The Sound of Silence
The Creator On the cover: Artist Kara Hamilton works in negative sound. The curatorial collective she founded with fellow cancer survivors explores sound’s impact on well-being.
Block Magazine
Creativity has its place
Fall/Winter 2025 (Issue 31)
2025-09-19 17:32 MDT
The Moment A live recording and conversation at The Grand in Calgary.
Sweet Accolades
Work-In-Progress Ebonnie Rowe and Honey Jam celebrate 30 years of empowering female artists.
It’s a Calling
The Business Making performance more accessible with the Inside Out Theatre’s Col Cseke.
Cubic Chord by Mani Mazinani
Artist’s Block Mani Mazinani’s block is a pentatonic scale.
The Starting Block 31
Starting Block Reflecting on this issue’s theme: sound and music.
Sonic Space
My Space A Toronto DJ rehearsal space that takes craft seriously.
Factory Settings
The Interior A look inside the former RCA Victor’s Canadian headquarters in Montréal.
Mitchell Keys’ urban infill
Fill In The Blank Mitchell Keys’ urban infill.
Anatomy of a Mixtape
The Blueprint A professional DJ advises on how to make a perfect mixtape.
City Sounds
Rethink It’s easy to complain about noise in the city, but there’s lots to like as well.
Analog to Digital
Now & Then How Montréal’s former Read building entered a new era.
1001 Rue Lenoir
The 1KM Guide Ice cream and tattoos in Saint-Henri and recommendations from RCA Victor-adjacent restaurant owner Ryan Gray.
In Harmony
Make room for the arts Students and artists make beautiful music at the Allied Music Centre.
Deer Lake by Michelle Sound
Made Vancouver-based Cree and Métis artist Michelle Sound’s cyanotype drums.
Making Space for Music
The Conversation An architect and an organizer sing praises for live performance and music education in cities.
Contributors
ILLUSTRATIONS BY KAGAN MCLEOD
Artist and illustrator Melinda Josie does books, editorial work and freelance commissions (The Business). In her downtime, she enjoys walks in the woods and foraging for mushrooms.
Mani Mazinani (Artist’s Block) is a Tehran-born, Toronto-based artist who makes installations, videos, films, sculptures, photographs, multiples, sounds and music. He is the 2025-’26 Connected Minds Artist-in-Residence, developing his Solar Organ project.
Byron Armstrong (The Creator) is an award-winning freelance journalist who writes about arts, culture and community. His words have appeared in Forbes, The National Gallery of Canada, Esse Arts + Opinions, The Globe and Mail (books) and Whitehot Magazine.
Kristina Ljubanovic is a designer and journalist, the strategy director at Whitman Emorson and the editor-in-chief of this magazine. For Rethink, she wrote about some city sounds she likes.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Kristina Ljubanovic
CREATIVE DIRECTORS
Yasemin Emory, Whitney Geller
MANAGING EDITOR
Hilary Riem
COMMISSIONING EDITOR
Mélanie Ritchot
PHOTO & ILLUSTRATION EDITOR
Catherine Dean
ASSISTANT PHOTO & ILLUSTRATION EDITOR
Michael Nyarkoh
DESIGNER
Aisling Gogan, Grant Irving
TRANSLATOR
Catherine Connes
COPY EDITORS – PROOFREADERS
Suzanne Aubin, Jane Fielding, Lesley Fraser
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