Raising the Barr
On the cover: Chef and activist Suzanne Barr is cooking up ... equitable restaurant industry practices
Block Magazine
Creativity has its place
Fall/Winter 2020 (Issue 21)
Sat. 11 July 9:17 AM
Dancer-in-pandemic Siphesihle November
FFW
Kwame Essien’s meticulous Toronto office
The Big Picture
Photographer Richard Johnson on running his own gallery
Guts
Laurie Kang’s tanned photogram
342 Water Street
They call it Gastown: 342 Water Street and environs
About Power
Talking about what decolonizing design actually means
Cory Hunlin’s THIS CLAW
Cory Hunlin’s contemporary beadwork
Diana Ejaita
Diana Ejaita’s urban infill
Office Space
The Interior BoxOne is all about drop-in lab work
In Record Time
Montreal’s former gramophone production facility is still cultivating creative activity
Music for the Masses
Allied and Massey Hall team up on a ground-breaking new initiative
No Ordinary Film
Behind the scenes of No Ordinary Man, a new doc about jazz musician Billy Tipton
Views
Looking out, looking in
Contributors
ILLUSTRATIONS BY KAGAN MCLEOD
Jalani Morgan (The Creator) photographed Suzanne Barr at her home in Toronto. His work has appeared in exhibits at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Photoville New York and the CONTACT Photography Festival.
Writer Juliana Moore says of her 1 KM Guide, “The piece really just involved me in a mask, casing the joint before knocking on doors, which in pandemic times means cold calls and constant emails.”
Yaniya Lee (Rethink) is a writer, teacher and features editor at Canadian Art magazine. Her interdisciplinary research questions critical-reading practices and reconsiders Canadian art histories.
Artist Laurie Kang (Artist’s Block) works with an ethos of misuse. She lives in Toronto and holds an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.
editor in chief
Sarah Steinberg
creative directors
Whitney Geller, Yasemin Emory, Berkeley Poole
managing editor
Fredo Zavarella
photo & illustration editor
Catherine Dean
Assistant photo & illustration editor
Michael Nyarkoh
designers
Raj Grainger, Emmi Ojansivu
translator
Catherine Connes
Copy Editors - Proofreaders
Suzanne Aubin, Jane Fielding, Lesley Fraser
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