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  Last updated Jun 22, 2010

Public Programs

Workshops & Lectures

Workshops
 allow you to further explore your artistic vision with the gallery's most dynamic and popular art instructors. It's a time of renewal, growth and openness... to new ideas, concepts and experiences. 

Lectures and Guided Tours allow the visitor greater insight into the exhibition, and subjects covered, deepening the appreciation and relevance in Canadian art practice.

How to Register

4 easy ways to register for workshops and lectures:

  1. Use EZ Reg to register online[External Link].
  2. Call 905-475-4867 to use FAST TRACK automated registration system.
  3. Fax completed Program Registration Form [PDF Document] 
    to the Town of Markham Contact Centre at
    905-479-7767.

  4. Contact gallery staff at 905-477-9511 ext.221,
    to process your registration over the phone.
Related Adult Programming for Upcoming Exhibitions

Cultural Floe: Modern and Inuit Traditions (more about the exhibition)

Taqralik Partridge - Inuit Throat Singer and Spoken Word Artist
Date: Sunday, June 13
Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Admission: Pre-registration required, $10 admission fee

 

Lecture with Pat Feheley, Feheley Fine Arts: "The Role of the Collector in Inuit Art"

Date: Thursday, July 22

Time: 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Admission: Pre-registration required, $10 admission fee 

 

Mural Painting demonstration and competition with Seventh Generation Image Makers

Date: Sunday, August 15

Admission: Free with admission

 

Doors Open Markham

Curator Talk and Tour with Dr. Anna Hudson

Date: Saturday, August 28

Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Admission: Free with admission 


A Tribute to Norman Bethune: the mural and political cartoons of Avrom Yanovsky (more about the exhibition)

 

Lecture with Ester Reiter, Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at York University: Fighting fascism in the 1930s:  Avrom Yanovsky, Norman Bethune  and the Spanish Civil War - Followed by a tour of the exhibition with curator Anna Hudson

Date: Thursday, July 15

Time: 6:30pm - 8:00pm (tentatively)  

Admission: Pre-registration required, $10 admission fee

 

Doors Open Markham

Curator Talk and Tour with Dr. Anna Hudson

Date: Saturday, August 28

Time: 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Admission: Free with admission


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Additional Programming

Guided Tours 
Guided tours
of the exhibitions by docents from the Varley’s Education program team on Sundays at 2pm

Art Activities
Exhibition-themed art activities led by the Summer Program staff on the following dates:

  • June 5-6 (Unionville Festival)  
  • July 1 (Canada Day)
  • July 18 (Today’s Parent Kidsummer)
  • August 2 (Simcoe Day)
  • August 21-22 (Markham Jazz Festival)
  • August 28 (Doors Open Markham)
  • September 6 (Labour Day)

Summer Camps
Children’s one-week Summer Camps with related themes for kids ages 5-13 - including Sculpture Art, Young Muralists, Cartooning, Nature Art Explorers, and Creativity in the Community Project

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