Thank you for this Labyrinth Report Shawn!
Appreciated!
We would like to report that
A> the god blessed fountain worked
B> the city has not power washed off Himy Syed’s (@LabyrinthsDOTca) fine wading pool labyrinth.Always love the wee exposed aggregate kid step.
Sign, in toronto fashion, warns not to touch mouth on fountain 🤷🏼♂️ pic.twitter.com/WZ1320jTQQ
— Shawn Micallef 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (@shawnmicallef) August 14, 2023
Super Soaker Water Gun Fight inside the Octagon Labyrinth !
Another Sunday Funday at the Wading Pool Labyrinth in Budapest Park, Sunnyside, Toronto.
Why walk my Octagon Labyrinth inside the water-filled Wading Pool at Budapest Park, Sunnyside, Toronto . . .
When you can dance instead ?
Grange Park labyrinth removed again. Seems the fun police budget never runs out of money in #JohnTorysToronto. pic.twitter.com/zAx2k3x2tp
— Ramsey 🌐🔰 (@Ramsey_Kilani) October 12, 2022
Didn't take long for them to hit Grange again. Fastest thing the city responds to are unauthorized improvements.https://t.co/oc7hyc62xR
— Ramsey 🌐🔰 (@Ramsey_Kilani) October 12, 2022
Local users constantly repaint a meditation labyrinth on the footpath at Grange Park and the city remove it.
The city doesn’t fix the broken fountain though.— Heather Jordan – Standing with 🇺🇦 (@HipBoom) October 16, 2022
As usual, the most comprehensive maintenance in Grange Park involves @GoodbyeGraffiti contractors, in a rain storm, power-washing the labyrinth that'll be redrawn by the weekend: pic.twitter.com/RDSRPQzXxQ
— Jonathan Goldsbie (@goldsbie) September 27, 2022
The Labyrinth is Grange Park Playground Infrastructure that has been installed at Zero Cost to the Taxpayer.
Yet repeated investment by "This" Taxpayer.
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) September 27, 2022
Oh for the … I live right by here and hate that they keep removing it. I see kids running around it having fun all the time. What on earth harm is it.
— nicole (she/her) (@iheartmuseums) September 27, 2022
Who would pay to remove the labyrinth??? They are so well done I assumed they were a city sponsored art project. They get a community asset for free and then they pay to remove it??? WTF.
— Ryan Abcede (@RyeABC) September 27, 2022
"They are so well done…"
Thank you.
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) September 27, 2022
Sorry, this is too much whimsy. Labyrinths obviously exceed the whimsy guidelines. https://t.co/h6W8hwsVvI
— C Bailey (@CBailey6) September 27, 2022
“GUIDELINES
INCORPORATE WHIMSYa. Encourage a sense of joy and playfulness by incorporating whimsy in public art, building design, streetscapes, street furniture and parks and open space features.
b. Design child-friendly elements at a scale that responds to children that provoke the imagination and are fun, interactive, educational, musical and brightly coloured in fantastic sculptural forms.”
"…This urban artist has been creating whimsical designs in public places since he was a child. "https://t.co/wLPnl76Ai8
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) September 28, 2022
Problem, labyrinth whimsy is free.
— 20:20Hindsight 🚴♂️🇨🇦 (@Cmartoronto) September 28, 2022
can we have open bathrooms? no, only removal of a fun, whimsical piece of art. love my local park despite it all. https://t.co/V7p7WCThP3
— Michelle (@michellekearnel) September 27, 2022
Imagine how much money could be saved by simply commissioning the artwork that literally everybody enjoys instead of scrubbing it away every couple months https://t.co/Odm65eQA7w
— Elizabeth Keay (@eliz_keay) September 27, 2022
@johntory – Take the money we pay to remove them and hire @LabyrinthsDOTca as Toronto's Labyrinth Laureate
— George Bell (@georgebell) September 28, 2022
That labyrinth is a community uniter.
I live by Grange Park and see people bonding over it every single day. Why do you hate joy? #johntorystoronto
— natasha 🌐 (@natashanwar_) September 28, 2022
That's my local park and I see children playing in that labyrinth all the time, like why!!!?? What curmudgeon did this offend who complained?
We can't get the water fountains or washrooms opened on time but we have the money to power wash fun away. https://t.co/YV5WrjhzBt
— Alex Beheshti (@beheshtialex) September 27, 2022
Middle of August 2022,
Wading in the Wading Pool Labyrinth
In Christie Pits Park, Toronto . . .
“A playground within walking distance of a bike park, an ice cream stand, a beach, an outdoor pool, and High Park?
This might be your best bet for a beach staycation.”
Heatwave in Toronto happening now.
Why not cool down by walking the Wading Pool Labyrinth in Budapest Park along the Sunnyside Boardwalk ?
Find the water then start at the Heart !
Ice Cream !
Being enjoyed along the border wall of a water-filled Wading Pool Labyrinth in Budapest Park, Toronto.
Another one of my Labyrinths painted on the surface of a Wading Pool, this time in Eglinton Park, that needs its fading arcs to be repainted.
I need to better balance my Labyrinth re-painting regimen.
The Swimming Song while jumping around my Wading Pool Labyrinth in Budapest Park !
Looks like I need to repaint the Red quadrant of the Medicine Wheel I painted inside one of the Labyrinth’s open canvas spaces last September…
I'm frustrated that the city has money to remove a fun, kid-appreciated labyrinth in Grange park, but not to do important maintenance. #TOpoli pic.twitter.com/Bm45YgDtNy
— Brian McLachlan – Complete the Quest (@McLachlanBrian) June 30, 2022
Toronto has lost its Heart…Labyrinth, in Grange Park…
Yet grateful that thousands of Torontonians + Tourists were able to enjoy and walk my Grange Park “❤️” Heart Labyrinth before this again happened today….
Toronto doesn’t have the money to get water fountains going in a timely way but will send workers again and again to erase the labyrinth people paint in Grange Pk pic.twitter.com/Bov94U8d4Y
— Oliver Moore (@moore_oliver) June 30, 2022
And drive on the grass. https://t.co/JUW9gsIA8B
— christopher (@heychristofur) June 30, 2022
See also: the City putting portapotties in Trinity-Bellwoods the year *after* they destroyed the encampment
They could just give people water and toilets in the first place and save money and effort, but they'd rather be dicks about it
— 🐘 @nev@bananachips.club (@neville_park) June 30, 2022
For heaven’s sake, @cityoftoronto , where in the bylaws does it say we can’t have nice things and our tax dollars will pay to make sure of it? https://t.co/v9SP6tBfC0
— James Harbeck (@sesquiotic) June 30, 2022
Indeed, The City of Toronto removes park infrastructure, Labyrinths, at some cost to the taxpayer.
Whereas The City of Labyrinths Project installs park infrastructure, Labyrinths, at zero cost to the taxpayer.
