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Culture Days 2021 activities and events:
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Art in the City - Burlington’s Downtown Public Art Walking Tour
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location(s): Virtual online tour, in-person self-guided tour.
Description: The City of Burlington has launched Art and the City, a self-guided downtown public art walking tour. Art and the City is available online and accessible from any mobile device. The free web app offers a new way explore Burlington’s downtown and learn about public art in the process. The web-based map works across all platforms and allows residents and visitors to tour highlights from the public art collection using any internet-enabled smartphone or tablet. Art and the City is also available in PDF format to download, save and print.
Organizer: The City of Burlington, Burlington.ca/publicart.
Burlington Artists Tent Tour
Date: Sept. 25 and 26
Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: This is a self-guided driving tour to eight locations in the City of Burlington. Please visit artinaction.ca/tenttour for a map of all locations.
Description: The Burlington Artists Tent Tour is a collaboration between Art in Action, who have hosted studio tours in Burlington, and other Burlington artists. It is a hybrid between the traditional studio tour and the pop-up outdoor art shows that have been created to meet the safety protocols of the COVID pandemic. All artists and guests are required to wear a mask during this event.
The 2021 Burlington Artists Tent Tour will feature 18 artists and artisans at 8 locations across the City of Burlington showing their work outdoors in tents rather than in the studio with COVID protocols in place. It is a free, self-driving tour which will reconnect art lovers in the city with our fine artists, wood workers and jewellery makers in a safe but personal way. The Tent Tour will feature an Instagram Passport Contest. Guests are encouraged to post a picture of themselves at each of the eight locations to qualify for a $100 gift certificate redeemable with any of the participating artists.
Organizer: Art in Action, Janet Horne Cozens, artinaction.ca/tenttour/, burlingtonartiststenttour@gmail.com.
Celebration of the Moon Festival
Date(s): Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location: Virtual event.
Description: The Moon Festival is a traditional festival celebrated by many East and Southeast Asian people. It is the second-most important holiday after Chinese New Year in China. It is a time for reunion among families and friends, it symbolizes harmony and unity. This virtual celebration event provides opportunities for people to gather on ZOOM to enjoy a variety of traditional Chinese performing arts, such as singing, dance, traditional instrument play, and live-streamed poetry reading. There will also be interactive activities such as how to make moon festival pastries, how to perform Asian dance, and a Chinese culture Q & A session.
Organizer: Redleaf Cultural Integration, Redleafculturalintegration.com, info@redleafculturalintegration.com.
Children’s Haiku Writing Workshop
Date: Oct. 2
Time: 10 to 11 a.m.
Location: Virtual session
*Pre-registration is required.
Description: Children explore haiku writing with author Kim Horne in a fun and engaging way. During this virtual session, kids are invited to share their haiku poems with the group. The act of writing haiku helps children foster creativity, strengthen their connection to our natural world, and become more confident with language. Geared to school-age children 10 to 13 years old. Younger children should have an adult with them to help as needed. Presented in partnership with City of Burlington Mundialization Committee - Itabashi. A Burlington Culture Days special event. *Registration closes one hour before the program begins. You can access this Zoom program on your computer or on your device through the Zoom app.
Organizer: Organizer: Burlington Public Library, bpl.on.ca, 905.639.3611.
Crack the Code Trivia Night
Date: Oct. 1
Time: 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Location: Virtual event.
*This is a paid, pre-registered event, book now.
Description: Pssst, want to know a secret? Join us virtually for Crack the Code Trivia Night on Friday, October 1 at 7pm. Questions will relate to our upcoming special exhibition at Joseph Brant Museum, Cipher | Decipher, an interactive exhibition exploring the past and present of communications cryptology — what it is, how it works, and how it affects our lives. Developed by the Canada Science and Technology Museum, in partnership with the Communications Security Establishment.
Register your household and receive a trivia pack with a family-sized bag of popcorn and 5 beverages, $25/household. Trivia pack pick-up will be between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. at Joseph Brant Museum on Friday, October 1. There will be prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. Please note: Team participants must be within the same household (there will be no online break-out rooms).
Organizer: Museums of Burlington, museumsofburlington.ca, museuminfo@burlington.ca, 905.634.3556.
Dan Lawrie International Sculpture Collection: Self-guided Sculpture Tour
Date: Sept. 27
Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Hendrie Park at Royal Botanical Gardens 680 Plains Road West.
Description: Free access to Dan Lawrie International Sculpture Collection found throughout RBGs Hendrie Park. Featuring two new sculptures Reverie and Overture. Self-guided Sculpture Tour: Stroll through the Dan Lawrie International Sculpture Collection and experience the spectacular pieces in Hendrie Park at your own pace. Choose RBG’s new interactive StoryMaps using your device or use a paper map to find your way.
Organizer: Royal Botanical Gardens, rbg.ca, info@rbg.ca, 905.527.1158.
Explore Burlington’s Public Art Collection Online
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location(s): Virtual online tour.
Description: Public art is a force for placemaking - for expressing and evoking connections between people and places that are meaningful to community and civic life. Public art can take on a variety of forms and media. It can have functional as well as aesthetic qualities and may be integrated into a site or be a standalone artwork. No matter what the form, public art is an original artwork placed in a publicly accessible location created with the intention of reflecting and engaging the community. Public art helps to tell the story of our community. Burlington's public art collection is now available online and accessible from your computer, tablet and mobile device. Explore over 95 public artworks throughout the city. View images, locations and artwork information on Burlington's Public Art Map.
Organizer: The City of Burlington, Burlington.ca/publicart.
Free Musical Theatre Dance Workshops - Community Event
Date and Time(s): Oct. 2, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. and 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Oct. 3, 1 to 2 p.m.
Location: 1450 Headon Road, 2nd Floor.
*Pre-registration is required.
Description: Learn some musical theatre dance choreography to Broadway songs. Join Leslie Gray of KooGle Theatre to learn fun dance routines from the musical theatre repertoire. 3 Different level workshops available from beginner adult to advanced dancers and a family class for all ages. Pre-registration is required for the workshops due to Covid restrictions. Social distancing and masks will be required in the studio and during the class. Please self-screen before entering. Please email info@koogletheatre.com to register.
All workshops will take place at our new location - 1450 Headon Road, 2nd Floor, Burlington, Ontario. October 2: Adult Beginners from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. October 2: Family (all ages) from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. October 3: Intermediate/Advanced Dancers from 1 to 2 p.m.
Organizer: Leslie Gray, info@koogletheatre.com, koogletheatre.com.
Hear, Find, Focus and Snap: Birding and Photography for All
Date: Oct. 2
Time: 9 a.m. to noon.
Location: Arboretum at Royal Botanical Gardens, 20 Old Guelph Rd. Dundas.
*This is a paid event.
Description: Effectively photographing birds requires skills in both photography and birding. Learn how to setup the camera with Matthew Tiegs and learn about the birds with Jackson Hudecki. In-class instruction followed by two hours outdoors to practice your new skills. If required, the in-class portion of this program will be offered virtually: Thursday, September 30; 7 to 8 p.m. (virtual) and Saturday, October 2; 9 to 11 a.m. (outdoors). Fee: $65, 10% discount for RBG Members.
Organizer: Royal Botanical Gardens, rbg.ca, info@rbg.ca, 905.527.1158.
How to Read a Vessel
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Time: Tuesday to Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Art Gallery of Burlington - Lee-Chin Family Gallery.
Description: Over the last 38 years, the Art Gallery of Burlington (AGB) has amassed the largest comprehensive collection of contemporary Canadian ceramics in the world. Totalling over 3,000 works, the collection ranges from functional ware to sculptural installations. How to Read a Vessel is an experimental exhibition and communal site of learning that openly discusses the challenges and excitement of holding, caring for, and exhibiting this object-based, craft-forward permanent collection, while continuing to develop a vision that incorporates critical social practice at its core.
The assembly of programs and projects by artists and curators Ness Lee, Su-Ying Lee, Myung-Sun Kim, Ivy Knight, and Christine Saly-Chapman has been conceived of in response to two key texts: Elizabeth Fisher’s “Carrier Bag Theory of Evolution,” which proposes that the first tool was a container, rather than a weapon, thereby feminizing concepts of early society; and, by extension, Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,” which applies the container approach to stories, arguing for an expansion of the types of narratives and outcomes that are made visible beyond the finality of a singular weapon-wielding hero.
With these texts as a guiding force, the exhibition examines how a collection of vessels speaks to an unaccounted and unrecognized history of women’s ingenuity and labour in the arts. How to Read a Vessel unpacks the matriarchal history of craft production and the AGB’s own institutional beginnings by bringing its ceramic vessels out of their vaults and into the public space, alongside newly commissioned pieces, and an array of international artworks. It is a non-linear, queer exhibition exploring the vessel as language, lineage, containment, nourishment, and archive. Within it, art objects become metaphors, or mnemonic devices, to discuss the colonial constructs of collections and their histories.
Organizer: Art Gallery of Burlington, agb.life, 905.632.7796.
Ivy Knight: Jugs & Cans: A Reaping
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Time: Tuesday to Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Art Gallery of Burlington - Lakeshore Gallery.
Description: This exhibition is a collection of over 150 empty vessels; jugs, cans, bottles, and boxes, collected from women in food across Canada and the United States. In gathering the containers Ivy collects the stories and struggles of the cooks, bakers, food writers, restaurateurs, and servers who opened, emptied, and used them. She then lovingly enrobes them in crocheted vestments to hold the donor’s voiced realities in a brightly coloured, protective shield of craft.
Organizer: Art Gallery of Burlington, agb.life, 905.632.7796.
Needle Felt a Pansy Flower
Date(s): Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location: Online tutorial.
Description: Join fiber artist Cathy Disbrow of Woolly Doodles to learn how to needle felt a Pansy flower that you can turn into a brooch, magnet, clip, or to embellish a wool sweater, scarf or hat. To needle felt along with this tutorial, you need: a felting needle, a felting surface, 4 - 5 grams of wool in the colours for your Pansy. All supplies are explained in the beginning of this video. If you need supplies, you can purchase a kit. This is a great beginner project. Children under the age of 11 require adult supervision as the needles are sharp.
Organizer: Woolly Doodles, Cathy Disbrow, cathy@woolydoodles.com, woollydoodles.com.
Plein Air Watercolour Workshop
Date(s) Sept. 25 and Oct. 2
Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: Hendrie Park at Royal Botanical Gardens, 680 Plains Road West.
*This is a paid event.
Description: Learn the basics of plein-air watercolour painting with Julie Donec. This two-day course covers choosing your subject matter, composing a strong and dynamic image, using effective colour schemes, and an overview of techniques to create sparkling and vivid effects. If you have a solid knowledge base of watercolour basics, take your landscape painting to the next level. (Rain dates: September 26 and October 3). Fee: $150, 10% discount for RBG Members.
Organizer: Royal Botanical Gardens, rbg.ca, info@rbg.ca, 905.527.1158
Seeing the Invisible
Date(s): Sept. 24 - 26, 29 and 30. Oct. 1 - 3.
Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Hendrie Park at Royal Botanical Gardens, 680 Plains Road West.
*This is a paid event.
Description: Experience the most ambitious and expansive exhibition to date of contemporary artworks created with augmented reality (AR) technology. Featuring 13 artists from across the globe, their works address nature, environment, sustainability, and the intersection of the physical world with the digital one. Cost: General Admission +$5 special exhibit fee.
Organizer: Royal Botanical Gardens, rbg.ca, info@rbg.ca, 905.527.1158.
Slow Cloth
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Time: Tuesday to Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Art Gallery of Burlington - Perry Gallery.
Description: “How long did it take you to make this?” is the most common question weavers hear. The short answer is, “as long as a piece of string.” Slow Cloth is an exhibition that attempts to provide a better answer to that question by illustrating the process of and telling the story of what goes into making handwoven scarves. A team of sixteen artists ranging from weavers with many years of experience to those just starting out were challenged to design and weave a scarf drawing from the colour inspiration from one of a set of five images.
While creating their scarves, the weavers kept careful track of the amount of time taken for each step of the process. Steps include calculating and planning the design of the scarf, preparing the threads by spinning, dyeing, and winding them in order. Then the vertical threads are put onto the loom and prepared for weaving (warping), the weaver throws the horizontal threads (weaving), and finally washing and finishing as desired. Each artist has a different process and allocates their time to the different steps according to their own preferences and skills, yielding a different blend for each scarf. After logging each stage and step, the long answer to the popular question, “how long” was answered. Results vary due to the individual design choices by each artist but on average it takes, an astonishing, 41.5 hours to weave a single handwoven scarf.
Organizer: Art Gallery of Burlington, agb.life, 905.632.7796.
Then/Now
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location: Online exhibition.
Description: Everyday Burlington locations with extraordinary stories. Join Museums of Burlington in exploring the historic streets of Burlington from the comfort of your couch! In this online exhibition, we are bringing the Joseph Brant Museum’s Then/Now interactive map to you!
Organizer: Museums of Burlington, museumsofburlington.ca, museuminfo@burlington.ca, 905.634.3556.
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| Oct. 4 to 10 |
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Art in the City - Burlington’s Downtown Public Art Walking Tour
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location(s): Virtual online tour, in-person self-guided tour.
Description: The City of Burlington has launched Art and the City, a self-guided downtown public art walking tour. Art and the City is available online and accessible from any mobile device. The free web app offers a new way explore Burlington’s downtown and learn about public art in the process. The web-based map works across all platforms and allows residents and visitors to tour highlights from the public art collection using any internet-enabled smartphone or tablet. Art and the City is also available in PDF format to download, save and print.
Organizer: The City of Burlington, Burlington.ca/publicart.
BPL presents Virtual Human Library - Meet Valarie King
Date: Oct. 6
Time: 2 to 3 p.m.
Location: Online via Zoom.
*Pre-registration is required.
Description: Burlington Public Library (BPL) will be hosting a virtual Human Library. A human library is a library of people. Join us as we celebrate, listen and learn from our human books who are sharing their stories and lived experiences with us through virtual presentations. Oct. 4 is National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, join Valerie King who will discuss the roles of women, connection to water and how the it all ties together. Join us as we celebrate, listen and learn from our human library of people who are sharing their culture, stories and lived experiences with us through virtual presentations. Bring your questions and gain greater understanding and cultural appreciation. Burlington Public Library Virtual Branch. Free via Zoom Webinar, Registration required.
Organizer: Burlington Public Library, bpl.on.ca, 905.639.3611.
Celebration of the Moon Festival
Date(s): Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location: Virtual event.
Description: The Moon Festival is a traditional festival celebrated by many East and Southeast Asian people. It is the second-most important holiday after Chinese New Year in China. It is a time for reunion among families and friends, it symbolizes harmony and unity. This virtual celebration event provides opportunities for people to gather on ZOOM to enjoy a variety of traditional Chinese performing arts, such as singing, dance, traditional instrument play, and live-streamed poetry reading. There will also be interactive activities such as how to make moon festival pastries, how to perform Asian dance, and a Chinese culture Q & A session.
Organizer: Redleaf Cultural Integration, Redleafculturalintegration.com, info@redleafculturalintegration.com.
Dan Lawrie International Sculpture Collection: Self-guided Sculpture Tour
Date: Oct. 4
Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Hendrie Park at Royal Botanical Gardens 680 Plains Road West.
Description: Free access to Dan Lawrie International Sculpture Collection found throughout RBGs Hendrie Park. Featuring two new sculptures Reverie and Overture. Self-guided Sculpture Tour: Stroll through the Dan Lawrie International Sculpture Collection and experience the spectacular pieces in Hendrie Park at your own pace. Choose RBG’s new interactive StoryMaps using your device or use a paper map to find your way.
Organizer: Royal Botanical Gardens, rbg.ca, info@rbg.ca, 905.527.1158.
Explore Burlington’s Public Art Collection Online
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location(s): Virtual online tour.
Description: Public art is a force for placemaking - for expressing and evoking connections between people and places that are meaningful to community and civic life. Public art can take on a variety of forms and media. It can have functional as well as aesthetic qualities and may be integrated into a site or be a standalone artwork. No matter what the form, public art is an original artwork placed in a publicly accessible location created with the intention of reflecting and engaging the community. Public art helps to tell the story of our community. Burlington's public art collection is now available online and accessible from your computer, tablet and mobile device. Explore over 95 public artworks throughout the city. View images, locations and artwork information on Burlington's Public Art Map.
Organizer: The City of Burlington, Burlington.ca/publicart.
How to Read a Vessel
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Time: Tuesday to Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Art Gallery of Burlington - Lee-Chin Family Gallery.
Description: Over the last 38 years, the Art Gallery of Burlington (AGB) has amassed the largest comprehensive collection of contemporary Canadian ceramics in the world. Totalling over 3,000 works, the collection ranges from functional ware to sculptural installations. How to Read a Vessel is an experimental exhibition and communal site of learning that openly discusses the challenges and excitement of holding, caring for, and exhibiting this object-based, craft-forward permanent collection, while continuing to develop a vision that incorporates critical social practice at its core.
The assembly of programs and projects by artists and curators Ness Lee, Su-Ying Lee, Myung-Sun Kim, Ivy Knight, and Christine Saly-Chapman has been conceived of in response to two key texts: Elizabeth Fisher’s “Carrier Bag Theory of Evolution,” which proposes that the first tool was a container, rather than a weapon, thereby feminizing concepts of early society; and, by extension, Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,” which applies the container approach to stories, arguing for an expansion of the types of narratives and outcomes that are made visible beyond the finality of a singular weapon-wielding hero.
With these texts as a guiding force, the exhibition examines how a collection of vessels speaks to an unaccounted and unrecognized history of women’s ingenuity and labour in the arts. How to Read a Vessel unpacks the matriarchal history of craft production and the AGB’s own institutional beginnings by bringing its ceramic vessels out of their vaults and into the public space, alongside newly commissioned pieces, and an array of international artworks. It is a non-linear, queer exhibition exploring the vessel as language, lineage, containment, nourishment, and archive. Within it, art objects become metaphors, or mnemonic devices, to discuss the colonial constructs of collections and their histories.
Organizer: Art Gallery of Burlington, agb.life, 905.632.7796.
Ivy Knight: Jugs & Cans: A Reaping
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Time: Tuesday to Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Art Gallery of Burlington - Lakeshore Gallery.
Description: This exhibition is a collection of over 150 empty vessels; jugs, cans, bottles, and boxes, collected from women in food across Canada and the United States. In gathering the containers Ivy collects the stories and struggles of the cooks, bakers, food writers, restaurateurs, and servers who opened, emptied, and used them. She then lovingly enrobes them in crocheted vestments to hold the donor’s voiced realities in a brightly coloured, protective shield of craft.
Organizer: Art Gallery of Burlington, agb.life, 905.632.7796.
Needle Felt a Pansy Flower
Date(s): Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location: Online tutorial.
Description: Join fiber artist Cathy Disbrow of Woolly Doodles to learn how to needle felt a Pansy flower that you can turn into a brooch, magnet, clip, or to embellish a wool sweater, scarf or hat. To needle felt along with this tutorial, you need: a felting needle, a felting surface, 4 - 5 grams of wool in the colours for your Pansy. All supplies are explained in the beginning of this video. If you need supplies, you can purchase a kit. This is a great beginner project. Children under the age of 11 require adult supervision as the needles are sharp.
Organizer: Woolly Doodles, Cathy Disbrow, cathy@woolydoodles.com, woollydoodles.com.
Needle Felt a Pumpkin - Fall Craft
Date: Oct. 7
Time: 7 to 9 p.m.
Location: Virtual via Zoom.
*Pre-registration is required.
Description: Let’s celebrate Autumn by needle felting a pumpkin! In this fun online workshop, fibre artist Cathy Disbrow will teach you how to needle felt a medium sized pumpkin decoration. Learn various felting techniques in this live streamed class. Approximate size of the finished pumpkin is 4.5″ x 4.5″ x 3″.
This is an online class, so you can ask questions at any time. This is a great beginner project. Children under the age of 11 require adult supervision as the needles are sharp. Students must register to receive the Zoom access. Workshop is FREE and if you need felting supplies, they are available at an additional cost. All information is included on the registration site.
Organizer: Woolly Doodles, Cathy Disbrow, cathy@woolydoodles.com, woollydoodles.com.
RE:DE(SIGN) - Temporary Public Art at the Beachway
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location: The Beachway Waterfront Trail.
Description: The City of Burlington public art program is launching a temporary art project, RE:DE(SIGN) as part of Culture Days. Throughout the Culture Days celebration, the public art program will be installing small, temporary artworks on signposts along the Waterfront Trail, stretching from Beachway Park to the Lift Bridge. The signs will feature the amazing work of local visual artists and writers. This project will provide trail users with a safe and accessible way to enjoy art and to learn more about the amazing creators in our community. Each artwork will be accompanied with a profile of the artist.
Organizer: The City of Burlington, Burlington.ca/publicart.
Seeing the Invisible
Date(s): Oct. 6 - 10.
Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Hendrie Park at Royal Botanical Gardens, 680 Plains Road West.
*This is a paid event.
Description: Experience the most ambitious and expansive exhibition to date of contemporary artworks created with augmented reality (AR) technology. Featuring 13 artists from across the globe, their works address nature, environment, sustainability, and the intersection of the physical world with the digital one. Cost: General Admission +$5 special exhibit fee.
Organizer: Royal Botanical Gardens, rbg.ca, info@rbg.ca, 905.527.1158.
Slow Cloth
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Time: Tuesday to Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Art Gallery of Burlington - Perry Gallery.
Description: “How long did it take you to make this?” is the most common question weavers hear. The short answer is, “as long as a piece of string.” Slow Cloth is an exhibition that attempts to provide a better answer to that question by illustrating the process of and telling the story of what goes into making handwoven scarves. A team of sixteen artists ranging from weavers with many years of experience to those just starting out were challenged to design and weave a scarf drawing from the colour inspiration from one of a set of five images.
While creating their scarves, the weavers kept careful track of the amount of time taken for each step of the process. Steps include calculating and planning the design of the scarf, preparing the threads by spinning, dyeing, and winding them in order. Then the vertical threads are put onto the loom and prepared for weaving (warping), the weaver throws the horizontal threads (weaving), and finally washing and finishing as desired. Each artist has a different process and allocates their time to the different steps according to their own preferences and skills, yielding a different blend for each scarf. After logging each stage and step, the long answer to the popular question, “how long” was answered. Results vary due to the individual design choices by each artist but on average it takes, an astonishing, 41.5 hours to weave a single handwoven scarf.
Organizer: Art Gallery of Burlington, agb.life, 905.632.7796.
The Four Sacred Medicines with Chef Johl Whiteduck
Date: Oct. 6
Time: 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Location: Art Gallery of Burlington - AGB Community Garden at Lakeshore entrance.
*Pre-registration is required.
Description: Chef Johl Whiteduck introduces teachings about the Sacred medicines: Asemaa (tobacco), Giizhik (cedar), Wiingashk, (Sweetgrass) and Mshkodewashk (Sage). These plants are some of our oldest ancestors and teachers of the Anishinawbe. Johl’s 16+ years journey of Indigenous Food Sovereignty has led him to the seeds, plants, and medicines and the reclaiming and relearning Indigenous knowledge about the planting ceremonies. Even the smallest of urban garden spaces can grow the plant medicines and demonstrate Indigenous AgroEcology practices. Through Miinikaan Innovation and Design, Johl has co-designed Indigenous teaching gardens that invite curiosity and cultivate the relationships between people and our plant ancestors. To accompany this talk, we will plant sacred medicines into raised garden beds at the AGB.
Chef Johl Whiteduck Ringuette is Anishnawbe and Algonquin. he was born in North Bay, Ontario and his grandmother is from Nippissing First Nation. His clan is Mink clan. Johl was raised on wild game, fishing and seasonal berry-picks and cooking over the fire. Chef Johl is the owner of NishDish Marketeria and Catering, which specializes in Anishnawbe cuisine since 2005. He is one of Tkaronto’s leading First Nations food sovereigntists and has dedicated his life to identifying, sourcing, relearning, and reclaiming what the traditional Anishnawbe diet is. His unwavering commitment to this vision has broadened his work beyond NishDish. He is a public speaker on many topics related to food sovereignty and social entrepreneurship and has taught countless food demos and traditional food skills workshops.
Johl is a teacher of one of the only Anishnawbe land-based culinary arts program, Ojibiikaan Indigenous Culinary Arts Program. This led to some of the first traditionally planted Three Sisters gardens in the GTA. The gifts to Johl of centuries-old ancestral seeds started the ongoing development of an extensive Indigenous seed bank. The expansion of NishDish’s Indigenous food gardens around the city laid the groundwork for the birth of a brand-new not-for-profit organization that Chef Johl founded in 2018, called Ojibiikaan Indigenous Cultural Network.
Organizer: Art Gallery of Burlington, agb.life, 905.632.7796.
Then/Now
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location: Online exhibition.
Description: Everyday Burlington locations with extraordinary stories. Join Museums of Burlington in exploring the historic streets of Burlington from the comfort of your couch! In this online exhibition, we are bringing the Joseph Brant Museum’s Then/Now interactive map to you!
Organizer: Museums of Burlington, museumsofburlington.ca, museuminfo@burlington.ca, 905.634.3556.
Watercolour: Expressive Landscapes
Date(s): Oct. 6, 13, 20 and 27. Nov. 3, 10, 17, and 24.
Time: 1 to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Virtual Program.
*This is a paid event.
Description: Join Shelley Prior and learn various techniques to create landscape elements such as skies, trees, flowers and lakes as well as manmade elements, how to create the look of morning fog, the blaze of a vibrant sunset or glowing lights of a night scene. Each session is recorded for replay. The final session is a review and critique of work done. Intermediate level. Fee: $175, 10% discount for RBG Members.
Organizer: Royal Botanical Gardens, rbg.ca, info@rbg.ca, 905.527.1158.
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| Oct. 11 to 17 |
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Art in the City - Burlington’s Downtown Public Art Walking Tour
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location(s): Virtual online tour, in-person self-guided tour.
Description: The City of Burlington has launched Art and the City, a self-guided downtown public art walking tour. Art and the City is available online and accessible from any mobile device. The free web app offers a new way explore Burlington’s downtown and learn about public art in the process. The web-based map works across all platforms and allows residents and visitors to tour highlights from the public art collection using any internet-enabled smartphone or tablet. Art and the City is also available in PDF format to download, save and print.
Organizer: The City of Burlington, Burlington.ca/publicart.
BPL presents Virtual Human Library - Meet Osob Admus
Date: Oct. 13
Time: 2 to 3 p.m.
Location: Online via Zoom.
*Pre-registration is required.
Description: Burlington Public Library (BPL) will be hosting a virtual Human Library. A human library is a library of people. Navigating culture and community as a Black Muslim woman. Diversity educator, Osob Adus offers insights into the diversity of the Islamic faith and her perspectives as a Muslim woman. Journey through Islamic Cultures and us as we celebrate, listen and learn from our human books who are sharing their stories and lived experiences with us through virtual presentations. Bring your questions and gain greater understanding and cultural appreciation. www.bpl.on.ca for the most up to date information.
Organizer: Burlington Public Library, bpl.on.ca, 905.639.3611.
Celebration of the Moon Festival
Date(s): Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location: Virtual event.
Description: The Moon Festival is a traditional festival celebrated by many East and Southeast Asian people. It is the second-most important holiday after Chinese New Year in China. It is a time for reunion among families and friends, it symbolizes harmony and unity. This virtual celebration event provides opportunities for people to gather on ZOOM to enjoy a variety of traditional Chinese performing arts, such as singing, dance, traditional instrument play, and live-streamed poetry reading. There will also be interactive activities such as how to make moon festival pastries, how to perform Asian dance, and a Chinese culture Q & A session.
Organizer: Redleaf Cultural Integration, Redleafculturalintegration.com, info@redleafculturalintegration.com.
Cipher | Decipher
Date: Oct. 15 through the Duration of Culture Days.
Time(s): Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: Joseph Brant Museum.
*Paid, ticketed event. General admission fees apply. Book your visit to Joseph Brant Museum
Description: Cipher | Decipher is an interactive exhibition developed by Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, in partnership with the Communications Security Establishment (CSE). Providing visitors with a rare and exciting opportunity to view an authentic Second World War Enigma cipher machine, Cipher | Decipher breaks down communications encryption: what it is, how it works, and how it affects our lives. The 500-square-foot exhibition showcases a wide range of historic communications encryption artifacts on loan from the CSE, and contains both hands-on and digital experiences, as well as custom illustrations that visually demonstrate key processes in cybersecurity, and making and breaking ciphers. Visitors will be able to scramble their own messages using a cipher wheel, see how an Enigma cipher machine works, and tackle puzzles to learn if they have what it takes to work in the field of cryptology.
Also on view is a complementary mini-exhibition, Floriography: The Language of Flowers. Beyond their beauty, flowers can share deep and symbolic meaning. Sending flowers to a special someone can allow us to confide our true feelings or let a loved one know that we’re thinking of them This meaning is taken a step further through what’s known as “floriography”, the Victorian era art of combining flowers to send coded messages – a language based entirely on flowers. Using images taken from the Museums of Burlington’s collections and floriographies on loan from the Royal Botanical Gardens, visitors will uncover the subtle art of floriography and can even try their luck at decoding a bouquet mural for the chance to win a prize.
Organizer: Museums of Burlington, museumsofburlington.ca, museuminfo@burlington.ca, 905.634.3556.
Dan Lawrie International Sculpture Collection: Self-guided Sculpture Tour
Date: Oct. 11
Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Hendrie Park at Royal Botanical Gardens 680 Plains Road West.
Description: Free access to Dan Lawrie International Sculpture Collection found throughout RBGs Hendrie Park. Featuring two new sculptures Reverie and Overture. Self-guided Sculpture Tour: Stroll through the Dan Lawrie International Sculpture Collection and experience the spectacular pieces in Hendrie Park at your own pace. Choose RBG’s new interactive StoryMaps using your device or use a paper map to find your way.
Organizer: Royal Botanical Gardens, rbg.ca, info@rbg.ca, 905.527.1158.
Explore Burlington’s Public Art Collection Online
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location(s): Virtual online tour.
Description: Public art is a force for placemaking - for expressing and evoking connections between people and places that are meaningful to community and civic life. Public art can take on a variety of forms and media. It can have functional as well as aesthetic qualities and may be integrated into a site or be a standalone artwork. No matter what the form, public art is an original artwork placed in a publicly accessible location created with the intention of reflecting and engaging the community. Public art helps to tell the story of our community. Burlington's public art collection is now available online and accessible from your computer, tablet and mobile device. Explore over 95 public artworks throughout the city. View images, locations and artwork information on Burlington's Public Art Map.
Organizer: The City of Burlington, Burlington.ca/publicart.
How to Read a Vessel
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Time: Tuesday to Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Art Gallery of Burlington - Lee-Chin Family Gallery.
Description: Over the last 38 years, the Art Gallery of Burlington (AGB) has amassed the largest comprehensive collection of contemporary Canadian ceramics in the world. Totalling over 3,000 works, the collection ranges from functional ware to sculptural installations. How to Read a Vessel is an experimental exhibition and communal site of learning that openly discusses the challenges and excitement of holding, caring for, and exhibiting this object-based, craft-forward permanent collection, while continuing to develop a vision that incorporates critical social practice at its core.
The assembly of programs and projects by artists and curators Ness Lee, Su-Ying Lee, Myung-Sun Kim, Ivy Knight, and Christine Saly-Chapman has been conceived of in response to two key texts: Elizabeth Fisher’s “Carrier Bag Theory of Evolution,” which proposes that the first tool was a container, rather than a weapon, thereby feminizing concepts of early society; and, by extension, Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,” which applies the container approach to stories, arguing for an expansion of the types of narratives and outcomes that are made visible beyond the finality of a singular weapon-wielding hero.
With these texts as a guiding force, the exhibition examines how a collection of vessels speaks to an unaccounted and unrecognized history of women’s ingenuity and labour in the arts. How to Read a Vessel unpacks the matriarchal history of craft production and the AGB’s own institutional beginnings by bringing its ceramic vessels out of their vaults and into the public space, alongside newly commissioned pieces, and an array of international artworks. It is a non-linear, queer exhibition exploring the vessel as language, lineage, containment, nourishment, and archive. Within it, art objects become metaphors, or mnemonic devices, to discuss the colonial constructs of collections and their histories.
Organizer: Art Gallery of Burlington, agb.life, 905.632.7796.
Ivy Knight: Jugs & Cans: A Reaping
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Time: Tuesday to Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Art Gallery of Burlington - Lakeshore Gallery.
Description: This exhibition is a collection of over 150 empty vessels; jugs, cans, bottles, and boxes, collected from women in food across Canada and the United States. In gathering the containers Ivy collects the stories and struggles of the cooks, bakers, food writers, restaurateurs, and servers who opened, emptied, and used them. She then lovingly enrobes them in crocheted vestments to hold the donor’s voiced realities in a brightly coloured, protective shield of craft.
Organizer: Art Gallery of Burlington, agb.life, 905.632.7796.
Needle Felt a Pansy Flower
Date(s): Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location: Online tutorial.
Description: Join fiber artist Cathy Disbrow of Woolly Doodles to learn how to needle felt a Pansy flower that you can turn into a brooch, magnet, clip, or to embellish a wool sweater, scarf or hat. To needle felt along with this tutorial, you need: a felting needle, a felting surface, 4 - 5 grams of wool in the colours for your Pansy. All supplies are explained in the beginning of this video. If you need supplies, you can purchase a kit. This is a great beginner project. Children under the age of 11 require adult supervision as the needles are sharp.
Organizer: Woolly Doodles, Cathy Disbrow, cathy@woolydoodles.com, woollydoodles.com.
Needle Felt Painting a Flower
Date: Oct. 14
Time: 6 to 9 p.m.
Location: Royal Botanical Gardens, 680 Plains Road West.
*This is a paid event, pre-registration is required.
Description: Learn the art of needle felting by creating a brilliant Black-eyed Susan fibre painting. Fiber artist Cathy Disbrow, of Woolly Doodles, teaches you how to felt a flower cluster into a 4" x 6" wool painting, using a special needle to stab sheep wool into a felt sheet. All materials are provided. (If necessary, this program may run virtually with kit pick-up at RBG Centre.). Fee: $55, 10% discount for RBG Members.
Organizer: Royal Botanical Gardens, rbg.ca, info@rbg.ca, 905.527.1158.
RE:DE(SIGN) - Temporary Public Art at the Beachway
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location: The Beachway Waterfront Trail.
Description: The City of Burlington public art program is launching a temporary art project, RE:DE(SIGN) as part of Culture Days. Throughout the Culture Days celebration, the public art program will be installing small, temporary artworks on signposts along the Waterfront Trail, stretching from Beachway Park to the Lift Bridge. The signs will feature the amazing work of local visual artists and writers. This project will provide trail users with a safe and accessible way to enjoy art and to learn more about the amazing creators in our community. Each artwork will be accompanied with a profile of the artist.
Organizer: The City of Burlington, Burlington.ca/publicart.
Seeing the Invisible
Date(s): Oct. 13 - 17
Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Hendrie Park at Royal Botanical Gardens, 680 Plains Road West.
*This is a paid event
Description: Experience the most ambitious and expansive exhibition to date of contemporary artworks created with augmented reality (AR) technology. Featuring 13 artists from across the globe, their works address nature, environment, sustainability, and the intersection of the physical world with the digital one. Cost: General Admission +$5 special exhibit fee.
Organizer: Royal Botanical Gardens, rbg.ca, info@rbg.ca, 905.527.1158.
Slow Cloth
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Time: Tuesday to Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Art Gallery of Burlington - Perry Gallery.
Description: “How long did it take you to make this?” is the most common question weavers hear. The short answer is, “as long as a piece of string.” Slow Cloth is an exhibition that attempts to provide a better answer to that question by illustrating the process of and telling the story of what goes into making handwoven scarves. A team of sixteen artists ranging from weavers with many years of experience to those just starting out were challenged to design and weave a scarf drawing from the colour inspiration from one of a set of five images.
While creating their scarves, the weavers kept careful track of the amount of time taken for each step of the process. Steps include calculating and planning the design of the scarf, preparing the threads by spinning, dyeing, and winding them in order. Then the vertical threads are put onto the loom and prepared for weaving (warping), the weaver throws the horizontal threads (weaving), and finally washing and finishing as desired. Each artist has a different process and allocates their time to the different steps according to their own preferences and skills, yielding a different blend for each scarf. After logging each stage and step, the long answer to the popular question, “how long” was answered. Results vary due to the individual design choices by each artist but on average it takes, an astonishing, 41.5 hours to weave a single handwoven scarf.
Organizer: Art Gallery of Burlington, agb.life, 905.632.7796.
Southern Ontario Lyric Opera presents the Splendour of Italian Tenor Arias
Date: Oct. 14
Time: 2 to 3 p.m.
Location: Virtual event - Live via Zoom.
*Pre-registration is required.
Description: Join Sabatino Vacca, Artistic Director of Southern Ontario Lyric Opera (SOLO), as he discusses the world of Italian tenor arias. Sabatino will be joined by tenor Romulo Delgado to perform some of the most passionate tenor arias by Verdi, Puccini, and others. Do not miss this opportunity to learn more about this passionate era in operatic history. Registration required.
Organizer: Burlington Public Library, bpl.on.ca, 905.639.3611.
Then/Now
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location: Online exhibition.
Description: Everyday Burlington locations with extraordinary stories. Join Museums of Burlington in exploring the historic streets of Burlington from the comfort of your couch! In this online exhibition, we are bringing the Joseph Brant Museum’s Then/Now interactive map to you!
Organizer: Museums of Burlington, museumsofburlington.ca, museuminfo@burlington.ca, 905.634.3556.
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Art in the City - Burlington’s Downtown Public Art Walking Tour
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location(s): Virtual online tour, in-person self-guided tour.
Description: The City of Burlington has launched Art and the City, a self-guided downtown public art walking tour. Art and the City is available online and accessible from any mobile device. The free web app offers a new way explore Burlington’s downtown and learn about public art in the process. The web-based map works across all platforms and allows residents and visitors to tour highlights from the public art collection using any internet-enabled smartphone or tablet. Art and the City is also available in PDF format to download, save and print.
Organizer: The City of Burlington, Burlington.ca/publicart.
BPL presents Virtual Human Library - Meet Heather Salt
Date: Oct. 20
Time: 2 to 3 p.m.
Location: Online via Zoom
*Pre-registration is required.
Description: Burlington Public Library (BPL) will be hosting a virtual Human Library. A human library is a library of people. Heather Salt is a registered professional nurse who worked in the ICU during a global pandemic. Join us as we celebrate, listen and learn from our human books who are sharing their stories and lived experiences with us through virtual presentations. Bring your questions and gain greater understanding and cultural appreciation. www.bpl.on.ca for the most up to date information.
Organizer: Burlington Public Library, bpl.on.ca, 905.639.3611.
BPL presents Virtual Human Library - Meet Padma Sastri
Date: Oct. 24
Time: 2 to 3 p.m.
Location: Online via Zoom
*Pre-registration is required.
Description: Burlington Public Library (BPL) will be hosting a virtual Human Library. A human library is a library of people. Padma Sastri will talk about hindu culture and tie in Hindu Heritage month which is in November. Join us as we celebrate, listen and learn from our human books who are sharing their stories and lived experiences with us through virtual presentations. Bring your questions and gain greater understanding and cultural appreciation. www.bpl.on.ca for the most up to date information.
Organizer: Burlington Public Library, bpl.on.ca, 905.639.3611.
Celebration of the Moon Festival
Date(s): Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location: Virtual event.
Description: The Moon Festival is a traditional festival celebrated by many East and Southeast Asian people. It is the second-most important holiday after Chinese New Year in China. It is a time for reunion among families and friends, it symbolizes harmony and unity. This virtual celebration event provides opportunities for people to gather on ZOOM to enjoy a variety of traditional Chinese performing arts, such as singing, dance, traditional instrument play, and live-streamed poetry reading. There will also be interactive activities such as how to make moon festival pastries, how to perform Asian dance, and a Chinese culture Q & A session.
Organizer: Redleaf Cultural Integration (RCI), Redleafculturalintegration.com, info@redleafculturalintegration.com.
Cipher | Decipher
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Time(s): Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: Joseph Brant Museum.
*Paid, ticketed event. General admission fees apply. Book your visit to Joseph Brant Museum
Description: Cipher | Decipher is an interactive exhibition developed by Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, in partnership with the Communications Security Establishment (CSE). Providing visitors with a rare and exciting opportunity to view an authentic Second World War Enigma cipher machine, Cipher | Decipher breaks down communications encryption: what it is, how it works, and how it affects our lives. The 500-square-foot exhibition showcases a wide range of historic communications encryption artifacts on loan from the CSE, and contains both hands-on and digital experiences, as well as custom illustrations that visually demonstrate key processes in cybersecurity, and making and breaking ciphers. Visitors will be able to scramble their own messages using a cipher wheel, see how an Enigma cipher machine works, and tackle puzzles to learn if they have what it takes to work in the field of cryptology.
Also on view is a complementary mini-exhibition, Floriography: The Language of Flowers. Beyond their beauty, flowers can share deep and symbolic meaning. Sending flowers to a special someone can allow us to confide our true feelings or let a loved one know that we’re thinking of them This meaning is taken a step further through what’s known as “floriography”, the Victorian era art of combining flowers to send coded messages – a language based entirely on flowers. Using images taken from the Museums of Burlington’s collections and floriographies on loan from the Royal Botanical Gardens, visitors will uncover the subtle art of floriography and can even try their luck at decoding a bouquet mural for the chance to win a prize.
Organizer: Museums of Burlington, museumsofburlington.ca, museuminfo@burlington.ca, 905.634.3556.
Dan Lawrie International Sculpture Collection: Self-guided Sculpture Tour
Date: Oct. 18
Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Hendrie Park at Royal Botanical Gardens 680 Plains Road West.
Description: Free access to Dan Lawrie International Sculpture Collection found throughout RBGs Hendrie Park. Featuring two new sculptures Reverie and Overture. Self-guided Sculpture Tour: Stroll through the Dan Lawrie International Sculpture Collection and experience the spectacular pieces in Hendrie Park at your own pace. Choose RBG’s new interactive StoryMaps using your device or use a paper map to find your way.
Organizer: Royal Botanical Gardens, rbg.ca, info@rbg.ca, 905.527.1158.
Explore Burlington’s Public Art Collection Online
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location(s): Virtual online tour.
Description: Public art is a force for placemaking - for expressing and evoking connections between people and places that are meaningful to community and civic life. Public art can take on a variety of forms and media. It can have functional as well as aesthetic qualities and may be integrated into a site or be a standalone artwork. No matter what the form, public art is an original artwork placed in a publicly accessible location created with the intention of reflecting and engaging the community. Public art helps to tell the story of our community. Burlington's public art collection is now available online and accessible from your computer, tablet and mobile device. Explore over 95 public artworks throughout the city. View images, locations and artwork information on Burlington's Public Art Map.
Organizer: The City of Burlington, Burlington.ca/publicart.
How to Read a Vessel
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Time: Tuesday to Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Art Gallery of Burlington - Lee-Chin Family Gallery.
Description: Over the last 38 years, the Art Gallery of Burlington (AGB) has amassed the largest comprehensive collection of contemporary Canadian ceramics in the world. Totalling over 3,000 works, the collection ranges from functional ware to sculptural installations. How to Read a Vessel is an experimental exhibition and communal site of learning that openly discusses the challenges and excitement of holding, caring for, and exhibiting this object-based, craft-forward permanent collection, while continuing to develop a vision that incorporates critical social practice at its core.
The assembly of programs and projects by artists and curators Ness Lee, Su-Ying Lee, Myung-Sun Kim, Ivy Knight, and Christine Saly-Chapman has been conceived of in response to two key texts: Elizabeth Fisher’s “Carrier Bag Theory of Evolution,” which proposes that the first tool was a container, rather than a weapon, thereby feminizing concepts of early society; and, by extension, Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,” which applies the container approach to stories, arguing for an expansion of the types of narratives and outcomes that are made visible beyond the finality of a singular weapon-wielding hero.
With these texts as a guiding force, the exhibition examines how a collection of vessels speaks to an unaccounted and unrecognized history of women’s ingenuity and labour in the arts. How to Read a Vessel unpacks the matriarchal history of craft production and the AGB’s own institutional beginnings by bringing its ceramic vessels out of their vaults and into the public space, alongside newly commissioned pieces, and an array of international artworks. It is a non-linear, queer exhibition exploring the vessel as language, lineage, containment, nourishment, and archive. Within it, art objects become metaphors, or mnemonic devices, to discuss the colonial constructs of collections and their histories.
Organizer: Art Gallery of Burlington, agb.life, 905.632.7796.
Ivy Knight: Jugs & Cans: A Reaping
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Time: Tuesday to Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Art Gallery of Burlington - Lakeshore Gallery.
Description: This exhibition is a collection of over 150 empty vessels; jugs, cans, bottles, and boxes, collected from women in food across Canada and the United States. In gathering the containers Ivy collects the stories and struggles of the cooks, bakers, food writers, restaurateurs, and servers who opened, emptied, and used them. She then lovingly enrobes them in crocheted vestments to hold the donor’s voiced realities in a brightly coloured, protective shield of craft.
Organizer: Art Gallery of Burlington, agb.life, 905.632.7796.
Needle Felt a Pansy Flower
Date(s): Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location: Online tutorial.
Description: Join fiber artist Cathy Disbrow of Woolly Doodles to learn how to needle felt a Pansy flower that you can turn into a brooch, magnet, clip, or to embellish a wool sweater, scarf or hat. To needle felt along with this tutorial, you need: a felting needle, a felting surface, 4 - 5 grams of wool in the colours for your Pansy. All supplies are explained in the beginning of this video. If you need supplies, you can purchase a kit. This is a great beginner project. Children under the age of 11 require adult supervision as the needles are sharp.
Organizer: Woolly Doodles, Cathy Disbrow, cathy@woolydoodles.com, woollydoodles.com.
Pumpkin Hollow
Date(s): Oct. 22, 23 and 24
Time: 5 to 10 p.m.
Location: Rock Garden at Royal Botanical Gardens, 1185 York Blvd, Waterdown, ON.
*This is a paid event, pre-registration is required.
Description: Fall into the season of pumpkin, spice and everything nice while enjoying the candlelit glow of hundreds of jack-o-lanterns at the Rock Garden! Don't miss the opportunity to take part in this family-friendly event celebrating the fall season. Don't forget your costume!
Special ticketed event. TBA.
Organizer: Royal Botanical Gardens, rbg.ca, info@rbg.ca, 905.527.1158.
RE:DE(SIGN) - Temporary Public Art at the Beachway
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location: The Beachway Waterfront Trail.
Description: The City of Burlington public art program is launching a temporary art project, RE:DE(SIGN) as part of Culture Days. Throughout the Culture Days celebration, the public art program will be installing small, temporary artworks on signposts along the Waterfront Trail, stretching from Beachway Park to the Lift Bridge. The signs will feature the amazing work of local visual artists and writers. This project will provide trail users with a safe and accessible way to enjoy art and to learn more about the amazing creators in our community. Each artwork will be accompanied with a profile of the artist.
Organizer: The City of Burlington, Burlington.ca/publicart.
Seeing the Invisible
Date(s): Oct. 20 - 24
Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Hendrie Park at Royal Botanical Gardens, 680 Plains Road West.
*This is a paid event.
Description: Experience the most ambitious and expansive exhibition to date of contemporary artworks created with augmented reality (AR) technology. Featuring 13 artists from across the globe, their works address nature, environment, sustainability, and the intersection of the physical world with the digital one. Cost: General Admission +$5 special exhibit fee.
Organizer: Royal Botanical Gardens, rbg.ca, info@rbg.ca, 905.527.1158.
Slow Cloth
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Time: Tuesday to Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Art Gallery of Burlington - Perry Gallery.
Description: “How long did it take you to make this?” is the most common question weavers hear. The short answer is, “as long as a piece of string.” Slow Cloth is an exhibition that attempts to provide a better answer to that question by illustrating the process of and telling the story of what goes into making handwoven scarves. A team of sixteen artists ranging from weavers with many years of experience to those just starting out were challenged to design and weave a scarf drawing from the colour inspiration from one of a set of five images.
While creating their scarves, the weavers kept careful track of the amount of time taken for each step of the process. Steps include calculating and planning the design of the scarf, preparing the threads by spinning, dyeing, and winding them in order. Then the vertical threads are put onto the loom and prepared for weaving (warping), the weaver throws the horizontal threads (weaving), and finally washing and finishing as desired. Each artist has a different process and allocates their time to the different steps according to their own preferences and skills, yielding a different blend for each scarf. After logging each stage and step, the long answer to the popular question, “how long” was answered. Results vary due to the individual design choices by each artist but on average it takes, an astonishing, 41.5 hours to weave a single handwoven scarf.
Organizer: Art Gallery of Burlington, agb.life, 905.632.7796.
Then/Now
Date: Event runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location: Online exhibition.
Description: Everyday Burlington locations with extraordinary stories. Join Museums of Burlington in exploring the historic streets of Burlington from the comfort of your couch! In this online exhibition, we are bringing the Joseph Brant Museum’s Then/Now interactive map to you!
Organizer: Museums of Burlington, museumsofburlington.ca, museuminfo@burlington.ca, 905.634.3556.
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