I am… grateful for being able to learn how the Labyrinth I painted in Robson Square is being walked and reflected upon. it's not every day you find a big green labyrinth to walk in the middle of downtown. . walking this one was a very weird experience. it's in the middle of a pedestrian-only […]
The Labyrinths I’ve been in Chalking in MacLean Park are meaningful for people . . . 🔸labyrinths and play 🔸 . ever since i started studying labyrinths, they seem to pop up everywhere around me. these ones were drawn in chalk at the MacLean Park playground in Strathcona some time last month. walking a labyrinth […]
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
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.
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.
