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June 6th, 2010

  1. Wide-Angle Toronto (cont’d)

    June 6, 2010 by Gail

    As part of my research for my contingency plans for the G20 Summit wedding (plus some others), I walked six hours today… what do I have to show for it? Hundreds of photos. Here are a few, all shot with the Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8:

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    Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, Royal Ontario Museum

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    Convocation Hall, University of Toronto

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    Royal Conservatory of Music

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    Ontario Power Generation building (and the top of the College subway station), University Avenue at College Street

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    Harbourfront, from the streetcar

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    Over the Gardiner Expressway

    And then a few more from Friday:

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  2. Samba Squad

    June 6, 2010 by Gail

    Two video clips from the Muhtadi International Drumming Festival in Queens Park that took place this weekend, but I caught just a bit of it today. How’s this for random: while at the drumming festival, I bumped into a guy I met in Stratford (Ontario) exactly two weeks ago. He was sitting at a picnic table by the Avon river and I offered him some of our food. I realised this evening that two conversations later, I still don’t know his name!

    http://www.muhtadidrumfest.com/

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    Meanwhile, these little boys had completely fallen asleep, even with beating drums!

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  3. Blessing The Neighbourhood

    June 6, 2010 by Gail

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    I completely forgot last week was my fourth anniversary of moving into this neighbourhood, until today when I heard the singing. I moved to Roncesvalles Village on June 1, 2007. My friend Arliin helped me move and told me that locals call it “Roncy” for short. She said I’ll really like it here, and she was right.

    The first Sunday of June is when I hear the singing (if I’m around), a group of voices singing in Polish. It’s quite a large crowd that gathers, but the only sound you’ll hear is the singing, there’s no chatter. They go from one house to another in a processional. I don’t know how the houses are selected, but for the last four times I’ve observed them in my area it’s been the same houses. (Post from 2007.) This time there was a girl handing out pamphlets about Katyn, and probably also the plane crash that claimed the Polish president and nearly a hundred others a couple of months ago.

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    I went back to my archives and found some video clips from the 2007 I hadn’t uploaded (I don’t think Flickr had the video feature back then).

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