You're invited to participate in a collage art-making, constructing, and storytelling workshop inspired by Basma Alsharif’s exhibition.In this workshop, participants can create a layered collage inspired by an experience or memory. Tell a story using images, learn the basics of composition and make new friends.
Connect to body, mind and soul through yoga and meditation in the artful surroundings of MOCA Toronto.
MOCA is excited to continue our wellness series, following Well Winter. Spring Forward offers classes that strengthen the well-being of our community and provide a space to explore different modes of mindfulness. From relaxing to invigorating, we invite you to treat yourself with artful experiences at the museum.
On Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, sign up for classes led by local yoga, meditation, Pilates practitioners. Classes take place outside regular museum hours for a tranquil experience. Please plan to set time aside before the class if you would like to explore the museum.
Enjoy free admission to the museum on the last Sunday of each month from 10am to 2pm.
TD Community Sundays are made possible by TD Bank Group through its corporate citizenship platform, The Ready Commitment.
TD Community Sundays may include guided tours of the exhibitions on view. Stay tuned for more program offerings and activities.
Celebrate spring at MOCA. Get your hands dirty and make a wildflower seed ball to grow your own mini-garden at home or give as a gift to a friend.
Spontaneous Combustion was a collective of contemporary visual artists, many who had graduated from the Ontario College of Art in the early-to-mid 1980’s. These artists worked in a variety of media ranging from large format printmaking to holography and almost all presented their work in installation format.
In interviews supported by archival film and photography, Spontaneous Combustion founders b.h. yael, Gwen MacGregor and Caroline Langill discuss the collective’s origins, the role of the artist as curator and how few opportunities existed for installation artists – particularly for artists who were working with kinetic work or electronics.
Want to contribute something to the Honest Shop? Join us on select weekends for the Honest Workshop, a drop-in maker space where you can produce your own useful item to trade with others made in the workshop. We will supply different materials each week. All ages.
Mark Dion is an artist whose work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. In Dion’s practice, the lines between art and science are often blurred. On the opening of his exhibition, 'The Life of a Dead Tree', the artist is joined by Marc Mayer for a lively discussion that focuses on the intersections between art and science in relation to nature and how these considerations manifest in his exhibition at MOCA.
Coinciding with Doors Open, MOCA’s Sterling Weekend activities take inspiration from Mark Dion’s exhibition, 'The Life of a Dead Tree' and the 100th anniversary of the Tower Automotive Building. Reflecting on the life that has returned to the Tower Automotive Building, artist Mark Dion’s exhibition brings a massive, fully grown, deceased tree into the gallery along with its inhabitants, to create a sensory experience and exploration of the natural cycle of life and death.
In conversation with Mark Dion’s exhibition, 'The Life of a Dead Tree', a series of guided walks led by biologists, field naturalists, and arborists will investigate the multifarious lifeforms that are supported by dead trees and their importance to Toronto’s ecosystems.
A biodiversity exploration series, these walks will happen every other Saturday in different park areas across the city of Toronto.
Horticulturalist Melanie Sifton presents a talk on urban ecosystem management and nature in the city. Intersecting with Mark Dion's exhibition, 'The Life of a Dead Tree', Sifton discusses her in-depth experience in building and supporting urban oases and natural areas in cities. Soil ecology and restoration—often overlooked factors in urban design and construction practices—will also be discussed.