A city is more than just angular skyscrapers and bustling traffic. It’s also a collection of stories. Moments shared by those that live there or visitors passing through. And the Toronto Kiss Map wants to document those stories.
I read about this map in the Toronto Star just yesterday, whilst waiting for a friend to take me to IKEA (love that place!), and excitedly noted it down to look at later. Started by writing coach Chris Kay anybody that has shared a smooch in Toronto can mark it down on the map with a little story to accompany it. The only rules? No names or initials are to be used, no more than 100 words per story and no jerks ruining the fun for others (hate those people!)
What was once an ordinary Google map is now covered with markers of shared embraces and what was once just a regular street could be a first kiss and the beginning of someone’s love story or a kiss goodbye and a heart torn in two…
In the moment
I enjoyed reading about the moments, sweet and sad, shared in this city I’m living in. Here are a few of the stories that were sealed with a kiss…
Chris’s amazing idea has recently been given a grant by the Toronto Awesome Foundation (see her winning speech here) and will soon have its own home and lots of new features. I look forward to seeing it and who knows maybe one day in this year of mine in Toronto I’ll be able to add my own marker and my own story to all the others shared :)
Debs
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