Newmarket has been yarn bombed, in support of creating awareness for DeafBlind Ontario Services.
The colourful yarn bombing installation adorned the pedestrian bridge at the Fairy Lake Park today, as councillors Bob Kwapis, Victor Woodhouse and Grace Simon joined DeafBlind Ontario Services today, June 2, for the unveiling.
Made of vibrant knit and crochet squares, the street art known as yarn bombing will adorn public spaces across the country — including large trees, fronts of buildings, fences, columns and lamp posts — during June, which is National Deafblind Awareness Month.
The squares have been created by people supported by DeafBlind Ontario Services, intervenors, friends and family, local knitting clubs, along with community members from across the province.
Deafblindness is a combination of hearing and vision loss. More than one per cent of Canada’s population or approximately 466,420 people are deafblind; 211,250 live in Ontario.
This year marks Deafblind International’s (DbI) second global yarn bombing initiative, with more than 70 installations from participants around the world, including DeafBlind Ontario Services and other organizations and individuals in the field that come together each year to celebrate National Deafblind Awareness Month in Canada.
June, the birth month of Helen Keller, was proclaimed by the Senate of Canada in 2015 as National Deafblind Awareness Month.
