Thank you for this Labyrinth Report Shawn!
Appreciated!
We would like to report that
A> the god blessed fountain worked
B> the city has not power washed off Himy Syed’s (@LabyrinthsDOTca) fine wading pool labyrinth.Always love the wee exposed aggregate kid step.
Sign, in toronto fashion, warns not to touch mouth on fountain 🤷🏼♂️ pic.twitter.com/WZ1320jTQQ
— Shawn Micallef 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (@shawnmicallef) August 14, 2023
“Every month in the Spring,
Summer,
Someone paints a Labyrinth in Grange Park.
Everybody loves it.
Every month,
The City of Toronto wastes resources to wipe it out.
Shame.”
Every month in the spring summer, someone paints a maze in the Grange park. Everybody loves it. Every month, the city (@cityoftoronto) wastes resources to wipe it out. Shame.
— Massih Moayedi — مسیح مویدی (@massihmoayedi) July 17, 2023
Families taking happy photos in the Grange labyrinth that the underfunded city of toronto parks dept regularly spends $ on removing. pic.twitter.com/eNGxA7AFvG
— Maltese Petard ( Official Parody) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (@shawnmicallef) March 16, 2023
Walked by here today—had to adjust my path to allow a dad and his two kids to finish their enthusiastic walk of the labyrinth. The local councillor needs to intervene. https://t.co/agQvVbBEZn
— Brian B (@brianyyz) March 17, 2023
… to the building and summarily cancelled the event. (the fire pit had been used many times before; there was zero danger to the brick building). I happened to be there when the weeping kids — dozens — came tumbling out of the community building there.
Sad sad sad sad sad.
— Henrik Bechmann (Toronto) 🇨🇦 (@HenrikBechmann) March 17, 2023
@LabyrinthsDOTca is a treasure that does the most amazing urban acupuncture.
Municipal parks workers, following King John's lead, seem to have the goal of making parks as unattractive and underserviced as possible to the residents that use them. Damn the costs seemingly.
— Sean K (@seankillackey) March 17, 2023
— Jessica Dee Humphreys (@jessicadeehum) March 17, 2023
Erased last week, back today. It’s kind of amazing how how time and money the city is willing to spend trying to kill the guerrilla labyrinth in Grange Park. I mean, it’s not as though the parks budget is flush pic.twitter.com/AXEy4OVbqB
— Oliver Moore (@moore_oliver) February 21, 2023
Pennywise…🙄
— Port Credit Voter (@PtCreditVoter) February 21, 2023
Well when you drive in from Alliston, the last thing you want to see is an email from a staffer saying, "Sorry, GM of Keeping Grass Green & Rec Centre Waiting Lists, but somebody is colouring outside of our lines again."#TOpoli
— Ogthedim (@OgtheDim) February 21, 2023
Once a #park, #playground or walkway gets characterized as a #municipal "asset" to be "managed", the practice of administrators often becomes reduced to holding the line and maintaining the course, at which point creativity gets flushed.
Creativity can be prioritized. Or not.
— Myron Belej (@ReadLyte) February 22, 2023
did anyone keep a
Please Walk on the Grass
sign— Ed Drass 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇵🇷 (@eddrass) February 22, 2023
Yes we do!
— Norm Di Pasquale (@normsworld) February 22, 2023
This is the same thing the city dealt with when ford started up his anti graffiti thing and started sandblasting actual works of art…paid for by BIAs…so dumb…use your brain, figure out what makes a city good and what makes it bad…
— George Bell (@georgebell) February 22, 2023
@McKelvieTO what is happening?!
— George Bell (@georgebell) February 22, 2023
It’s fine, it’s whimsical, it’s educational, it’s everything you’d want in a park!
— Norm Di Pasquale (@normsworld) February 22, 2023
🤔 Go figure.🙂
— She. M. (@MusingsbyShe) February 22, 2023
When did they originally remove the maze? That was there when I lived nearby 12 years ago
— Erinn (@reallyErinnn) February 22, 2023
Guerrilla in the sense of unsanctioned. Staff keep having it removed and the public keeps re-painting it
— Oliver Moore (@moore_oliver) February 22, 2023
Cripes that’s stupid. The public obvious like it.
— Ann. Who? (@annwmac) February 22, 2023
I had no idea it was unofficial!
— Brian Huntley 🇨🇦💙💛 (@BrianPHuntley) February 22, 2023
I'd like to hope that the city's irrational quest to spare no expense to ensure that no unauthorised fun is had will end along with our former mayor.
I suspect it won't. https://t.co/QbeDswxBf3
— Not Vex as in 🏳️🌈, but Vex as in 🏳️🌈 (@The_Terroirist) February 22, 2023
This city needs a psychoanalyst. https://t.co/ak837dQIEw
— jennifer evans 🇵🇸 (@nejsnave) February 22, 2023
Why erase it, this is wonderful! Great activity for your mind and I’m sure kids love it! Councillor @ausmalik, how about we have it painted permanently instead of using up resources to keep removing?
— kay (@cyclekay) February 22, 2023
Mayor Tory, @JohnTory the labyrinth in Grange park has been there since I was a child; it's an enjoyable piece of meditative art – heartbroken to hear City resources are being used to constantly remove something so appreciated by the residents! #SaveGrangeParkLabyrinth https://t.co/5cjpOsNrGM
— Michelle Roy 🇨🇦 (@Ms_Michelle_Roy) December 10, 2022
Grateful to see this photograph,
That’s me (re)painting the Grange Park Labyrinth . . .
“Today the City of Toronto removed our Labyrinth as “graffiti” while leaving the actual graffiti on the benches and park furniture alone.
Every year they do this.
This year,
When this is my kid’s post-school calm down space,
It’s particularly frustrating.
Why can’t we have community art?
Luckily I know it will come back next summer.
It always seems to show up,
Magically in the night,
Until The City destroys it again.”
THAT’S ENOUGH THOUGHTFUL CONTEMPLATION, TORONTO, NOW GET BACK TO WORK
— Oliver Moore (@moore_oliver) September 16, 2020
Removing the labyrinth, eliminating nearly all garbage cans, driving trucks over the grass, ignoring drainage issues… The park could use better caretakers.
— Ryan (@theZube) September 16, 2020
Who's going to be there tonight to paint it back?
— Norman (((mask indoors in public, pls))) WilsonⓂ️ (@oclsc) September 16, 2020
where is @HiMYSYeD when we need him?
— nicolas bello (@nbellotoronto) September 16, 2020
The cyclist has stopped atop one of the Labyrinths I painted on Augusta Avenue during a previous Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market . . .
The cyclist has stopped atop one of the Labyrinths I painted during a previous Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market . . .https://t.co/cn2MqQqxZQ
| #Labyrinths🍥 #walkTO🚶🏽♂️
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) May 15, 2020
It seemed dumb and arbitrary, but probably technically correct. At least it gave the three guys something to do. They mostly stand around in the middle of an empty field in a huddle.
— Marni Soupcoff (@soupcoff) April 15, 2020
Here are Toronto bylaw officers at Christie Pits having trouble maintaining social distance while ticketing persons using a park bench, which was not cordoned off, in an open park, while public health officials tell us of the importance of exercise and fresh air #COVID19 #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/NZWsIpioxi
— Ryan O'Connor (@rpoconnor) April 18, 2020
“Children never walk a Labyrinth, Children always Run…”
And sometimes they use a scooter !
"World Labyrinth Day – City of Labyrinths Jane's Walk"https://t.co/V1kGYZa6Fm
Saturday 4 May 2019
6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Blue Labyrinth in middle of Grange Park,
Downtown Toronto
| #Labyrinths🍥#LabyrinthDay #WorldLabyrinthDay
#LoveTOwalk #JanesWalkTO #JanesWalk #Toronto🏙️ pic.twitter.com/XTY9tHQzYp— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) May 2, 2019
When two Jane's Walks collide at Grange Park, walks led by @NadiaMHalim and @HiMYSYeD #JanesWalkTO pic.twitter.com/QoHgxVv5ls
— cyntrope (@cyntrope) May 4, 2019
Maybe the Toronto Minotaur did this ?
Please call us as we may require more info. ^ga
— 311 Toronto (@311Toronto) September 4, 2016
Mazes have Minotaurs.
Wading Pools with painted Labyrinths have Toronto City Workers in Hazmat Suits . . .
So happy #Toronto island hedge maze open again. Thanks William Meany pic.twitter.com/oz3wfsuV44
— nicolas bello 🐀 (@nbellotoronto) July 5, 2015