Continuing my time in Toronto, I had taken several photos from the iPhone 7 Plus and the Polaroid SX-70. I tend to forget what I had taken on the smartphone and post it.
I decided to explore some unique and popular eateries in downtown Toronto. I tried to look for the cheap eats in the city. I was able to go KOS Restaurant in Kensington Market, WVRST on King St. West and on the final day, Hokkaido Ramen Santouka on Dundas Street. You will see a few photos below.
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Throughout the Summer, CBC Ottawa has been hosting Instameet events to showcase Canada’s 150th birthday and to show Ottawa as a fun and beautiful city.
The three remaining events were in August, they were The TD South Asian Fest (Instameet on August 20th), the preview tour of the Canada Science & Technology Museum (Instameet on August 22nd) and House of Paint (Instameet on August 26th).
It was a great event to attend and also nice to meet up with various Instagrammers and photographers in Ottawa. The Canada Science & Technology Museum will open on November 17th. Continue reading
Continuing the Canada 150th celebrations, the third CBC Ottawa Instameet event, #CBCMeet613 happened at Algonquin College on Tuesday.
Instagrammers, professional photographers and amateur photographers were giving a tour of Algonquin College’s Horticulture Centre, a glimpse of the kitchen in the culinary department and to go outside on the ACCE building.
It was quite unique to see hidden gems and marvelous architecture at Algonquin College. At the culinary kitchen, I got to taste the trout and quinoa. It’s amazing that Algonquin College has delivered excellence in their programs. Continue reading
On Thursday, there were a couple of events that I was able to check out. The first was Kontinuum, it is an underground experience located at the Lyon LRT station.
This multimedia production is immersed in light and sound. It is produced by Moment Factory and the original concept by Ottawa 2017.
The experience is very unique as I got a glimpse of the future LRT station and it’s nice to get a portrait of myself. You can check the photos from below.
The event is free until September 14th. Even though it’s free, you need to order the free tickets.
Get Up Art Show
The second event was an art show, it was called Asma Inam Presents: GET UP.
I was told from a friend about it and was convinced to go check it out. It was held at the Makita Kitchen Bar in the Glebe. There was some Hip-Hop tunes spun by DJ Hyf.
I had the opportunity to try out the steamed buns. They were the pork belly with hoisin bbq sauce and the other being with falafel with pickled turnip.
It was her first art show exhibition and dedicated to everyone. It was a nice surprise to see a few people I know at the event.
Luckily, there was a “panda” that dropped by for a bit.
As well, I got to shoot some Impossible/Polaroid photos. It will also be posted on my Instagram.
You can check the photos below and see the artwork.
La Machine
Another event as part of Ottawa 2017 is La Machine, it is a traveling urban theatre happening in downtown Ottawa from July 27-30.
Unfortunately, I didn’t fully see Kumo, the giant spider get out of the church, I got until Sunday to see the dragon and spider duke it out. I took photos of the giant spider before the move. Long-ma, the horse-dragon was at Ottawa City Hall and wasn’t able to go there.
One last word, just letting you know that I’m continuing season 12 on the blog. It will extending a bit later.
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I didn’t realize I had a bunch of photo I took on the iPhone 7 Plus. There’s several photos leftover from Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival. It ranged from the concerts to the boat ride watching the race.
On Sunday, I went to the Canadian Museum of History for the live broadcast of CBC Radio’s Cross Country Checkup. The live call in radio program was about Canada’s 150 and what it should inspire us in the future. It was held in the soon to be open Canadian History Hall.
I had the chance to glance through the new permanent exhibit. It looks fantastic as it covers more than a 150 years of Canada’s history ranging from the French and British’s settling, to the Indigenous culture and modern day Canada. I had one hour before the live broadcast to check out the history of Canada. I hope to try going through the exhibit at a slower pace in the future.
You can check the photo gallery below.
Just to coincide with their blog makeover as my Twitter slightly lit up with notifications from it.
Back in February, I had the opportunity to work at CBC/Radio-Canada (the corporate side) and help with migrating their blog to a new one. To keep it short, you can read my experience over on their blog by clicking HERE.
All I can say that it was an opportunity to meet the great people at Enterprise Communications and surprising the ones from CBC Ottawa.
In the meantime, you can check out more photos that I didn’t provide to the CBC/Radio-Canada blog. It’s a mix of the Polaroids and iPhone photos posted here.
It’s become a tradition to start the new season in Toronto for the Polaris Music Prize Gala at The Carlu. Congratulations goes out to Kaytranada for winning the 2016 edition of the music prize for the album, 99.9%. It beat out the likes of 9 artists and bands from Black Mountain, Basia Bulat, Grimes, Carly Rae Jepsen, Jessy Lanza, Pup, Andy Shauf, U.S. Girls and White Lung.
At the gala, there were live performances from Black Mountain, Jessy Lanza, Basia Bulat, Andy Shauf, White Lung, Carly Rae Jepsen and U.S. Girls. All of the performances were. The Toronto Symphony Orchestra assisted in Bulat’s and Jepsen’s performances. The gala were hosted by Amanda Parris of The Exhibitionist on CBC and Tom Power, new host of CBC Radio q.
To my own delight, there were food served at the Gala. There were perogies, sliders and five spices pork.
Got to hand to Steve Jordan and the Polaris Music Prize staff for the great work as usual.
Don’t forget to check out the photos here.
Enjoy!
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Friday night at the Tim Hortons Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival was crazy hot. I had to do a lot of running around because I decided to take some photos of The Beaches playing and then rush to my lion dance troupe for the opening ceremony. I definitely was in a sweaty mess.
I’ve been hearing good things about the Toronto female indie rock band, The Beaches. Their music is like glam rock meets new wave and just having a good time. It was a short time checking them out but they’re just wonderful. The band opened up Mia Rae and Mother Mother.
Onto the lion dance performance, it was different than the previous years because we were part of the parade of champions led by the RCAF Pipes and Drums. At least it was time efficient for us to start lion dancing right away than to wait for the speeches.
It was crazy and fun Friday night to be at Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival. The concert lineup is the best there is with Canadian content and it’s totally free.
The photos are below and there’s a lot to look at.
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Tuesday night at Stoneface Dolly’s, there was an event called YOW mini. It was hosted by YOW City Style and Maria Saracino. This exhibit combined the fashionable people of Ottawa and mixed it with sculptures in a miniaturized form.
It’s the who’s who of Ottawa from bloggers, fashionistas, musicians and the local business people.
The sculptures were based on photos shot by the creator of YOW City Style. It’s also to celebrate the blog’s one year anniversary.
At the event, there were bite sized apps by Stoneface Dolly’s, some treats by Little Jo Berry and cocktail drinks by Renew Cold Press.
It was a privilege to meet with Katie of Yow City Style as she’s pretty active on social media with the postings.
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Returned from Toronto after a four day excursion. I had the chance to check out live music on Saturday and the Field Trip Music and Arts Festival on Sunday. The festival was held at Fort York and Garrison Common.
I didn’t take much photos as I didn’t bring the Sony a7 camera. I only used the iPhone and the Polaroid SX-70 camera. I’m currently using expired instant film from The Impossible Project. My initial worry from the expired film would be the image looking very washed out. It’s been good so far with the outcome. It was great to see a friend and former co-host, Lauren in Toronto as she’s doing her Masters at Ryerson.
In one of the photos, I was able to get one with Lennon and Maisy, the sisters who were on recently cancelled TV show, Nashville. They were suppose to perform at Field Trip but there was a severe storm which impacted the festival and had music fans evacuate the area. Fortunately, they didn’t disappoint fans with the meet and greet.
From Sunday’s Field Trip, I also got to see Basia Bulat perform and she did not disappoint. Hope she will be back in Ottawa for a concert.
I was staying in the Lakeshore area of Toronto and surprised how revitalized it has been with all the condos and lofts being situated.
You can check out the Impossible photos from below. There’s photos from Wes of Darcys to The Kents playing at The Horseshoe Tavern.
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