Green Extravaganza 
While St. Patrick’s Day has its roots in Ireland, this March festival has spread around the world as a celebration of good cheer, art, music, and dance. This Family Sunday, explore spring rites and traditions from around the world, with a particular focus on the energy and vitality of the colour green.
Art Activities and Workshops
Spring Art: Drop-in Family Art Workshop:
Time: 11 am to 4 pm
Location: Education Space
Ages: 3 to 12
This hands-on workshop will offer young artists an opportunity to celebrate spring with an art activity based on traditional St. Patrick’s Day’s crafts.
Something About Green: A Storytelling Circle
Time: 11:15 am, 12:15 pm and 1:15 pm
Location: Starting in the Grand Hall
Ages: 3 to 12
While Canadians typically associate the colour green with nature and the awakening of spring, it symbolizes different things in cultures aroud the world. In this interactive storytelling circle, participants will discover many different shades of green, inspired by artworks currently on view in the Gallery.
Sunday,
March 17, 2024
Art activities and workshops from 11 am to 4 pm
Performance of:
Talamh an Eisc (Land of the Fish) and the Irish Music in Canada
at 2 pm
Special Family Sunday Kids Menu and Grab and Go options available at Cabin.
FREE ADMISSION on Family Sundays
Please note that parking fees ($7) are still in effect
Spotlight Tour: Bertram Brooker, When We Awake!
Time: 12:30 to 1:30 pm and 2 to 3 pm
Location: Starting in the Grand Hall
Ages: Adults
This docent-let exhibition tour will focus on Bertram Brooker’s artistic versatility and range of styles, including lyrical abstractions, realistic nudes, geometric cubist still-lifes, and surreal graphic illustrations.
The tour of Bertram Brooker: When We Awake! will offer an opportunity to discuss the place and legacy of this pioneering abstract artist and thinker in Canadian cultural history. Please note this exhibition includes depictions of nudity.
Performances
Talamh an Eisc (Land of the Fish) and the Irish Music in Canada
Time: 2 to 3 pm
Location: Gallery 8
All Ages
Since early 1500s, the Irish have been sailing west, first to fish off the shores of Newfoundland, known as Talamh an Eisc, the Land of the Fish, and then to settle in every corner of the land that we know today as Canada. The kitchens, parlours, and dance halls of the new country have been ringing with the sounds of jigs and reels, ballads, and convivial songs of Irish derivation that eventually blended with older Indigenous, Scottish, and French traditional music. Discover the fascinating story behind the Irish musical journey in Canada and dance to the fiddle tunes to celebrate the country’s rich and diverse culture.
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