Toronto+Vancouver City of Labyrinths Project

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.

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Pedestrian Sundays – Blackout Anniversary Car-Free edition.

August 16, 2009, 12 p.m. – 10 p.m.

Streets Are For People present Pedestrian Sundays marking the 6th Anniversary of the Blackout.

For the sixth anniversary of the memorable day when we all realized that we consume too much, we will celebrate by turning the lights out!

All acoustic music, kid-powered fun, and community meals are what make remembering the blackout such a delight.

• http://www.pskensington.ca/
• http://www.streetsareforpeople.org/blog/

This pinwheel design is painted on a tennis court surface in the middle of a playground in San Francisco’s Chinatown.

As a game – Four people, at their own entrance, race to the centre where they must leave by another route without touching anyone.

First one out wins.

This afternoon in Kensington Market on North Augusta Avenue, a re-inspiration of this pin-wheel labyrinth design will find its way on to North Augusta Avenue.

And pedestrians, four at a time, will be invited to play The Game.

Beyond sunset, the pin-wheel will be illuminated with candlelight luminaria to mark the sixth anniversary of the 2003 Blackout.
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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?