November 11, 2005
Pillow Fight Club
For a square so gray, Dundas Square certainly gets a lot of play. In the past year it's been home to a giant Corn Maize, Zombies dancing to Thriller, a series of one-minute video installations, and, most strangely, a soy milk promotion involving vacationing cows. Beyond that, it has hosted graffiti festivals, Mothers Against Violence rallies, dubious weekly craft fairs, and gaggles of policemen and women fraternizing and bored on the eve of some summer gunfights. It's even home to one of the City's more amusing panhandlers - she who justs wants money to buy a pair of 'comfy socks.' It 'tries to be many things to many people,' even though 'you're not allowed to stand on any of the tree planters, and you actually need a city-issued permit before you can ride your bike across it." Indeed, a million trillion things have taken place in our faulty square. But, has it ever hosted a pillowfight? This Sunday's just might be a first.
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It will be interesting to see what the interaction is like between this pillowfight event and the "Uniting Toronto Against Guns" rally being held at the same time/date/place, which "hundreds are anticipated" to also attend (according to today's DOSE).
An odd coincidence of scheduling?? (the zombies crashing the UMOVE rally was in fact unintentional. I wonder if Chief Blair will be there again...)
(see utag.ca for a description of the anti gun rally)
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please see this mirror
http://individual.utoronto.ca/pyrotix/pillowfight/pillowfight.php
As it turns out, there was some connection between the anti-gun violence rally and the pillow fight. At the conclusion of one speaker's words, the organizers directed the attention of everyone (the people at the rally, the media) to the middle of the square, and called for an end to gun fights and more pillow fights. Then we let loose.
Man, was it ever fun -- and exhausting. After ten minutes or so of walloping strangers with my pillow, I was beat (so to speak). There was as much laughing as attacking, and when the first feather pillow exploded we all cheered.
A great midday activity, even for those of us with slight hangovers...
If you follow the link posted above you'll see some pictures from the event... it was truely awesome. :)
These are some shots from the event. Loads of good fun, can't wait for the next one!
My bad, forgot to post the link! :P http://individual.utoronto.ca/pyrotix/pillowfight/pillowfight.php
gah... http://www.flickr.com/photos/muir/sets/1359533/
or just click on my name. :P
http://www.stockimagelab.com/Toronto_Pillow_Fight/Pillow_Fight.html
Over 200 images from that day.