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{{Short description|Canadian performance artist (born 1968)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = David Zancai
| image = Zanta April 2005.JPG
| image_size = 200px
| caption = David Zancai posing as
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1968|5|7}}
| occupation = [[Busker]]
| years active = 2000 - at least 2016 <ref>{{cite news | url=https://torontosun.com/2016/02/28/complaints-about-behaviour-wont-get-riders-banned-ttc | title=Complaints about behaviour won't get riders banned: TTC | newspaper=[[Toronto Sun]] | date=28 February 2016 | access-date=24 February 2024 | archive-date=19 January 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119144616/https://torontosun.com/2016/02/28/complaints-about-behaviour-wont-get-riders-banned-ttc | url-status=live }}</ref>
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'''David Zancai''' (born May 7, 1968<ref name=Clause>{{cite news|title=The Zanta Clause |last=Israel |first=Samantha |url=http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/artslife/torontomag/story.html?id=37d4c929-11f0-4ca0-bb0f-56747144134a&p=1 |work=The National Post |date=2007-02-17 |accessdate=2007-03-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929121534/http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/artslife/torontomag/story.html?id=37d4c929-11f0-4ca0-bb0f-56747144134a&p=1 |archivedate=2007-09-29 }}</ref><ref name="G&M">{{cite news | first = Leah | last = McLaren | authorlink = Leah McLaren | title = Who is that capped man? Meet Zanta Ho Ho. | url = http://www.angelfire.com/planet/zanta/2005_04_30_Globe_and_Mail.htm | work = The Globe and Mail | page = M1 | date = 2005-04-30 | accessdate = 2006-12-06
==Media appearances==
===Citytv Toronto===
For his first appearance as Zanta, Zancai showed up behind the street window of the [[CHUM-City Building]] and began performing.<ref name=G&M/><ref name=sun>{{cite news |last=Burnett |first=Thane |title=Zanta's claws pulled by a court |publisher=The Toronto Sun |date=2005-11-07 |url=http://torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Burnett_Thane/2005/11/07/1296119.html |accessdate=2006-12-06 |archive-date=2006-12-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061208210609/http://torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Burnett_Thane/2005/11/07/1296119.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> As a result of [[Citytv Toronto|Citytv]] using streetscapes as backdrop to live news programming, Zancai was frequently seen in the background of the morning news and entertainment program ''[[Breakfast Television]]''. Reportedly aggravated by Zancai's presence, [[CHUM Limited|CHUM]] filed a number of complaints which resulted in Zancai being banned from the area of the building.<ref name=sun/> He violated this order, and as a result
Since that time, Zancai has made appearances on ''Breakfast Television'' and claimed to have a verbal agreement allowing him to make regular appearances on the television series ''[[Speakers' Corner (TV series)|Speakers' Corner.]]''<ref name=G&M/>
===Documentaries===
Zancai has been the subject of two amateur documentary films. In October 2005, graphic artists Muckney Tipping and Pietro Gagliano filmed Zancai describing his life events and motivation to become known worldwide.<ref name=doc>{{cite video |people=Muckney Tipping, Pietro Gagliano |title=Zanta - The Movie |url=http://www.robotomedia.com/zanta/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060412193219/http://www.robotomedia.com/zanta/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2006-04-12 |medium=Vimeo |location=[[Toronto]] |date=2005
===Other appearances===
[[Image:Zanta.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Zancai in his Zanta persona]]
* Zancai has attended several Christmas parades, pointing out that "Santa's at the back, while Zanta's at the front."<ref name=sun/>
* Zancai guest-starred in Season 3, Episode 6 (Who Can Lift More Weight With Their Genitals) of [[Showcase (Canadian TV channel)|Showcase Television]]'s ''[[Kenny vs. Spenny]]'' as a replacement for [[Spencer Rice]]; Rice claimed he
* Zanta has followed actress [[Penélope Cruz]] around [[Yorkville, Toronto|Yorkville]], trying to get in a photo during the [[2006 Toronto International Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite news | first = Jen | last = Gerson | title = So close to the stars, yet so far away; Tiny Penelope transfixes crowd Going with the Flow nets no result | work = The Toronto Star | page = C3 | date = 2006-09-12}}</ref> He finally was photographed with Cruz and [[Michael Keaton]].<ref>{{cite web | last =Mandel | first = Michele | title = In search of Brangelina in T.O. | work = Jam! Showbiz | publisher = The Toronto Sun | date = 2006-09-10 | url = http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Film_Festivals/Toronto/2006/2006/09/10/1821965.html | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120713103051/http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Film_Festivals/Toronto/2006/2006/09/10/1821965.html | url-status = usurped | archive-date = July 13, 2012 | accessdate = 2006-12-06 }}</ref>
* Zanta is one of the many characters profiled in Jason Kieffer's comic book, "The Rabble of Downtown Toronto".
* Jason Kieffer created a short story for Taddle Creek Magazine's Christmas 2009 issue called "Why, Zanta?...Why?...";<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.taddlecreekmag.com/contents_christmas_2009 |title=Christmas Number, 2009 |publisher=Vitalis Publishing |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100419141057/http://www.taddlecreekmag.com/contents_christmas_2009 |archive-date=2010-04-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* In July 2012 Jason Kieffer published a full graphic novel about Zanta, titled "Zanta The Living Legend".<ref>{{cite web
== Reception ==
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In August 2006, Zancai received a provincial probation order stating that he is "not permitted on any TTC property or vehicle other than surface routes" for two years. Most bus drivers in the city refuse him access to surface routes. Zancai is fighting the ban, with an attorney handling his case ''[[Pro bono#Pro bono legal counsel|pro bono]]''. Former TTC Chairman [[Adam Giambrone]] acknowledged there is no specific TTC bylaw against doing push-ups on TTC property, but has defended the ban by stating that such behaviour may pose a "serious safety hazard".<ref name=Clause/>
[[Adam Vaughan]], councillor for [[Trinity—Spadina (federal electoral district)|Trinity—Spadina]], has stated that Zancai is "a much-loved character when you don't have to do work around him" but he is nonetheless "probably a public nuisance," and that some people understandably take issue with his behaviour.<ref name=Clause/> In an interview with the ''National Post'', Vaughan stated: "Just because you have a right to freedom of speech doesn't mean you have a right to an audience. And when you impose yourself in a public space consistently and without much regard for whether other people can enjoy that public space, boundaries are broached."<ref name=Clause/> Zancai's lawyer has responded by saying that Zancai is "entitled to be as strange as he wants to be" and has defended his right to make use of public spaces for doing pushups.<ref name=Clause/>
An article titled "Where's the line between mental illness and sexual harassment?", exploring Zancai's harassment of people on the TTC, was published on the [[TVOntario]] website in October, 2015.<ref name="auto"/>
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