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Murals celebrating LGBTQ life will be coming to Chicago in the coming days, including to the Magnificent Mile. The work by Chicago artist Sam Kirk was previously on display in New York City, wrapped around Times Square’s main stage during WorldPride last year. The international event last summer marked the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots that helped spark… Pilsen Feb 15, 2020
ROCKFORD After a yearlong hiatus due to the pandemic, a public art festival will return this summer with more murals in more cities.
Rockford Area Convention & Visitors Bureau on Friday announced this year s CRE8IV: Transformational ART mural initiative in which paintings will be added to some of the city s barren walls. This year s festival will add 12 murals across the region, with paintings in Rockford and three new cities: Loves Park, Pecatonica and Rockton.
The announcement was made at La Chiquita supermarket, 1108 S. Main St., which will serve as a home to one of the murals set to be created by Jenny Roesel Ustick of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Atalie Gagnet of Dayton, Ohio.
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Last week saw big news for Jean-Drapeau Park: The city of Montreal has expansive recovery plans to turn it into a major green urban hub for Montrealers by 2030. How expansive? A high line promenade, Quebec’s first green urban bridge, increased waterfront and canal access, huge urban parks, water ferry reception halls, wetland integration the list goes on. The plan for intensified greening of Île Notre-Dame and Île Ste-Hélène into more than expansive sites for festivals, however, has already started to meet opposition from events like Osheaga. There are 31 sites in total that are expected to see changes. Some of those are repairs and renovations to sites including that $45 million earmarked for the Biosphere but Montrealers can understand those changes through 10 major facelifts.