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Events Guide
October 2016 – April 2017
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Marah Braye Chief Executive Officer
Harbourfront Centre is a Canadian charity operating the 10 prime acres of Toronto’s central waterfront as a free and open public site. We celebrate the multiplicities of cultures that comprise Canada and enliven the city through the creative imaginations of artists from across the country and around the globe.
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Bring the art home with you Discover your next family heirloom from our assortment of quality, Canadian contemporary craft masterpieces and limited edition works, including items made by our Artists-in-Residence.
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Skate Set against the beautiful shoreline of Lake Ontario, the city’s most scenic rink awaits. Warm up in our heated indoor change rooms and enjoy food and drinks rink-side at Boxcar Social. Bring your own skates or rent from us. Best of all, skating is free!
Learn to Skate
DJ Skate Nights Every Saturday
November 22 – February 26
December 17 – February 18
Registration is now open
8–11pm
Whether your child is a seasoned skater or a rookie to the ice, skating lessons are the perfect present. Our skating classes are held on the beautiful outdoor Natrel Rink, overlooking Lake Ontario. It’s scenic, seasonal fun.
Toronto’s best winter block party returns again this season! Top local and international DJs rock the Natrel Rink while you skate and dance under the stars. This year, warm up and have a delicious snack or some craft beer rinkside at the new Boxcar Social location.
Because classes are held outdoors, weather plays an important role in our programming. Classes are held in all conditions, unless they get extreme. If we cancel a class, we’ll do our best to reschedule it.
New Year’s Eve Edition December 31 Skate by the lake with the whole family this New Year’s Eve! Bring your best moves and we’ll provide the tunes.
To book a lesson go to harbourfrontcentre.com/learntoskate or call 416 973 4093
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Friday-Sunday
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Dance NextSteps
Canada’s Dance Series
For over 40 years, Harbourfront Centre has played a leading role in cultivating dance in Canada. This season at NextSteps, see over 60 performances on three stages expand what is possible with the combination of choreography and the dynamism of the human body in motion.
Pratibha Arts
ProArteDanza
In association with Harbourfront Centre
Season 2016
SADHANA
November 16–19
October 2
A Girl in the Sky Productions / Thin Edge New Music Collective
DanceWorks DW217: Wen Wei Dance
In association with Harbourfront Centre
Made in China
Balancing on the Edge
October 21–22
November 18–19
Toronto Dance Theatre
DanceWorks DW218: tiger princess dance projects
Animated
November 1–5
In Search of the Holy Chop Suey / Zhong Xin
November 24–26
Sampradaya Dance Creations
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Little Pear Garden Dance Company
DanceWorks DW221: Radical System Art
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November 24–26
April 28–29
Ballet Creole
Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company
Soulful Messiah
December 2–4
Season 2017
May 5–7
Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre
Ballet Creole
WINTERSONG – dances for a sacred season
Kambule
December 9–10
May 12–14
Dance Ontario
Femmes du Feu
In association with Harbourfront Centre
Co-produced with Harbourfront Centre
DanceWeekend’17
Circus Sessions 2017
January 20–22
May 19–20
DanceWorks DW219: Throwdown Collective
Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre
Yiem (3 Eggs Ago) / Various Concert
Serious Games
May 26–27
February 9–11
For tickets, special offers and full season details, visit harbourfrontcentre.com/nextsteps
DanceWorks DW220: inDANCE Holy Cow(s)! March 23–25
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Literary Every year, we bring you the world’s most exciting writers of contemporary literature. This season is no exception! We are thrilled to be spotlighting the works of upcoming and established graphic novelists, showcasing contemporary writers and presenting non-fiction works that challenge the ways we perceive the world. All this, and much much more.
International Festival of Authors (IFOA)
Toronto Lit Up!
October 20–30
We are proud to promote the rich literary talent of our city. Join IFOA and the Toronto Arts Council as they bring the work of local writers into the spotlight by featuring them in large-scale book launches.
The world’s best contemporary writers are congregating in Toronto for the 37th edition of IFOA. Meet Margaret Atwood, Emma Donoghue, Miguel Ángel Hernández, Takashi Hiraide, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Lola Lafon, Hisham Matar and many more during 11 days of readings, interviews, lectures, panel discussions and book signings.
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Festivals This season, Harbourfront Centre invites you to celebrate the diversity and uniqueness of Toronto with a wide range of multievent festivals featuring music, dance, theatre, crafts, art and more.
Nuit Blanche Toronto
Reelworld Film Festival
Facing the Sky Exhibitions, curated by Louise Déry
October 12–16 Watch films. Make change. Experience films from around the globe that tackle some of the most important issues facing our world. After each screening, meet activists, members of non-profits and leaders who are making a tangible impact. Visit the Digital Storytelling Zone and explore the power of narrative through virtual reality, gaming and personal cinema.
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Festivals Day of the Dead
Swedish Christmas Fair
Presented by Scotiabank
November 5–6
SWEA Toronto in association with Harbourfront Centre
Explore Mexico and Latin America’s most popular cultural celebration through a contemporary lens. Experience roving performances, art installations and more – all to a soundtrack of Mexican music. Da
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November 19–20 Get into the spirit at this two-day holiday extravaganza! Warm up to the sounds of children singing carols at the Lucia Pageant and participate in folk dancing, craft making and more. It’s the perfect place to sample delicious Scandinavian food and have a rinkside drink of glögg. Check off your gift list with imported handmade crafts, unique Christmas decor, textiles and tasty Swedish delicacies.
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Kuumba February 3-4 & 10-11 Toronto’s longest-running celebration of Black History Month returns this year, and this time we’re adding a second weekend! Join us for a series of thoughtprovoking panel discussions and sociallydriven cultural programming that explores blackness in the 21st century. Ku u
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HarbourKIDS: NORTH February 20 This Family Day, we celebrate our northern winter landscape, its everchanging terrain and the wildlife that calls the tundra home. Come down to the lake, have a skate and marvel at the intersection of nature, science and contemporary art with performances, art-making and interactive activities designed for the whole family.
Co-produced by Storytelling Toronto
April 2 The 2017 Toronto Storytelling Festival culminates in a day of family storytelling at Harbourfront Centre, featuring a teddy bear picnic, riddle contests, folktales told by refugees and performances by storytellers from across Canada, Norway, England and the USA.
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This year World Stage gets older – and newer. Toronto’s premier series of international and Canadian contemporary performance is always reinventing itself. Rediscover relevant performance and experience some of the most responsive, engaging and affecting theatre, dance, performance and live art from across Canada and around the globe.
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To hear more about fun HarbourKIDS events, sign up at harbourfrontcentre.com/harbourkids
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Music Experience the world’s foremost stars of independent musical thinking and innovation for a season of outstanding concerts within our Harbourfront Centre Theatre.
Art of Time Ensemble
Massey Hall Presents
Led by Artistic Director Andrew Burashko, Art of Time Ensemble transforms the way you experience music. Fusing high art and popular culture in concerts that juxtapose the best of each, the ensemble entertains as it enlightens, revealing the universal qualities at the heart of all great music.
The Good Lovelies
That’s Not Funny
Johannes Brahms
November 3–5
March 31 – April 1
To All a Good Night 2
Doghouse Roses
December 15–17
May 11–13
December 10–11
Celebrate the season and a decade of music making with a charismatic folkpop trio known for sublime harmonies. Warm to the welcoming glow of two special performances of timeless and polished holiday material.
Mouse on the Keys March 8
This Tokyo-based jazz trio returns to Toronto to wow the crowd again with a decidedly contemporary sound that combines punk rock, jazz and classical music, evoking the energy of the metropolis they call home.
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Craft & Design Walk through the halls of our fully-equipped facility and watch artists as they collaborate, blow glass, create ceramic arts and design textiles and jewellery.
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Courses & Workshops
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For over 40 years, our Craft & Design Studio has seen hundreds of artists hone their skills through its Artist-in-Residence program. The program assists recent graduates as they begin their professional careers and many of their unique creations are available for purchase at the Harbourfront Centre Shop.
Harbourfront Centre’s Artists-inResidence help you explore your creativity through unique classes in glass-blowing, ceramics, textiles, jewellery and more. For schedules, fees and (required) pre-registration, visit our website. harbourfrontcentre.com/courses
Have you found your favourite camp yet? With camps for every interest, there’s something for every kid, including: · · · ·
Emerging Chef Challenge Junior Circus Camp Digital Media – Stop Motion And much more!
March Break Camps March 13–17
Registration opens January 3
harbourfrontcentre.com 416 973 4093
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Visual Arts Experience stimulating and engaging work from today’s most exciting visual artists, photographers, crafts people and designers. Admission is always free
Fall 2016 Exhibitions
Winter 2017 Exhibitions
September 24 – December 22 Five exhibitions by 17 artists interpret the idea of narrative within the visual arts. Explore the graphic novel in Five Ways, curated by Canadian cartoonist, Palookaville creator and New Yorker illustrator, Seth. Featuring Nina Bunjevac, Michael Deforge, Nick Drnaso, Jon McNaught and Chris Oliveros, Five Ways moves through visually constructed narratives in styles ranging from the realistic to the absurd. Also featured are the large-scale photo installation stepside, by Christopher Boyne, the ceramic art of Lindsay Montgomery in Aberrant Tales, a look at humour in graphic art entitled Funnies, and observations of lived experience in Object Diaries. N i na B
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January 21 – April 23 Our five winter exhibitions address aspects of work and include a coproduction with the Instituto Italiano di Cultura, Toronto. Curated by Milan-based architect, designer and artist Alessandro Guerriero, Workwear re-imagines common uniforms through the work of 40 artists, designers and architects. Tong Yan Gaai is a record of Morris Lum’s journey across Canada with a largeformat camera on a search for cultural memory and Chinese identity. Explore other engaging exhibitions based on artists and their tools on display in our Main Building.
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The Power Plant Stay current with groundbreaking exhibitions at Canada’s leading public gallery devoted exclusively to contemporary visual art.
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The Power Plant presents solo exhibitions this fall by three international artists. In her exhibition Faux Guide, Yto Barrada uses her recent work around fossil evidence, museology, natural history and the collection and forgery of artifacts in Morocco to examine the construction of historical and national narratives. For the second iteration of the gallery’s Fleck Clerestory Commission Program, Latifa Echakhch creates an environment in which visitors are confronted by a sky that is literally falling to address the uncertainty of our present, the memory of the past and our speculations on the future. Maria Loboda references ancient philosophical texts and beliefs in Some weep, some blow flutes, thus drawing connections between human hopes and transitions, and restoration and the passage of time.
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Winter 2017 Exhibitions January 28 – May 15 This winter, The Power Plant is pleased to mount three major solo exhibitions. Maria Hupfield’s performance practice is characterized by a series of sculpture accessories that reference Anishinaabe oral tradition and feminist performance art. Kapwani Kiwanga brings her anthropological background to new work that examines the past from an African and diasporic subjectivity. Brazilian artist Jonathas de Andrade explores the construction and deconstruction of a national identity that dominates the image of the typical North-eastern Brazilian today–one closely linked with the country’s colonial past–using installations, photography and video works.
Programs & Events Learn more about The Power Plant’s current exhibitions, contemporary art and beyond with talks, tours, lectures, performances, films, workshops, programming for children and more. Visit thepowerplant.org for a detailed schedule of events.
Opening Parties October 14 & January 27
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Sailing & Powerboating Our fleet is shored up for the winter but there’s still plenty to do and learn for avid sailors at Harbourfront Centre. Brush up on skills, meet other sailors and come away with us on a Caribbean sailing adventure!
Celestial & Coastal Navigation Classes January 6 – March 17 These two dry-dock courses are designed to help you develop your navigation skills and gain Sail Canada certification. Coastal Navigation teaches you how to use charts, tide tables, navigational aids, how to plot positions, and electronic navigation. Celestial Navigation takes you back in time to the early methods of using the sun and stars to find your position anywhere on the planet.
Caribbean Sailing January 29 – February 12
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Harbourfront Centre’s exciting approach to boating goes beyond the shores of Lake Ontario. We organize an annual Caribbean sailing trip with qualified instructors at the helm, offering people the unique opportunity to build practical skills or simply relax and have fun meeting sailors from all around the world while vacationing in a tropical paradise!
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Sailing & Powerboating Summer Season Early bird sign-up April 1 We offer the public a gateway into a new world of boating and activities. Sign up early to plan out your spring and summer and get the best deals of the season. Find out more and sign up for courses at harbourfrontcentre.com/boating
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We love our donors!
Your gift to Harbourfront Centre means that culture will continue to thrive at the heart of Toronto’s waterfront. Please make a donation by calling 416 952 4746 or donate online at harbourfrontcentre.com
Culture lives here
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Getting Here Marina Quay West Spadina Pier Parking Toronto Music Garden
CN Tower Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada Rogers Centre
Air Canada Centre Union Station
InterContinental Hotel
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Amsterdam BrewHouse
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Concert Stage
Natrel Rink
Queen’s Quay Terminal
Exhibition Common
The Power Plant
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Fleck Dance Theatre (3rd Floor)
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Canada Square
Boardwalk
Yankee Lady III
Harbour Star Obsession
Lake Ontario
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Challenge
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Police Station
Ontario Harbourfront Square Centre Main Building (Bill Boyle Artport) Stage in the Round Harbourfront Centre Theatre Boxcar World Café Social
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Festivals & Events
Ongoing
Nuit Blanche Toronto
HarbourKIDS: NORTH
Shop
February 20
Daily
NextSteps
Toronto Storytelling Festival
Boxcar Social
October 1
Canada’s Dance Series
October 2 – May 27
Co-produced by Storytelling Toronto
April 2
Reelworld Film Festival
World Stage
October 12–16
April 2017
International Festival of Authors (IFOA)
Activities
Day of the Dead
Skating on the Natrel Rink
October 20–30
Opens November 2016
Presented by Scotiabank
November 5–6
Learn to Skate
November 22 – February 26
Swedish Christmas Fair
DJ Skate Nights
SWEA Toronto in association with Harbourfront Centre
November 19–20
December 17 – February 18
DJ Skate Nights: New Year’s Eve
Caribbean Sailing Trips
December 31
January 29 – February 12
Kuumba
March Break Camps
February 3-4 & 10-11
March 13–17
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Craft & Design Studio Year-round
Craft & Design
Courses & Workshops
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Visual Arts September 24 – December 22 Fall Exhibitions
January 21 – April 23 Winter Exhibitions
The Power Plant October 15 – January 2 Solo Exhibitions by Yto Barreda Latifa Echakhch Maria Loboda
January 28 – May 15 Solo Exhibitions by Maria Hupfield Kapwani Kiwanga Jonathas de Andrade
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