My final tours of the summer are happening THIS WEEKEND.
First: The City Beneath Toronto. Our city's most scenic ravine loop. A hidden oasis beneath the city. Saturday at 10am.
Matthew Jordan
@mattyj612
Historian, funk musician.
- Tonight!! 7pm at Typist Studio. Celebrating 4 years of Hidden Rivers. A lecture on my learnings from turning a multi-year obsession into a tour business. Whether you are making art, hosting events, teaching courses, creating content, or building community, I hope my experience
- when @clarabcollier asked me to write “the definitive essay on taste,” I panicked and read a lot of Bourdieu (okay), Girard (mixed), & Arendt (brilliant) to determine where our tastes come from…and where Silicon Valley's idea of taste is at odds with design history
- Announcing this summer's capstone event: Rivers, Unhidden, a lecture and Q&A on August 19th on everything I've learned over the past four years of leading Hidden Rivers. During the height of the COVID pandemic, I began walking and biking around Toronto, documenting my curiosity
- Why is it called "Castle Frank"? How did melting glaciers carve out the entire city of Toronto? And how did we manage to turn a old abandoned brick quarry into a majestic green space? All of this and more in The City Beneath Toronto, a walking tour spent entirely in our city's
