PHOTO ESSAY

Hip-Hop Rebirth

Toronto's Rexdale neighbourhood tunes into a positive musical message

By Lyndon Goveas
July 10, 2006

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Photo by Lyndon Goveas.

Graffiti participant Brian, a.k.a. Double, takes a break to inspect his work, while spray-painting a Bluetooth earpiece. Double and the rest of his graffiti crew crafted a mural onstage so audience members could witness the creative process first-hand. Typically, graffiti artists have to express their art under the cover of night. At the turn of the millennium, Toronto police launched a severe anti-graffiti campaign, one still felt by the absence of interesting street art except in select, approved areas of the city.