My City My Six
Tell us your story in 6 words!
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My City My Six is a participatory public art project that will reveal Toronto and its residents in celebration of Canada 150, six words at a time. We want to hear your story. Share something essential about yourself in six words.
Send in your story by email: culturalhotspot@toronto.ca and include:
- first name
- name of your neighbourhood
- age
- (Anonymous submissions are fine too)
Your story may be selected to be part of a city-wide exhibition in the fall of 2017, showing the diverse lives that collectively make up this great city at this moment in time.
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Photography workshop for Syrian Newcomer Women
Wednesdays from March 15 - April 19
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Tell your story through Photography!
Join Maha Munaf, an Iraqi-Syrian photographer, and be part of a group of exhibition in May 2017 at the Toronto Centre for the Arts
Participants will have the opportunity to also join a creative writing project in celebration of Canada's 150th.
- All supplies and material are FREE
- TCC Token Provided
- Light refreshments will be provided
- Session will be in Arabic and English
- Children are welcome to attend
- Spaces are limited!
To Register contact Maha Munaf at mahamunaf@gmail.com or 647.772.7586
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Nowruzgan, Multicultural Art Exhibition
March 17 - 26, 2017
Reception: March 18, 2017
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Nowruzgan, Multicultural Art Exhibition @Toronto Centre for the Arts
Nowruzgan is a multicultural art exhibition to celebrate Nowruz and the first day of spring. With Multiple artists and presentations, the event aims to share the holiday with the community and give a voice to multiple artists. Each artist's work will interpret themes of spring, renewal, and rebirth.
Cost: Free
Time: Reception: 6-8pm
Place: Toronto Centre for The Arts
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Tabla Taiko: Two Ancient Traditions Meet
April 15, 2017
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Join Toronto Tabla Ensemble and Nagata Shachu for an evening of scintillating rhythms at Toronto Centre for the Arts. Both Toronto-based ensembles have contributed immensely to the World Music scene in Canada, raising the profiles of Indian and Japanese music respectively over the last 25 years. This concert will feature compositions by the two ensembles’ maestros, Ritesh Das and Kiyoshi Nagata, who have created new works that maintain each tradition’s form to create a truly novel sound.
Cost: $30
Time: 7pm
Place: Toronto Centre for the Arts
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What’s Your Story? Short Prose and Poetry Competition
Deadline: May 1, 2017
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This writing competition is part of What’s Your Story?, a new series of events that celebrates the literary communities in four different community hubs: Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, and East Toronto. In the fall of 2017, literary events will be held in each of these neighbourhoods featuring three winning authors and their works.
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Community Partnered Events
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Tirgan Festival Organizers present: Nowruzgan Festival
March 10 to – March 12, 2017
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In honour of the 150th birthday of Canada, Tirgan Festival Organizers present “Nowruzgan Festival", where Canada 150 meets Nowruz (Persian Nowruz). This three day celebration, hosting local and foreign artists, consists of workshops, theatre presentations, music, cinema, and visual arts.
Featuring Feathers of Fire: PERSIAN EPIC is a visually breathtaking cinematic shadow play for all ages, created by HAMID RAHMANIAN, a 2014 Guggenheim fellowship-winning filmmaker/visual artist. The play unfolds an action-packed magical tale of star-crossed lovers from the 10th-century Persian epic Shahnameh (‘The Book of Kings’), – Zaul and Rudabeh, who triumph at the end against all odds.
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RBC Let’s Talk Art
Workshop: March 2, 2017
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Neighbourhood Arts Network presents Let's Talk Art, a FREE workshop series that will provide tools and information about how your practice functions as a business. Each workshop can be taken as a separate module, or taken together as a full series.
The Workshop will focus on providing you with the skills to evaluate the capabilities of your creative business practice. It will give an overview of the SWOT tool which will help you to identify your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
Time: 6- 9 pm
Place: Textile Museum, 55 Centre Ave, Toronto
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Lakeshore Arts Job Opportunities
Operations Manager Application Deadline: March 3, 2017
Façade Artist Application Deadline: March 5 2017
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Operations Manager
Reporting to the Executive Director, the Operations Manager is a key member of the management team of Lakeshore Arts. The Operations Manager is the strategic link between many aspects of the organizational development and the organization’s sustainability.
Façade Artist
Façade is a public art program held at Lakeshore Collegiate Institute (LCI) that provides opportunities for high-school students from different educational streams to work collaboratively on art projects under the guidance of artistic professionals.
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Theatre Ontario Youth Theatre Training Program
Deadline: March 15, 2017
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The deadline for Theatre Ontario’s Youth Theatre Training Program (YTTP) is approaching. The program offers financial support to programs that deliver accessible training to young people (age 14 to 21), led by professional theatre artists, in skills such as:
- Technical production and design
- Theatre administration and producing
- Performance skills and play creation
For more information on the new expanded eligibility, program guidelines and how to submit an application, visit our website.
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Wall art Learning Series: Behind the Scenes
March 23, 2017
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Mural Routes will be offering at least one workshop per month focusing on the behind-the-scenes aspects of mural-making.
March Workshop: Painting Utility Boxes
Do you want to liven up the streets with a utility box mural? Not sure where to start? This session will introduce the StART Outside the Box and Bell Box Murals programs, review application processes, and discuss effective design and painting strategies for utility boxes.
Cost: $30 for non-members
$25 for Mural Routes or Scarborough Arts members.
Time: 6:00-8:30pm
Place: Bluffs Gallery (1859 Kingston Rd, Toronto)
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Mural Art Career Development 2017
Application Due: March 27, 2017
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Mural Art Career Development is a free training program for career development in mural art production and project management. The program offers an opportunity for emerging mural artists to gain experience, make connections, and develop skills. This is an intensive, approximately 60-hour, curriculum course led by professionals in the field.
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bb collective pop-up exhibition call for submissions
Deadline: March 27, 2017, 5pm
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bb collective invites emerging visual artists to participate in a ticketed exhibition event with live music on April 20th .
Seeking innovative, multidisciplinary, visual art which rejects the confines of traditional mediums. Out of the Frame[work] will exhibit emerging artists who challenge these limitations and or the distinction between what is “fine art” and what is “craft”. Through this exhibition event we aim to draw parallels between the traditional restrictive nature of “fine art” media and the restrictive culture of our society.
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Queen West Art Crawl
Application Deadline: April 30, 2017
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Are you an artist? Are you interested in having your work seen by over 60,000 visitors? Applications are open for the Queen West Art Crawl 2017 in Trinity Bellwoods Park on Queen St West.
The Queen West Art Crawl (QWAC) is a charitable organization designed to celebrate and promote the art, culture and diversity of Queen West in Toronto. The Art Exhibition features a juried selection of the province’s best artists and artisans, and also showcases a Kids Zone, Performance Zone and Toronto’s best food vendors.
The dates of the 2017 Queen West Art Crawl are September 23-24, 2017.
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Newcomer and Refugee Artist Mentorship Grant Program
Application deadline: May 1st , 2017
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The Newcomer and Refugee Artist Mentorship program provides funding for newcomer and refugee professional artists to be mentored in their chosen artistic discipline. The program is open only to professional artists who arrived in Canada after January 1, 2010 and who live in the City of Toronto.
Please e-mail rupal@torontoartscouncil.org to reserve your spot in the session. Include your full name as well as any translation services or accessibility services you require.
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A Merry Munsch Pyjama Party
Dates: February 18 - March 26 and April 8 - 16, 2017
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Put on your PJs and jam with us! Solar Stage's annual Munsch show tradition continues! This brand new play is based on five books: Get Out of Bed; Roar; We Share Everything; No Clean Clothes; and Pyjama Day. This performance promises Mr. Robert Munsch's signature sense of humour that even makes grown-ups feel like kids. This show will make your heart giggle and be as much fun as staying up past your bedtime.
 Based on the books by Robert Munsch. Adapted by Roger Rousseau. Directed by M. John Kennedy and Dahlia Katz.
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Blood Weddings
4 - 19 March 2017
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Returning to Buddies in Bad Times Theatre this March: Aluna Theatre and Modern Times Stage Company remount Federico García Lorca’s Blood Weddings (Bodas de Sangre). Soheil Parsa's unique interpretation of this 20th century classic swept the 2015 Independent Dora Awards.
Cost: $15. Pay what you can matinees each Sunday at 2.30pm.
Time: Tues - Sat @ 8pm | Wed & Sun @ 2.30pm
Place: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
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JEPC Concert Series 2017
March 4, March 18, April 8
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Grounding Space
March 18, 2017
Registration Deadline: March 12, 2017
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This workshop is for Educators, Artists, and Community Builders seeking to explore the connection between the Personal Practice of living in Balance, and creating Collective Balance for Humanity. Questions we will explore collectively at the workshop: What does it mean to Find Balance? What does Balance mean to you? How do we create and maintain Balance for ourselves and the world?
Facilitated by: The Real Sun
Registration Deadline: March 12th
Time: 2:30-5:30pm
Cost: $30
Inclusion model in effect, please see link for details
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Canada's Shared Heritage Festival UNA-Canada
March 24, 2017
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We are delighted to invite you to the official ceremony of the Shared Heritage Festival, taking place on March 24, 2017 at the Gibson Ballroom, North York Novotel Hotel.
In celebration of Canada’s 150th Anniversary with the support of Canadian Heritage The United Nations Association in Canada (UNA-Canada) is running Canada’s Diversity Advantage initiative; working to engage youth in exploring and celebrating Canada’s diversity, and the advantage that it brings to the country.
The Shared Heritage Festival is a part of the Canada’s Diversity Advantage project. This celebration is the culmination of several months of classroom teaching and youth leadership training.
Your participation would greatly enhance and honor this event while demonstrating your spirit of inclusion for ALL within diversity.
Festival Date: March 24th 2017
Official Festival Ceremony Location: Gibson Ballroom at the North York Hotel Novotel
Address: 3 Park Home Ave, North York, ON M2N 6L3
Registration: 9:00 –9:30 am
Official Ceremony Time: 9:30-11:00 am
Shared Heritage Festival Location: North York Centre at Galleria level, 5140 Yonge st.
Shared Heritage Festival Time: 1:00-3:00 pm
Kindly RVSP by replying to this email canada.150@outlook.com
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