Toronto Biennial of Art 2024 Opening Day

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Welcome to the Toronto Biennial of Art Opening Day! September 21st opens the third edition of the Biennial. We invite you to engage with diverse narratives and practices with local, national and international artists and collaborators. Experience installations, performances, spaces for exchanges and conversations, hands-on workshops, and learning experiences and tours⁠. Join us as we celebrate the intersection of creativity and community, and be a part of Toronto's vibrant arts and cultural scene!

Located at our main site at 32 Lisgar, Opening Day celebrations offer a variety of different programs for visitors of all ages.

*Events subject to change; for more up-to-date information, visit www.torontobiennial.org/whats-on.

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32 Lisgar:

👉 Storytelling Sessions: Jingshu Yao and Siki Soberetonari

10am - 6pm

TBA’s Storytelling Program offers visitors of all ages new ways of engaging with the artworks presented in the Biennial by offering artist-led participatory sessions in the exhibition spaces.

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👉 VIBE Arts Family Days

11am - 4pm

VIBE Arts returns for the 2024 Biennial season to deliver fun, creative and interactive programming for intergenerational learners, families and caregivers in response to the exhibitions artists and artworks. In inclement weather, Family Days will occur indoors at 32 Lisgar Street.

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👉 Fresh Arts, Visual Arts: histories and legacies with d'bi.young anitafrika, Pamila Matharu, and Winsom Winsom

12 - 1:30pm

2024 Biennial artists Pamila Matharu and Winsom Winsom are joined by artist, activist, and academic d'bi.young anitafrika to discuss aspects of the histories and legacies of Fresh Arts, an artist-led mentorship program which was pivotal to the local community arts ecology in the 1990s.

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👉 Toronto Biennial of Art 2024 Opening Remarks

1:30pm

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👉 songs from the edges with Jumblies Theatre and the Gather Round Choir

2 - 3pm

Presented with Jumblies Theatre’s Gather Round Singers and Suba Sankaran songs from the edges is a performance that will feature songs that explore stories about the various borders people cross throughout their lives.

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👉 An exhibition activation performance with Maria Hupfield and collaborators

4 – 5pm

More information to come.

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Other sites:

👉 Storytelling Sessions with Laura Carvalho

The Auto BLDG. | 10am - 6pm

TBA’s Storytelling Program offers visitors of all ages new ways of engaging with the artworks presented in the Biennial by offering artist-led participatory sessions in the exhibition spaces.

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👉 With sky, sunlight, clouds, wind. With ground, grass, trees, songbirds. (We are held) with Tanya Lukin Linklater

The Coach House at Colborne Lodge, High Park | 1 - 4pm

Tanya Lukin Linklater leads a choreographic process in relation to plant life, weather, and our lived environments. Visitors are invited to witness this series of site-specific open rehearsals with invited dance artists.

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👉 Storytelling Session with Melly Davidson

The Coach House at Colborne Lodge, High Park | 1 - 4pm

Join artist, educator, and TBA 2022 Storyteller Melly Davidson for listening and learning activities in High Park to activate Tanya Lukin Linklater’s 2024 MAC tool.

Start planning your TBA visit! 📆⁠ A full schedule of programs will be confirmed in mid-August.

Links

• Toronto Biennial of Art - Calendar torontobiennial.org

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Toronto Biennial of Art

The Toronto Biennial of Art’s mission is to make contemporary art accessible to everyone. A ten-week event every two years, the Biennial commissions artists to create new works for a city-wide exhibition in dialogue with Toronto’s diverse local contexts. Year-round public and learning programs bridge Biennials and invite intergenerational audiences to explore the ideas that inspire our events. Building upon past editions and offering new ways of seeing and listening, each Biennial connects people to spark meaningful dialogues and imagine new futures.

The Toronto Biennial of Art launched in 2019 and was a popular and critical success. The Biennial provides expanded understandings of contemporary art practices and is building a legacy of free, inclusive, and accessible contemporary arts programming in Toronto and surrounding communities.