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Mission and History
Impulse[b:] expresses a diverseness firmly contained within its mandate for encouraging the bold and for testing visual and literary boundaries. We are an independent print and digital press who, since 2013, has responded to the vision of writers, designers and creatives, while also maintaining a distinct nature.
With a specific aesthetic value, we publish writer’s voices to provoke readers into debate or inspiration. We stand by a product that is in flux with the times, aligned with sustainable goals and accessible formats. Our designers and editors are collaborative and imaginative in their approach, resulting in more open and hybrid publishing projects.
Also, through our numerous public events, Impulseb aims to serve the literati by recognizing established and emerging writers into artistic production. We aim to advance, encourage, and integrate, multidisciplinary understandings, and address any issue that is critical to today’s various communities in Canada.
From 1971 to 1990, Impulse magazine was an important Toronto-based cultural magazine. It was remarkably global in perspective. The magazine was distributed and read internationally, publishing some of the most significant practitioners and thinkers of the time. The visual arts were understood and presented as being interconnected with philosophical inquiry, graphic arts, design, global cultures and interdisciplinary arts.
Impulse[b:] sees itself as the conceptual continuation of the innovation established by Impulse magazine, where its focus today is more social, politically engaged, and published artists writing in books on poetry, literary prose, fiction, and performance that reference topics towards conceptual photography, art, architecture, health, queer theory, environment, and music, in original narratives that invoke artists experiences in writing creation and exploration.
Eldon Garnet, Publisher
Denise Frimer, Managing Editor
Amrita Santosh, Website and Design Assistant