It’s Care-Free Weekend in North Vancouver!
Just found out about it at the last minute and found my way there…
Very much a Pedestrian Sundays Vibe with a GIANT Waterslide running downhill.
Found an empty intersection and chalked a late-in-the-day Labyrinth.
Claimed empty spot of road by Kids area of #ChinatownFest in #Vancouver
Chalked a 5 Lane #Labyrinth.#VanChinatown pic.twitter.com/ELVajY2f7A
— HïMY SYeD (@LabyrinthsDOTca) August 13, 2016
Vancouver’s Chinatown Festival takes over a number of streets in the city’s Downtown East Side each summer.
It’s a full weekend of programming, and I spent the early part of Saturday Afternoon soaking it all it before deciding to pull out the chalk.
I found the children’s area and took over an unclaimed spot beside a big bouncy castle kind of thing that you fill up with air and little kids, well, walk and go bouncing through.
Chalked a simple Five Lane Labyrinth, including a spelling error(!), then I waited. And Waited. And waited some more. In the shade of course, another HOT day. Yet, no Labyrinth Walkers.
Exploring East Vancouver, I walked far enough east along Hastings Avenue, passing Boundary Road and wound up in Burnaby.
Exploring side streets introduced me to Confederation Park. It’s huge and Multi-Purpose.
Found an empty spot of asphalt in the middle of a playground. Took my time with measurements and the result was a nice 11 Lane Chalk Labyrinth.
Was told it’s an Italian Neighbourhood, however seven children from two French speaking families kept hanging around me whilst I was making the Labyrinth.
Initially felt this was a Francophone neighbourhood. Not unlike the feeling I got when hanging out Vanier, the French speaking pocket of Ottawa.
It was HOT today, I am so thankful for working water fountains, both to re-hydrate and to wash my post-chalk-Labyrinth-making powdered hands.
Kids kept asking if this was the only day I was here to make the Labyrinth. “Yeah”, I told them. That answer made them sad.
Now I have to go back… and maybe next time I’ll bring along some paint and a brush or two.
Chalked an 11 Lane Labyrinth in MacLean Park in the Strathcona Neighbourhood of East Vancouver.
The light showers we had this morning in Stanley Park end shortly; it'll be dry tonight for LABYRINTH! Show is definitely ON – 8:45pm.
— Outdoor Movies in BC (@OutdoormoviesBC) 9 August 2016
Labyrinth Walkers sometimes ask questions, and by the time they reach the Centre of the Labyrinth, they may have an answer . . .
The “Koinoburi” Labyrinth…
Attendees of Powell Street Festival were invited to contribute artwork via painting or markering an oversized Fish “Scale”.
Each “Scale” was then placed upon “The Koinoburi“, a Giant Outstallation Artwork placed in Oppenheimer Park as part of this year’s Powell Street Festival.
TOAD.
Temporary Obsolete Abandoned Derelict.
That’s the current category of Urban Infrastructure for this Wading Pool in Ashbridges Bay Park, Woodbine Beach, East Toronto.
It’s no longer a Wading Pool, nor will it the water pump ever be working again.
So, I painted a Labyrinth here years ago, and it is still there.
Quietly, in the middle of green space, this Labyrinth of mine . . .
In Toronto, A City of Labyrinths.
I visited Glen Park, in an East Vancouver Neighbourhood I was familiar with back when I was here in 1996.
Encountering such a huge wide patch of asphalt was too tempting to leave alone.
Out popped the chalk, up sprang a Labyrinth, round and round the children ran.
