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An absolutely magical scene on Toronto’s waterfront: more than 80 canoes with vibrant sails glided across the lake, transforming the harbour into a living artwork. The Bentway presented a Lake Story by artist Melissa McGill as part of the Water/Fall Festival (Sept 27–28, 2025).
The flotilla began at Biidaasige Park and travelled east along the waterfront, sails shimmering in the light and wind like moving paintings. Crowds gathered on bridges and shorelines to witness this unforgettable celebration of art, water, and community.
The Bentway is a place for recreation (skating, roller blading) and art display created under an elevated highway and close to a developing residential area. The elevated highway is quite high up which gives this resulting arcade volume a majestic feel. It was started in 2015 and it keeps being developed at the present.
A Lake Story — an ephemeral public art performance by Melissa McGill, presented by The Bentway — unfolded across Lake Ontario as a fleet of canoes, each carrying a vibrant hand-painted sail, drifted with wind and light. From the shore at Biidaasige Park (Ookwemin Minisingin), the sails shimmered like brushstrokes on water — a living painting made of movement, reflection, and colour.
See the full story on my blog:
www.ashleylduffus.com/blog/a-lake-story-by-melissa-mcgill
© Ashley L. Duffus 2025
The Bentway - part of the Fort York renovation building and hard landscaping work - metal facade - staircase to the park north of the Gardiner highway
About The Bentway
The Bentway is a unique and innovative public space that transforms 1.75km underneath Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway into a new gathering place for our city’s growing population.
The initial phase – from Strachan Avenue to Bathurst Street – knits together seven local neighbourhoods with over 70,000 residents, becoming a gateway to the waterfront, while providing access to important attractions and destinations – from Fort York National Historic Site, Ontario Place and Exhibition Place to Harbourfront Centre and the CN Tower. The Bentway offers year-round activities and events, including gardens, a skate trail, recreational amenities, public markets, public art, special exhibitions, festivals, theatre and musical performances, and more.
masks used at the outdoors skating rink might be an exaggeration but these girls can communicate with or without them
.... Public glows under the moonlight of 'Museum of the Moon', an art installation by Luke Jerram. The 7 metre / 22 foot illuminated moon provides a close-up view of the moon's rocky craters, dead volcanic cones and lava flows ....
Museum of the Moon
On view from 6pm to 11pm
From September 10-15, The Bentway brings the Moon under the Gardiner with a presentation of Museum of the Moon – a seven-metre wide touring sculptural work by UK artist Luke Jerram, which fuses lunar imagery to bring the moon’s surface to life on earth. The installation allows visitors to experience the moon up-close and personal, reminding us of the moon’s influence on our daily lives despite urban barriers like light pollution and high-rise density. Visitors will be able to further reflect on the moon through moon gazing and moonlight meditation, turning The Bentway into an open air planetarium. Source: www.thebentway.ca/event/museum-of-the-moon/
Rare full moon will light up Friday the 13th for the first time in years
The spooky date gets a spooky night sky to go with it, and there won't be another nationwide until 2049.
Friday the 13th is here, and it's extra spooky. The date associated with bad luck, haunted houses and that 1980s summer-camp slasher film series will get a full moon for the first time in years.
According to the Farmers' Almanac, those living in the Pacific, Central and Mountain time zones will get to gaze on the full moon before midnight on Friday, Sept. 13, but those living in the Eastern time zone will have to fudge a little. Their full moon will happen just after midnight, at 12:33 a.m., pushing it to the much-less-spooky date of Saturday, Sept. 14.
If you miss seeing it Friday night into Saturday, you'll get another chance. NASA says the moon will appear full again Saturday night into Sunday morning.
Source: www.cnet.com/news/full-moon-will-light-up-friday-13th-for...
The Bentway - part of the Fort York renovation building and hard landscaping work - metal facade - staircase to the park north of the Gardiner highway
A mere couple of hours after this, just down the road a bit, Kawhi's shot hit the rim... suddenly, with a lightening snap, everything went hush... bounced up and hit the rim again... and by hush I mean, 20,917 folk crammed into the Scotiabank Arena, every drenched soul watching on the big screens in Jurassic Park, multitudes and multitudes and more multitudes glued to their tv screens, computer screens... bounced up and hit the rim once again... by now, four years have passed, not a single soul has dared breath, utter anything, shift slightly in their posture, facial expression or emitted aura, held agog and hearing the whooshing silence of eighteen seasons of regret go scurrying on by, motioning with a muted gesture that it was time to just venture on to the lav for a pee... and for a fourth time, incredibly, the ball bounces up one more time and then...
I was in my son Joe's apartment, a city block away from the location of this photo, watching with he and my other son Caelan (who in turn was texting with my third son up in Collingwood, Nicholas, when...
...the ball falls into the net with no time left on the clock.
...all hell broke loose! Jumping, flying around, yelling, screaming and simply going bananas! What an amazing ending to a game!
.... Public under moonlight of 'Museum of the Moon', an art installation by Luke Jerram. The 7 metre / 22 foot illuminated moon allows visitors to experience the moon up-close and personal, with views of the moon's rocky craters, dead volcanic cones and lava flows ....
.... Public glows under the moonlight of 'Museum of the Moon', an art installation by Luke Jerram. The 7 metre / 22 foot illuminated moon allows visitors to experience the moon up-close and personal, with views of the moon's rocky craters, dead volcanic cones and lava flows ....
A few years back the city decided to revitalize the area underneath the expressway. It was previously an unkept space full of weeds and garbage. No man's land really.
Today it is a beautiful public space with a boardwalk, a museum, food venues, and there is even a skating rink during the winter. Public events are often hosted here. It became a space for people of all walks of life gather.
What a great success story converting a once forgotten land into a vibrant community space full of life.
.... Public relaxes under the moon of 'Museum of the Moon', an art installation by Luke Jerram. The 7 metre / 22 foot illuminated moon provides a close-up view of the moon's rocky craters, dead volcanic cones and lava flows ....
Halcyon - Francesca Chudnoff
Nuit Blanche Toronto - The Bentway
Drenched in blue light, dancers will interact with a sound and video installation to explore the relationship between desire and distance.
“Halcyon” is a video and dance performance designed to question the range of ways in which we constantly tune and adjust our self-presentation, both onscreen and in real life.
How do we translate what we feel in our bodies into something material?
Can we turn it into a colour, a pattern, a sound? Immersed in a deep blue field of colour, live dancers will trigger a cascade of melodic sounds with the movement of their bodies.
Nearby, a backdrop of glitching, looping video will evoke an unending process of creation, mutation and disintegration.
The result will be an intimate, embodied performance set against a fragmented data-moshing screen.
A 12-hour performance that evokes questions of labour, fatigue and the limitations of the body, “Halcyon” promises to be a meditation on the accumulation of memory, the disintegration of movement, and the relationship between desire and distance.
Performers: Danah Rosales and Margarita Peggy Soria
#nuitblancheTO #bringingtheartstolife #lartaucoeurdenosvies #nbTO19 #thebentway
Halcyon - Francesca Chudnoff
Nuit Blanche Toronto - The Bentway Conservancy
Drenched in blue light, dancers will interact with a sound and video installation to explore the relationship between desire and distance.
“Halcyon” is a video and dance performance designed to question the range of ways in which we constantly tune and adjust our self-presentation, both onscreen and in real life.
How do we translate what we feel in our bodies into something material?
Can we turn it into a colour, a pattern, a sound? Immersed in a deep blue field of colour, live dancers will trigger a cascade of melodic sounds with the movement of their bodies.
Nearby, a backdrop of glitching, looping video will evoke an unending process of creation, mutation and disintegration.
The result will be an intimate, embodied performance set against a fragmented data-moshing screen.
A 12-hour performance that evokes questions of labour, fatigue and the limitations of the body, “Halcyon” promises to be a meditation on the accumulation of memory, the disintegration of movement, and the relationship between desire and distance.
#nuitblancheTO #bringingtheartstolife #lartaucoeurdenosvies #nbTO19 #thebentway
Halcyon - Francesca Chudnoff
Nuit Blanche Toronto - The Bentway
Drenched in blue light, dancers will interact with a sound and video installation to explore the relationship between desire and distance.
“Halcyon” is a video and dance performance designed to question the range of ways in which we constantly tune and adjust our self-presentation, both onscreen and in real life.
How do we translate what we feel in our bodies into something material?
Can we turn it into a colour, a pattern, a sound? Immersed in a deep blue field of colour, live dancers will trigger a cascade of melodic sounds with the movement of their bodies.
Nearby, a backdrop of glitching, looping video will evoke an unending process of creation, mutation and disintegration.
The result will be an intimate, embodied performance set against a fragmented data-moshing screen.
A 12-hour performance that evokes questions of labour, fatigue and the limitations of the body, “Halcyon” promises to be a meditation on the accumulation of memory, the disintegration of movement, and the relationship between desire and distance.
Performers: Justin de Luna
#nuitblancheTO #bringingtheartstolife #lartaucoeurdenosvies #nbTO19 #thebentway
Halcyon - Francesca Chudnoff
Nuit Blanche Toronto - The Bentway
Drenched in blue light, dancers will interact with a sound and video installation to explore the relationship between desire and distance.
“Halcyon” is a video and dance performance designed to question the range of ways in which we constantly tune and adjust our self-presentation, both onscreen and in real life.
How do we translate what we feel in our bodies into something material?
Can we turn it into a colour, a pattern, a sound? Immersed in a deep blue field of colour, live dancers will trigger a cascade of melodic sounds with the movement of their bodies.
Nearby, a backdrop of glitching, looping video will evoke an unending process of creation, mutation and disintegration.
The result will be an intimate, embodied performance set against a fragmented data-moshing screen.
A 12-hour performance that evokes questions of labour, fatigue and the limitations of the body, “Halcyon” promises to be a meditation on the accumulation of memory, the disintegration of movement, and the relationship between desire and distance.
Performers: Danah Rosales and Margarita Peggy Soria
#nuitblancheTO #bringingtheartstolife #lartaucoeurdenosvies #nbTO19 #thebentway