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- Visual Arts Exhibitions
July 23-29, 2012
Week 30 of Year 2012
Visual Arts Summer Exhibitions
Monday, July 23, 2012 10:00 AM - 11:00PM
Eight exciting new exhibitions, including a co-production with the Woodland Cultural Centre as part of the Planet IndigenUS festival.
July 20 - September 23, 2012
Visual Arts Summer Exhibitions
Tuesday, July 24, 2012 10:00 AM - 11:00PM
Eight exciting new exhibitions, including a co-production with the Woodland Cultural Centre as part of the Planet IndigenUS festival.
July 20 - September 23, 2012
Visual Arts Summer Exhibitions
Wednesday, July 25, 2012 10:00 AM - 11:00PM
Eight exciting new exhibitions, including a co-production with the Woodland Cultural Centre as part of the Planet IndigenUS festival.
July 20 - September 23, 2012
Visual Arts Summer Exhibitions
Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:00 AM - 11:00PM
Eight exciting new exhibitions, including a co-production with the Woodland Cultural Centre as part of the Planet IndigenUS festival.
July 20 - September 23, 2012
Music from the Natural World
Thursday, July 26, 2012 7:00 PM
The virtuosi of Erosonic – David Mott (baritone saxophone) and Joseph Petric (accordion) – perform new music inspired by nature.
July 26, 2012
Dancing on the Pier: Line Dancing and Two-Step
Thursday, July 26, 2012 7:00 PM - 9:00PM
Dancing on the Pier is a social dancer's dream come true!
July 5-26, 2012
Visual Arts Summer Exhibitions
Friday, July 27, 2012 10:00 AM - 11:00PM
Eight exciting new exhibitions, including a co-production with the Woodland Cultural Centre as part of the Planet IndigenUS festival.
July 20 - September 23, 2012
The Listening Trees
Friday, July 27, 2012 6:00 PM - 9:30PM
Catch a relaxing time under the Zone 5 trees listening to the way that music can tell stories!
July 27-29, 2012
Maryem Hassan Tollar
Friday, July 27, 2012 7:00 PM
Maryem Hassan Tollar's favourite classic pop tunes, with ancient string accompaniment. Kate Bush on qanun, Joni Mitchell on tambura and Prince on violin - as if it t'were ever so.
July 27, 2012
Aesthetec Studio: Sing & Paint
Friday, July 27, 2012 7:00 PM - 9:30PM
Sing & Paint is an interactive installation where audiences paint their own vocal chords!
July 27-29, 2012
Tio Chorinho
Friday, July 27, 2012 8:00 PM - 9:00PM
Old world mandolins transposed to the new world, played brazilian style - with all the verve, colour and sexiness that that conjours up.
July 27, 2012
iNSiDEaMiND
Friday, July 27, 2012 9:00 PM - 9:30PM
Having shared the stage or collaborated with artists such as Kid Koala, RJD2 and DJ Food among others, iNSiDEaMiND's sound is often described as "listening to a movie."
July 27, 2012 21&22
Masters of Mali Featuring Sidi Touré
Friday, July 27, 2012 9:30 PM - 10:30PM
Masters of Mali deliver ancient African string airs as if they were written today, speaking to generations of tomorrow. Featuring Sidi Touré.
July 27, 2012
iNSiDEaMiND
Friday, July 27, 2012 10:30 PM - 11:00PM
Having shared the stage or collaborated with artists such as Kid Koala, RJD2 and DJ Food among others, iNSiDEaMiND's sound is often described as "listening to a movie."
July 27, 2012 21&22
Visual Arts Summer Exhibitions
Saturday, July 28, 2012 10:00 AM - 11:00PM
Eight exciting new exhibitions, including a co-production with the Woodland Cultural Centre as part of the Planet IndigenUS festival.
July 20 - September 23, 2012
Royal Conservatory of Music presents Young Artists Performance Academy
Saturday, July 28, 2012 1:00 PM - 6:00PM
Don't miss an afternoon of outstanding virtuosic performances by brilliant young musicians, ages 9-18, of the Royal Conservatory’s Young Artists Performance Academy.
July 28, 2012
Flames Across the Border Featuring Mike Ford
Saturday, July 28, 2012 1:00 PM
An interactive breakneck tour through the history of the 1812 war and its historical implications told with brilliant guitar playing and song by Mike Ford. Suitable for families and children, eight and up.
July 28, 2012 13&17
Dare to Create: Strings and Things
Saturday, July 28, 2012 1:00 PM - 7:00PM
Make an instrument and decorate it to the hilt. There will be specially announced times when the creators of the instruments can join together on the Redpath Stage and play along to a classic rock or violin track! Play loud, play proud!
July 28-29, 2012
The Listening Trees
Saturday, July 28, 2012 1:00 PM - 9:30PM
Catch a relaxing time under the Zone 5 trees listening to the way that music can tell stories!
July 27-29, 2012
Wandering Musicians
Saturday, July 28, 2012 1:00 PM - 6:00PM
Keep an eye (and an ear) out for wandering musicians, playing a variety of stringed instruments sometimes enticingly, sometimes amusingly, always surprisingly.
July 28-29, 2012
Aesthetec Studio: Sing & Paint
Saturday, July 28, 2012 1:00 PM - 7:30PM
Sing & Paint is an interactive installation where audiences paint their own vocal chords!
July 27-29, 2012
The Traditional Arabic Music Ensemble Featuring George Sawa and Nada El Masriya
Saturday, July 28, 2012 1:30 PM - 2:30PM
Qanun airs from across the centuries to entrance the ears, the heart and the soul.
July 28, 2012
Ethiopia: Classical Variations
Saturday, July 28, 2012 2:30 PM - 3:30PM
Brand new arrangements of traditional Ethiopian music, by a master of the Krar, Fantahun Shewankochew Mekonnen.
July 28, 2012
Musideum
Saturday, July 28, 2012 3:00 PM - 4:00PM
A music emporium full of wondrous instruments comes to Harbourfront Centre!
July 28, 2012
Lute Legends Ensemble
Saturday, July 28, 2012 3:30 PM - 4:30PM
Flowing from the same source, what happened to the pipa, the lute and the oud at intersections along the silk road? Can they speak to each other today?
July 28, 2012
Flames Across the Border Featuring Mike Ford
Saturday, July 28, 2012 5:00 PM
An interactive breakneck tour through the history of the 1812 war and its historical implications told with brilliant guitar playing and song by Mike Ford. Suitable for families and children, eight and up.
July 28, 2012 13&17
East Meet West Mash-Up Concert featuring Radha Academy of Carnatic Violin
Saturday, July 28, 2012 5:30 PM - 6:30PM
Indian violin and Ontario folk converge to create brand new musical offerings.
July 28, 2012
Minor Empire
Saturday, July 28, 2012 7:30 PM
Classic turkish melodies energized with contemporary vigour!
July 28, 2012 19&21
Irshad Khan
Saturday, July 28, 2012 8:15 PM - 9:15PM
Irshad Khan creates ancient melodies in a new context.
July 28, 2012
Minor Empire
Saturday, July 28, 2012 9:15 PM
Classic turkish melodies energized with contemporary vigour!
July 28, 2012 19&21
Deborah Henson-Conant
Saturday, July 28, 2012 10:00 PM - 11:00PM
Step into the mind of Deborah Henson-Conant. A mind where watermelons can swing their hips like Elvis, dogs go back to school to get their pedigrees and Jimi Hendrix turns up the distortion on his solid-body electric harp in Heaven.
July 28, 2012
Visual Arts Summer Exhibitions
Sunday, July 29, 2012 10:00 AM - 9:00PM
Eight exciting new exhibitions, including a co-production with the Woodland Cultural Centre as part of the Planet IndigenUS festival.
July 20 - September 23, 2012
Regent Park School of Music
Sunday, July 29, 2012 1:00 PM - 1:30PM
Regent Park School of Music (RPSM) is thrilled to be participating in Classical IV: Strings as violin students of all ages and levels share their talent with you!
July 29, 2012
The Canadian Opera Company presents Hansel and Gretel
Sunday, July 29, 2012 1:00 PM - 2:00PM
Join in and let your vocal chords soar as Hansel and Gretel follow the breadcrumb trail to the gingerbread house.
July 29, 2012
Dare to Create: Strings and Things
Sunday, July 29, 2012 1:00 PM - 6:00PM
Make an instrument and decorate it to the hilt. There will be specially announced times when the creators of the instruments can join together on the Redpath Stage and play along to a classic rock or violin track! Play loud, play proud!
July 28-29, 2012
The Listening Trees
Sunday, July 29, 2012 1:00 PM - 6:00PM
Catch a relaxing time under the Zone 5 trees listening to the way that music can tell stories!
July 27-29, 2012
Wandering Musicians
Sunday, July 29, 2012 1:00 PM - 5:00PM
Keep an eye (and an ear) out for wandering musicians, playing a variety of stringed instruments sometimes enticingly, sometimes amusingly, always surprisingly.
July 28-29, 2012
Aesthetec Studio: Sing & Paint
Sunday, July 29, 2012 1:00 PM - 6:00PM
Sing & Paint is an interactive installation where audiences paint their own vocal chords!
July 27-29, 2012
Jayme Stone: Bach on the Banjo
Sunday, July 29, 2012 2:00 PM - 3:00PM
Can you imagine hearing Bach played on the five-string banjo? Well two-time Juno-winning banjoist Jayme Stone sure can. Join Stone, and his stellar ensemble, for a genre-blurring musical journey that includes works by the German master-composer as well as a Trinidadian Calypso, Malian melodies and Stone's own tiny symphonies.
July 29, 2012
FROM THE ARCHIVES / Paul Zingrone
Sunday, July 29, 2012 2:00 PM
Unfortunately, this program has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience.
July 29, 2012
Ukulele Workshop with Judy Marshak
Sunday, July 29, 2012 2:30 PM - 3:30PM
Be a part of the Ukulele Project! Bring your own ukuleles to this workshop and learn the chorus of the "1812 Overture," led by instructor Judy Marshak.
July 29, 2012
Toronto Mandolin Orchestra
Sunday, July 29, 2012 3:00 PM - 4:00PM
Exuberant classics played on massed mandolins meet Ukrainian traditions of longing.
July 29, 2012
The Hammer Band - From Violence to Violins featuring Yosvani the Violinist
Sunday, July 29, 2012 3:30 PM - 4:00PM
You're in for a treat as The Hammer Band and Yosvani Castañeda team up for a not-to-miss concert!
July 29, 2012 15&16
Wild Reeds
Sunday, July 29, 2012 4:00 PM
Clarinetist Kornel Wolak and accordionist Joseph Macerollo team up for an entertaining, sometimes dramatic, musical reunion of these two distant relatives of the reed family. Thanks to David Graham.
July 29, 2012
Ukelele Project
Sunday, July 29, 2012 4:00 PM - 5:00PM
The simplicity of the ukulele re-creating the pomp of the "1812 Overture" - an intersection of classic proportions.
July 29, 2012
The Hammer Band - From Violence to Violins featuring Yosvani the Violinist
Sunday, July 29, 2012 4:30 PM - 5:00PM
You're in for a treat as The Hammer Band and Yosvani Castañeda team up for a not-to-miss concert!
July 29, 2012 15&16
Rosbilt Tin Can Banjo and Ukulele Maker
Sunday, July 29, 2012 4:30 PM - 5:30PM
Ross Stuart, banjo and ukulele maker, will show you the intricacies that go into making a (fairly sophisticated) ukulele and banjo from scratch.
July 29, 2012
The Afiara String Quartet
Sunday, July 29, 2012 5:00 PM - 6:00PM
The repertoire for this concert counterpoints music by Mozart and Haydn with Dan Becker's "Lockdown," Severiano Briseno's "El Sinaloense" (arr. by Osvaldo Golijov) and new arrangements of you favourite Elvis songs. Hold onto your hats - you are in for a surprising ride of extraordinary chamber music!
July 29, 2012
There's always something happening at Harbourfront Centre!
- Visit our new public spaces
- Visual arts exhibitions in the Bill Boyle Artport
- Grab a bite at Lakeside Local Bar & Grill
For details inquire at the Info Desk or call 416-973-4000.
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