Toronto>Cyprus

Riding the subway in tee-dot up to finch 2 collect some belongings (my travel stuff distributed about the city, disorderly) before doing lastminute oddenders here as I leave the nation on tuesday. Somehow, all is pulling 2gether for the symposium, may 3-6, Performing Identity / Crossing Borders. Now have all the presentations in (well, mostly) so delegates can read ahead and the symp time will be more discussion than delivery.

Thinking about cultural politics, nationalism, identity & identification - on the subway, a ream of red as fans head to a Raptors game, icons of support temp-tatt'd to arms and cheeks - and what it leads to. On Beverly st yesterday, saw a group of youth sharing a schoolyard court. They were all using the same orangey lowbounce ball. But the group close to me, south asians whom I guessed hailed from south india, practiced their cricket bowling - the other group, all east asian, played street hockey, adorned with standard icehockey gear. Every once in a while, an errant ball went from cricket 2 hockey or versa, and a stick or hand wd return the sphere to rightful team & sport. I stood transfixed by this for some time, not sure why, the game, the history, the nation (however that comes to mean!). And now, shortly, to cyprus. Info, as always, @ www.cicac.ca.

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