The February First Thursday: We Are Each Other’s Muses
You’re invited to a very special AGO First Thursday on February 7: the very last one.
After six years, over 800 artists and 130,000 party-goers, we are drawing First Thursdays to a close as we make way for something new. Come party with us as we honour the groundbreaking event that made the AGO into a destination Toronto Life described as “the city’s hippest hangout” and brought incredible art experiences to Toronto’s late night scene.
The December First Thursday: A SOUL Revolution
Celebrate the opening of our exhibition, Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires, with a party guest-curated by members of AfroChic –Toronto’s annual community celebration of Afro-Canadian music, visual art, fashion and culture.
The November First Thursday: Roll Up The Sleeves
November’s AGO First Thursday is designed to make you think (and feel) while experiencing amazing art, dancing to infectious beats and eating and drinking the night away.
Inspired by Anthropocene, our current major exhibition that explores the impacts humans have had on our planet, November’s AGO First Thursday artists delve into the important issues of our time. Grab your friends and prepare to be motivated to make a difference and have a great time.
The October First Thursday: #myspace
The AGO’s new exhibition, Anthropocene by Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier, looks at human impact on our planet at a previously unregistered scale. The artists joining us for October’s First Thursday investigate similar territories, but in their own way, as spaces energized by the personal as much as the political.
The September First Thursday: Back to Basics
For the launch of our new season we go back to our founding principles: bringing together the next generation of local and contemporary artists across disciplines, who are establishing the new image for Toronto with art, sound and ideas.
The May First Thursday: With or Without You
May First Thursday/Kusama combo tickets are now sold out.
Life’s work is an amalgamation of professional and personal fulfilments, although separation between the two categories isn’t always distinct. Ebbs and flows of this process was the poetic prompt behind the exhibition Mitchell/Riopelle: Nothing in Moderation, from which May First Thursday takes its inspiration.
The April First Thursday: In Living Colours
As the city revels in the Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors exhibition, First Thursday keeps exploring ways that artists create immersive worlds that either reflect or project onto the universes they inhabit. Nowhere is this more explicit than with the night’s headliner, Clara Venice, whose live performance integrates a virtual band of “hologlamorous personae”.