September marks the start of performance season and arts classes
PICTURE COURTESY HEATHER KELLY: The Royal Conservatory’s red piano at Open Streets TO.
By Heather Kelly
Concert season begins!
ARTS (AUGUST 2017): Prepare for a season of festivals and events
September 13th, 2017 · Comments Off on ARTS (AUGUST 2017): Prepare for a season of festivals and events
(ARTS JULY 2017) Canada 150, camps for kids, and plenty of film
August 1st, 2017 · Comments Off on (ARTS JULY 2017) Canada 150, camps for kids, and plenty of film
August is alive along the Bloor St. Corridor
PHOTO COURTESY THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM: Saul Williams of North Caribou Lake First Nation, Weagamo, infuses his first exposure to the homes of non-Indigenous women in the city with humour in White Women and Their Plants, 1978. The painting is part of Anishinaabeg: Art & Power, a Royal Ontario Museum exhibition that explores the life, traditions, and sacred stories of the Anishinaabeg.
ARTS (JUNE 2017): Bata Shoe Museum celebrates heels and stars
June 30th, 2017 · Comments Off on ARTS (JUNE 2017): Bata Shoe Museum celebrates heels and stars
PICTURE COURTESY?THE?ROYAL?ONTARIO?MUSEUM: The Family Camera, at the ROM?until October 29, invites viewers to consider family portraits with a different lens.
Music and art at the Gardiner
By Heather Kelly
ARTS (MAY 2017) A month of festivals and finales
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Royal Conservatory of Music marks Canada 150
By Heather Kelly
May is a month of fantastic festivals and concert season finales on the Bloor St. Culture Corridor. It is also Museum Month, and there is no better time to visit the Bata Shoe Museum, Gardiner Museum, and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM).
ARTS (MARCH 2017): Blue whale exhibit opens at the Royal Ontario Museum
March 22nd, 2017 · Comments Off on ARTS (MARCH 2017): Blue whale exhibit opens at the Royal Ontario Museum
Bloor Street’s cultural organizations starting to celebrate Canada 150
PHOTO COURTESY THE GARDINER MUSEUM: Drawing from memory and using a unique visual language of hybrid animal creatures, Janet Macpherson presents her very personal view of the nation in Janet Macpherson: A Canadian Bestiary at the Gardiner Museum. Its features four immersive installations are connected by overlapping themes and questions tracing identity and history, nature and the consequences of human actions, and the idea of the North. Showing until May 22.
ARTS (FEBRUARY 2017): Celebrate love and family
March 5th, 2017 · Comments Off on ARTS (FEBRUARY 2017): Celebrate love and family
A wealth of activities for kids of all ages
By Heather Kelly
February is a month of celebrating love and making time with family members.
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ARTS (OCTOBER 2016): Interactive installations celebrate Annex icons
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Annual Nuit Blanche photo essay returns
Gleaner art director Neiland Brissenden’s annual chronicle of Nuit Blanche returns this month. Previously featured on the newspaper’s Twitter feed, Brissenden’s photo essay highlights installations that interacted with the audience to celebrate some of our neighbourhood’s most loved faces and spaces. —Annemarie Brissenden/Gleaner News