Here is Shamez Amlani with his Bicycle atop the Heart Labyrinth I painted during Pedestrian Sunday in the Baldwin & Augusta Avenue intersection in Kensington Market. Shamez is one of the four original Co-Founders of Streets Are For People, who championed Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington Market (and in two other Toronto Neighbourhoods as well). He’s […]
Outer lanes of the pass-through Labyrinth I painted on Kensington Avenue by Fitzroy Terrace in Kensington Market, Downtown Toronto during the July 2019 Pedestrian Sunday. In the top left of this image, looking closely, you can just make out the upside down Heart in the Centre of the Labyrinth. The painted Yellow line is the […]
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.
