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Where 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, land relationship, treaties, impacts of colonization, and past and present-day perspectives. The display also considers the founding story of Guelph within the context of a… 
Told from historical and contemporary perspectives, and through the story of beads, guest curator Naomi Smith shares the ways of the First Nations people of the Woodlands and Northeastern regions of Ontario. No Word for Art features Indigenous beadworks as creative expressions of survival, crafted by historical artists. The exhibition also includes contemporary beadworks that…
Unsettling The Grand: Legacies of Settlement in the Grand River Valley, from 1700 to the Present Day
Unsettling The Grand: Legacies of Settlement in the Grand River Valley, from 1700 to the Present Day
What do John Galt and the Canada Company, the Upper and Lower Canadian Rebellions of 1837-38, a canal-building enterprise, and current (and future) land claims all have in common? Using a Two-Eyed Seeing approach, this exhibition examines the failed enterprise of the Grand River Navigation Company (1832-1861) as a lens through which we can explore… 
Amid the pomp and plump of Canada’s sesquicentennial, fifteen metalsmiths from across the country marked the occasion by crafting new sculptures from melted-down post-Confederation silver. Each piece is an expression of form and function – art object and candleholder – that, together, nod to the past and offer a glimpse of the future. The original… |
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The Spotlight Series centres the work of contemporary artists in dialogue with past and present-day lived experiences in the place we call Guelph. Recognizing that the month of November invites reflections of remembrance, the Spotlight Series broadens understandings of war through the lens of two contemporary conflicts, in Ukraine and Iran. This installation by Ukrainian… 
The Spotlight Series centres the work of contemporary artists in dialogue with past and present-day lived experiences in the place we call Guelph. Recognizing that the month of November invites reflections of remembrance, the Spotlight Series broadens understandings of war through the lens of two contemporary conflicts, in Ukraine and Iran. This instillation features the… |
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Tales from the Hill is presented by the Guelph Guild of Storytellers and features a guest teller in addition to Guild tellers. The evening includes hot cider, light refreshments, and… |
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NOTE: This event is officially SOLD OUT! Roxana Bahrami will teach a half-day art class on pointillism (dot painting). Participants will paint a set of four coasters using small dots… |
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John Norton was born to a Cherokee man and a Scottish woman in 1770, and adopted by the Mohawks in the 1790s. He rose to important military and diplomatic leadership… |
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Every Fourth Friday of the month enjoy free admission to the Civic Museum from 5 to 9 p.m., and a free concert starting at 7 p.m. Cash bar. Preregistration is required. Get your tickets on Eventbrite. This Fourth Friday there will also be Public Remarks in the programming room at 7 PM and self-guided tours… |
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Back by popular demand, Debbie Thompson Wilson leads this watercolour workshop, providing participants with a choice of images based on medieval manuscript illuminations that include silver candlesticks, taking inspiration from the "Light a Candle to Curse the Dark" exhibition, currently on view at Guelph Civic Museum, . All the paintings will be miniatures (under 4… |
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