What’s On Calendar
August 6–12, 2012
Visual Arts Summer Exhibitions
Monday, August 6, 2012
10:00am–11:00pm
Eight exciting new exhibitions, including a co-production with the Woodland Cultural Centre as part of the Planet IndigenUS festival.
Event run: July 20 – September 23, 2012
Monday, August 6, 2012
1:00pm
Joy Lapps, the "Princess of Pan," brings her tenor pan and diverse performance range to Island Soul.
Event run: August 6, 2012
Reggaerobics Workshop with Tamla Matthews
Monday, August 6, 2012
2:30pm– 3:00pm
Tamla Matthews leads an aerobics class that uses only reggae/dancehall and calypso/soca music to fuel stretching, cardio and toning.
Event run: August 6, 2012
Monday, August 6, 2012
4:00pm– 5:00pm
Incorporating diverse styles, cultures and costumes, Caribbean Folk Performers will regale you with bold colours, breathtaking moves, uplifting drumming and engaging storytelling!
Event run: August 6, 2012
Monday, August 6, 2012
5:00pm
Performing steel pan music at it’s best for the past 25 years!
Event run: August 6, 2012
Monday, August 6, 2012
9:00pm–11:00pm
The Calypso Stars showcase is a two-and-a-half hour Caribbean music concert featuring popular calypso singers performing original songs from the annual Calypso Tents Music Series (CTMS). Top Canadian soca artists and special guests round out the event.
Event run: August 6, 2012
Visual Arts Summer Exhibitions
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
10:00am–11:00pm
Eight exciting new exhibitions, including a co-production with the Woodland Cultural Centre as part of the Planet IndigenUS festival.
Event run: July 20 – September 23, 2012
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
12:00pm– 6:00pm
Bringing together artists and practices that create and engage tools to effect change and reconsider social behaviour, Tools for Conviviality includes works that are interactive as well as mechanisms towards self-help, political shifts, ritual devices, potential weapons, and means for critique.
Event run: June 30 – August 26, 2012
Visual Arts Summer Exhibitions
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
10:00am–11:00pm
Eight exciting new exhibitions, including a co-production with the Woodland Cultural Centre as part of the Planet IndigenUS festival.
Event run: July 20 – September 23, 2012
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
12:00pm– 6:00pm
Bringing together artists and practices that create and engage tools to effect change and reconsider social behaviour, Tools for Conviviality includes works that are interactive as well as mechanisms towards self-help, political shifts, ritual devices, potential weapons, and means for critique.
Event run: June 30 – August 26, 2012
Visual Arts Summer Exhibitions
Thursday, August 9, 2012
10:00am–11:00pm
Eight exciting new exhibitions, including a co-production with the Woodland Cultural Centre as part of the Planet IndigenUS festival.
Event run: July 20 – September 23, 2012
Thursday, August 9, 2012
12:00pm– 6:00pm
Bringing together artists and practices that create and engage tools to effect change and reconsider social behaviour, Tools for Conviviality includes works that are interactive as well as mechanisms towards self-help, political shifts, ritual devices, potential weapons, and means for critique.
Event run: June 30 – August 26, 2012
Dancing on the Pier: Afro Caribbean, Zouk and Cumbia
Thursday, August 9, 2012
7:00pm– 9:00pm
Dancing on the Pier is a social dancer's dream come true!
Event run: August 9, 2012
Thursday, August 9, 2012
7:00pm
Montreal violist Pemi Paull performs visionary music from the 17th century to today, by Heinrich Biber, Michael Oesterle, Katia Tiutiunnik, Georges Enescu and Gustav Mahler. Thanks to Vivian and David Campbell.
Event run: August 9, 2012
Raymond Boisjoly - captured speech writing back: Toronto
Friday, August 10, 2012
12:00am–12:00am
Artist Raymond Boisjoly will produce captured speech writing back: Toronto, a public installation on the south façade of The Power Plant as part of The Power Plant’s Summer 2012 group exhibition Tools for Conviviality (June 30 – August 26, 2012).
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Frost at the Gladstone: The Lives and Culture of the Sami People
Friday, August 10, 2012
12:00am–12:00am
Sami photographer Fred Ivar Utsi Klemetsen presents an exhibition of his work.
Event run: August 10–30, 2012
In My Own Eyes: Photostories by Aboriginal Youth
Friday, August 10, 2012
5:00am–11:30pm
Aboriginal youth share their stories with people across Ontario in the photographic exhibition In My Own Eyes (July 1 - September 30, 2012).
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Material Wealth: Revealing Landscape
Friday, August 10, 2012
10:00am–11:00pm
Eight artists have an affinity with a particular material and focus-in on its meaning and trajectory across culture and geography.
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Friday, August 10, 2012
10:00am–11:00pm
This exhibition brings together works by seven Indigenous artists who address the many products and by products of consumer society including communication, stereotypes, obsolescence, extinction, colonialism, fast food, ideas of tradition and more!
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Friday, August 10, 2012
10:00am– 5:00pm
An exhibition hosted at the Bata Shoe Museum.
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Celebrating: Washi and Two Cultures
Friday, August 10, 2012
10:00am– 5:00pm
An exhibition of Japanese papermaking met by indigenous artists, most of whom are using it for the first time.
Event run: August 10–18, 2012
Friday, August 10, 2012
10:00am–11:00pm
The exhibition Not Forgetting reminds us of the knowledge and experiences that come from our own lives, or those of our family and community.
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Visual Arts Summer Exhibitions
Friday, August 10, 2012
10:00am–11:00pm
Eight exciting new exhibitions, including a co-production with the Woodland Cultural Centre as part of the Planet IndigenUS festival.
Event run: July 20 – September 23, 2012
Museum of Inuit Art - Complimentary Guided Tours
Friday, August 10, 2012
11:00am
The Museum of Inuit Art offers complimentary guided tours of the museum every day during Planet InidgenUS.
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Friday, August 10, 2012
12:00pm– 5:00pm
Little Big Man Remix by the Contrary Collective takes a disciplinary boundary breaking and oppositional stance on pop cultural renderings of Indigenous culture, in particular the film Little Big Man.
Event run: August 10–18, 2012
Friday, August 10, 2012
12:00pm– 6:00pm
Bringing together artists and practices that create and engage tools to effect change and reconsider social behaviour, Tools for Conviviality includes works that are interactive as well as mechanisms towards self-help, political shifts, ritual devices, potential weapons, and means for critique.
Event run: June 30 – August 26, 2012
Museum of Inuit Art - Complimentary Guided Tours
Friday, August 10, 2012
1:00pm
The Museum of Inuit Art offers complimentary guided tours of the museum every day during Planet InidgenUS.
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Celebrating the Crossroads featuring Fara Palmer
Friday, August 10, 2012
7:00pm– 9:00pm
Award-Winning Fara Palmer performs as part of the Planet IndigenUS Opening Night Spectacle.
Event run: August 10, 2012 19&21
Celebrating the Crossroads - Indigenous Café with Eddy Robinson
Friday, August 10, 2012
7:00pm– 9:00pm
An intimate and interactive evening featuring stories and songs. Hosted by Eddy Robinson.
Event run: August 10, 2012
Frost: The Lives and Culture of the Sami People
Friday, August 10, 2012
7:00pm–11:00pm
Sami photographer Fred Ivar Utsi Klemetsen presents an exhibition of his work.
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Friday, August 10, 2012
7:00pm–11:00pm
Students from the ABVC program at OCAD University strut their stuff at Planet IndigenUs in an exhibition highlighting the diversity and beauty of their art.
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Celebrating the Crossroads featuring Tulali
Friday, August 10, 2012
7:00pm– 9:00pm
Experience the breathtaking harmony and vocal fierceness of Tulali, part of the Planet IndigenUS Opening Night Spectacle.
Event run: August 10, 2012
Celebrating the Crossroads featuring Leemai
Friday, August 10, 2012
7:00pm– 9:00pm
Singer-songwriter Leemai performs as part of the Planet IndigenUS Opening Night Spectacle.
Event run: August 10, 2012 19&21
Celebrating the Crossroads featuring Dallas Arcand
Friday, August 10, 2012
7:00pm– 9:00pm
Dallas Arcand, a high energy Aboriginal Entertainer from the Alexander (Kipohtakaw) Cree Nation, performs.
Event run: August 10, 2012
Celebrating the Crossroads featuring Jennifer Kreisberg
Friday, August 10, 2012
7:00pm– 9:00pm
Jennifer Kreisberg of the renowned native women's acapella trio Ulali performs.
Event run: August 10, 2012
Celebrating the Crossroads featuring Hanggai
Friday, August 10, 2012
8:30pm– 9:00pm
China's Hanggai blends traditional Mongolian folk sounds and instruments with modern punk rock styles.
Event run: August 10, 2012
Celebrating the Crossroads - Opening Night Spectacle
Friday, August 10, 2012
9:00pm–11:00pm
Join us for the exciting opening night for Planet IndigenUS incorporating diverse and contemporary Indigenous performers from around the globe.
Event run: August 10, 2012
Celebrating the Crossroads featuring Fara Palmer
Friday, August 10, 2012
9:00pm–11:00pm
Award-Winning Fara Palmer performs as part of the Planet IndigenUS Opening Night Spectacle.
Event run: August 10, 2012 19&21
Celebrating the Crossroads featuring Plex
Friday, August 10, 2012
9:00pm–11:00pm
Award-winning Hip Hop artist and producer Plex performs as part of the Planet IndigenUS Opening Night Spectacle.
Event run: August 10, 2012
Celebrating the Crossroads featuring George Leach
Friday, August 10, 2012
9:00pm–11:00pm
Sta’atl’imx singer-songwriter George Leach performs as part of the Planet IndigenUS Opening Night Spectacle.
Event run: August 10, 2012
Celebrating the Crossroads featuring Leemai
Friday, August 10, 2012
9:00pm–11:00pm
Singer-songwriter Leemai performs as part of the Planet IndigenUS Opening Night Spectacle.
Event run: August 10, 2012 19&21
Raymond Boisjoly - captured speech writing back: Toronto
Saturday, August 11, 2012
12:00am–12:00am
Artist Raymond Boisjoly will produce captured speech writing back: Toronto, a public installation on the south façade of The Power Plant as part of The Power Plant’s Summer 2012 group exhibition Tools for Conviviality (June 30 – August 26, 2012).
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Frost at the Gladstone: The Lives and Culture of the Sami People
Saturday, August 11, 2012
12:00am–12:00am
Sami photographer Fred Ivar Utsi Klemetsen presents an exhibition of his work.
Event run: August 10–30, 2012
In My Own Eyes: Photostories by Aboriginal Youth
Saturday, August 11, 2012
5:00am–11:30pm
Aboriginal youth share their stories with people across Ontario in the photographic exhibition In My Own Eyes (July 1 - September 30, 2012).
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Material Wealth: Revealing Landscape
Saturday, August 11, 2012
10:00am–11:00pm
Eight artists have an affinity with a particular material and focus-in on its meaning and trajectory across culture and geography.
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
10:00am–11:00pm
This exhibition brings together works by seven Indigenous artists who address the many products and by products of consumer society including communication, stereotypes, obsolescence, extinction, colonialism, fast food, ideas of tradition and more!
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
10:00am– 5:00pm
An exhibition hosted at the Bata Shoe Museum.
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
10:00am–11:00pm
The exhibition Not Forgetting reminds us of the knowledge and experiences that come from our own lives, or those of our family and community.
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Visual Arts Summer Exhibitions
Saturday, August 11, 2012
10:00am–11:00pm
Eight exciting new exhibitions, including a co-production with the Woodland Cultural Centre as part of the Planet IndigenUS festival.
Event run: July 20 – September 23, 2012
Planet IndigenUS: Humber River Aboriginal Heritage Celebration
Saturday, August 11, 2012
11:00am– 5:00pm
McMichael Water Trail gallery tours will take you on a journey across time, and Canada, through the art presently on display inside the gallery, while Humber Valley Heritage Trail Association and Toronto and Region Conservation Authority leaders will offer a Discovery Hike along the banks of the Humber River.
Event run: August 11–12, 2012
Museum of Inuit Art - Complimentary Guided Tours
Saturday, August 11, 2012
11:00am
The Museum of Inuit Art offers complimentary guided tours of the museum every day during Planet InidgenUS.
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Toronto Now: Lisa Myers and Autumn Chacon
Saturday, August 11, 2012
11:00am–10:30pm
A unique exploration of the origins and migrations of indigenous recipes.
Event run: August 11–19, 2012
Frost: The Lives and Culture of the Sami People
Saturday, August 11, 2012
12:00pm–10:00pm
Sami photographer Fred Ivar Utsi Klemetsen presents an exhibition of his work.
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
12:00pm–10:00pm
Students from the ABVC program at OCAD University strut their stuff at Planet IndigenUs in an exhibition highlighting the diversity and beauty of their art.
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Celebrating: Washi and Two Cultures
Saturday, August 11, 2012
12:00pm– 5:00pm
An exhibition of Japanese papermaking met by indigenous artists, most of whom are using it for the first time.
Event run: August 10–18, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
12:00pm– 6:00pm
Little Big Man Remix by the Contrary Collective takes a disciplinary boundary breaking and oppositional stance on pop cultural renderings of Indigenous culture, in particular the film Little Big Man.
Event run: August 10–18, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
12:00pm– 8:00pm
Bringing together artists and practices that create and engage tools to effect change and reconsider social behaviour, Tools for Conviviality includes works that are interactive as well as mechanisms towards self-help, political shifts, ritual devices, potential weapons, and means for critique.
Event run: June 30 – August 26, 2012
Museum of Inuit Art - Complimentary Guided Tours
Saturday, August 11, 2012
1:00pm
The Museum of Inuit Art offers complimentary guided tours of the museum every day during Planet InidgenUS.
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Power of the Voice, Heart of the Drum - The Breaking Wind
Saturday, August 11, 2012
1:30pm– 2:30pm
Event run: August 11, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
2:00pm– 3:00pm
A performance by the musical ambassadors of the Cree people of James Bay.
Event run: August 11, 2012
This We Know... Students of the Aboriginal Visual Culture Program at OCAD Artists' Talk
Saturday, August 11, 2012
2:00pm– 3:00pm
Join the students in the Aboriginal Visual Culture Program at OCAD as they talk about their work and the exhibition This We Know....
Event run: August 11, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
2:30pm– 5:00pm
Each of the sculptural pieces in this group exhibition encapsulates an element of Haudenosaunee worldviews, a nod to the past, and homage to the materials.
Event run: August 11–19, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
2:30pm– 5:00pm
This solo retrospective exhibit highlights Six Nation's artist Greg Staats through a multi-faceted presentation of his works.
Event run: August 11–19, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
2:30pm– 5:00pm
This solo retrospective exhibit highlights Six Nation's artist Greg Staats through a multi-faceted presentation of his works.
Event run: August 11–19, 2012
Teiotiokwaonháston / Deyodyogwaǫháhs:dǫh (Encircles Everything)
Saturday, August 11, 2012
2:30pm– 5:00pm
Elizabeth Doxtater's solo work is a breathtaking homage made from corn husks.
Event run: August 11–19, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
2:30pm– 5:00pm
Four Artists from Six Nations present photographs and paintings to confront and transgress Aboriginal art expectations.
Event run: August 11–19, 2012
Power of the Voice, Heart of the Drum - New Credit Showcase
Saturday, August 11, 2012
3:00pm– 4:00pm
Artists from the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation dazzle with an array of talent from their community.
Event run: August 11, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
3:00pm– 4:00pm
Formidable guitarist Matthew Andrae performs.
Event run: August 11, 2012
WiijiiNiijii Lodge* featuring Jani Lauzon
Saturday, August 11, 2012
3:00pm– 3:45pm
Jani Lauzon performs in the WiijiiNiijii Lodge.
Event run: August 11, 2012
A Tribe Called Red - Video & Music Mixing Workshop
Saturday, August 11, 2012
3:30pm– 4:30pm
A Tribe Called Red engages the audience in a video and music workshop discussing their craft.
Event run: August 11, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
4:00pm– 5:00pm
With their "world"-ribbed sounds, precise arrangements and a catalogue of songs, New Zealand's Pacific Curls make music that is both worldly and enthralling.
Event run: August 11, 2012
WiijiiNiijii Lodge* featuring David West
Saturday, August 11, 2012
4:00pm– 4:45pm
Ecuadorian multi-string and vocal prodigy Dave West performs in the WiijiiNiijii Lodge.
Event run: August 11, 2012
Write Your Own Story - Kinnie Starr
Saturday, August 11, 2012
4:30pm– 5:00pm
Learn how to write your own story through songwriting, hip hop and poetry through inspiring, creative exploration.
Event run: August 11, 2012
Power of the Voice, Heart of the Drum - Goombine
Saturday, August 11, 2012
5:00pm– 5:30pm
Multi-talented artist Goombine performs on the Outdoor Stage at Woodland Cultural Centre.
Event run: August 11, 2012
WiijiiNiijii Lodge* featuring Rebecca Miller
Saturday, August 11, 2012
5:00pm– 5:45pm
Six Nations country music singer Rebecca Miller performs.
Event run: August 11, 2012
Power of the Voice, Heart of the Drum - Six Nations Women Singers
Saturday, August 11, 2012
6:00pm– 7:00pm
Haudenosaunee vocal ensemble Six Nations Women Singers perform live.
Event run: August 11, 2012
WiijiiNiijii Lodge* featuring Donna's Boy
Saturday, August 11, 2012
6:00pm– 6:45pm
Donna's Boy, an exciting new country band fronted by award-winning Mi'k Ma'q Actor Glen Gould, performs in the WiijiiNiijii Lodge.
Event run: August 11, 2012
Emerging MC’s featuring DJ Robinson and Q-Rock
Saturday, August 11, 2012
6:30pm– 8:00pm
DJ Robinson and Q-Rock will keep the beats tight and the audience energized with their hooks and rhymes.
Event run: August 11, 2012
Authors at Harbourfront Centre - Thomas King, Drew Hayden Taylor, and Brian Wright-McLeod
Saturday, August 11, 2012
7:00pm– 8:30pm
A trio of writers present their works during a special Planet IndigenUS Reading.
Event run: August 11, 2012
Music Workshop: Focus on Blues
Saturday, August 11, 2012
7:00pm– 8:00pm
Featuring Jani Lauzon and Dave West, this workshop will explore the Blues influence in each artist's music.
Event run: August 11, 2012
Part of Power of the Voice, Heart of the Drum - Eagle Flight Singers
Saturday, August 11, 2012
7:00pm– 8:00pm
This London, Ontario-based pow wow drumming group brings forth the essential sound of the drum and what it means to First Nations people as the heartbeat of a nation.
Event run: August 11, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
8:00pm– 9:00pm
Kinnie Starr will be co-headlining along with Digging Roots in an evening of Indigenous beats, blues and rhythms.
Event run: August 11, 2012
Power of the Voice, Heart of the Drum - Hanggai
Saturday, August 11, 2012
8:00pm– 9:00pm
China's Hanggai blends traditional Mongolian folk sounds and instruments with modern punk rock styles.
Event run: August 11, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
9:00pm– 9:30pm
Rap artist Wabs Whitebird performs.
Event run: August 11, 2012
Cancelled - Planet IndigenUS Music Videos
Saturday, August 11, 2012
9:00pm–10:30pm
Featuring various music videos from many of the musical artists performing at Planet IndigenUS.
Event run: August 11, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
9:30pm–11:00pm
Digging Roots will be co-headlining with Kinnie Starr in an evening of Indigenous beats, blues and rhythms!
Event run: August 11, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
11:00pm– 2:00am
Fresh off of their national tour and the release of their self-titled debut album, DJ Bear Witness, DJ NDN and DJ Shub bring their infectious mix of traditional drums, Jamaican dub and urban beats back to Toronto.
Event run: August 11, 2012
Raymond Boisjoly - captured speech writing back: Toronto
Sunday, August 12, 2012
12:00am–12:00am
Artist Raymond Boisjoly will produce captured speech writing back: Toronto, a public installation on the south façade of The Power Plant as part of The Power Plant’s Summer 2012 group exhibition Tools for Conviviality (June 30 – August 26, 2012).
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Frost at the Gladstone: The Lives and Culture of the Sami People
Sunday, August 12, 2012
12:00am–12:00am
Sami photographer Fred Ivar Utsi Klemetsen presents an exhibition of his work.
Event run: August 10–30, 2012
In My Own Eyes: Photostories by Aboriginal Youth
Sunday, August 12, 2012
5:00am–11:30pm
Aboriginal youth share their stories with people across Ontario in the photographic exhibition In My Own Eyes (July 1 - September 30, 2012).
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
9:00am– 5:00pm
Each of the sculptural pieces in this group exhibition encapsulates an element of Haudenosaunee worldviews, a nod to the past, and homage to the materials.
Event run: August 11–19, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
9:00am– 5:00pm
This solo retrospective exhibit highlights Six Nation's artist Greg Staats through a multi-faceted presentation of his works.
Event run: August 11–19, 2012
Teiotiokwaonháston / Deyodyogwaǫháhs:dǫh (Encircles Everything)
Sunday, August 12, 2012
9:00am– 5:00pm
Elizabeth Doxtater's solo work is a breathtaking homage made from corn husks.
Event run: August 11–19, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
9:00am– 5:00pm
Four Artists from Six Nations present photographs and paintings to confront and transgress Aboriginal art expectations.
Event run: August 11–19, 2012
Material Wealth: Revealing Landscape
Sunday, August 12, 2012
10:00am– 9:00pm
Eight artists have an affinity with a particular material and focus-in on its meaning and trajectory across culture and geography.
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
10:00am– 9:00pm
This exhibition brings together works by seven Indigenous artists who address the many products and by products of consumer society including communication, stereotypes, obsolescence, extinction, colonialism, fast food, ideas of tradition and more!
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
10:00am– 9:00pm
The exhibition Not Forgetting reminds us of the knowledge and experiences that come from our own lives, or those of our family and community.
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Visual Arts Summer Exhibitions
Sunday, August 12, 2012
10:00am– 9:00pm
Eight exciting new exhibitions, including a co-production with the Woodland Cultural Centre as part of the Planet IndigenUS festival.
Event run: July 20 – September 23, 2012
Planet IndigenUS: Humber River Aboriginal Heritage Celebration
Sunday, August 12, 2012
11:00am– 5:00pm
McMichael Water Trail gallery tours will take you on a journey across time, and Canada, through the art presently on display inside the gallery, while Humber Valley Heritage Trail Association and Toronto and Region Conservation Authority leaders will offer a Discovery Hike along the banks of the Humber River.
Event run: August 11–12, 2012
Museum of Inuit Art - Complimentary Guided Tours
Sunday, August 12, 2012
11:00am
The Museum of Inuit Art offers complimentary guided tours of the museum every day during Planet InidgenUS.
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Toronto Now: Lisa Myers and Autumn Chacon
Sunday, August 12, 2012
11:00am– 3:00pm
A unique exploration of the origins and migrations of indigenous recipes.
Event run: August 11–19, 2012
Frost: The Lives and Culture of the Sami People
Sunday, August 12, 2012
12:00pm– 6:00pm
Sami photographer Fred Ivar Utsi Klemetsen presents an exhibition of his work.
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
12:00pm– 6:00pm
Students from the ABVC program at OCAD University strut their stuff at Planet IndigenUs in an exhibition highlighting the diversity and beauty of their art.
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
12:00pm– 5:00pm
An exhibition hosted at the Bata Shoe Museum.
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
12:00pm– 8:00pm
Bringing together artists and practices that create and engage tools to effect change and reconsider social behaviour, Tools for Conviviality includes works that are interactive as well as mechanisms towards self-help, political shifts, ritual devices, potential weapons, and means for critique.
Event run: June 30 – August 26, 2012
Museum of Inuit Art - Complimentary Guided Tours
Sunday, August 12, 2012
1:00pm
The Museum of Inuit Art offers complimentary guided tours of the museum every day during Planet InidgenUS.
Event run: August 10–19, 2012
Workshop: Longbow Guitars - Design Your Own Guitar
Sunday, August 12, 2012
1:00pm– 2:30pm
Learn the ‘tricks of the trade’ related to designing and constructing your own musical creations.
Event run: August 12, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
1:00pm– 2:00pm
Explore the mystery of tattooing, learn what the symbols mean and how we can honour our own beliefs and lives using this ancient art form.
Event run: August 12, 2012
SUNDAY SCENE / Emelie Chhangur
Sunday, August 12, 2012
2:00pm
Emelie Chhangur is an artist, curator and writer based in Toronto, where she is Assistant Director / Curator of the Art Gallery of York University. She will respond to the current exhibition at The Power Plant.
Event run: August 12, 2012
Storytelling in the Wiijiiniijii* Lodge
Sunday, August 12, 2012
2:00pm– 2:45pm
Join us for poetry and storytelling featuring Marcie Riel, Eva Rose, and Josh Peltier.
Event run: August 12, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
3:00pm– 4:30pm
OKA bring a "worldview" to their musical landscape as they explore and embrace new technologies in the creation of their sound.
Event run: August 12, 2012
POWER KIDS / Geoffrey Farmer's Figure
Sunday, August 12, 2012
3:00pm– 5:00pm
This FREE workshop offers kids a chance to activate artist Geoffrey Farmer's new interactive installation for Tools for Conviviality by adding to and transforming a sculptural figure over the course of the exhibition.
Event run: August 12, 2012
WiijiiNiijii Lodge* featuring Goombine
Sunday, August 12, 2012
3:00pm– 3:45pm
Multi-talented artist Goombine performs in the WiijiiNiijii Lodge.
Event run: August 12, 2012
Red Power: A Graphic Novel Workshop
Sunday, August 12, 2012
3:00pm– 4:00pm
A workshop that will take audiences through the story process, with an in-depth look at character creation and development.
Event run: August 12, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
3:00pm– 4:00pm
Using facial expressions and body language, Lise Menard tells stories not only about traditional legends also about events that really happened.
Event run: August 12, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
3:00pm– 4:00pm
Join us for an engaging music workshop with China's Hanggai, a Mongolian folk/punk ensemble.
Event run: August 12, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
4:00pm
The Cecilia String Quartet performs music by the young Beethoven, and teams up with clarinetist Peter Stoll to perform Mozart’s sublime Clarinet Quintet and three preludes by George Gershwin. Thanks to Eli & Phil Taylor.
Event run: August 12, 2012
WiijiiNiijii Lodge* featuring Sean Conway
Sunday, August 12, 2012
4:00pm– 4:45pm
Curve Lake First Nation singer-songwriter Sean Conway performs in the WiijiiNiijii Lodge.
Event run: August 12, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
4:30pm– 5:00pm
Join us for storytelling!
Event run: August 12, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
4:30pm– 5:30pm
Blues artist Brock Stonefish performs.
Event run: August 12, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
5:00pm– 6:00pm
New Zealand's Pacific Curls perform music that is both worldly and enthralling.
Event run: August 12, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
5:00pm– 6:00pm
How do you make that sound? Learn the varying complexity of the didgeridoo.
Event run: August 12, 2012
Maori Day - Pacific Curls Workshop
Sunday, August 12, 2012
6:30pm– 7:30pm
A musical workshop featuring New Zealand's Pacific Curls.
Event run: August 12, 2012
There's always something happening at Harbourfront Centre!
- Skating on the Natrel Rink (weather permitting)
- Check out our Visual arts exhibitions
- Visit our Craft & Design Studios
- Check out the greenery at the Toronto Music Garden
For details inquire at the Info Desk or call 416-973-4000.
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