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Toronto—David Pecaut Square

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David Pecaut Square, Toronto (No. 2)

The public space features Canadian sculptor Bernie Miller's The Poet, The Fever Hospital, a 1992 piece made up of galvanized steel, bronze, granite, and marble. The sculpture incorporates a fountain and reflecting pool. The title refers to the poet Isabella Valancy Crawford, who stayed for a brief time in a house that was demolished for the construction of Metro Hall at the southeast corner of King and John Streets. The fever hospital refers to one of Toronto's first hospitals, which stood at the northeast corner of King and John Streets from 1829 to 1856. Sheltered by a large granite wall, four bronze boxes evoking television monitors stacked nearly 5 metres high form a fountain. The water flows into a marble basin and into the reflecting pool. The boxes are framed with a semi-circular steel beam, perforated with small holes and mounted at a gentle tilt. The reflecting pool also has an eternal flame fueled by natural gas, unveiled in 1996. The Eternal Flame of Hope is inspired by the perseverance of disabled people, and burns as a reminder that society must be all-inclusive 

Also located at the southwestern part of the square is Jaan Poldaas' Surface Design for Tampered Windscreens (1992), a sculpture composed of tempered glass screens which functions as a windbreak. The screens are etched with vertical and horizontal lines to create different relationships, and are arranged so that people can walk between them. Cynthia Short's Remembered Sustenance (1992) is piece composed of 19 small and generic bronze animals on the grass just off the sidewalk on Wellington Street West. Half the animals appear to be headed for a bronze feeding dish while the other half seem to be walking away. 

Pecaut Square also has a lawn and trees along its outer edges. The public space allows for unique views of Metro Hall, Roy Thomson Hall and the Royal Alexandra Theatre. It is frequently used for free concerts, film screenings, and other events; for the state funeral of Jack Layton on August 27, 2011, the square was used to accommodate a screening for overflow crowds not able to be seated inside Roy Thomson Hall. 

Source: Wikipedia

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Recap of Sweetery Toronto 2017

Recap of Sweetery Toronto 2017. @sweeterytoronto #foodblogging #foodfestivals #torontosweets

Sweetery Toronto 2017is the third year that this “all things sweet” food festival was hosted in Toronto.  I still remember the first inaugural year that I went when I had a really enjoyable time being led by Vivien to taste nearly all of the vendors at the food festival.  Last year’s event was self-guided and not as fun since it didn’t seem like many of the vendors were receptive to the media…

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Holden, Naomi, and Amos search Ganymede with Prax for signs of his daughter Mei while Alex tries to find a way through the Martian no-fly zone and Bobbie searches for clues on what killed her team.