Culture Days starts today! Free events all over Toronto all weekend long!

Today is the first day of Canada’s 10th annual Culture Days weekend. Are you ready?

There are over 3,000 free events happening across Canada today, Saturday and Sunday. Culture Days organizers have pulled out all the stops, so grab your friends and family, roll up your sleeves, and let your creativity run wild. 

Click the links below to find out some of the amazing free events Toronto has going on all weekend long:

The Royal Ontario Museum
Enjoy Yoga at the ROM, a performance by poet and spoken word artist, Zoey Roy and more at the ROM!

The Big Draw Toronto
The world’s largest drawing festival is coming to Toronto History Museums. The free event is open to all-ages and abilities and welcomes everyone who loves to draw to make a mark on their city.

Etobicoke Lakeshore Culture Days
Our Akin Lakeshore neighbours in Etobicoke are presenting over 20 free workshops, performances and events including button making, LEGO Robotics, Peruvian Weaving, the Waatebagaa Giizis Festival, wood block painting, interactive storytelling performances and more.

Toronto Public Library Culture Days
8 branches of the Toronto Public Library are hosting events including a card-making workshop, poetry readings, a dreamcatcher workshop and more.

Call for Artists: Catching Joy →

WHAT IS CATCHING JOY?
Neilson Park Creative Centre (NPCC) invites artists working in all creative disciplines to submit an application for an opportunity to participate in an upcoming exhibition, Catching Joy. The exhibition will tell the story of Joy by Averiss Corinne through visual representation. 35 Artists will be given a line from the story which will be used as the inspiration to create an artwork. This creates a unique opportunity for collective storytelling by presenting a diverse range of practices, which will be on display during Culture Days 2018. 

Application deadline: Sunday August 12, 2018.  FREE TO PARTICIPATE.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Send in a completed application form via email to gallery@neilsonparkcreativecentre.com or in person at the NPCC front desk by Sunday, August 12. 35 artists will be selected through a random draw to participate in the exhibition. All applicants will be informed on Monday, August 13 by email regarding the status of their application. Selected artists will be assigned a section from the story Joy, which they can interpret however they wish and used to create an artwork through direct representation or abstraction. The artwork must be finished by Sunday, September 9.