Easy to be a critic, but this event was missing something that small local festivals have in spades - a sense of community, interactivity and fun.
Maybe I was missing out on something, but Kiff and Lisa and I walked from Yorkville through UofT down through OCAD/Grange park, and the streets were PACKED and the mood of the crowds kind of negative and occasionally menacing bottle smashers.
I wanted to go to an all-night pool party like they did the 1st year, or a dance party with kid dj's or something more immersive and less dispersed. I wanted all-night readings in bookstores, surreal night kitchens, graffiti tours, living spaces set up in parks - not long stretches of nothing with occasional moments of ho-hum.
I wanted to see spaces I have never seen or as I have never seen them.
A couple of fun things: the bicycle beside the cinematheque with the projection that made it look like you were riding a horse. Also - the post cards that you wrote and "posted" and the posties that delivered them throughout Zone A/Yorkville.
Question: Is your bank holding all bank machine deposits for a week before releasing them? TD Canada Trust is. Not sure about the others. So beware.
