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Digital Archiving Completed by the Ethnography Lab, A University of Toronto Anthropology Initiative<br />

and Produced in Collaboration with David Perlman/Wholenote Media Inc between July-December 2015.<br />

Kensington Market DRUM<br />

ENVIRONMENTAL<br />

<strong>May</strong> 21, <strong>1992</strong> I Page Seven<br />

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Auction is a Message for a Cleaner Future<br />

by Jerome Cheung, Toronto Disannament Network<br />

Without a doubt the most eclectic event this <strong>May</strong> was the Third Annual Recycled Art Auction.<br />

Dozens of local Toronto artists donated their time and skill to create rideable works of art<br />

from used bicycles. Auction organizeer Heather McCrimmon calls the benefit<br />

"a celebration of bicycles, a reaffirmation of clean transport, and a message to the world<br />

that we need a future less addicted to fossil fuels. "<br />

The event, co-sponsored by the Toronto Re-cycled Art Society, Bikes Not Bombs(BBB) and<br />

the Toronto Disarmament Network (TDN), is rapidly becoming an established Toronto<br />

tradition drawing its support from a dedicated following of bicycle enthusiasts.<br />

The use of fossil fuels in cars, planes and other vehicles releases huge amounts of carbon<br />

dioxide every year contributing to Global Warming. 1DN co-organizer Ed Luciano S(IYS, "the/<br />

world's dependency on oil is threatening to change the very temperature of the world. The<br />

Gulf War was in, part fought over oil reserves. We need to promote the bike on · a local level<br />

if we're going to change things ai a global one. "<br />

The Art Auction which took place Thursday <strong>May</strong> 21, at the Great Hall (1087 Queen West),<br />

featured Jack Layton as auctioneer and live music with the Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band.<br />

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