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!
2022–2023 Programs

Clay: Building Beasts
How can mythical building beasts from around the world influence the creation of your clay sculpture?
Available all year
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Clay: Masks
How have masks from around the world influenced the creation of your clay sculpture?
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Dance: Contemporary Dance
How can you apply the elements of dance to the process of creating contemporary choreography?
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Dance: Creative Movement
How can we use movement as a tool for self-expression?
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Dance: Latin
How can traditional Latin dances influence today’s dance styles?
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Dance: Primary Hip Hop
How can the elements of hip hop be a tool for self-expression?
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Dance: Understanding Hip Hop
How can the elements of hip hop be a tool for self-expression?
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Dance: Urban
How can the evolution of urban dance styles influence your personal expression?
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Drama: Improv

Indigenous Studies: 7 Gifts
How could the 7 Gifts of Life help you live your best life?
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Indigenous Studies: Exploring Treaties
How can exploring our Treaties and other agreements help us move towards constructive Indigenous and Canadian relations?
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Mixed Media: Urban Art – A Call to Action!
How can you use urban art to inspire positive social change?
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Music: Body Percussion

Painting: Colour Explorations
How can we use colour to represent the world around us?
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Painting: Painted Creatures
How can you experiment with colour, drawing and painting techniques to make your imaginary creature come to life?
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Painting: Random Acts of Paint
How can you use the idea of chance and accidents to create your painting?
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Painting: Watercolour Trees
How can trees serve as inspiration for your art making?
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Performance: A Simple Space

Performance: Homelands
Students will watch Homelands by Kaha:wi Dance Theatre and Santee Smith, braiding earthy and cinematic media, sound design and performance.
April 13, 2023
$20

Performance: ZOOOM
Students will enjoy a performance based on the children’s book Harold and The Purple Crayon, performed by Patch Theatre.
May 19
$10

Printmaking: Collagraph
How can historic works of art influence your collagraph print?
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Printmaking: Lino
How can your experience with the printmaking process lead to a better understanding of the printed images we see daily?
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Printmaking: Reduction Lino
How can your experience with the printmaking process lead to a better understanding of the printed images we see daily?
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Printmaking: Young Collagraph
How can prints made by Inuit artists inspire your collagraph print?
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SHSM: Advanced Training in a Skill – Contemporary Vessels
How can the relationship between form and function influence the creation of your sculpture?
Available all year
$20/student

SHSM: Behaviour Management
How can an understanding of behaviour management techniques support your development as a facilitator of programming with participants of all ages?
Available all year
$20/student

SHSM: ICE Training
Work with our Education staff members to develop your key question and see how we can support you and your students!
Available all year
$20/student

SHSM: Leadership

Textile Art: Family Portraits
How can a collaborative work of textile art tell a story?
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Textile Art: Social Justice
How can a collaborative work of textile art evoke social change?
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Textile Art: Sock Puppets
How can we use a puppet to tell a story?
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TIFA Kids: Meet Anthony Horowitz

Urban Studies: Harbourfront Centre Discovery Walk
How can a comparison of different communities lead to a better understanding of the world?
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Urban Studies: Kensington Market & Chinatown
How do different immigrant groups leave their mark on our urban landscape?
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Urban Studies: Sustainable City
How can the concept of sustainability be used to understand the development of Toronto’s waterfront community?
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