto, and a Senior Fellow at Massey College where he was also a 2011-2012 Southam Journalism Fellow. Shawn is a co-founder of Spacing, a magazine about Canadian cities and urban issues. In 2002, while a resident at the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab, he co-founded [murmur], a location-based mobile phone documentary project established in over 20 cities globally.
