{"id":3865,"date":"2011-10-09T17:59:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T17:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=3865"},"modified":"2011-10-31T12:57:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T12:57:34","slug":"show-off-the-juction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=3865","title":{"rendered":"Show Off @ the Junction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/image004-Show-off-good.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3858\" title=\"image004 Show off good\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/image004-Show-off-good.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On Display from October 18 -30, 2011<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Street Party on Friday, October 21,\u00a0<\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a07 &#8211; 11pm <\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Georgia; font-size: small;\">Dundas St W. West of Keele St. <\/span><br \/>\nPlease visit for\u00a0 more information about<br \/>\nParticipating Retailers,\u00a0Designers &amp; Artists<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mason-studio.com\/showoff\">www.mason-studio.com\/showoff<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nOr contact: showoff@mason-studio.com<br \/>\nT:\u00a0416- 453-5536<\/p>\n<p>Two designers found themselves wandering about Dundas West in the Junction. On that particular day, many of the retail shops were closed which left them clutching the glass of their spacious shop windows gawking at the merchandise from the sidewalks.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0This turn of events led Toronto-based design firm <strong>Mason <\/strong>to host <strong>Show Off @ the Junction<\/strong>; an event where local designers and artists are let loose on these awe-inspiring glass boxes to create jaw-dropping installations which showcase the amazing retailers and product the community has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The event, which includes <strong>12 retail shops and art galleries <\/strong>on the strip of Dundas St. W, west of Keele, unites over <strong>20 design-professionals <\/strong>providing an opportunity to create conceptual spaces all the while supporting independent business owners and their unique product.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The art galleries, eclectic home furnishing and fashion retail shops that have cropped-up in this neighbourhood are not the only unique feature of this area; the sense of community and pride that residents and shop owners have for their neighbourhood is what makes the Junction the perfect location for <strong>Mason <\/strong>to host the first, of what is expected to become an annual event which will take place in different neighbourhoods around town.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Along with the parade of window installations which will be on display from October 18<strong>&#8211;<\/strong>30<strong> <\/strong>the city can look forward to a <strong>Street Party on October 21st<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Shops and galleries will keep their doors open until <strong>11pm <\/strong>with unique offerings in support of the event. Owners will be on hand to chat about their unique goods alongside the artists and designers who will reveal the secrets and stories behind their installations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>October 18 &#8211; 30, 2011<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Street Party, Friday, October 21, 7-11pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The event, which includes 12 retail shops and art galleries on the strip of Dundas St. W, west of Keele, unites over 20 design-professionals <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=3865\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listings_archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4926,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions\/4926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}