AGO Live: Small World Music
Join us in welcoming Small World Music, an organization that's been using the power of music to bring communities together and break down walls for over twenty years. SWM has recently created eMERGEnce, a dynamic new artist development program. It offers career-development workshops, mentorship, networking, music-creation and more to a small cohort of equity-seeking newcomer, refugee and emerging artists, helping to support career sustainability and integration into the local music ecosystem.
AGO Live: Electric (Disco) Circus
Join us as we celebrate the cultural impact of Studio 54 with the help of DJs V∆NESS∆ and Pammm as they explore the underground legacy of Electric Circus, Toronto's dance party from the 90s.
AGO Live: Republic of Discostan
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Discostan is an ever-evolving space of possibility, imagination and liberation for immigrants, diasporic communities and local residents of the fluid area between South and West Asia and North Africa.
AGO Live: UforChange
Join AGO Assistant Curator, Sarah Febbraro and UforChange for a conversation and live performance on Friday, November 20, 2020. This program is part of the partner series, AGO Live: Hello From The Other Side where we welcome partners from across the city to use the AGO as a site for their programs in an effort to revitalize the arts in our city.
AGO Live: Kevin A. Ormsby and Tanya Howard
As part of the Art Gallery of Ontario's exploration into COVID-era performance possibilities, we partnered with our perennial collaborator The National Ballet of Canada to host an open rehearsal led by artist and choreographer Kevin A. Ormsby. Mr.
Haegue Yang: Emergence — Weekly Activations
This event has been postponed. Please check back for an update on new dates.
Through the run of the exhibition, Haegue Yang’s Sol LeWitt Vehicles and Boxing Ballet will be activated on Saturdays, with four 20-minute performances starting at 2 pm.
AGO Live: Malady of Death
For the last ten years, internationally renowned Korean-born, Germany-based artist Haegue Yang has been re-staging a work by the French, by way of Vietnam, poststructuralist icon Marguerite Duras, Malady of Death. The two artists, despite their unique experiences and expressions, cross paths with their acknowledgment of fragility and instability of self, a thematic juncture that has proved generative across many continents and languages.