City of Labyrinths
Toronto & Vancouver City of Labyrinths is a Project to create public Labyrinths within walking distance of every Torontonian & Vancouverite.
Intended to create safe walking spaces for both play and contemplation.
Labyrinths are placed in parks, public spaces, during neighbourhood street parties or major urban festivals like Pedestrian Sunday Kensington Market in Toronto or Car Free Days in Vancouver.
HiMY SYeD – Labyrinth Maker & Project Co-ordinator
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- “Check out the Peace Labyrinth at Bloor and Armadale” – Мир Лабіринт – Toronto Ukrainian Festival 2023 – Bloor West Village
- “📍” – Grange Park Labyrinth – Grange Park – Downtown Toronto
- “Remembering The Blackout” – Grange Park Labyrinth – Grange Park – Downtown Toronto – Monday August 14 2023
- “Labyrinthes à Toronto !” — Emmanuel Bouhier, Labyrinth Makers Forum
- “We would like to report that… The City has not power washed off HiMY SYeD’s fine Wading Pool Labyrinth.” – Shawn Micallef – Octagon Labyrinth – Budapest Park – Sunnyside – Toronto
- 82nd Annual Grange Festival – Grange Park Labyrinth – Grange Park – Downtown Toronto – Friday August 11 2023
- Bren’s Aerial View from The Art Gallery of Ontario – Grange Park Labyrinth – Grange Park – Downtown Toronto
- “Happy to be back here 💒” – Heart Labyrinth – Courage My Love – Kensington Avenue – Kensington Market – Downtown Toronto
- Dancers Performing – Heart Labyrinth – Augusta Avenue – Kensington Market – Downtown Toronto – Pedestrian Sunday July 30 2023
- “Look into your Heart and let me know…” – Grange Park Labyrinth – Grange Park – Downtown Toronto
- August Long Weekend – Aerial View from The Art Gallery of Ontario – Grange Park Labyrinth – Grange Park – Downtown Toronto
- “Feel Good Friday!” – Grange Park Labyrinth – Grange Park – Downtown Toronto
- “Toronto with the Birthday Girl” – Heart Labyrinth – Courage My Love – Kensington Avenue – Kensington Market – Downtown Toronto
- “Street art” – Heart Labyrinth – Courage My Love – Kensington Avenue – Kensington Market – Downtown Toronto – Pedestrian Sunday May 29 2022
- “Live music, tasty food, small business & good vibes.” – Heart Labyrinth – Kensington Avenue – Kensington Market – Downtown Toronto – Pedestrian Sunday July 30 2023
- Smiling in The Centre of The Labyrinth – Augusta Avenue – Kensington Market – Downtown Toronto – Pedestrian Sunday July 30 2023
- “Dancin’ to the most awesome drum beats!” – TDot Batu – Heart Labyrinth – Pedestrian Sunday – Kensington Avenue – Kensington Market – Downtown Toronto
- “Pedestrian Sunday at Kensington Market with my people!” – Labyrinth Walking – Augusta Avenue – Downtown Toronto
- TDot Batu Samba Reggae Drumming Parade – Pausing & Passing By Labyrinths on Augusta Avenue – Kensington Market – Downtown Toronto – Pedestrian Sunday July 30 2023
- “Thanks to HiMY for the “Labyrinth Street Art”” – Heart Labyrinth – Augusta Avenue – Kensington Market – Downtown Toronto – Pedestrian Sunday July 30 2023
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Labyrinths are made on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples –
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish),
Stó:lō and
Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh)
and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.
Labyrinths are made in traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of
the Kwantlen,
the Katzie,
the Semiahmoo
and Tsawwassen First Nations.
Land Acknowledgements
Traditional: recognizes lands traditionally used and/or occupied by the People or First Nations in parts of the country.
Ancestral: recognizes land that is handed down from generation to generation.
Unceded: refers to land that was not turned over to the Crown (government) by a treaty or other agreement.
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“🤩” – Wading Pool Labyrinth – Sir Casimir Gzowski Park – Sunnyside Boardwalk – Toronto
“Mr. & Mrs. 🚲🚲” – Labyrinth Pier – False Creek Seawall – Vancouver
Bicycles stop atop my slowing fading painted Orange Labyrinth on Labyrinth Pier, Vancouver . . .
“I’ve been de-fluffed this morning by Lake Ontario.” – Wading Pool – Octagon Labyrinth – Budapest Park – Sunnyside Boardwalk – Toronto
“New Labyrinth in the Grange Park.” – Downtown Toronto
It appears the outline of a Heart I placed at the entrance to my latest Labyrinth painted in Grange Park has been chalked into a smiling face with horns . . .
Minotaur Outside The Labyrinth ?
New labyrinth in the Grange Park. https://t.co/SVsx1rmclc pic.twitter.com/TxNh9ncr0L
— Alyx Dellamonica (@AlyxDellamonica) August 19, 2020
“💙💙💙” – Labyrinth – Grange Park – Downtown Toronto
Saturday evening,
I re-painted yet Another Labyrinth in Grange Park . . .
And Toronto Kids are already exploring it !
“😏Those curves❤️” – Labyrinths – Kensington Avenue – Kensington Market – Downtown Toronto
Two of the three Street Labyrinths I painted today on Kensington Avenue in Kensington Market in Downtown Toronto . . .
“Think of the source.” – Roxton Road Labyrinth – Wading Pool – Fred Hamilton Playground – Toronto
Even with the Fountain rippling the Wading Pool,
My Roxton Road Labyrinth remains visible and walkable . . .
“No distractions this morning, just slow quiet steps” – High Park Labyrinth – Toronto
“High Park haiku number 88.
Do you know the difference between a Labyrinth and a maze?
A Labyrinth has no tricks or dead ends.
There’s just one path,
And the purpose is simply to walk it.
It takes me about 11 minutes to amble through this Labyrinth.
I like to walk in silence, or listen to soft music, or pray…
Honestly this must be the only place in the park I can walk for 11 minutes without distractions.”
“Os playgrounds foram abertos há umas duas semanas e começamos a curtir mais a cidade.” – Wading Pool Labyrinth – Eglinton Park – Toronto
“E a vida aos pouquinhos vai voltando a ser fora de casa.
As atividades físicas aumentam, o estresse diminui, a mãe aqui tem tempo para autocuidado e como consequência o sono da Alice fica melhor!
Sempre digo que criança que dorme 12 hrs de sono noturno é raridade, mas quando a Alice faz muita atividade ela chega a dormir esse tanto 😱.
Não é sempre, mas acontece.
Ela não é uma criança que mostra sinais muito claros de sono, então ficamos bem de olho para perceber se ela está cansada mais cedo quando temos dias mais intensos.
Aqui em Toronto temos muitos parques, os playgrounds foram abertos há umas duas semanas e começamos a curtir mais a cidade.
Isso que vocês estão vendo aí se chama Wading Pool e essa do lado da Alice é uma amiguinha da escola, depois de 5 meses sem se verem ❤️.
Foi uma alegria que só!
Seus pequenos dormem melhor depois de passar o dia brincando?”
“I should embrace the unknown a little bit…” – Vancouver Public Labyrinth – False Creek Seawall
“Sunday,
We came across this cool little Labyrinth stone circle by False Creek.
Intrigued by one of my friend’s friend explanation of how it is meant as a reflective meditative journey/walk to contemplate and to feel,
We of course had to try this fun little exercise out.
The 3 of us tried it.
I was surprise – it worked.
The 3 of us came to the exit with very different thoughts and emotions invoked:
- a sense of peace with decisions made,
- an openness to what the world is offering followed by noticing three simple words ‘Love is Everywhere’ etched on a log ahead,
- and oddly the rush of anxiousness wondering when am I going to get the heck out of this circle.
Perhaps it is the slowing down to realize how far we’ve come along.
Perhaps it highlighted the present moment.
Perhaps it is the unknown of how many more turns before I get there;
I should embrace the unknown a little bit, lol.
Fast forward.
Today I did the grouse grind after work.
My mind was only focused on the goal at top.
There was no musing, only pushing myself harder, faster, stronger – feeling my legs and my lungs.
The circle, the grind, and the musing!
Try it, if not for the musing, for the curiosity.
It’s good to slow down once in a while 🙂 “
Early Monday Morning – Wading Pool Labyrinth – Withrow Park – Toronto
Arrive early enough and the Wading Pool, and Wading Pool Labyrinth, is all yours . . .
The Wadsworth Park Labyrinth at Night – Wading Pool – Wadsworth Park – Toronto
At night,
My Wadsworth Park Wading Pool Labyrinth remains walkable with playground lights turned on…
“Ford Thunderbird” – Labyrinth – Kensington Avenue – Kensington Market – Downtown Toronto
There are no Pedestrian Sundays Kensington Market this Pandemic Year,
Yet there is still one of my Painted Street Labyrinths from last year.
And for a second time in one week,
A Classic Car has parked upon it . . .
Ford Thunderbird.
Upside Down – Octagon Labyrinth – Wading Pool – Budapest Park – Sunnyside Beach – Toronto
Upside down so “Sunnyside” reads right side up . . .