Programs

Our 2024–2025 School Visits season is now fully booked for the remainder of the school year. While we are not responding to inquiries at this time, our registration form remains open for those who wish to join the wait list.

If last-minute availabilities arise, we will contact schools in the order wait list submissions were received. Please note that submitting an application does not guarantee a booking.

Harbourfront Centre School Visits provides the opportunity for your students to explore connections to themselves, their communities and the experiences of others through engaging, hands-on, inquiry-based programming developed with the Ontario Curriculum in mind.

Harbourfront Centre School Visits provides the opportunity for your students to explore connections to themselves, their communities and the experiences of others through engaging, hands-on, inquiry-based programming developed with the Ontario Curriculum in mind. Subscribe here for program updates!

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Clay – Building Beasts
Grades 1–12 | Half-Day | Sold Out
Grades 4–12 | Full-Day | Sold Out
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How can mythical building beasts or creatures from around the world influence the creation of your clay sculpture?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Canadian and World Studies First Nations/Métis/Inuit Studies French Geography History Social Studies Visual Arts
Clay – Masks
Grades K–12 | Half-Day | Sold Out
Grades 4–12 | Full-Day | Sold Out
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How can masks from around the world influence the creation of your clay sculpture?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Canadian and World Studies First Nations/Métis/Inuit Studies French Geography History Social Studies Visual Arts
Dance – Contemporary
Grades 4–12 | Half-Day | Sold Out
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How can you apply the elements of dance to the process of creating contemporary choreography?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Dance Social Studies
Dance – Creative Movement
Grades K–3 | Half-Day | Sold Out
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How can we use movement as a tool for self-expression?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Dance
Dance – Latin
Grades 4–12 | Half-Day | Sold Out
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How can traditional Latin dances influence today’s dance styles?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Dance Social Studies
Excited young students practicing their Hip Hop moves
Dance – Primary Hip Hop
Grades K–3 | Half-Day | Sold Out
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How can the elements of hip hop be a tool for self-expression?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Dance Social Studies
Dance – Urban
Grades 4–12 | Half-Day | Sold Out
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How can the evolution of urban dance styles influence your personal expression?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Dance Social Studies
Drama – Improv
Grades 4–8 | Half-Day | Sold Out
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How can developing skills in improvisation benefit you in your everyday life?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Drama English Language
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Indigenous Studies – Exploring Treaties
Grades 4–8 | Full-Day | Sold Out
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How can exploring our Treaties and other agreements help us move towards reconciliation?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Canadian and World Studies First Nations/Métis/Inuit Studies Geography History Social Studies
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Mixed Media – Explorations in Watercolour
Grades 4–12 | Full-Day | Sold Out
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How can you create a composition with the themes of risk-taking and exploration in mind? 

Available all year

Regular rates apply

French Visual Arts
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Mixed Media – Storytelling
Grades 1–3 | Half-Day | Sold Out
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How can learning to tell a story help you express yourself?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Drama Social Studies Visual Arts
Music – Body Percussion
Grades 4–8 | Half-Day | Sold Out
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How can we collaborate to create an authentic rhythmic piece using our bodies as instruments?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Dance Music
Painting – Colour Explorations
Kindergarten | Half-Day | Sold Out
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How can we use colour to represent the world around us?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

French Visual Arts
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Painting – Painted Creatures
Grades 1–3 | Half-Day | Sold Out
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How can you experiment with colour, drawing and painting techniques to make your imaginary creatures come to life?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

French Visual Arts
Arts and crafts materials on a table.
Painting – Random Acts of Paint
Grades 4–6 | Half-Day | Sold Out
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How can you use the circumstances of chance and accidents to create your painting?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

French Visual Arts
Printmaking – Collograph
Grades 4–12 | Full-Day | Sold Out
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How can works of art influence your collograph print? 

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Canadian and World Studies First Nations/Métis/Inuit Studies French Geography History Social Studies Visual Arts
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Printmaking – Kinder Collograph
Kindergarten | Half-Day | Sold Out
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How can we use shape and texture to create an artwork?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

French Visual Arts
Printmaking – Lino
Grades 4–12 | Half-Day | Sold Out
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How can our everyday lives be a source of inspiration for a series of prints?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Canadian and World Studies First Nations/Métis/Inuit Studies French Geography History Social Studies Visual Arts
Printmaking – Reduction Lino
Grades 7–12 | Full-Day | Sold Out
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How can your experience with the printmaking process lead to a better understanding of the printed images we see daily?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Canadian and World Studies First Nations/Métis/Inuit Studies French Geography History Social Studies Visual Arts
Printmaking – Young Collograph
Grades 1–3 | Half-Day | Sold Out
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How can works of art influence your collograph print?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

First Nations/Métis/Inuit Studies French Social Studies Visual Arts
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Seasonal Program – My First Field Trip
Kindergarten | Full-Day | Sold Out
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How can a field trip to Harbourfront Centre inspire a love of the arts or encourage students to visit galleries, museums and cultural centres within their local community? 

September 10, 2024 - March 31, 2025

Regular rates apply

Dance Visual Arts
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Seasonal Program – Waterfront Explorations
Grades K–8 | Full-Day | Sold Out
Grades K–8 | Half-Day | Sold Out
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May – June, 2025

Regular rates apply

Geography History Social Studies Visual Arts
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SHSM Program – Advanced Training in a Skill Visual Arts: Clay Sculptures
Grades 9–12 | Full-Day | Sold Out
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How can the relationship between form and function influence the creation of your sculpture? 

Available all year

$25/student

SHSM Visual Arts
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SHSM Program – Behaviour Management
Grades 9–12 | Full-Day | Sold Out
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How can understanding behaviour management techniques support your development as a programming facilitator with participants of all ages?

Available all year

$25/student

SHSM
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SHSM Program – Leadership
Grades 9–12 | Full-Day | Sold Out
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Available all year

$25/student

SHSM
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Special Program – In Partnership with The Power Plant
Grades 7–12 | Full-Day | Sold Out
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How can an examination of art inspire the creation of your own artwork?

September 21, 2024-March 2, 2025

Regular rates apply

French Geography History Social Studies Visual Arts
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Special Program – Screen-printing
Grades 4–12 | Full-Day | Sold Out
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How can the arts function as a vehicle for social activism and inspire your wearable call to action?  

February 4-28, 2025

Regular rates apply

Geography History Social Studies Visual Arts
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Textile Arts – Changing the Social Fabric
Grades 7–12 | Full-Day | Sold Out
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How can you use art to inspire positive social change?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Canadian and World Studies French Geography History Social Studies Visual Arts
Arts and crafts materials on a table.
Textile Arts – Community Activism
Grades 4–6 | Half-Day | Sold Out
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How can a collaborative work of art evoke social change within a community?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

French Social Studies Visual Arts
Arts and crafts materials on a table.
Textile Arts – Family Portraits
Grades 1–3 | Half-Day | Sold Out
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How can a collaborative work of textile art tell a story?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

French Social Studies Visual Arts
Urban Studies – Harbourfront Centre Discovery Walk
Grades K–6 | Half-Day | Sold Out
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How can a comparison of different communities lead to a better understanding of the world?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Science Social Studies
A group of students gathered outside Old City Hall
Urban Studies – Kensington Market & Chinatown
Grades 4–12 | Full-Day | Sold Out
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How do different immigrant groups leave their mark on our urban landscape?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Canadian and World Studies Geography History Social Studies
Group of students walking outdoors in downtown Toronto.
Urban Studies – Sustainable City
Grades 7–12 | Half-Day | Sold Out
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How can the concept of sustainability be used to understand the development of Toronto’s waterfront community?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Canadian and World Studies First Nations/Métis/Inuit Studies Geography History Science