Arts group creates colourful tribute to promote healing after Toronto van attack
TORONTO — A local arts organization has set up an installation to help a Toronto community heal after a deadly van attack that devastated the city earlier this year.
North York Arts has hung a series of colourful quilted banners at the North York Centre near the stretch of Yonge Street where a rental van mounted a sidewalk and ran down pedestrians in its path, killing 10 people.
The organization says the Toronto Love Project was initiated by local artist Berene Campbell and features long quilted banners “stitched with messages of hope, peace and love.”
The organization says the installation, which will be on display until Sept. 8, is meant to give the community a boost and “counter the hate and sadness of the attack.”