{"id":1680,"date":"2018-08-21T03:17:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T03:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenpolishuk.com\/wordpress\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2018-08-21T13:13:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T13:13:16","slug":"which-street-festival-in-toronto-in-august-do-you-prefer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenpolishuk.com\/wordpress\/which-street-festival-in-toronto-in-august-do-you-prefer\/","title":{"rendered":"Which street festival in Toronto in August do you prefer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summer is almost over.
\nA couple of weeks and again Toronto for six months will be in the wintertime.
\nThis month is the most busy on street entertainment,events and festivals.
\nAs my friend says, do not go from Toronto in the summer to a distant country.<\/span>
\nEverything is close.<\/span>
\nJust choose the country, see when and where in Toronto the festival of this country and go there.
\nHe’s right.
\nEverything is at festivals.
\nThere is music, dancing and trade in traditional food and clothes.<\/span><\/p>\n

So I got on last weekend for two different, unique and very interesting street festivals.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

More precisely at three. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I was a representative of the Ukrainian Drama Theatre Zahrava on the\u00a0 Ukraine’s Independence Day last Saturday.<\/span>
\nThis is a regular event in which our theater participates. The theater of the gates is one of the oldest ukrainian theaters in Toronto. This year the theater will be 65 years old. And we are already a unique collective, who are proud and\u00a0 usually invited to participate in events related to Ukraine.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The next was the Chinese Street Festival on Spadina Street.
\n<\/span>This is Chinatown.
\n<\/span>I like to go there on ordinary days.
\n<\/span>There are a lot of Chinese shops with nice prices for all sorts of souvenirs. The cheapest T-shirts ($ 3 for $ 10) .Tourists for souvenirs or gifts-always come there.
\n<\/span>Still there are inexpensive restaurants with Chinese and Vietnamese food.
\n<\/span>Still there is a Chinese supermarkets, where everything is from China. There I buy tea, fruit-vegetables and sometimes traditional Chinese goods.
\n<\/span>Spadine in Toronto is known as the street on which the smoking of marijuana was legalized. It was still last autumn. Then the street turned into eateries, where people hurried and went out with shining eyes.
\n<\/span>Spadine in the inner streets famous by some inexpensive shops of clothes and shoes. There you can cheaply cut your hair or make a manicure.
\n<\/span>And the murals of Spadine are painted brightly .<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

All this image of the Chinese district of Toronto.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span>And now I’ll show you and tell you what I saw yesterday.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As I left at the Spadine subway, there were a lot of people hurrying to the festival.\u00a0 I had to drive a couple stops on the streetcar. And get to the environment of China. Everything says, sings, dances, invites and treats in Chinese.
\n<\/span>An unusually generous people and a festival.
\n<\/span>Unlike other countries, they closed half of the street for the festival. So they gave the opportunity to move the streetcar.
\n<\/span>I know that in other regions, overlapping traffic for two days of the festival causes a lot of problems for the residents of those streets.
\n<\/span>Then everything is correct, logical and decent. It always bribes.
\n<\/span>A lot of people, a mixture of both East Asia and Europe and Latin America-all at the festival.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n