The Sounds of Murmur.

      On March 6th, I took a trip down town Toronto to listen on the "[hear you are] murmur" project. I took the Yonge-University-Spadina Line down to St. Andrew's station. I walked down on Spadina until I stood outside the Bright Pearl dim sum restaurant (apparently the best dim sim in the GTA). I noticed on of the murmur ears posted on the streetlight post right outside the restaurant. When I dialled the number and gave the extension the voice I received was that of Dave Fingurt who started off by detailing the architecture of the building.

     He then further explained that the restaurant used to be the original Labour Lyceum, which has since moved to a street near by. As well he explained some political actions that occurred at the street corner in the 30's concerning a political feminist, activist.

    This woman, Emma Goldman who gave a speech called "Youth In Revolt" concerning the position of the youth of Toronto in politics. She was actually American born but got "kicked out" of the U.S. for her activist work and lived the remainder of her life out in Toronto. He described that a few of the posters from the original event are still lying around in odd places. The event, he said, was put on by a group called Arbiter Ring which is still in existence as well and is associated with the lyceum and other political events such as those.

     The information all in all was very fun and informative, although with all of the comings and goings of the surrounding Chinatown, it made it a little hard to hear what he was saying. As well the wind wasn't too friendly on that day either which added itself as a distraction. My plan was to, after listening to murmur, eat at the Bright Pearl (cause its apparently the best dim sum in the GTA). As I'm walking up the side entrance a sign reads, "CLOSED FOR RENOVATION!" Just my luck, all the same though, I had lunch at a neighbouring restaurant called "Taste of China" it was very good.

     All in all it was an enjoyable experience and I would love to stumble upon more murmurings of people who know the history, or just have interesting stories bout the great city of Toronto.