Where The Rivers Meet
Guelph Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaWhere The Rivers Meet is a display within the City Gallery that centers the Original Peoples who have been on this land since time immemorial. It includes information about migration,…
Revelations From The Collection
Guelph Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaGuelph Museums has a growing collection of over 50,000 items, including objects, archival material, and photographs. This collection allows us to record the tangible and intangible history of the place…
Weaving Cultural Identities: Celebrating Heritage and Textile Traditions
Guelph Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaThis Vancouver Biennale nationally-touring exhibition brings together artists and graphic designers of diverse Indigenous and Muslim backgrounds to collaborate on a series of textile artworks that celebrate the sacred, historic, and…
Art as We Are: Creative Community Care
Guelph Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaOrganized by Art Not Shame and Guelph Museums, Art as We Are: Creative Community Care spotlights three projects centred in collective community-making through art and involving about 200 local creators:…
Railway Day at Locomotive 6167
Locomotive 6167 John Galt Park, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaGather around the largest object in the Guelph Museums collection: Locomotive 6167 for family fun, learning and creativity. Meet the Locomotive 6167 volunteer crew. Move to the music of Toad and Henry. Play with Senor Banana’s puppets. Make your mark with train ticket calligraphy.
Military Lecture: Evacuation of the British Airborne from Arhneim 1944 by the 23rd Royal Canadian Engineers
Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaBill McVean talks on the role of Canadian engineers in the evacuation of British 1st Airborne paratroopers from Operation Market Garden at Arnhem-Oosterbeek, Netherlands in 1944. After nine days of fighting at Arnhem (A Bridge Too Far) about 2400 of surrounded British Airborne troops were evacuated across the Rhine River to safety on the south…
Thatinatón:ni – Where the Rivers Meet
John Galt Park 15-147 Woolwich Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaAll are welcome to witness and celebrate the unveiling of an art intervention beside the Speed River, at the site of the former Trans Canada Trail kiosk in John Galt Park. This event announces a research project, titled “Decolonizing Place Narratives: Thatinatón:ni – Where the Rivers Meet,” which is engaged in “re-storying” the erasure of…
Fourth Friday: Mikalyn Hay
Guelph Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaFor this enchanting Fourth Friday enjoy the exceptional talents of Mikalyn Hay, a unique artist with an old soul and a fresh perspective. Hay brings a deep sense of self…
