Pedestrian Sundays – Blackout Anniversary Car-Free edition.
August 16, 2009, 12 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Streets Are For People present Pedestrian Sundays marking the 6th Anniversary of the Blackout.
For the sixth anniversary of the memorable day when we all realized that we consume too much, we will celebrate by turning the lights out!
All acoustic music, kid-powered fun, and community meals are what make remembering the blackout such a delight.
This pinwheel design is painted on a tennis court surface in the middle of a playground in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
As a game – Four people, at their own entrance, race to the centre where they must leave by another route without touching anyone.
First one out wins.
This afternoon in Kensington Market on North Augusta Avenue, a re-inspiration of this pin-wheel labyrinth design will find its way on to North Augusta Avenue.
And pedestrians, four at a time, will be invited to play The Game.
Beyond sunset, the pin-wheel will be illuminated with candlelight luminaria to mark the sixth anniversary of the 2003 Blackout.
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Labyrinths in Islam – Hidden in Plain Sight . . . Five Times a Day
Bismillah
Bismillah — In the Name of God Alone — is spoken aloud and whispered upon the lips millions of Muslims — and some Arabic speaking Christians — before they began any endeavour, simple and ordinary or complex and involved.
I found myself catching the Fajr — Dawn — prayers at the Dawah Centre in Bloordale Village this morning.
With the shortest of the five daily prayers completed, worshippers dissipated elsewhere into the prayer hall, allowing me to eye the prayer mat of the Imam. I notice as if for the first time, the pattern framing the prayer rug had a labyrinth-like motif.
Could the answer to my elusive quest in search of Labyrinths within Islam have been right in front of me my entire life? Read More »