Bilingual Family Sunday: Travelling with Art

Move through time and space with the power of art and imagination.

Explore unfamiliar worlds through artworks currently on view, create your own Time Art-Machine to visit places you’ve always dreamed of, and enjoy stories and music inspired by a great medieval traveller in a bilingual performance by Sitar Fusion.

Create a collage composition that will summon a place and time that you would like to visit. Just don’t forget to add some visual clues to help others guess where—and when—you’re going!

Immerse your child in colourful stories inspired by artworks currently on view at the McMichael. Travel through time with Stan Douglas’s photographic projects, journey to the Arctic through stories of seasonal migration, and discover the Northern Ontario adventures of Tom Thomson and his Group of Seven contemporaries.

Follow the extraordinary journey of medieval explorer Ibn Battuta, who travelled from Morocco to Turkey, Afghanistan, India, and beyond. Inspired by his stories, Sitar Fusion shares music and dance traditions from the places he visited.

Sitar Fusion

Bringing together sitar player Anwar Khurshid and dancer and singer Geneviève Beaulieu, Sitar Fusion is a dynamic duo that promotes cultural diversity and understanding through music and movement.