So much love lettering love! Last weekend’s kick off at P.S. Kensington was one of the best Sunday’s I’ve known.

And this Monday, I’ll be at The Avro making more love letters (G&T in hand!) There are heaps more events this summer – at Trinity Bellwoods Park with Art Spin, at the Dufferin Grove Park at The Day of Delight, back in Kensington and loads more…

(And imagine my surprise and delight when I stumbled on this wee dittie in The Globe and Mail this weekend!)

ps: more things people love about Toronto here!

A few things people love about Toronto: libraries, multiculturalism, the gardens in High Park, Riverdale Farm, Ashbridges Bay, cherry trees, BMO field, brick-red leaves, Harbourfront, the CN Tower, swimming in the pools, the parks and trails, bike lanes, the Music Garden, the AGO, the community centres, Trinity Bellwoods, Toronto Island, walking in the ravines, the Blue Jays…

I spent Saturday and Sunday making love letters with families at the brand new Weston Family Learning Centre at the Art Gallery of Ontario and at the Annette St. Public Library through Culture Days. It was enormously affirming – hearing folks from 2 to 92 chatting about what they love so dearly about this city we call home.

Fact: This city is one fabulous, fabulous place to live…

In collaboration with Culture Days and the Neighbourhood Arts Network, Toronto Public Library is hosting over 80 Toronto-based artists and arts organizations in a celebration of arts and culture at library branches and I’m presenting Lindsay The Love Lettering Project at Annette Library. C’mon by and write love letters to this fine town of ours!

Location: Annette Library, 145 Annette Street (in The Junction).

The Love Lettering Project is a guerilla art project that reinvents the ritual of receiving love letters, transforming the physical space of our city, while highlighting the transformative capacity of even the smallest gesture of love.

We’ll write an anonymous love letters to your favourite thing about Toronto, turn them into a one-of-a-kind art piece, slip them into envelopes marked ‘love’ and share the love by hiding them for someone to stumble upon.

More info here!

Is there a more perfect place for a love letter?

Last week, I had the privilege of working with 8-10-year-old artists at the Art Gallery of Ontario, writing love letters to our favourite things in the whole wide world (and our favourite things about the AGO). We turned them into one-of-a-kind art piece, slipped them into envelopes marked “love” then off we went to hide them in the world.

It was a ridiculous amount of fun!!

A love poem to sculpture!

And now I’m dreaming up more community-based love lettering project! If you’re interested, send me a note! lindszv [at ] yahoo [dot] ca