#YourCanada Street Art Project
The Canadian Encyclopedia is looking for intrepid urban explorers to document and share the beautiful murals and street art that span the country from sea to sea to sea. We’re creating a “street art-chive” on the Your Canada map, so you can experience the vibrancy of Canadian communities even if you can’t do that cross-country road trip this summer.
Do you walk past a beautiful piece of street art every day? Add it to the map! We’re giving away a Heritage Minutes prize pack to the ten most shared submissions, so tell your friends!
Prize Pack Awarded to 10 Most Shared Submissions by 31 August 2015:
How To Post
- Find a great piece of street art, or a mural, preferably with an eye to Canadian history and/or identity. Take a picture. Note the location and the subject matter.
- Log in to The Canadian Encyclopedia. You can use Facebook or Twitter; we will never post content to your accounts on our own.
- Go to the Your Canada map. Click “Add Your Story.”
- Give your story a title and select the “Street Art in Canada” theme.
- Choose a location for your submission.
- Click “Select Photo to Upload” to upload your street art photo.
- Tell us a little bit about the subject of your photo.
- Submit and share with your friends!
Pick one of 15! ↩
Joshua Nelson
I think this is fantastic project and I cannot wait to start adding my photography and story to it. Being a Canadian payphoneographer provides an anchor for my obsession with the urban landscape. There is an urgency to the bellpayphoneproject that also inspires me: I wanted to ensure that I capture the streetscape and the unique details of each location of the payphones before they are removed or repurposed.
The payphones are one of the city’s largest installations. They’re in every neighbourhood and facility in the city and public or private space. They connect us. They connected us. Previous generations build their lives around them. The project is about documenting this and acknowledging their role on our communities and our culture. Each photo is a snapshot of the world around us and part of the cities story. Objects and memories are bound together, they are artifacts of our past. It’s who we are. Who we were. #bellpayphoneproject
Donna Mayne
You can find a map of Canada with murals already plotted here http://www.muralroutes.com