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Jim Shedden

@jimshedden.bsky.social

These things matter to me: recovery, family, friends, music, film, theatre, books, art, Toronto, other cities, peace, justice, food, podcasts, public radio, Wikipedia, the Internet Archive, ubu.com, DIY culture.

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Remembering Frank Gehry with Jim Shedden: Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 1815 In this 1815th episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike remembers Toronto-born architect and designer Frank Gehry with special guest Jim Shedden. This episode is exactly 38:47. You can listen to this episode i...

Here's my chat with @jimshedden.bsky.social about Frank Gehry
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Thrilled about this new release! It was an honour to work with Katherine on this book, as well as our co-publisher Goose Lane Editions. Come to the launch at the Stephen Bulger Gallery, Saturday, November 15, 2pm. Max Dean will interview Katherine at 2:30pm.

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18 Years I had my last drink on October 22, 2007.

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Jim Shedden (@jimshedden) Making the trek back from Hudson, New York where I had an enjoyable and productive couple of days.

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The AD HOC experimental/artists film collective has an amazing series coming up this fall at Innis College and PIX FILM (screenings #77-84 in our relatively short history). Hope to see you there.

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#Frankenstein will have its world premiere at #Venezia82, followed by its North American premiere at #TIFF50, before debuting on @netflix.com this November. Herne Hill is proud to serve as lead VFX partner on this film with Dennis Berardi serving as Overall VFX Supervisor. #VFX @realgdt.bsky.social

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The Criterion Mobile Closet is Coming to the Toronto International Film Festival!
YouTube video by CRITERION The Criterion Mobile Closet is Coming to the Toronto International Film Festival!

@criterion.bsky.social @realgdt.bsky.social youtu.be/8ZWOaTAiKL8?...

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Fanart of the great Guillermo del Toro, with an easter egg of the great Guy Davis :D
#guillermodeltoro #cabinetofcuriosities #pinocchio #theviewing #lot36 #graveyardrats #guydavis #panoscosmatos #vincenzonatali #guillermonavarro #patrickmchale #netflix @realgdt.bsky.social @guydavisart.bsky.social

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The Criterion Mobile Closet is Coming to the Toronto International Film Festival!
YouTube video by CRITERION The Criterion Mobile Closet is Coming to the Toronto International Film Festival!

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Putting this out there for my friends in recovery.

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@realgdt.bsky.social β€˜s FRANKENSTEIN makes its North American Premiere at TIFF Toronto International Film Festival

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Edward Keenan: Preserving Kensington Market’s true β€˜neighbourhood character’ means being open to change The places we put desirable things in Toronto can't always be "somewhere else."

Completely agree with Ed Keenan’s article on Kensington Market in the Star today: www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

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Jim Shedden on Substack Great article on The Kingston Prize book that WORK BOOK (Robyn Lew snd myself) co-published with Goose Lane Editions (Wells only mentions Goose Lane, not WORK BOOK).

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Great article on The Kingston Prize book that WORK BOOK (Robyn Lew snd myself) co-published with Goose Lane Editions (Wells only mentions Goose Lane, not WORK BOOK).

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Great episode. Quick comment: Barbara Hall didn’t ban the Barenaked Ladies. June Rowlands did.

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Barbara Hall didn’t ban the Barenaked Ladies. It was June Rowlands.

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Nice to see this show up on Shawn Micallef's feed. I made it several years ago as a personal, random but meaningful picture of my coming-of-age Toronto (I was in high school from 1977-1982, the peak punk/zine/DIY years for me).

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Will you be doing a new audio version? My apologies if you've already answered this.

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AD HOC #75

R. BRUCE ELDER IN PERSON

ALONE (ALL FLESH SHALL SEE IT TOGETHER)

June 5, 2025
7PM
Innis Town Hall

AD HOC present R. Bruce Elder, in person, with his and Ajla OdobaΕ‘ić’s new film, Alone (All Flesh Shall See It Together). www.facebook.com/events/14309...

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Bowtie Productions Join us June 11th for an evening of country vs. city music, drinks, trivia and support for indie musical theatre!

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Selected Negative Teaching Evaluations of Jesus Christ β€œVery inconvenient class! Always holds lectures on top of mountains, in middle of the Sea of Galileeβ€”but never close to the main campus.” β€œInconsis...

"DON'T take his class if you care about your GPA!!! Treats everything like pass/fail. Only cares about you if you're failing the class, so good luck getting that A- up to an A."
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1000 Songs Podcast Episode #16 1000 Songs Podcast Β· Episode

Just posted 1000 Songs Podcast #16. Thanks to special guest Fergus Hambleton, and to my usual co-hosts Alan Zweig and Rick Campbell. open.spotify.com/episode/0a1d...

And on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/1...

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My exhibition, Field Notes, opens tomorrow at the McMichael with a talk at 2pm with curator John Geoghegan. The show collects works produced through a long term study of a farmers field in King City Ontario that is home to Shift 1970 by Richard Serra, a colony of herons, and a wide range of plants.

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San Francisco Cinematheque presents Life is Like a Candle Burning: Two Films by Barbara Sternberg. February 13th, 19:30h - The Lab, San Francisco expcinema.org/site/en/even...

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Inbox | Substack

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Genet/Anger: Love Songs
Innis College, University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Avenue. room 222
Saturday, February 15, 8PM
Genet/Anger: Love Songs
Innis College, room 222
Saturday, February 15, 8PM

Program:
Un chant d'amour (1950, 26 minutes)
Scorpio Rising (1963, 29 minutes)

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ad_hoc_screening_series_(winter_2025)_trailer (1080p) This is "ad_hoc_screening_series_(winter_2025)_trailer (1080p)" by Art & Trash on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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No coincidence, that this week, which began with the ghastly inauguration and its tech collaborators, Microsoft Word intrudes its monstrous Copilot (AI) onto the page I'm writing; the fascist Copilot interrupts, Iago-like, my own sentence. The Copilot glozes, "Stop thinking. Let me take over."

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