Summer in Toronto. Those days where it doesn’t matter where you walk, you will always encounter something interesting.
This weekend is the Taste of the Middle East festival at Yonge Dundas square, one of the many ethnic based festivals in the square over the summer. As usual, there were performances, activities, and food.
Products like date syrup were also available.
below: Young artist at work at Yonge & Dundas.
below: Adelaide Street was blocked between Yonge and Bay all weekend for a film shoot involving a large number of police cars, police officers, and dummies that look amazingly like real police officers.
below: When the Netflix series ‘Zeus’ comes out, you can play spot the Toronto locations!
below: In the Allan Lampert Gallery at Brookfield Place is an art installation “Into the Clouds”, four large, happy inflatable clouds created by ‘Friends with You’, a Los Angeles based group. They bring a positive message of light, love and happiness.
below: In front of the RBC building at the corner of Front & Bay.
below: Relief sculpture on an exterior wall of the Scotiabank Arena (formerly ACC). A series of these sculptures were made by Louis Temporale Sr. in 1938-39 on what was then the Toronto Postal Delivery Building.
below: At the foot of Bay Street, a TTC bus stops beside the Westin conference centre. The top part of the concrete building is covered by a large photographic art installation – “Milky Way Smiling” by Elizabeth Zvonar.
below: Sitting on Jack Layton’s shoulders
below: Broken. A gigantic bubble.
below: An oversized picnic table
below: 25 figures in bright orange clasping onto black inner tubes – an art installation by Ann Hirsch and Jeremy Angier call SOS (Safety Orange Swimmers)
below: Ahoy matey! We be rainbow pirates!
below: The spotlight seems to shine on a sleeping body. The location is Harbour Square Park inside the large concrete sphere that is “Sundial Folly” created by John Fung and Paul Figueiredo and installed in 1995. Whether it’s because of high water levels, or for other reasons, access to the interior of the structure is closed to the public.
below: Queens Quay at the foot of Yonge Street is not my favorite intersection. It’s not uncommon for cyclists to not realize that there is a red light and for pedestrians not to realize that just because they have a walk signal doesn’t mean that there won’t be a bicycle whizzing past.
below: … and that shape on the sidewalk across the street? That is “Between the Eyes” by Anita Windisman.
below: Future buskers
below: The public art at Pier 27 condos on Queens Quay East lies in an elevated garden between two condo buildings. This sculpture is the work of American artist Alice Aycock and it consists of a whirlwind (or tornado) form and what looks like whorls of paper. Litter blowing from the lake? It’s title is “A Series of Whirlpool Field Manoeuvres for Pier 27”.
below: Basketball players on the Esplanade.
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You find the coolest things on your walks! Love the clouds at Brookfield Place. I think I would smile every time I see them if I worked there, but my favourite is the Milky Way on the side of the building … ok, and the giant picnic table!
I had no idea that the clouds were there so they were a pleasant surprise. My goal was the waterfront to see the orange figures but I’m not sure that they were the best thing I saw on Saturday.