Saved By The Bell: After-School DJ Series: UforChange

Walking home from school? Studying? Taking a work break? Tune in, chill out and vibe to live sets by local youth DJs from our AGO Youth Community. 

Join UforChange's HellaHelen and DJ NABZ on Friday, November 6!

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.

Saved by the Bell: Raffiki

Walking home from school? Studying? Taking a work break? Tune in, chill out and vibe to live sets by local youth DJs from our AGO Youth Community. 

Join Raffiki on Friday, November 13, for an Afro-Fusion experience bringing dynamic Afro-rhythms together with popular songs. 

Hot Takes: Cason Sharpe & Faith Arkorful

Using close looking skills, Hot Takes is an analysis of popular images in the media where we invite creatives, artists and thinkers to discuss one image to decipher and better understand our current cultural and social moment. This week join writers Cason Sharpe and Faith Arkorful in a conversation about a compelling contemporary image of their choosing.

Art in the Spotlight: The posters of Will Munro

Join Sarah Liss and Luis Jacob in conversation about the artist, activist, community builder, and queer party maker Will Munro.

Close Looking: An Object Between Medieval Cultures‌

Join conservator Lisa Ellis and curator Adam Levine as they examine one of their shared favourite objects in the Thomson Collection.

Close Looking: Mary Hiester Reid and Helen McNicoll

Join author Molly Peacock and curator Renée van der Avoird as they discuss historical Canadian artists Mary Hiester Reid and Helen McNicoll.

Virtual School Programs

Art anywhere, at school or at home. Join us for a new live art education program, happening daily, Monday to Friday via Zoom.

Neighbourhood Walks: Medicines of Tsí Tkaròn:to with Otsíkh:èta (Candy Blair)

Otsíkh:èta (Candy Blair) will be leading a virtual tour through High Park as an information session on common medicines we see everyday without knowing about their uses for health and wellness. The information session will cover the appropriate/respectful approach to medicine-picking; external/internal uses of the medicines; spiritual uses from an Indigenous perspective; safety when medicine-picking; the proper season, quantity and preparation for using, as well as some insights into the original names of the medicines on this land.

Neighbourhood Walks: If Ya Don’t Know, Now Ya Know

This artist-led virtual Neighbourhood Walk will expose the beauty and significance of legal and illegal graffiti in Scarborough and Toronto, through the authentic lens of local graffiti artist Jehiel Douglas. By giving an in-depth and artistic spin on a stigmatized topic, Jehiel hopes to give viewers the inside scoop on the graffiti community at large.

Neighbourhood Walks: Chinatown with Florence Yee of TeaBase

Chinatowns all over Turtle Island were created out a need for survival during times of legislative racism in Canada. Today, they are still vital spaces for newcomers and second generation families to access cultural and linguistic services. The neighbourhood, like the rest of Toronto, is a contested space, experiencing rapid gentrification. How are we responding? What do we stand to lose? Join us for this virtual neighbourhood walk lead by TeaBase member Florence Yee

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