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The Distillery District’s most illuminating takeover is back. From January 17th to March 1st, the Toronto Light Festival will transform the city’s iconic neighbourhood into one of the largest open-air sculpture galleries in North America.  

Lighting up both day and night, the festival is free to the public and will include an abundance of new daytime programming at The Distillery District’s restaurants and boutiques.  

For the first time ever, the Toronto Light Festival is offering a sneak peek into some of the artists that will be exhibiting at this year’s festival, including Amigo & Amigo, Toer Studios and Lumus Instruments. 

“This festival is an immersive experience that will brighten any day,” says Matthew Rosenblatt, Executive Director of the festival and art exhibitor. “The installations are designed to bring people together, warm their hearts and imaginations, and add a little light to some of the darkest months of the year.” 

Toronto Light Festival will feature more than 15 stunning light art installations from local and international artists. 

A global roster of artists from Canada, the United States, Australia and The Netherlands will showcase works including life-sized mushrooms, infinity mirrors, astronauts, and so much more.  

Unplugged programming 

The Distillery District is enhancing its wintertime experience by offering even more arts, culture and entertainment-centric activations during the day and on weekends. 

Offerings will include:

• More sculptural pieces to be enjoyed during the day
• A huge neighbourhood wide brunch offering at all of the Distillery’s restaurants. Some of the unique brunch offerings include:
• El Catrin’s Outdoor Winter Brunch Challenge on their spectacular patio
• A delicious Caesar brunch at Pure Spirits
• Bubbles at Cluny Bistro’s champagne brunch
• There will also be a number of charitable initiatives throughout the neighbourhood

The CCA presents its 2019–2020 Out of the Box exhibition series, dedicated to the works of trained architect and conceptual artist Gordon Matta-Clark. Line of Flight, the third and final exhibition in this series, curated by Kitty Scott, presents both a geographical and thematic reading of the hundreds of travel photographs taken by Gordon Matta-Clark during his sojourns across Central and South America, Haiti, and Jamaica, as well as Europe and North America.

The Paul H. Cocker Gallery is pleased to feature an exhibition of the work of recent graduates of Ryerson University’s Department of Architectural Science graduate programs. The exhibition showcases the work of students who completed the Master of Architecture, Master of Applied Science and Master of Building Science programs during the 2019 calendar year.

The Master of Architecture Thesis projects represent a wide range of research topics from humanistic and poetic themes to more technically oriented investigations, and collectively probe a wide range of representational techniques and strategies, including advanced digital visualization techniques and the possibilities of models to work in various modes:

• Conceptual Models
• Process Models
• Digital Models
• Performance Models
• Illustrative Models

Student work from the Graduate Building Science programs comes in the form of major research projects and theses. The selected graduate work is represented by posters through which students showcase their research, literature reviews, methodology, results, and applications. No RSVP required for the reception.

Le Centre de design présentera l’exposition Le béton sous toutes ses coutures – Les expérimentations architecturales de Mark West. Pour la première fois, les dessins visionnaires et les énigmatiques constructions en béton de l’artiste et architecte Mark West seront rassemblés dans un même lieu. Cet ensemble de dessins, collages et constructions à différentes échelles, s’étalant sur une période de près de 40 ans, est enraciné simultanément dans les principes de la logique structurelle et dans le domaine imaginatif de la pratique surréaliste.