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 also my friend and has always supported the Toronto City of Labyrinths Project!
“Clearly not enough time within the world of Pedestrian Sunday but you have a feeling that there is a future for streets without cars.
It’s the the best parts of the Open Streets TO concept and long standing street festivals like Taste Of The Danforth;
Would very much enjoy City of Toronto giving over more control of our streets to the people.
Where we can remove the need for cars, let’s do it.
Creating spaces to create & inspire, to buy & sell, to meet people, friends and strangers, let’s do it.”
My month old Street Labyrinth painted on Augusta Avenue doubles as stage venue for Herosan The Japanese Street Performer . . .
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.
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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