6 pm

Lila Downs

Lila Downs had a concert a couple weeks

ago at the The Royal Conservatory here in

Toronto. She and her musicians gave an

amazing performance - the acoustics were

fantastic in the hall. My video clips do not

do her justice but they give an idea. I had

seen her before at Harbourfront Centre a

few years ago and her performance was

just as good.

I walked through Brookfield Place a couple weeks ago and found an installation of Migrating Landscapes.

On a personal note, I loved the smell of the fresh-cut wood. When I was a child, my father worked in a furniture factory which had sawdust everywhere.

   Today there were grey skies above Toronto.

Cuban Rumba

Sunday at noon, Callejon Hamel, Havana

this guy was a great dancer! 

Rejected

In the end, I chose another image for The Tropical Archive. You can see it on my website www.alexandramajerus.com. However, I really like this image. 

Nelson's Arms

Nelson's Arms, Barbados
Around 11 pm, Michael Jackson shows up.

The Fall of the Frangipani

Frangipani flowers have a beautiful smell

Hindi Zahra

One of the things I love about Toronto is being able to see musicians who come from around the world. This week I saw Hindi Zahra at the Drake Underground. She was so good. Although I imagine that she would great at a large venue, I found the intimacy of the Underground perfect. If you have the opportunity to see her, you should go. Buy her album!

Beautiful Tango

Fascination

Photo Shoot in High Park

This week, I was working on another image for The Tropical Archive. Autumn has arrived and the colours are changing.

The European Tribe

"To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul."
Simone Weil

This quote is in Caryl Phillips book titled The European Tribe. A friend lent this book to me and I started reading it just after the England Riots in August. In the book, he discusses the riots in England and what he feels are the causes - relative deprivation, the feeling that the terms on offer are unjust, coupled with feelings of valuelessness (127). He wrote this book in 1987.