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Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them…. for really new ideas of any kind–no matter how ultimately profitable or otherwise successful some of them might prove to be–there is no leeway for such chancy trial, error and experimentation in the high-overhead economy of new construction. Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.
–Jane Jacobs

The City Of Toronto has been trying to shut down Reg Hartt’s Cineforum for decades. “Reg Hartt’s Cineforum is everything Jane Jacobs wrote about. She was a regular.”–Laura Lind, EYE Weekly. What makes Reg Hartt’s Cineforum everything Jane Jacobs wrote about is that the City Of Toronto steadfastly chooses to remain blind to its value.

The first event Jane Jacobs and her family went to when they arrived in Toronto in 1968 was a screening of the 1923 Lon Chaney HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME at Reg Hartt’s The Public Enemy on Yonge Street at Yorkville. The City Of Toronto shut down The Public Enemy shortly after. Reg Hartt served as Director Of Cinema Studies at Rochdale College in Toronto. Jane Jacobs was a regular. The City Of Toronto shut down Rochdale.

Dinner At The Cineforum 1

https://nowtoronto.com/stage/theatre/vertical-influences-is-literally-the-coolest-thing-at-lumina/

LE PATIN LIBRE headlined Luminato this year in Toronto. LE PATIN LIBRE was born out of Reg Hartt’s Cineforum in Toronto, the only place on earth where the ideas of Jane Jacobs are being lived.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbfe5lcvQHc

Dinner At The Cineforum 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vA3qopKNso

Alex intro 1 Le Patin Libre Feb 21 2012 1 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q2JwmgwEmI

Alex intro 2 Le Patin Libre Feb 21 2012 1 9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjk9G97frOw

Alexandre Hamel, Jasmin Boivin, Taylor Dilley of Le Patin Libre At Scadding Court Ice Rink Toronto 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPaCGhXqm5Q

Samori Ba of Le Patin Libre At The Cineforum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCeJCK79puI

Le Patin Libre Harbourfront 2013 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU-4YmpKDtk

Le Patin Libre Harbourfront 2013 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUPJA-qqeZA

Le Patin Libre Harbourfront 2013 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC47nhv0668

Le Patin Libre Harbourfront 2013 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z46BuE6dQOY

Le Patin Libre Harbourfront 2013 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSuzzLoapIc

Le Patin Libre Harbourfront 2013 6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwCloBw5vV0

Le Patin Libre Harbourfront 2013 7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgFbdU3vBao

Le Patin Libre Harbourfront 2013 8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VS7hww68QY

Le Patin Libre Harbourfront 2013 9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdwKq2I9kXc

Le Patin Libre Harbourfront 2013 10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqY0CytnkkY

Le Patin Libre Harbourfront 2013 11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a42qZaT4c1k

Le Patin Libre Harbourfront 2013 12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMVfHGEzTec

Le Patin Libre Harbourfront 2013 13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCEvE4P7GRo

Le Patin Libre Harbourfront 2013 14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CJo54TQ92w

Le Patin Libre Harbourfront 2013 15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJPzE6FK3m8

LE PATIN LIBRE How it came to be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRZTQXpD9R8

 

Le Patin Libre 2012 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g26AHMgpeLk

 

Le Patin Libre 2012 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKmKmvMhHbg

 

Alexandre Hamel On Living And Learning At The Cineforum and The Creation of Le Patin Libre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkoNCMH6aNY

Taylor Dilley On Discovering Le Patin Libre And The Cineforum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_IkFr_44Us

Pursuit of Passion Gala 2012 – Le Patin Libre – Alexandre Hamel v Samory Ba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bULL0KOLCSc

Alexandre Hamel, Jasmin Boivin, Taylor Dilley of Le Patin Libre At Scadding Court Ice Rink Toronto 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Let7WNY_o

Alexandre Hamel, Jasmin Boivin, Taylor Dilley of Le Patin Libre At Scadding Court Ice Rink Toronto 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPaCGhXqm5Q

Jasmin Boivin of Le Patin Libre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On7-g7wm4bQ

Pascale Jodoin Of Le Patin Libre At The Cineforum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B87WbjYxA_s

Le Patin Libre At The Cineforum & Harbourfront, Toronto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoROvsG6eiU

Carlos From Spain At The Cineforum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ejqMuXyTc

Alexandre Hamel Remembering Mark Mitchell RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kIOaRHz4oQ

 

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