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TORONTO COVID-19 ⚕️💉 The City Of Toronto Announces The Burn, Interactive Installation Reflecting On COVID-19 Pandemic

Saturday, 21 January 2023 08:33.PM

The City of Toronto announced The Burn, an interactive installation that provides a place for transformation, healing and letting go. The project is part of Stronger TOgether, which provides meaningful ways for Toronto residents to reflect on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. From January 19 to March 12, in an effort to collectively find healing and reflect, residents can set healing intentions on wooden cedar spheres into The Burn's travelling vessels as they tour the city.

Inspired by the universally sacred elements of fire and water, the vessels will make more than 20 stops at various locations throughout the city.

On March 11, the third anniversary of the declaration of the pandemic, the cedar spheres from the touring vessels will be brought to Nathan Phillips Square to be burned in a display of fire, water, and immersive waves of sound, over a 24-hour period. A commemorative event in memory of lives lost during the COVID-19 pandemic will take place after The Burn.

Ashes from The Burn will be harvested, mixed into soil and spread across city gardens to honour the spirit of collective healing.

The Burn was created by multi-talented, award-winning artist Roger Mooking, in collaboration with interdisciplinary artist and designer Javid JAH and multi-disciplinary artist and Wyandot Elder Catherine Tammaro.

Further information on The Burn, including schedule and vessel locations throughout the city, is available on the City's The Burn webpage: www.toronto.ca/TheBurn.

Stronger TOgether is a free and accessible program that will provide opportunities for people across the city to reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on recognizing disproportionately affected communities and those who continue to live with the effects of the pandemic. Stronger TOgether is funded in part by the Government of Canada.

Additional Stronger TOgether details will be announced in February 2023 and updated on the City's Stronger TOgether webpage:www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/festivals-events/stronger-together/.

Team Toronto has administered more than 7.7 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine since the start of the vaccination campaign. Updated COVID-19 vaccine data is available on the Toronto Public Health Vaccine Dashboard: www.toronto.ca/home/covid-19/covid-19-pandemic-data/covid-19-vaccine-data/.

"I'm so pleased that the City, in partnership with the Government of Canada, has created Stronger TOgether for residents to reflect on their individual and collective experiences in the pandemic. The Burn will demonstrate the hope and resilience of our residents. I invite Torontonians to reflect on their experiences and the experiences of their communities, and how far we've come."
– Mayor John Tory

SOURCE: City of Toronto

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