Festival of Lights 2018
Dec. 22nd, 2018 11:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyAs 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.
You can't see what was truly hilarious here, which was that as we were passing by, one of my friends noted that there was only one Doug Ford piñata, and it would be destroyed in seconds. Then the people running it handed the contestant a pool noodle, which is an apt metaphor for the resistance to the Tory regime.
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.
You can't see what was truly hilarious here, which was that as we were passing by, one of my friends noted that there was only one Doug Ford piñata, and it would be destroyed in seconds. Then the people running it handed the contestant a pool noodle, which is an apt metaphor for the resistance to the Tory regime.
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Date: 2018-12-22 11:32 pm (UTC)There is a reacher for camera (and, truthfully, many others in all different price ranges) that could enable you to take photos as if you were seven feet (2.333 meters) tall. Since this is a recurring event for you, you might want to look into that.
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Date: 2018-12-24 05:29 pm (UTC)I wear my Canon G9X on my belt so that it's with me over 99% of the time; for a parade or other event, I'd probably use a monopod—if I had the foresight to do this. which what a selfie stick is essentially just a monopod anyway; they weren't invented especially for tourists.
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Date: 2018-12-23 03:16 am (UTC)Also, Happy Solstice a bit after the fact.
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Date: 2018-12-23 06:51 pm (UTC)The only time I've ever left the country was to go to Niagara Falls when I was 7 or 8 for a long weekend. Before that, I knew next to nothing about Canada. On that trip, I learned that Ottawa was the capital, and for whatever reason, my fevered little child-brain came up with that it had been built by beavers. Like, the city stood atop a beaver dam, and the capital building looked like our capital building, except that it was made out of twigs. I have no idea why that popped into my head, and even though I knew it wasn't true, I've carried that mental image around for years.
So, Ottawa is probably at least a little magic.
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