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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