
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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