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sabotabby ([personal profile] sabotabby) wrote2019-12-22 11:11 am

Kensington Market Festival of Lights 2020

Happy Solstice everyone!

Last night marked the 30th annual Red Pepper Spectacle Arts Festival of Lights in Kensington Market—in my opinion, the best event Toronto has to offer. It's a parade filled with samba bands, clowns, papier mache puppets, paper lanterns, Indigenous art and activism, Doug Ford effigies, raccoons, and of course, a giant burning thing at the end. It's beautiful and joyful and in-your-face and there's nothing else like it.

I attempted to capture some of the energy on the street last night. It's too crowded to shoot properly, so I just take a million pictures and hope for the best. Here are the least bad.

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ironed_orchid: watercolour and pen style sketch of a brown tabby cat curl up with her head looking up at the viewer and her front paw stretched out on the left (Default)

[personal profile] ironed_orchid 2019-12-22 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
That looks like the best kind of winter solstice celebration, I hope it brings back the sun.
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[personal profile] ironed_orchid 2019-12-22 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Excellent!

I celebrated the summer solstice by finally planting out some native plants that had been in pots since June.
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[personal profile] umadoshi 2019-12-22 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
That looks amazing. *^^*