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“Remembering The Blackout” – Grange Park Labyrinth – Grange Park – Downtown Toronto – Monday August 14 2023

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August 14th, 2023 Permalink

Tonight is the 20th Anniversary of the 2003 Blackout. Each year on this evening since, Michael Louis Johnson + Shamez Amlani have curated an Annual Blackout Anniversary Party. On the Fifth Blackout Anniversary in 2009, I created a Luminaria Tea Light Labyrinth on Ossington Avenue where the event took over the street. Tonight’s 20th Anniversary […]


Tonight is the 20th Anniversary of the 2003 Blackout.

Each year on this evening since,

Michael Louis Johnson + Shamez Amlani have curated an Annual Blackout Anniversary Party.

On the Fifth Blackout Anniversary in 2009,

I created a Luminaria Tea Light Labyrinth on Ossington Avenue where the event took over the street.

Tonight’s 20th Anniversary Blackout Party began with a Picnic + Music in Grange Park from 6 p.m. onwards.

The Makeshift Music Venue was set up alongside the west edge of my Grange Park Labyrinth.

The Grange Park Labyrinth tonight was transformed into the evening’s Performance & Dance Floor…

Look closely in the background, you can spot two little ones who kept coming into and out of frame as they completed their Labyrinth Walk while the Trumpet completed What a Wonderful World.

Last 100 Days Photo Project: Day 48 – Lovers in a dangerous time

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August 15th, 2009 Permalink

By Thom Hamilton, Last 100 Days Photo Project August 14th 2003 45 million people on the eastern seaboard of North America had their lives go dark. Everyone has a slightly different way to remember that day, I tend to have very fond memories. Never in my life have I seen community come together like it […]

By Thom Hamilton, Last 100 Days Photo Project

August 14th 2003 45 million people on the eastern seaboard of North America had their lives go dark. Everyone has a slightly different way to remember that day, I tend to have very fond memories.

Never in my life have I seen community come together like it did that night, neighbors talking on the street, hundreds of people in parks simply laying down looking up at the stars, giving strangers rides home, checking on elders. All of this with out instruction or the use of mass media, it came natural.

Last night there was a small celebration to mark the 5 year anniversary of the date on Ossington Ave.

” HiMY SYeD – Toronto City of Labyrinths Project ”

Sometimes I do wonder how much more we would connect if every once in a while the power did just go out?