In a world where we are constantly bombarded with information and images, what happens when someone really takes the time to reflect?
From September 2008 to May 2009, Harbourfront Centre wants you to pause and make a connection to art, technology, the world.
Harbourfront Centre — Time Well Spent.
MAY HIGHLIGHTS
This May, contemplate the one grain that is you compared to the millions that are not in the World Stage performance installation Of All the People in all the World, enter into the timeless word of Butoh during the CanAsian Dance Festival or meditate the moment of perfect connection between art and golf in the photo installation Early One Morning (nest) by Lee Goreas.
Of All the People in All the World
Stan's Cafe
Brigantine Room and Marilyn Brewer
Community Space, York Quay Centre
May 13–24, 2009
FREE!
This May, we invite you to contemplate the one grain that is you compared to the millions that are not in this World Stage performance installation. Of All the People in All the World has amazed audiences from around the world and will be in Toronto from May 13–24 ...more
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Photo: Ed DimsdaleButoh
Part of the CanAsian Dance Festival
Fleck Dance Theatre, Queens Quay Terminal
May 6–9, 2009
Enter into the timeless word of Butoh during the CanAsian Dance Festival. Combining cutting edge contemporary dance, unusual traditional dance forms, striking design and live music, the CanAsian International Dance Festival showcases outstanding national and international artists. ... more
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Early One Morning (nest)
Lee Goreas
York Quay Centre
May 9 – June 21, 2009
Meditate the moment of perfect connection between art and golf in the photo installation Early One Morning (nest) by Lee Goreas as part of Harbourfront Centre's new Spring Exbibitions ... more
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Visual Arts at York Quay Centre
Lee Goreas, Early Morning (nest)APRIL HIGHLIGHTS
This month, take a breath and let your frantic brain still during the HATCH performance Petrichor; get on the road again (metaphorically) at Ben McNally's Travellers Series, part of Authors at Harbourfront Centre, or pause between old and new in the Architecture exhibition Building on History.
Petrichor
Kitchen Band Productions
Studio Theatre, York Quay Centre
April 25-26, 2009
Stop driving. Get out of the car.
Visit the rural areas of Southern Ontario, and you may notice some conservatively dressed men and women working in the fields with their families. The women wear long dresses made from brightly printed fabric with straw hats or scarves on their heads. The men dress in dark blue jean overalls and buttoned up shirts with cowboy or baseball caps standing high on their heads. These are the Mennonites from Mexico ... more
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Ben McNally Travellers Series
Angus Bell, Mark Richardson, Peter Unwin
Brigantine Room, York Quay Centre
April 22, 2009
Take time to travel.
World class authors Angus Bell, Mark Richardson and Peter Unwin share tales of worldwide travel at this bi-annual event. Pack your imagination; leave your passport at home. Ben McNally hosts ... more
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Building on History
ARCHITECTURE, York Quay Centre
Through Sunday June 14, 2009
The past is calling. Stop and listen.
Canada's Goldsmith Borgal & Company Ltd. Architects, E.R.A. Architects Inc. and Taylor Hazell Architects Ltd. were invited to create installations in response to the of idea building on history ... more
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ARCHITECTURE at Harbourfront Centre
detail from Welcome, Hope Township, Ontario. Tombstones, Walker Family Cemetery 43°58'11.34"N 78°21'40.14"W, facing North, circa November 3, 2005.© Peter Sibbald, 2005.
Image courtesy of Artist.
MARCH HIGHLIGHTS
This month, look forward with the next generation of poets while reflecting on 35 years of readings at Harbourfront Centre at Open Stage Night; slow down the momentum of popular culture in the HATCH presentation All I Ever Wanted; and contemplate the beauty of the natural world through the lens of new media in the installation Goodbye 20th Century.
LIGHT READING: california sunset (2008)
Elizabeth McAlpine, part of the installation, Goodbye 20th Century
This title of this ten minute continuous film loop refers to the Hollywood origin of the materials McAlpine appropriates. Composed of ‘flash-frames’ (monochrome 35mm motion picture frames inserted into movie trailers) which, whilst unseen by the human eye, increase the perceptual intensity of the trailers. The work moves from white to black and through the entire colour spectrum, with the original audio fragment from each sourced frame retained to create a dense sound collage ... more
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Visual Arts at York Quay Centre
detail from Elizabeth McAlpine, LIGHT READING: california sunset (2008).Image courtesy of Artist.
All I Ever Wanted
Gale Allen
"I think that the most significant relationship between my work and the phrase 'pause' relates to duration of time and the creation of memorable moments. My performances are often very intense, and action filled and the pauses, or deep breaths, often function as the "shocking" moments that jar the audience into a sense of time. The quiet moments are usually the most memorable and provide a space in which to contemplate the actions."
"My work also slows down pop culture, "pauses" popular entertainment and repositions it in the creation of constructed aesthetic images that critique and celebrate popular entertainment." ... more
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Open Stage Night
Authors at Harbourfront Centre
Look forward with the next generation of poets while reflecting on 35 years of readings. Authors at Harbourfront Centre gears up for National Poetry Month with Open Stage Night: showcasing the future of Canadian poetry, and paying homage to our lyrical beginning ... more
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