I just went to Trinity-Bellwoods Park on Queen West, where there was a gathering of redheads. It was an event organised by a couple of filmmakers—Gareth C. Scales and Aaron Champion—for an upcoming documentary about life as a ginger, so I thought I’d go check it out.
Unfortunately, the weather took a turn for the worse this weekend, after weeks of hot and sunny weather; just as I got there on my bike, the skies opened and the rain started to pour down!
There must have been around 50 or so people there at the time, many of whom stood out from the crowd because of their fiery hair. Even though there weren’t as many redheads there as I’d originally expected, still I’d never before seen as large a number of gingers gathered together in one spot, at one time.
I noticed the filmmakers wandering through the different groups of people, microphones in hand and cameramen in tow, interviewing various subjects for the doc, and I would’ve stayed longer myself (I wouldn’t have minded having a cameo role in the film, to quickly talk about my experience growing up as a redhead) if it hadn’t been for the crappy weather. We redheads are, after all, supposedly a dying breed, so it’s only fair to document us for posterity while we’re still around!
Once it started raining, however, I noticed a growing number of people making their way out of the park. So I decided to leave too, and stopped instead at a local coffee shop to seek shelter, write this quick post, and ponder our potential extinction.
