TOPHATs Portraits of Women, Star Trek 60 and Mother's Dumplings

Join Lawrence, your top hatted host, for a city walk down Spadina.

At 10 am, we will meet-up in Spadina Station, by the three Indigenous totems. They are the K’SAN VILLAGE HOUSE POSTS.

The owl was carved by Fedelia O’Brien, the wolf by Murphy Green, and the hawk by Chuck Heit.

https://firststoryblog.wordpress.com/tag/totem/

Then we leave the station walking towards Alliance Francis to see Portraits of Women – Beyond the Stones

Eight portraits from Afghanistan to Yemen, Ukraine to Iraq, and a celebration of courage.

https://www.alliance-francaise.ca/en/art/field-trips/exhibitions/315-portraits-of-women-beyond-the-stones

At 10:30 am, we will stroll down Spadina passing by

Native Canadian Centre of Toronto, which we toured earlier this year. If you want some unique Canadian art or crafts, then their store is open weekdays.

https://www.ncct.on.ca/gift-shop

We will stop at the Paul Martel park, to view an Indigenous mural of Interconnections by Anishinaabe artist Joseph Sagaj.

https://www.bloorannex.ca/paul-martel-park-mural

Crossing busy Bloor Street, we continue south to the Jimi Hendrix Sculpture Garden. Did you know that Jimi Hendrix was arrested for drug possession in Toronto?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Jimi_Hendrix

11 am, we arrive at our next stop is the Ukrainian Museum and Volodymyr the Great Monument.

https://www.umcontario.com/

Then, we will make our way down Spadina to College Street, to the Lilian H. Smith library to see their exhibit, Star Trek at 60.

https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/events/6a4d01876bd493f6008f06ce

If we have time before lunch, we may also see the Franklin at 40 exhibit in the same library.

https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/events/6a89c44b29a7dd0d6745c19b

Our final stop is Mother's Dumplings, a Micheline rated resteraunt, where we will enjoy some Asian cuisine.

https://mothersdumplings.com/