Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Textile Museum of Canada presents
WATERCOLOUR
Flotilla of 41 Sails
presented in partnership with PANAMANIA
WHAT:
In celebration of the culture and artistry of the 41 participating Pan Am countries, the Textile Museum of Canada has brought together 41 artists, one from each country, to create unique and captivating sails. These carefully selected designs will animate Lake Ontario with colourful demonstrations of rich cultural diversity, honouring the Pan Am Sailing events, with ten sail boats to watch out for per day (eleven on the first day).
WHO:
41 sail boats featuring the specially designed sails by 41 Pan American artists. A daily list of
Countries being represented available upon request. Best viewing spots will be at the western and
eastern points of the sail past, respectively at Harbourfront Centre and Sugar Beach.
WHEN:
July 14-17, 5:30pm – 7pm
WHERE:
5:30pm: Sailboats launch from Harbourfront Centre Sailing &Powerboating (HCSP) docks (Queens Quay and Rees Street) and sail east towards Sugar Beach at the Corus Building/Corus Quay
(Queens Quay and Jarvis Street).
6pm: Sailboats will hold off in fleet position for ten minutes at the foot of Queens Quay and Simcoe
near the Ontario Celebration Zone.
6:10pm: Boats continue sail east towards Sugar Beach and loop to complete the 2nd pass of the
building and return westward to dock
6:30pm: Completion of sail past.
Click here for info
PANAMANIA LIVE @ NATHAN PHILLIPS SQUARE (FREE), Bay and Queen Street, Toronto, ON
12:30pm - Heavy Soundz
6pm - Reuben and the Dark
7pm- Victory Celebrations
7:30pm - Rich Aucoin
8:15pm - Cold Specks
9:15pm - Greta Hodgkinson in Venom
9:45pm - Joel Plaskett with The Emergency
CIBC PAN AM PARK(FREE) - Exhibition Grounds, Toronto, ON
11:30am - Les Vitaminés
1pm - Manteca
1:30pm - The Fruits
3pm - Cirque Inspirall + Les Vitaminés
4:30pm - JRDN with Karina ES
4:30pm - The Fruits
5:30pm - Cirque Inspirall + Les Vitaminés
6pm - The Fruits
6:30pm - Nation Beat’s Carnival Caravan featuring Cha Wa
8:30pm - Cirque Inspirall
PANAMANIA LIVE @ THE DISTILLERY DISTRICT (FREE), 55 Mill Street, Toronto, ON
12:30pm - Carlos Bastidas
2:30pm - The Heavyweights Brass Band
8:45pm - Five Alarm Funk
PANAMANIA PRESENTATIONS
THEATRE
OPENING NIGHT–887 explores the concept of memory in the digital age of data storage and how
theatre and art is still relevant today. Created by internationally renowned director/playwright/actor
Robert Lepage.
8pm - 887 at St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts (WP) $ Runs until July 19.
THE POSTMAN follows Canada’s first African-Canadian postman, Albert Jackson, on his original
route in the Annex. This site-specific presentation tells the story of Mr. Jackson’s journey to overcome racial protest and rise to his ultimate position at Canada Post.
7pm - The Postman at Harbord Street and Albert Jackson Lane in the Annex, (WP) $ Runs until July 26.
LA IMAGINACIÓN DEL FUTURO, What if Salvador Allende had a team of modern communication experts at his disposal when Augusto Pinochet launched his coup? By looking at the potential paths history didn't follow, LA IMAGINACIÓN DEL FUTUROuses dark humour to demystify the best and worst years in Chile’s recent history.
7:30pm - La Imaginatión del Futuro at Young Centre for the Performing Arts $ Runs until July 15.
Experience a mesmerizing, innovative and technological performance created by and starring awardwinning artist Rick Miller in world premiereTWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, a theatrical adaptation of the classic Jules Verne underwater sea adventure.
8pm – Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea at Daniels Spectrum, (WP) $ Runs until July 15.
World premiere of THE WATERSHED by Annabel Soutar and directed by Chris Abraham, follows an artist and a country struggling to chart a sustainable course between economic growth and
environmental stewardship. Co-produced by Crow's Theatre and Porte Parole.
8pm – The Watershed at Berkeley Street Theatre (WP) $ Runs until July 19.
OPENING NIGHT–Upon learning of the staggering statistics of people who will be displaced because of the rising sea levels caused by climate change, theatre artist Ravi Jain found himself asking: “what can I do?” Inspired by the ancient text of the great Indian epic: the Mahabharata, GIMME SHELTER questions our responsibility to action when facing problems that seem too big to solve.
8pm - Gimme Shelter at Young Centre for the Performing Arts (WP) $ Runs until July 18.
VISUAL ART
World premiere unveiling, CHALLENGE AND TRIUMPH BY DAVID M. GENERAL- At the 1907
Boston Marathon, Canadian long distance runner Tom Longboat smashed the previous world record
by a whopping five minutes. An inspiration to Aboriginal and Canadian people, sculptor David M.
General has created a tribute to Longboat to his legacy as a Canadian sport icon.
10am – Challenge and Triumph by David M. General at Ontario’s Celebration Zone (WP). Runs until
Saturday, August 15.
INTERNATIONS/ INTERSECTIONS BY PLANET INDIGENUS 2015, large-scale installations that depict modes of transport by contemporary First Nation artists. The exhibit will be held at the
Aboriginal Pavilion at Fort York.
10am - InterNations/InterSections by Planet IndigenUS 2015 at Aboriginal Pavilion at Fort York
National Historic Site (WP) Runs until August 9.
THE POWER PLANT presents Toronto artists Nadia Belerique, Lili Huston-Herterich, and Laurie
Kang and collectives Bik Van derPol, Tecerunquito, and YES! Association/ Föreningen JA!
Juxtaposing. The artists work together for the first time to investigate intrinsic playfulness and
performativity of objects and photographs in their individual artistic practices, ultimately offering
temporality as an instinctual means of organizing individuals non-hierarchially. The exhibit runs from
June 19th to September 7th, at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery.
10am - The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery. Runs until Saturday, August 15.
REQUIEM OF WATER by Meaghan Ogilvie is an act of remembrance to the spirit of water that has
been forgotten. Ogilvie was inspired by the Anishinaabe culture and their women’s responsibility to
the maintenance and respect of water. She contends that the goal of the REQUIEM OF WATER
exhibit is to heighten public awareness and encourage thoughtful responsibility towards our precious
water resources and the role we play in caring for them.
10am - Requiem of Water: Underwater Photo and Video Exhibition at Brookfield Place (WP) Runs
until August 14.
WATER’S EDGE,Six internationally renowned fine art photographers, each originating from a Pan
Am country, come together for this world premiere, curated by No. 9, a Toronto arts organization that
raises awareness for environmental concerns. The exhibition will be held at Union Station Great Hall
and Pearson International Airport from July 10 - August 15, and it explores the integral yet tenuous
relationship we have with our natural water supplies.
10am - Water’s Edge – Union Station and Toronto International Airport (WP) Runs until Saturday,
August 15.
YOUNG WORLD FACES OF PAN AM from July 10 - August 15 Commerce Court at 199 Bay Street will hold large-scale portrait photographs featuring 41 Torontonian women who have family
backgrounds reflecting the diversity of the 41 participating nations and territories.
10am - YOUNG World Faces of Pan Am at Commerce Court West (WP) Runs until Saturday, August 15.
FASHION
SMARTER. FASTER. TOUGHER. AN EXHIBITION ON SPORTS, FASHION + TECH,The diverse world of sports permeates every aspect of our lives from health, fashion and culture to technology, design and architecture. From parkas to wetsuits, this exhibition showcases the evolution of sportswear technology.
11am - Smarter. Faster. Tougher. An Exhibition on Sports, Fashion + Tech by Design Exchange
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
PANAMANIA LIVE @ NATHAN PHILLIPS SQUARE(FREE)
12:30pm - The High Bar Gang
6pm - Inti-Illimani
7pm– Victory Celebrations
7:30pm - Lila Downs
8:15pm – Kassav’
9:15pm - Greta Hodgkinson in Venom
9:45pm - Marianas Trench
CIBC PAN AM PARK(FREE)
11:30am - Les Vitaminés
1:00pm - Wesli Band
3:00pm - Cirque Inspirall + Les Vitaminés
4:45pm - Cirque Inspirall + Les Vitaminés
5:45pm - The High Bar Gang
8pm - Mr. Vegas
PANAMANIA LIVE @ THE DISTILLERY DISTRICT(FREE)
12:30pm - Lucho de Sedas
6:30pm - Jasmine Denham
8:45pm - Quique Escamilla
PANAMANIA PRESENTATIONS
THEATRE
OPENING NIGHT –IT COMES IN WAVES is an interactiveaudience members canoe to Gibraltar
Pointsite specific performance exploring communal rituals around loss and grief.
7:40pm - It Comes In Waves at Artscape Gibraltar Point at Toronto Island (WP) $ Runs until July 24.
2pm – Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea at Daniels Spectrum, (WP) $ Runs until July 15.
7pm - The Postman at Harbord Street and Albert Jackson Lane in the Annex, (WP) $ Runs until July 26.
7:30pm - La Imaginatión del Futuro at Young Centre for the Performing Arts (NAP) $ Runs until July 15.
7:30pm - La Imaginatión del Futuro at Young Centre for the Performing Arts (NAP) $ Runs until July 15.
8pm - 887 at St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts (WP) $ Runs until July 19.
8pm - Gimme Shelter at Young Centre for the Performing Arts (WP) $ Runs until July 18.
8pm – The Watershed at Berkeley Street Theatre (WP) $ Runs until July 19.
VISUAL ART
10am – Challenge and Triumph by David M. General at Ontario’s Celebration Zone (WP). Runs until
Saturday, August 15.
10am - InterNations/InterSections by Planet IndigenUS 2015 at Aboriginal Pavilion at Fort York National
Historic Site (WP) Runs until August 9.
10am - The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery. (WP) Runs until Saturday, August 15.
10am - Requiem of Water: Underwater Photo and Video Exhibition at Brookfield Place (WP) Runs until Aug 14.
10am -Water’s Edge – Union Station and Toronto International Airport (WP) Runs until Saturday, Aug 15.
10am - YOUNG World Faces of Pan Am at Commerce Court West (WP) Runs until Saturday, August 15.
DANCE
Canada’s National Ballet School Presents OF THE PEOPLE, Emergingdance artists from six different
countries of the Americas will come together at Canada's National Ballet School to explore their
cultural differences and similarities in a new work choreographed by Shaun Amyot (Canada) and
DemisVolpi (Argentina). Shorter works choreographed and performed by NBS students will complete
the program.
7:30 p.m. – Of the People at Betty Oliphant Theatre (WP) $
FASHION
11am - Smarter. Faster. Tougher. An Exhibition on Sports, Fashion + Tech by Design Exchange
(WP) $ Runs until October 12.
Thursday, July 16, 2015
PANAMANIA LIVE @ NATHAN PHILLIPS SQUARE (FREE)
12:30pm - Canada’s National Ballet School ‘Of The People’
1pm - SonAche
5pm - Local Steelpan Group
6pm - The Arsenals
7pm - Victory Celebrations
7:30pm - Nomadic Massive
8:30pm - Roy Cape All Stars
9:30pm - Luciano
CIBC PAN AM PARK (FREE)
11:45am - Cirque Inspirall
1pm - Adonis Puentes& the Voice of Cuba Orchestra
3:30pm - Cirque Inspirall
4pm - Tkaronto Bounce
5pm - Inti-Illimani
6:30 p.m. - Kassav
8:00 p.m. - Tkaronto Bounce
PANAMANIA LIVE @ THE DISTILLERY DISTRICT (FREE)
12:30pm - Ecuadorian Cooking Demonstration featuring Kevin Chica
1:30pm - El Salvadorian Cooking Demonstration featuring Carmen Aquino
2:45pm - Cuban Cooking Demonstration featuring Pedro Quintanilla
6:30pm - Amanda Martinez
8:45pm - Juan de Marcos & Afro-Cuban All Stars
PANAMANIA PRESENTATIONS
THEATRE
OPENING NIGHT–LOVE, DISHONOR, MARRY, DIE, CHERISH, PERISH is a tribute to David
Rakoff. The show includes a dramatized reading of Rakoff’s whimsical and deeply moving portrait of
life in the 20th century. Part novel, part epic poem, Rakoff’s final work explores human fallibility and
redemption through beautifully drawn characters, with illustrations by internationally renowned
cartoonist Seth, who will also be present.
8:00 p.m. - Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish at Fleck Dance Theatre at Harbourfront Centre (WP) $
7pm - The Postman at Harbord Street and Albert Jackson Lane in the Annex, (WP) $ Runs until July 26.
7:40pm - It Comes In Waves at Artscape Gibraltar Point at Toronto Island (WP) $ Runs until July 24.
8pm - 887 at St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts (WP) $ Runs until July 19.
8pm - Gimme Shelter at Young Centre for the Performing Arts (WP) $ Runs until July 18.
8pm – The Watershed at Berkeley Street Theatre (WP) $ Runs until July 19.
MUSIC
YAÍMA SÁEZ
Voice Of The Year Award Winner at the International Festival of Boleros Havana, Cuban contralto YaímaSáez captivates with her velvety voice and vintage Cuban style. Compared to music icons
Elena Burke and OmaraPortuondo, YaímaSáez is poised to take over the international music scene. With her backing band of cello, piano, saxophone, drums, flute and bass, audiences will be
transported back to the golden age of Cuban music.
ONE SHOW ONLY!
9pmYaímaSáez y sugrupo "Live in Concert" at Young Centre for the Performing Arts $
VISUAL ART
YAÍMA SÁEZ
Voice Of The Year Award Winner at the International Festival of Boleros Havana, Cuban contralto YaímaSáez captivates with her velvety voice and vintage Cuban style. Compared to music icons
Elena Burke and OmaraPortuondo, YaímaSáez is poised to take over the international music scene. With her backing band of cello, piano, saxophone, drums, flute and bass, audiences will be
transported back to the golden age of Cuban music.
ONE SHOW ONLY!
9pmYaímaSáez y sugrupo "Live in Concert" at Young Centre for the Performing Arts $
VISUAL ART
10am – Challenge and Triumph by David M. General at Ontario’s Celebration Zone (WP). Runs until
Saturday, August 15.
10am - InterNations/InterSections by Planet IndigenUS 2015 at Aboriginal Pavilion at Fort York National
Historic Site (WP) Runs until August 9.
10am - The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery. (WP) Runs until Saturday, August 15.
10am - Requiem of Water: Underwater Photo and Video Exhibition at Brookfield Place (WP) Runs until Aug 14.
10am -Water’s Edge – Union Station and Toronto International Airport (WP) Runs until Saturday, Aug 15.
10am - YOUNG World Faces of Pan Am at Commerce Court West (WP) Runs until Saturday, August 15.
FASHION
11am - Smarter. Faster. Tougher. An Exhibition on Sports, Fashion + Tech by Design Exchange (WP) $ Runs
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