Festival of Lights 2018

As you may know, the Kensington Market Festival of Lights is my absolute favourite event in Toronto. It's a solstice parade of giant puppets, activists, musicians, and weirdos that culminates in a giant burning in the park. Defiantly grassroots, anticapitalist, and anticolonialist, it is a light in the darkness—literal and metaphorical—and a wild, utopian vision of what the city could be if we allowed it.

Below the cut is my annual attempt to capture what the parade is like. One of these days I'll bring my actual grownup camera, but it's always too crowded for a short person like me to get good shots anyway.

Happy solstice, everyone.




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