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Puit Blanche

By David Topping

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Hey, remember Nuit Blanche? You know: that all-night cultural art thing a little over a month ago that maybe wasn’t all that great. That thing.
While the city did a pretty spectacular clean-up job, they’ve missed a spot: a sign sturdily attached about ten feet up a pole outside the Isabel Bader Theatre at Queen’s Park and Charles Street on U of T campus still welcomes visitors to Zone 3, and invites them to text DEEP to SCOTIA if the exhibit that they can no longer see inside the theatre is their favourite. (We tried texting the number for kicks, but it encouraged us to enter the Scotiabank CFL contest instead.) Maybe the city’s just burned itself out on clean-up and has decided to keep all of the remaining remnants of Nuit Blanche up for next year, like those people who––defeated, lazy, or defiant––decide to leave their Christmas lights up year-round. Or maybe they just wanted to confuse tourists.
Photo by David Topping.

Comments

  • Robin Hatch

    david, i don’t think this should be filed under discovery because it is more of a “this scotia bank poster appears directly outside your place of work and home” so it should be in the “look what i woke up today and saw” section
    also i obv pointed that poster out like a week ago

  • Kevin Bracken

    Haha, I see that thing every Thursday and it gives me a pleasant, nostalgic feeling.
    Because I wish it was Nuit Blanche every weekend, I guess.

  • darcyhero

    What happened to the other criticism about how this post is basically David expressing ‘this is what I see everyday when I wake up and go to school and I’m annoyed at the fact that it’s still here’? I swear it was here earlier this morning.

  • Jonathan Goldsbie

    Darcy: I’m guessing it was because it was by a friend of David’s and referenced personal details about him. (It didn’t mention that he goes to school at U of T but rather other information that is relatively private.)

  • David Topping

    Jonathan’s right on both counts, but I’ve republished the comment––I only removed it because I was not too enthusiastic about the internet knowing where I live.

  • Renrik

    This is not the only sign still up. There’s one on Tecumseth just south of Queen. Way to go T.O.

  • rek

    Live With Neglect

  • janyx

    Where are all the good Torontonians? What happened to community participation and having pride of where you live? A sign like this can be taken down by anyone. Does it really require a guy to get into a truck, drive through downtown traffic and take two seconds to take this sign down for you?

  • David Topping

    It’s not easy to take down, at all. I tried to do it myself a few weeks ago (I wanted a souvenir!), and couldn’t: to cut through the thick plastic strips holding it in place you’d need heavy-duty scissors, and to even reach the top part you’d need a ladder. This thing’s about ten feet off the ground, bound in place.

  • AdamSchwabe

    Surely one of Torontoist’s readers has both a ladder and pair of heavy-duty scissors. Leverage the audience, take care of it! :)

  • Bardo

    After attending Nuit Blanche, I can’t seem to remember anything at all about the art…strangely enough though, I have a vague yet insistent compulsion to consider the purchase of a wide variety of financial products and services…weird, eh?