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| The Gladstone Hotel produces several annual exhibitions/events in order to showcase the hotel's services and event venues as well as to connect visitors and participants to local artists, community groups and socially innovative, green businesses. These events are meant to inspire other individuals, groups, and organizations to bring their creative ideas and cutting edge events to the Gladstone Hotel's multi-functional venue spaces. | |
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COME UP TO MY ROOM Each February the Gladstone Hotel produces Come Up To My Room an alternative design show focusing on the diverse practices that work outside the norms of traditional design: multidisciplinary, independent, emerging and self-taught, all within the backdrop of our historic 119 year old building. Since its inaugural year in 2004, Come Up To My Room continues to generate excitement in the Canadian design community each year. This event takes over the entire second floor of the Gladstone Hotel. Visitors will find temporary room installations in 12 exhibition rooms plus public space projects in the hotel's lobby, stairwell and 2nd floor reception gallery. Learn more about CUTMR click here » |
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GLADSTONE WORLD
This Monthly World Music Series has broad appeal attracting world music lovers and drawing performers and audiences from Toronto's diverse communities. The series runs the first Friday of each month from 7 - 10pm in the Melody Bar. In its second year, Gladstone World 2008 will kick off the first Friday of February for an expanded series for Black History Month. The series is co-presented by the Gladstone Hotel, Music Africa, CIUT 89.5FM and Africa House of Music and will continue every Friday night during Black History Month. Building on this momentum, Gladstone World will then continue in April (presented by the Gladstone Hotel) to the end of the year on the 1st Friday of the month featuring a diverse selection of world music. Learn more about Gladstone World 2008 click here » |
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Annual Photography Exhibition for CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival Each May, the Gladstone Hotel produces a month long exhibition of contemporary photographic works as part of CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival. This exhibition takes over the entire second floor of the Gladstone Hotel. Visitors will find works by local photographers installed in the hotel's main reception gallery and 12 adjoining exhibition rooms. Each year the title and theme of the exhibition reflects the annual theme set by CONTACT. Learn more about the Gladstone's 2008 Photography Exhibition click here » |
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HARVEST WEDNESDAYS
Gladstone Hotel Brings the Farm to Table Experience to Queen West Wednesdays, July through October Since 2006, Harvest Wednesdays has introduced participants to the pleasures of eating seasonal and locally produced fare. The hotel purchases shares in a nearby Community Shared Agriculture or CSA farm, Chick A Biddy acres and partners with local wineries, breweries, as well as meat and cheese producers. Each week guests enjoy freestyle world music by local musicians seewhysound. Harvest Wednesdays provides a delectable opportunity to learn all about Community Shared Agriculture, eating locally for Global Change and the experience of how Ontario farm fresh tastes better! HARVEST WEDNESDAYS return to the Gladstone for a third harvest season in 2008! The series will feature a new line up of weekly culinary events featuring seasonal "hundred mile focus" menus created by Chef Marc Breton showcasing local produce. The series will begin in July with a cocktail party "tasting" event and culminate with an end of the season Harvest Table event. To see past Harvest Wednesdays menus click here » |
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Do It At the Gladstone Each September, the Gladstone Hotel produces a mixed media group exhibition to showcase works by local artists during the Queen West Art Crawl. This exhibition takes over the entire second floor of the Gladstone Hotel. Visitors will find works by painters, photographers, sculptors, glass, fibre and jewellery artisans. Learn more about the Do It At The Gladstone 2008 click here » |
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The Gladstone Hotel is seeking innovative creative thinkers, such as you, to participate in a new annual exhibition. upArt is a new contemporary art fair produced by the Gladstone which focuses on site-specific installations within the backdrop of our historic hotel. We are looking for participants who approach or support contemporary art with radical personal vision to participate in our 2008 inaugural exhibition. |
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Yimby Festival As Toronto continues to densify, as our neighbourhoods get larger and more complex, how does the citizen express hope, dreams and new ideas for the city? Through the neighbourhood group!!! Come out and see what happens behind the scenes of making Toronto such a great city. Talk to people who are making a difference! Join groups and get informed! Be the citizen you always wanted! Learn more about the YIMBY Festival click here » |
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Hard Twist Each fall the Gladstone Hotel produces a juried exhibition of fibre based works. This exhibition showcases work by artists from across Canada and beyond featuring a wide variety of wall hung and installation works. This exhibition runs for two months and occupies the public gallery spaces on the 3rd and 4th floors of the hotel. The exhibition is curated by the Gladstone Exhibitions Manager, Chris Mitchell and artist, Helena Frei. To learn more about the Hard Twist 2008 click here » |
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pieceWORK pieceWORK is an annual show and sale of textile and fibre arts which takes places during the opening weekend of Hard Twist, the Gladstone's annual juried textile exhibition, each November. The show features a diverse group of artists who produce high quality multiples or short run production work specifically in fibre based mediums. This event takes place in the hotel's 2nd floor reception gallery and adjoining exhibition rooms. During this three day event visitors can browse and shop for artisanal creations. To learn more about the pieceWORK 2008 click here » |
