The Scream presents AN EVENING OF URBAN FINDINGS. Bring your missing turtles and St Christopher medals to The Embassy, 223 Augusta Avenue July 6, 2006  for all things lost on earth are treasur'd there. For more information and detailed directions, click here.

At 8pm, join in a reception for Eye Scream IV: Paint the Town READ.  

Paint The Town READ is an innovative exhibition of urban pictographs and petroglyphs that includes photographs and examples of urban sculpture, graffiti, stencils, wheat pastes, and posters. The art is mostly from Toronto (with a little bit of NYC and The Canadian Shield thrown in for good measure).  Thirteen artists: Dan Waber, Michael Tweed, The Toronto Decorating Committee, Rocky Tobey, David Owen, Jeremy McLeod, Joy Learn, Beth Learn, I See Love Collective, I Love You (NYC), Beverly Wooding, Sandra Alland, Anonymous.  Curated by Sharon Harris.  Because the exhibition is a proud part of The Scream Literary Festival, all works in the show contain textual elements.

Some Eye Scream Highlights:

• Seven works from Rocky Tobey, who has installed thousands of pieces of art around Toronto since the early seventies.  His identity was a mystery until 2002, when Edward Keenan of eye weekly broke the story, "Unmasked at Last".

• The first photo exhibiton of David Owen's P.Cob project.  P.Cob was a prolific artist who wrote brilliant/quirky/disturbing poems across Toronto in the early nineties.  David transcribed hundreds of P.Cob's poems, created a beautiful book, presented a slide show at Steve Venright's Blancmange Reading Series, and hosted a walking tour.  David is also researching our city's street art history and is working on a website of photography and lore: torontostreetart.com (coming soon).
• Dan Waber's war monument project:  Dan has taken lumber crayon rubbings from the text of U.S. war monuments, and rearranged the language of war to create poems of peace.  Stunning.
• Photos and silk-screened items from New York's "I Love You" graffiti artist (courtesy of I See Love Collective),  ILY graf photos from Montreal, St.John's, Winnipeg and parts of the U.S. (by Anonymous), and some ILY T.O. examples.
• Surprises from Lex's own Sandra Alland and Jeremy McLeod!

At 9 pm, enjoy Lost: Discarded Poetries with Amy Lam, Trish Postle, Stephen Cain, Bob Wiseman and Maggie Helwig. Where do lost words go? Join us for a multimedia exploration of the world of found text. Performance, music and film based on the poetries of graffiti, street signs, lost receipts, liturgical texts and other lost and discarded things, reclaimed and re-cherished by our performers. Bring your own found texts and dare them to improvise!

This event is part of The Scream Literary Festival, July 4^th–10th. Now in its 14th season, the Scream Literary Festival celebrates artists who continue to chart new territory in Canadian writing, concluding with the Scream in High Park on July 10th, the largest single-night poetry reading in Canada. For more information and detailed directions, click here.

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