The Chinatown BIA hopes a high quality video can help the culprits who stole its dinosaur statue, the latest victim of thieves and vandals.
“The pandas don’t even exist anymore,” Li said.Why have cartoon-like statues of pandas, bunnies and bears appeared in Ottawa’s Chinatown?“People do love them. Lots of people have been taking pictures with them. That’s the whole purpose — to add some interest to our street and to attract people to visit Chinatown. And for residents of the area, who hope that new artwork would bring some colourfulness to the community and to create some interesting spots.
The sculptures are made of fibreglass and imported from China. They’re bolted to concrete pads. In all the BIA spent $200,000 on the selfie stations and two sculptures at either end of the street welcoming visitors to Chinatown. The funding came from the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario.Article content“To be honest, I don’t have an idea,” Li said. “I want to. But it’s very costly, in financial resources and in terms of time to have them installed.
I do want to replace them with something nice, but until we get some other funding. The BIA has a very limited budget. We just don’t have the financial means to replace them and do another round of installations.” Other sculptures feature characters from the Journey to the West; yellow new year bunnies in red Chinese robes; blue dogs; yellow deer; some tiny monkeys; a quartet of pink jazz musicians and the now-missing panda trio. The larger statues are heavy: An adult would have trouble carrying one alone, Li said. The sculptures were chosen to reflect Chinese culture, family-values, child-friendliness, inclusivity and colourfulness.
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