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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Raymond Boisjoly - captured speech writing back: Toronto
Friday, August 10, 2012
Accessible onsite 24/7
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).
Frost at the Gladstone: The Lives and Culture of the Sami People
Friday, August 10, 2012
Accessible onsite 24/7
Sami photographer Fred Ivar Utsi Klemetsen presents an exhibition of his work.
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).
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.
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!
Friday, August 10, 2012
10:00am – 5:00pm
An exhibition hosted at the Bata Shoe Museum.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Raymond Boisjoly - captured speech writing back: Toronto
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Accessible onsite 24/7
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).
Frost at the Gladstone: The Lives and Culture of the Sami People
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Accessible onsite 24/7
Sami photographer Fred Ivar Utsi Klemetsen presents an exhibition of his work.
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).
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.
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!
Saturday, August 11, 2012
10:00am – 5:00pm
An exhibition hosted at the Bata Shoe Museum.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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....
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.
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.
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.
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.
Saturday, August 11, 2012
2:30pm – 5:00pm
Four Artists from Six Nations present photographs and paintings to confront and transgress Aboriginal art expectations.
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.
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.
Raymond Boisjoly - captured speech writing back: Toronto
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Accessible onsite 24/7
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).
Frost at the Gladstone: The Lives and Culture of the Sami People
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Accessible onsite 24/7
Sami photographer Fred Ivar Utsi Klemetsen presents an exhibition of his work.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Sunday, August 12, 2012
9:00am – 5:00pm
Four Artists from Six Nations present photographs and paintings to confront and transgress Aboriginal art expectations.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sunday, August 12, 2012
12:00pm – 5:00pm
An exhibition hosted at the Bata Shoe Museum.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There's always something happening at Harbourfront Centre!
- 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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