Wish Come True Festivalby FriendsWithYou

Magic, luck, and friendship are the qualities that FriendsWithYou, a visual arts collective based in Miami Beach, seek to spread throughout the world. Now, in an unprecedented spectacle created just for Luminato, they invite Toronto to come out and play.

FriendsWithYou turns Toronto into Rainbow City, a delightful explosion of colour and jubilant energy. Led by the Rainbow King, Luminato 2010's Festival mascot, a host of celestial characters transform Queen's Park with larger-than-life dimensions of giant totems, bounce houses, and inflatable friends. Meanwhile, emissaries from this magical world fan out across Toronto to spread their universal message.

Inspired by the simple happiness of everyday life, the Wish Come True Festival is free. So come

SECRET GARDEN  |  STAR BURST

Wintergarden lobby at 225 King St. W., June 17 - 29 (Secret Garden)
Bay Adelaide Centre, 333 Bay St., June 17 - 20 (Star Burst)

In advance of its Queen’s Park extravaganza, FriendsWithYou turns commercial spaces into magical realms of creativity.

Arriving as beacons of the joyful spell that will be cast over Toronto by the Wish Come True Festival, two installations by FriendsWithYou transform downtown thoroughfares, tempting passers-by to step out of their daily routines for a while and infuse their lives with art.

Secret Garden, in the Wintergarden lobby of 225 King St. W., invites you into a surreal world of drooping shapes and shifting forms. To the north, in the lobby of the recently completed Bay Adelaide Centre, Starburst provides a visual clue to what you can expect later, when the Wish Come True Festival blossoms into life in Queen’s Park.

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