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City of Labyrinths
Toronto & Vancouver City of Labyrinths is a Project to create public labyrinths within walking distance of every Torontonian & Vancouverite.
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 YVR in Vancouver.
HiMY SYeD – Labyrinth Maker & Project Co-ordinator
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- “All you need is ❤️” – Robson Square Labyrinth – Downtown Vancouver
- “Peace Begins With Me” – Olympic Village – Vancouver Public Labyrinth
- “Amazing!! 🙌🙌😎 🚲 .” – Chalk Heart Labyrinth – Science World – Vancouver
- “Someone drew a Labyrinth on the cement so I walked it spontaneously.” – Charlene Wolff – Chalk Labyrinth – North East False Creek Seawall – Vancouver
- “Reminded me of a Petroform” – Shay – False Creek – Vancouver Public Labyrinth
- Craig Engman – False Creek – Vancouver Public Labyrinth
- “What with the Umbrellas and chalk combo I feel confident imagining that if Mary Poppins were to choose a Labyrinth to walk it would be this one.”– Kjersten Hayes – Yaletown – Vancouver
- “It’s raining art” – Boris Khramtsov – Underbrella Labyrinth – Bill Curtis Square – Yaletown – Downtown Vancouver
- La vida es bella – Robson Square Labyrinth – Downtown Vancouver
- “Beating this summer heat by swimming in the pool 🌊☀️ We had tons of fun spending time with our family today ❤” — Wading Pool Labyrinth — Riverdale Park West — Toronto
- “Evening walk on the seawall with my 10 year old puppy 🐶” – False Creek – Vancouver Public Labyrinth
- “View from a bridge.” – Ethyl – Spyglass Place Labyrinth – Vancouver
- “More of these please. 🏃🏾 ” – Matt Galloway – Toronto
- “Two Labyrinths were drawn with chalk on two ends of Commercial Drive” – Diana Ng – Car Free Day – East Vancouver
- “Car free commercial drive day yesterday was ✨👌💕” – mama leah – East Vancouver
- “What to do with all that open asphalt on Car Free Day Commercial Drive Vancouver? You draw a Mandala of course.” – Nicole Thompson
- “#Labyrinths🎷🤥🍭☀️” – keksama – Car Free Day – Commercial Drive – East Vancouver
- “얼음물온도인데 그냥 뛰어든다” – Wading Pool Labyrinth – Christie Pits Park – Toronto
- Wading Pool Labyrinth – Geary Avenue Parkette – Toronto
- “Day 176: maze” – Clara Tong – False Creek – Vancouver Public Labyrinth
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“Trapped in the Grange Park Labyrinth” — Edward Pond
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Autumn Equinox Labyrinth Walk
Please join the Labyrinth Community Network
for a group walk on the first day of Autumn
Friday, September 23
12:00 noon
Toronto Public Labyrinth
Trinity Square Park
(immediately west of the Eaton Centre and south of the Church of the Holy Trinity)
Medieval music will accompany us
Fully accessible
Braille Labyrinth on site
Free of charge
All are welcome!
Upcoming:
Winter Solstice, Thursday, December 22 at noon
GTA Eid al Fitr — Masking Tape Labyrinth
Muslims in Toronto have been marking the end of the Holy Month of Ramadan with Eid al Fitr.
I attended GTA Eid at Metro Toronto Convention Centre hosted by Muslim Association of Canada.
After prayers, Muslim children, namely brothers Omar and Ammar and their big sister, helped create a Labyrinth using masking tape.
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“Labyrinth at The Grange Park” — Rochelle Mazar
Labyrinth @ The Grange Park http://instagr.am/p/GI4Vr/
— Rochelle (@rmazar) June 21, 2011
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“Thanks @HiMYSYeD for the #labyrinth. A great way to spend an afternoon in #Toronto #yyz”
Thanks @HiMYSYeD for the #labyrinth. A great way to spend an afternoon in #Toronto #yyz http://lockerz.com/s/104730785
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Shanta R. Nathwani
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“After walking a labyrinth, the two hemispheres of the brain become balanced.” – Suzette Martinez Standring
“Walking the spiral path of twists and turns is an ancient spiritual exercise.
“Often the words labyrinth and maze are used interchangeably, but they are not the same. A maze is a network of paths and dead-ends, and one has to puzzle her way out. In contrast, a labyrinth has only one way in and only one way out. The walker simply follows the path.
“Twenty years ago in San Francisco at Grace Cathedral, I walked a labyrinth on its marble floor, a replica of the famous design found at Chartres Cathedral in France. It was an exercise that gave me profound calm and unexpected answers, all from just putting one foot in front of the other.
“I discovered there is a scientific reason for why this happens. The left side of the brain, which governs rational, logical and linear actions, is often overworked. Walking a labyrinth allows that side to rest, while the right side of the brain, which is associated with non-verbal, non-rational and the intuitive, is exercised, according to “The Healing Labyrinth,” an article in Barron’s by Helen Rafael Sands in 2001. After walking a labyrinth, the two hemispheres of the brain become balanced.”
World Labyrinth Day Picnic and Walk in High Park
Come share in a celebration of Labyrinths in the world!
Starting at 3:00 pm, Saturday May 7th at the High Park Labyrinth.
- • Bring a picnic
- • Bring your pet
- • Bring the family
Northwest of Grenadier Café in heart of High Park
For more information:
Please contact Lutia lutialausane@sympatico.ca (416) 588-3121
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Toronto City of Labyrinths Project Jane’s Walk — Saturday May 7, 2011 6 p.m. Christie Subway Station
Toronto has become a City of Labyrinths.
Presently, we may have the greatest physical number of labyrinths of any City in The World. This Jane’s Walk will help us understand why.
Since 2002, the Toronto City of Labyrinths Project has been aiming to place a semi-permanent labyrinth within walking distance of every Torontonian.
This Jane’s Walk will follow a path into and around Christie Pits Park, where a number of the Project’s examples exist.
All four of the most popular labyrinth design patterns will be shown:
- 1. The Thousands of years old ancient classic seven-circuit Cretan design
- 2. The 800-year-old Chartes Cathedral 11-circuit pattern
- 3. The Contemporary Santa Rosa Labyrinth design
- 4. The inner-Chartes seven-circuit pattern
Background in-depth history of each of the four major designs will be provided:
- • The story of how High Park got the first official City of Toronto Labyrinth
- • The efforts of the Labyrinth Community Network in creating The Toronto Public Labyrinth in Trinity Square Park
- • Why labyrinth walking is a critical period in the development of decision making abilities in children growing up, which they then carry into adulthood.
- • The Connection between bodies of water and labyrinths. (Garrison Creek)
Using chalk on paved open space, people will be instructed in how to make their own labyrinths, which we will then enjoy walking in to and out of.
Before returning to our starting point where this Jane’s Walk will end, we will see one bonus example of Giant Outstallation Art:
- Toronto’s Giant Outdoor Subway Map and the story of why it’s there
A limited number of printed materials will be available on a first come first served basis as keepsakes of this Jane’s Walk.
Saturday May 7, 2011 6 p.m.
Meeting Place: Traffic Island in Front of Christie Subway Station Main Entrance
End Location: Like all Labyrinth journeys, we will return to our starting point to end the walk (Traffic Island in Front of Christie Subway Station Main Entrance).
Public Transit Directions: Christie Subway Station Main Entrance, Christie Street, North of Bloor Street West, Koreatown/Christie Pits Park
Accessible: Partially accessible – curbs, uneven terrain, busy sidewalks
Parking Available: Green P Parking behind Christie Subway Station
JanesWalk.net/walks/view/toronto_city_of_labyrinths_project_janes_walk/
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Spring Equinox Labyrinth Walk: Toronto Public Labyrinth, Trinity Square Park – Sunday, March 20, 2011
Friends of the Labyrinth Community Network invite you to
“celebrate the vernal equinox, the spring equinox – the day exactly halfway between the solstices, the day that the sun shines directly on the equator and night and day are of equal length. It is the earth’s day of balance…Stand completely still for a moment and feel that balance.” – The Way of the Labyrinth, Helen Curry
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Noon – 1 pm
Toronto Public Labyrinth, Trinity Square Park
(West of the Eaton Centre, south of the Church of Holy Trinity)
Fully accessible
Michael Franklin will accompany us on hurdy-gurdy and flute
All are Welcome!
Winter Solstice Labyrinth Walk with Music — Toronto Public Labyrinth
Winter Solstice Labyrinth Walk with Music – Tuesday December 21 2010
Toronto Public Labyrinth
12 noon – 1 p.m.
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Little Ones running around Chalk Labyrinth — Pedestrian Sunday Kensington Market
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Summer Solstice World Drum – High Park Labyrinth Walk
This walk took place in the early evening on the Summer Solstice, at the High Park Labyrinth on June 21, 2010.
This Drum is travelling The World bringing attention to Mother Earth by being part of numerous ceremonies.
Filmed and edited by Irma Haggith of Amaze Your Mind Labyrinths.
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“Labyrinths Are Awesome!” – Oglaf
Labyrinth, is a one page Oglaf story.
It features the king from A Very Deep Chasm and his advisor.
Synopsis
The king receives a tribute of a large cheese, and his advisor suggests housing it in a Labyrinth.
The king asks about the advisor’s obsession with labyrinths, to which the advisor replies, “Labyrinths are awesome!”.
A doctor arrives and informs the king that the queen has given birth to a monster, to the king’s horror and the advisor’s delight.
“Field Trip Wednesday: A Day at The Park – A Highlight: Walking The Labyrinth” – Sarah Rosen
“this week after gymnastics we met the kids’ cousin at Christie Pits park for some playground action. it was a fine spring day.
“a highlight: walking the labyrinth.”
“bears like it, too.”
Re-blogged from Sarah Rosen’s blog Sweet Things.
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Yelp Review: Christie Street Traffic Island Labyrinth
We had heard rumors.
Walking outside of Christie station on the TTC, we look down… suddenly we see it… artfully laid out on the ground… The labyrinth.
No, this has absolutely nothing to do with David Bowie.