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Gardiner Museum
YOKO ONO: THE RIVERBED is opening at the Gardiner Museum on February 22! A three-part interactive installation, YOKO ONO: THE RIVERBED invites visitors to collaborate with the artist, the museum, and each other by participating in the artwork. Join us for an exciting roster of programming in support of the exhibition including a concert, performance art series, and two-day forum inspired by Ono's peace activism. On February 23, The Music Gallery takes part in the exhibition Yoko Ono: The Riverbed with Voice Pieces featuring Christine Duncan and the Element Choir, dub poet extraordinaire Lillian Allen, and future funk vocalist Mamalia. Spring Clay Classes are now on sale! There's something for everyone, from fun clay camps for kids to clay and mindfulness classes led by a registered art therapist. Remember, Gardiner Friends receive free admission to all our exhibitions all year long, as well as a discount on all programming and events. For more information please visit gardinermuseum.com.
Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema
This February, Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema's Game Changers series pays tribute to Black cultural visionaries and innovators who inspire us: Maya Angelou, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Bob Marley and more, starting February 11. Live with an Obama-era African American family as they turn their basement music studio into a creative sanctuary for their north Philly neighbourhood in the Hot Docs hit Quest starting February 23. Meet Africa's first international music star Miriam Makeba in Music on Film: Mama Africa on February 27, presented in partnership with The Royal Conservatory of Music. There's more music in store with Group of Seven Guitars starting February 2, and Above & Beyond Acoustic: Give Up the Day Job on February 23. Plus dancing in the aisles with Talking Heads in Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense on February 10. For more information please visit hotdocscinema.ca.
Japan Foundation, Toronto
The Japan Foundation will be celebrating Valentines with the I HEART U film series. On February 10, the anime Millennium Actress and Voices from a Distant Star will be screening at JFT. Then on February 13, Norwegian Wood followed by Karakara on February 27. Karakara is a Japan Canada co-production about a retired professor from Montreal who finds love while traveling in Okinawa. Join us on Valentine's Day for our BYOB (bento) free lunchtime Japanese class! Come to the JFT gallery to see the exhibition Variation and Autonomy: Prints by Contemporary Japanese Painters. The exhibition features some original prints by Yayoi Kusama. The Dento Kogei Traditional Crafts Screenings will continue with Phase IV February 9 - 26. For more information please visit jftor.org.
918 Bathurst Centre
for Culture, Arts, Media and Education
This February at 918 Bathurst, join us for Mother Tongue, an incredible show from The Music Gallery and Native Women in the Arts that showcases and empowers Indigenous languages, featuring Joanne Shenandoah, Salia Joseph & Kwiigay Iiwaans, and Nelson Tagoona, this show is not to be missed. Saturday February 10, 8pm. For more information please visit 918bathurst.com.
A Different Booklist Cultural Centre
February is African History Month! Thursday, February 1, celebrate authors of Children's and YA literature 10am - 2:30pm with special appearances by authors Ndija Anderson-Yantha, El-Farouk Khaki & Troy Jackson and Fartumo Kusow. Friday, February 2, at 12pm, Colleen Nelson visits ADBCC to launch her new book, Sadia. Saturday, February 3, we celebrate African authors and literature both old and new in our "Ode to Africa," 7pm-10pm. On Tuesday, February 6 at 6:30pm, we welcome author Djamila Ibrahim as she launches her new collection of short stories titled Things Are Good Now. ADBCC in partnership with Hot Docs brings you the best in docs this African History Month. Is your eye on the prize? You could be the next winner of 2 free movie tickets February 11-25. Just follow us on social media! Welcome to Blackhurst Street: Chapter Two! returns this month. Join us for the reception Monday, February 12 at 6:30pm in commemoration of the rich history of Bloor and Bathurst Street. Friday, February 16, Chinese New Year and African History Month meet. Hey! It's Patty Day on Friday, February 3, and 7pm-10pm you can mix, mingle and try some of the best patties in town! For more information please visit adifferentbooklist.com.
Alliance Française Toronto
The month of February begins with the screening of The Last Relic (Grigori Kromanov, Estonia) on February 1. The Movie Thursday series continues with the documentary film, Les combattants Africains de la Grande Guerre (Laurent Dussaux, France) on February 8, Road to Baleya (Bay Weyman, Canada) on February 15 and The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry) on February 22. The film for children Ballerina (E. Summer and E. Warim) will be screened on Sunday, February 11 at 2pm. Join us for the talk, The Métis Sash Accessory and Symbol of a Nation with Lisette Mallet on February 21, and be sure to visit the exhibition, Our Grandfathers Were Chiefs, featuring photographs by Laurence Butet-Roch, which opens February 14 at 6:30pm. For more information please visit alliance-francaise.ca.
Toronto Reference Library
Artists capture illuminating views of our city streets, our Toronto Revealed exhibition runs February 10 - April 22, 2018 in the TD Gallery. This exhibition showcases paintings, drawings and prints of Toronto streets from the library's Canadian Documentary Art Collection, including works by Aba Bayefsky, Albert Franck, Brian Harvey, Vello Hubel, David Marshak and Rebecca Ott. High profile artists, thinkers and experts are coming to the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon in early 2018. Our full spring line-up is now available and includes international superstars like Peter Wholleben, Amy Chua, Rachel Kushner and Teju Cole among others. For more information please visit torontopubliclibrary.ca.
Tafelmusik
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra explodes your preconceptions of the recorder with A Recorder Romp from February 8-11 at Jeanne Lamon Hall, Trinity-St. Paul's Centre, with Virtuoso performer Alison Melville and a select chamber group of Tafelmusik musicians. If you thought the recorder was just an instrument for school concerts, think again. Radiant, whimsical, melancholic, fun, bright-this is the nerdy recorder of your youth, but restored to its original glory. Then feast your senses with Chamber Choir Director Ivars Taurins as he directs the orchestra and choir in Handel Alexander's Feast from February 22-25 at Koerner Hall. Handel has prepared a score for soloists, choir, and orchestra to ravish your ears! This musical feast is a setting of poetry by John Dryden written in honour of St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music, and includes concertos for harp and organ. For more information please visit tafelmusik.org.
Royal Ontario Museum (The ROM)
The ROM Speaks lecture series features intriguing and inspiring topics that enhance the Museum's current feature exhibitions, VIKINGS and Christian Dior. Join Michelin star chef Magnus Nilsson for a delectable discussion on the rich culinary heritage of Scandinavia at In Conversation with Chef Magnus Nilsson on February 6. Experience the work of emerging designers with live models, runway mini-shows, and fashion illustration, and visit the Christian Dior exhibition at 21st Century Atelier: Redefining Fashion in a New Age of Design on February 8. Global fashion icon Florence Müller, co-curator of Christian Dior's 70th anniversary exhibition in Paris, explores the scope and depth of works from House of Dior throughout its seven decades at the exhibition's Closing Keynote: 70 Years of Dior on February 20. Tickets to these featured ROM Speaks lectures are $20 for the public and $18 for ROM Members. The ROM is Canada's pre-eminent museum of art, culture, and nature. Become a ROM Member and enjoy unlimited free admission to special exhibitions and more. For more information please visit rom.on.ca.
Museum of Estonians Abroad/VEMU
In February at the Museum of Estonians Abroad/VEMU the Building a Community. Estonian Architects in Post-War Toronto exhibition is on display until February 12, 2018. On February 7 at 7pm, chef and former food editor Paul Lillakas will give a lecture titled Secrets from the Test Kitchen: A Month in the Life of a Food Editor. In English. On February 11 at 4pm, EstDocs presents the feature film Malev (Army, 109 min, 2005), a fake historic epic on the Middle Ages and Estonia's not-so-glorious past. In Estonian with English subtitles. On February 21 at 7pm, two new exhibitions by photographers Kristen Dobbin and Toomas Volkmann will be opened under the title Two ends of a lifespan. The exhibitions celebrate Estonia's 100th birthday and present perspectives on Estonian identity in Toronto's tight-knit diaspora community. All events are free of charge, donations welcome. For more information please visit vemu.ca.
University of Toronto Faculty of Music
The University of Toronto Faculty of Music's free weekly concert series, Thursdays at Noon, features four outstanding musicians in February: on February 1, guitarist Rob MacDonald performs K.A.L.T. by Helmut Oehring; on February 8 pianist and DMA Competition winner Rudin Lengo performs Beethoven and Mussorgsky; and on February 15, violist Teng Li and pianist Lydia Wong team up for Primrose's Viola Transcriptions of works from a variety of composers. Each month the Faculty offers a wide-ranging selection of master classes, colloquia and lectures that are free and open to the public. February 1, the Musicology / Ethnomusicology / Music Theory graduate colloquium series presents Prof. James Currie from the University of Buffalo. February 2 and 16 UofT Jazz offers master classes with Marco Tulio and David Lyttle, respectively. And on February 15, the Riki Turofsky Master Class in Voice presents Johannes Debus, Music Director at the Canadian Opera Company. For more information please visit music.utoronto.ca.
Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre
The MNjcc is proud to participate in Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month (JDAIM) and is offering three significant events in February for all abilities, all are welcome! On February 11, join an arts workshop, Design An Accessible City where participants of all abilities learn about form and function by exploring structures and designers. On February 25 the Toronto Jewish Film Society presents a heart wrenching and uplifting documentary from Israel, Dolphin Boy. Celebrate the romance around Valentine's Day at our daytime jazz concert, Comes Love featuring The Adi Braun Trio at the Al Green Theatre on February 15. For more information please visit mnjcc.org.
The Royal Conservatory of Music
The popular TD Jazz: The Roots of Jazz concert series continues at Koerner Hall with Gerald Clayton, René Marie, and Friends on February 3. Clayton, whose jazz piano music is steeped in the blues from the Carolinas, is joined by René Marie, whose style is a mélange of jazz, soul, blues, folk, and gospel. On Valentine's Day, February 14, tenor Ian Bostridge and pianist Julius Drake return to Koerner Hall for an all Franz Schubert program, including a selection of Goethe Lieder. The Royal Conservatory School is pleased to announce a special new Music Appreciation course: Exploring Early Keyboard Instruments (February 20 - March 6) featuring instruments from Michael and Sonja Koerner's Collection at the RCM. The final session culminates with an exhibition and lecture recital in Temerty Theatre on March 11 at 5pm. Registration for March 11 (without the course) is $40 and includes a complimentary wine and cheese. For more information and tickets please visit rcmusic.com.
Bata Shoe Museum
Visit the glittering new exhibition The Gold Standard: Glittering Footwear from Around the Globe, which explores the meanings and cultural uses of golden footwear throughout the world. Curated by the BSM's Senior Curator Elizabeth Semmelhack, The Gold Standard examines objects as diverse as Ancient Egypt golden funerary sandals and rare 16th century Italian chopines to contemporary gleaming gold sneakers. Join Anishinaabekwe beading artist Stephanie Pangowish for a three-part workshop to make your own beautiful earrings using Indigenous beading techniques, February 10, February 24, and March 3, 1-4pm. Chill with us on Family Day Monday, February 19, and experience a magical winter wonderland! Kids can enjoy winter-themed arts and crafts, play a game of I Spy in the galleries and try on some funky footwear. Perfect for kids ages 3-12. And of course, every weekend at the BSM there are arts and crafts activities for kids ages 3-12 included with museum admission. For more information please visit batashoemuseum.ca.
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2018-02-01
Toronto: Events on the Bloor Street Culture Corridor in February 2018