TABS: Tower Automotive Building Society

Hi! If anyone needs some light but engaging art/history reading about one of Toronto's landmark buildings, let us know at TABS: Tower Automotive Building Society! Copies of our self-published, 80-page zine are still available and can be shipped for $10, or pay-what-you-can, anywhere in Canada. Cheers!

https://artmetropole.com/shop/14125

Honoured to be on the Recent Arrivals list at one of Canada's first artist-run centres.

A bit about Art Metropole's history, from Wikipedia: "In 1974, they opened their doors to the public in an abandoned space over a Greek restaurant in downtown Toronto. The building had originally been built in 1911 for one of Toronto's earliest art galleries, Art Metropole (which closed in the forties,) and from this came the name for the artist-run space Art Metropole.

Catch us in their online and physical locations!
(at 158 Sterling Rd.)

Art Metropole / Tabs Presents: A Curated Cultural History of the Tower Automotive Building Tower Automotive Building Society (TABS) is comprised five Humber students: Eda Ataergin, Brittany Cox, Hayley Raymond, Freya Selander, and Jenneen Shortreed. These students have tirelessly researched

TABS at Humber Lakeshore Interpretive Centre's Zine Making Workshop...Here's Caitie talking about the history of the zine format and self-publishing! Did you know zines are considered historical documents?
TABS still has copies of our zine documenting the history of the Tower Automotive Building. A slice of life, 100 years in the making : o

Hope everyone is doing some good Easter reading!!!

Thanks to everyone who showed us some love today at our zine release! It was great to finally see our project realized and in the hands of others, and we welcome your feedback anytime! We sold out of our first pressing and will be going on round two very shortly, so if you want to secure a copy please let us know. Hope to see you at a zine fair or two this summer : o

Big Thank You to all our Supporters! We've made our goal! The campaign is still on for anyone who is still interested in contributing to our printing costs.
Thank you!!!

Curated Cultural Histories of the Tower Automotive Building A collective of Humber students, curate a collections of histories from the MOCA's Tower Automotive Building for its 100th anniversary.

Hurray! We've exceed our funding goal. Thank you to all the wonderful contributors for supporting our project. We've very much appreciate your generous donations.

The campaign is still running:

Curated Cultural Histories of the Tower Automotive Building A collective of Humber students, curate a collections of histories from the MOCA's Tower Automotive Building for its 100th anniversary.

TABS presents: A Curated Cultural History of the Tower Automotive Building. Local lore, official and oral histories, photos, and anecdotes about a building that has stood in the imagination of Toronto’s west end for 100 years. A full-colour zine, in print soon and available through us!

Message us here to grab a copy, or email: [email protected]

More updates ahead.

We’re over half way there! A few more generous donations and we’ll reach our goal!!!

Curated Cultural Histories of the Tower Automotive Building A collective of Humber students, curate a collections of histories from the MOCA's Tower Automotive Building for its 100th anniversary.