076 - We’re back 👏
It’s a new year, a new decade, and a new season for The Localist.
Since our last list (), we’ve been exploring this city, meeting new people, and taking notes along the way—we can’t wait to share what we’ve discovered as we return to our weekly schedule for 2020.
But before we get into that: here's a look back at a few of our favourite moments from the year that was...
January ✨
Reset Social Café opens, brightening the west-end of downtown in more ways than one.
February 👩🎤
Leading up to the Junos, guest-curator Savanah Sewell brings Women to the Front to Museum London, highlighting the influence and experiences of women in the Canadian music industry.
March 🎸
The Junos hit town—a big deal in and of itself—but it’s these performances celebrating the city’s most loved venues that remind us what we’ve had all along.
April 👂
Localists rejoice as Hear Here brings location-specific history to life across a trio of London neighbourhoods.
May ☕
Realizing their newly-built suburban neighbourhood doesn’t have any third places to gather, our friends Bre and Josh Black threw open their garage door (literally) to serve pour-over coffee in the driveway every Friday morning—proving there’s a desire for both good coffee and good company outside of downtown!
June 🙌
With the Grickle Grass Festival wrapping a decade’s worth of parties, Jurassic Park cementing Dundas Place’s potential, Music Mondays at the Library and the opening of Beerlab, we couldn’t pick just one thing to highlight for June. It was arguably the city’s best month last year.
July 🎯
BINGO!!! (Sunfest edition)
August 🥙
From the silly to the serious, August saw the city set a world record for chicken shawarma and come together in an equally huge way to support those affected by the Woodman Avenue explosion.
September 📍
September was all about location, location, location as the Place Matters Conference (audio here) considered strengthening London’s neighbourhoods and this thread from Lincoln re-wrote the songbook on the city.
October 👷
Didn’t get a chance to catch the “construction spinner’s” skills in real-life? Have no fear: both TAP Centre for Creativity and the local CBC captured his makeshift choreography on film. Also: Harry Potter and pals stood a brief chance of representing a few London ridings in parliament.
November 🗳️
Neighbourhood Decision Making was such a hit onilne that voters crashed the website...meanwhile, thousands more showed up in person to vote at Libraries across the city.
December 🧱🎉
700,000 bricks later: Dundas Place officially opens, paving the way for a 2020 full of new opportunities to party in the heart of the city.
Next week: Meet Jodi 👋
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