Now wasn't that a fun evening of art overload and loveliness!
I had so much fun; we treated it as a girl’s night out on the town  about 7 of us ended up traveling around grange park/OCAD area. We started at about 9pm and walked until 3:30are ... I had the best time ever, it certainly beat going to the government to bits!!!!!
Although it was pissing rain, we all brought umbrellas and viewed the city through artistic eyes, which is all the time for me
I love Media Art Installations and that's what was going on around town!
ZONE A!
At first we went to see the projectio0ns on the windows of the Ballet School at Jarvis and Carlton Area. Then we headed to Bloor and Avenue Road, (parked at my work) then went to the church exhibit at, which was a light installation (outside) but people were going in and I think we were in a mass! But it was neat to see the stained glass windows and candles lit. Outside on the Church it was a light that read
"HOLD THAT THOUGHT"
So I tried to "hold that thought" which lasted a minute LOL! Then we went to the ROM saw a exhibit by Carlos Garaicoa, then an amazing animation by Holger Lippemann and Alekos Hofstetter, then a salsa dancing band with dancers called Noche En Havana, then we saw a DVD projection of Sheep - Bahhhahahahaha by Micheal Snow.
Then we walked down Philosphers walk just west of the ROM. While walking down the path, I saw some long piece of paper hanging from a tree, I said to Nat this looks like an installation I once saw in South Korea, it was about people writing down their wishes on pieces of paper and hanging them off a tree. Then if you came back and the paper was not there it was to be said that your wish came true, or was underway! So yeah, we arrive at this light up tree with tones’ of these pieces of paper and sure enough I was right! That was neat - I made a couple wishes and hung them there! Lord knows I need to make wishes for any sort of happiness So the was calledOne night One Garden One Wish
then we headed down the foggy lane - to Fujiko Nakaya's FOG installation, let me say that if you are ever stuffed up - natural mist fog is where it's at! I was so clear headed and could clearly breathe! Ahhhhhh, it felt so nice!
So it took a while to walk through that path and it mildly stopped raining at that point but the mist to create the fog was making up for it . I took some amazing pictures, but I also broke my camera that night! Bugger all! But I just broke the battery incasing, so it should be fine with a bit of sticky tape! Lad –ee-da!
Anyways after Zone A was done we headed to Zone B which was around the OCAD/Grange Park area! There was a lot of fun stuff going on around there!
The two that I really enjoyed there were these
Harrison Baths
Which was at 15 stephanie street in the “bath/swimming” recreation area and it was all about Penquins… by John Greyson & David Wall it was a video installation about Roy & Silo’s Gay divorce…
It was really wack! But that is Why I liked it so much!
The other one I saw was titled
Ballroom Dancing
Which had 10 year old DJ’s spinning music and the entire auditorium was filled with some what soft plastic balls of all colours! I swear I want to party there again
It was at University Settlement House at 23 Grange it was created by Darren O’Donnell, it was called a performance, but it was more like abuse, o nly because I got hit so many damn times in the head!
I left there saying I have had to many balls in my face!
Lol
Well that’s it! Had a gret time and I think they should have this type of art installations all the time in Toronto~!
Dallas M.
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