YIMBY Festival

The 3rd Annual YIMBY Festival is happening on Saturday, October 25, 2008 from 11am-5pm at The Gladstone Hotel.

The focus of the YIMBY (Yes, In My Backyard) festival is to create a fair-like atmosphere where people working in or interested in citizen based community development can gather and exchange ideas, strategies and celebrate the achievements of their respective organizations.

The one-day event invites groups to "turn the tables" on policy makers and invite them to see the work that we do outside of the antagonistic dynamics of official meetings.

Christina Zeidler founded the festival in 2006 as a result of her work with neighbourhood groups who were responding to wide spread unchecked development in the Queen West Triangle. She realized that many groups are unfairly labeled NIMBY, when so often they are the ones networking, sharing information and making sure that people don't get left behind in the city building process.

Now in its third year, YIMBY is produced by Magda Olszanowski.

Blog: http://www.gladstonehotel.com/yimby

Site: http://www.gladstonehotel.com/yimbyfestival.html

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2008-10-25 08:32:19   If you ever wanted to meet Torontopedia in person, today's your chance! Torontopedia.ca will be sharing a table in Room 207, The Bloor Room, at The Gladstone Hotel at this year's 3rd Annual YIMBY Festival. Come by and say Hi. Because we'll have a laptop with free WiFi hooked up, you will be able to wiki pages on site. See you there! —HimySyed