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Toronto is a vibrant and lively city that has much to offer in the way of sight seeing, entertainment, the arts, parks, shops, restaurants and night life. It is particularly beautiful in the summer and there are many events taking place from June 14-17.
Sightseeing in the city:
The CN Tower is Toronto's tallest and most defining landmark. Photos of Toronto are often defined by the building stretching more than 550 meters into the sky.
Harbourfront Centre is a year-round facility, featuring concerts, dance performances, readings, films and kids' shows every weekend and many week nights throughout the year. The centre puts a large emphasis on culturally diverse acts, and the corporate community's involvement enables an incredible draw of international talent. Harbourfront Centre has 12 major venues for music, dance and cultural events, in and around two major multi-use buildings. The Queens Quay Terminal houses a wide variety of shops and services. The York Quay Centre houses an art gallery, installations, the Lakeside Terrace, a patio and an information booth. There is also a large pond that doubles as a seasonal, outdoor skating rink.
The AGO is the largest and perhaps the best-known art gallery in Toronto. A Henry Moore sculpture stands out front at the northeast corner; art you can put your hands on, as the people sitting on it and children crawling through the openings already know. Inside, not too far from that first piece you encounter coming from the east, the gallery has the largest public collection of Henry Moore pieces. They range from maquettes that would fit in the palm of your hand to huge reclining figures. The permanent collection takes you from the Middle Ages with 14th century artist Giovanni del Biondo, to 20th century Canadian works by the Group of Seven, to works of contemporary artists such as Andy Warhol and Mark Rothko. The AGO also brings some of the biggest and most renowned traveling shows to Toronto.
Featured exhibit: Ancient Peru Unearthed: Golden Treasures of a Lost Civilization
The mysteries of the pre-Incan Sicán culture are revealed through a collection of elaborately crafted objects excavated from an undisturbed gold-filled tomb in the Batan Grande site on the northern coast of Peru. The tomb was uncovered by archaeologists in the 1990s, providing new insights into the artistic achievements of the highly developed Sicáns. Over 100 artifacts will be on display, including gold crowns, elaborate headdresses, masks and jewellery, as well as pottery and metal objects.
Here are just a few of the events taking place during the conference:
Tip of the Melting Iceberg
Tip of the Melting Iceberg is a laugh-out-loud look at people, politics and the planet Earth. War, dating, global warming, work, corporations -- it's all related. We're all just trying to find our place in this confusing and contradictory world -- and that's just the tip of the melting iceberg. No shows on Mondays.
Location: Second City -- 51 Mercer St. (King St & Blue Jays Way)
The Phantom of the Opera
After a seven-year hiatus, the longest-running musical in Toronto history returns to a new home. A tragic yarn adapted from Gaston Leroux’s classic novel of mystery and suspense beneath the Paris Opera House, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera is a brazen, magical production incorporating some of the most lavish sets, costumes and special effects ever to have been created for the stage.
Location: Princess of Wales Theatre
We Will Rock You
Pure bohemian rhapsody in this Canadian premiere of award-winning playwright Ben Elton’s world-wide smash hit. The beloved, timeless music of Queen tells the story of a world a few steps into the future, where globalization has rendered us all safe, happy and homogenized – every one of us living by the rule of giant corporations. Yet beneath the gleaming façade of contemporary society lurks a subculture of people composing the soundtrack of a rebellion.
Location: Canon Theatre -- 244 Victoria St.
