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August 22- August 29,2004 |
Years of Greenery at the Harbourfront
Gardens, Visual Arts Exhibitions Help Celebrate 15
By Benedetta Lamanna
Originally Published: 2004-08-08
What do you do when you turn 15? If you’re the Harbourfront Centre, you celebrate—with wonderful gardens and extraordinary art exhibitions.
The Harbourfront Centre is introducing three new gardens this season as part of its “Artists’ Gardens” in honour of the fifteenth anniversary of the program. The gardens were designed by visual artists Mike MacDonald, Liz Parkinson and Sandra Rechico. Free walking tours of the gardens are available from now through October. This unique program consists of twenty three distinct gardens in total, including 20 mature gardens from previous years.
Parkinson’s China Bower garden features an exquisite china bower, fragrant blossoms and foliage and is a tribute to unattainable longing in its perpetual bloom.
On the other hand, Rechico’s Daisy World garden is a perennial garden filled with blooms with composite daisy-like forms, whose simplicity evokes the innocence of childhood, adolescent love and forgotten songs.
MacDonald’s Butterfly Garden was created as part of Planet IndigenUs, an international, multi-disciplinary contemporary arts festival which celebrates the evolution, adaptability and innovation of Indigenous identity; the event runs from August 13 to 22.
Also a part of Planet IndigenUs, the York Quay Gallery presents Images Tell the Stories: Thread has a life of its own, an exhibition of embroidered textiles from female Inuit artists which is one of the many visual arts exhibitions of the Planet IndigenUS initiative. Other displays include Possible Futures: Utopia/Dystopia, an exhibition by Aboriginal artists that is poised between hope and fear. Exhibitions run until September 18.
For more information on these events, visit www.harbourfrontcentre.com or call 416-973-4000.
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