Toronto's Tapas Style Bar Raval Is An Artpiece In Wood And A Wonderful Tribute To Spanish Art Nouveau Design...

Wood, wood, glorious wood appearing that it's been formed from a liquid source is the predominate and beautiful feature in this Tapas styled bar in Canada's downtown Toronto. Celebrated Canadian chef Grant van Gameren and Mixologists Mike Webster and Robin Goodfellow wished to introduce Toronto's residents to the Pintxo Bar, which in Basque Country is a cornerstone of social and gastronomic culture. 

And to create an interactive art piece that would become an enduring Toronto institution.

Raval, conceived by the Partisans Design Group could well do that as it invites its clientele to enjoy an intimate relationship with the beautiful environment that honours the spirit of it's Spanish Pintxo counterparts...

Toronto's Good Food Mobile Market Provides Healthy Food Sharing For Less...

A cherished childhood memory is one of the local fruit and vegie man, Mr Mazzola arriving at our Eastbourne street in his wonderful converted van with shelves and baskets brimming with fresh edible delights. Those were the days.
Now Canada's enlightened city of Toronto have set up a scheme where neighbourhoods that find it difficult  and too expensive to travel to get the fresh fruit and vegetables so vital for good health can do so with this new new Good Food Mobile Market coming to their areas.
A city that cares for its people.
An idea worth spreading...

Ok Men. Let's Try Walking A Mile In High Heel Shoes...

It's said that to know how someone feels,
one needs to walk in their shoes.
And there's nothing like wearing high heel shoes to bring out the best in a man.
A few weeks ago, over a thousand men in Toronto took part in Canada's fourth annual White Ribbon Campaign, Walk a Mile In Her Shoes Rally to end violence against women.
What should we wear I wonder,
to end violence against everybody...

Play Me I'm Yours...

Scattered around Canada's Toronto
are forty one specially painted pianos.
Each one yours to play.
Each one celebrating a nation taking part in the 2015 Pan American Games. And each old recycled piano has it's own story of where it comes from, painted by an artist from one of the countries, the colours, designs and themes reflecting the wonderful diversity of cultures.
The original idea belonged to artist Luke Jerram and thirty 'street pianos' were spread around London as part of the Play Me I'm Yours Festival.
Since then the wonderful idea has gone to San Paulo, New York, Malta, Geneva, Cincinnati, Sydney and more.
Luke's idea was simple, to get strangers to stop and talk with each other, to break down barriers to communicaion. Radical thinking Luke.
Now people are not only playing pianos, they're actually singing on the streets.
Whatever next..