Cass and I took a walk down to Yonge/Dundas square yesterday, hoping to check out the Street Festival a little. So what do I have to say about it?
Wow, how insanely disorganized! I completely didn’t expect it to be so badly done. We had hoped to see some of the street musicians and acrobats, but as soon as each event started, the crowds just closed into a ring around each acrobat or flamethrower or juggler so tightly that it was impossible to see anything at all.
Okay, that’s a slight exaggeration; I saw what must have been an acrobat’s foot sticking up in the air, and once a hula-hoop tossed up, and I could see heat waves from the flame throwers, but no live actual flame. And I think I saw the top of a sand castle that someone was building – at least, I think it was a castle. Maybe it was a sand townhouse…I couldn’t really get close enough to tell.
You’d think that people in Toronto have never heard of stages. That’s what they’re designed for, to give everyone a chance to see. I guess the few hundred people out of the thousands there who were lucky enough to see anything might have enjoyed it. For me, just a big waste of time.
We’re going to try it again today at a different site, but I don’t really have my hopes up. Maybe I’ll be proved wrong.:-)