[VIDEO] Four clips of the Light Parade, Nuit Rose (#nuitroseto)

I attended the Church and Wellesley components of the Nuit Rose LGBTQ art festival last night. I have plenty of photos, images needing processing when I have time later this week. For now, please enjoy these short video clips I took of the Light Parade at different stages along its route, the first two on Alexander Street, the next at Church and Wellesley, and the last at Barbara Hall Park.

[PHOTO] AIDS Memorial, verso, with alliums

[PHOTO] Barbara Hall Park and the 519, blue and rainy

[PHOTO] Blue at the 519

Last night outside the 519 on Church Street, the blue lights streetside in Barbara Hall Park worked exquisitely with the clean white snow that night.

[PHOTO] AIDS Memorial in red and white at night, 1 December 2018 (#worldaidsday)

Fresh red and white carnations are woven among the panels as citylight gleams in the background.

[PHOTO] Four photos of Church and Wellesley at the start of October

[PHOTO] Fourteen photos from Church Street during Pride Toronto (#pridetoronto)

I spent yesterday evening down with a friend taking in Pride Toronto down at Church and Wellesley, wandering up and down the streets dense with people and vendors and venturing over into Barbara Hall Park and the AIDS Memorial. It was a lovely evening, made all the more so by a late evening sky coloured in rainbow pastels.

[PHOTO] They Come Out at Night, Michel Dumont

I went to Nuit Rose last night, for the third year running, and once again I enjoyed myself. There were fun things in Church and Wellesley, and fun things on West Queen West. One thing that I liked in the first region were Michel Dumont‘s cellophane statues They Come Out at Night, a revisiting of the streets of queer Toronto circa 1986 and their people.

(More will come.)

[PHOTO] Roses at the AIDS Vigil, Barbara Hall Park

Daily Xtra has more about this year’s event.

[PHOTO] A rainbow of lights at Barbara Hall Park