NEW PYRAMID FOR 2011
This year we unveil the largest, most costly and time consuming project in Harvest Festival history. We are really excited to share our new Pyramid with you and look forward to creating other massive projects in years to come replacing all other music stages presently hosted in white wedding type tent with our very own unique, warm and dry creations.
Our new Pyramid is a one of a kind structure designed by John Rose whom we owe a great deal of gratitude. The costs of the Pyramid were paid for by you, the members of Harvest Festival.
Throughout the winter of 2011 we gathered in the basement of a cold warehouse in the west end of Toronto to cut, press, drill and bend over 1.5km of steel pipe into the building links of a 2500 square foot, 55’ X 55’ foot pyramid and sew its massive 10,500 square foot cover.
As spring came a bulldozer and backhoe worked to level the building site for our great creation and a huge crane arrived on site to join us and build this thing of dreams.
The week of the build was a great one, mostly warm and sunny; things went up without a hitch.
Check out our time lapse video to gain a better understanding of what was created for all Harvest Festival members to share.
View 'The Pyramid - Construction Time Lapse' on Vimeo
BIG THANKS AND ACCREDITATION TO THE FOLLOWING FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS VERY SPECIAL AND UNIQUE PROJECT:
- John Rose (designer, www.roseccs.com)
- Agustin Martinez (volunteer)
- Peter Carmani (location)
- Adam Poot (volunteer)
- Justin Martin (project lead / Harvest Festival)
- Maurisha Rouse (volunteer)
- Ted Redelmeier (shop owner)
- Andisian Rho (volunteer)
- John Hoar (crane owner / operator)
- Conor Brown (volunteer)
- Laurence Judd (bulldozer owner / operator)
- Dan Muirhead (volunteer)
- Dave Mcloud (Harvest Festival)
- Stan Vickers (volunteer)
- Irving Shaw (Harvest Festival)
- Tom Mosher (volunteer)
- Angela Stewart (volunteer start to finish)
- Elliot Coombe (volunteer)
- Natasha Vickers (volunteer start to finish)
- Hanna Kunysz (volunteer)
- Sean Dixon (volunteer start to finish)
- Jillian Sabean (volunteer)
- Graham Galaski (volunteer start to finish)
- Kate Hartman (volunteer)
- Fabio Palermo (pipe supplier)
- Richard Swieca (volunteer)
- Dallas Boyles (photos)
- Wilhelmina Arsenault (volunteer)
- Scott Barber (photos)
- Zsuzsan Cambell (volunteer)
- Guy Latulippe (sewing)
- Violet Edwards (volunteer)