2023–2024 Programs

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
Grades 4–6 | Full-Day

How can mythical building beasts or creatures from around the world influence the creation of your clay sculpture?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Clay – Masks
Grades K–12 | Half-Day
Grades 4–6 | Full-Day

How can masks from around the world influence the creation of your clay sculpture?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Dance – Contemporary
Grades 4–12 | Half-Day

How can you apply the elements of dance to the process of creating contemporary choreography?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Dance – Creative Movement
Grades K–3 | Half-Day

How can we use movement as a tool for self-expression?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Dance – Latin
Grades 4–12 | Half-Day

How can traditional Latin dances influence today’s dance styles?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Excited young students practicing their Hip Hop moves
Dance – Primary Hip Hop
Grades K–3 | Half-Day

How can the elements of hip hop be a tool for self-expression?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Dance – Urban
Grades 4–8 | Half-Day

How can the evolution of urban dance styles influence your personal expression?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Drama – Improv
Grades 4–8 | Half-Day

How can developing skills in improvisation benefit you in your everyday life?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Indigenous Studies – Exploring Treaties
Grades 4–8 | Full-Day

How can exploring our Treaties and other agreements help us move towards constructive Indigenous and Canadian relations?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Mixed Media – Storytelling
Grades 1–3 | Half-Day

How can learning to tell a story help you express yourself?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Music – Body Percussion
Grades 4–8 | Half-Day

How can we collaborate to create an authentic rhythmic piece using our bodies as instruments?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Painting – Colour Explorations
Grades K | Half-Day

How can we use colour to represent the world around us?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

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Painting – Explorations in Watercolour
Grades 4–12 | Full-Day

How can you create a composition with the themes of risk-taking and exploration in mind? 

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Painting – Painted Creatures
Grades 1–3 | Half-Day

How can you experiment with colour, drawing and painting techniques to make your imaginary creatures come to life?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

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Painting – Random Acts of Paint
Grades 1–3 | Half-Day

How can you use the circumstances of chance and accidents to create your painting?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Printmaking – Collagraph
Grades 4–12 | Full-Day

How can works of art influence your collagraph print? 

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Printmaking – Lino
Grades 4–12 | Half-Day

How can our everyday lives be a source of inspiration for a series of prints?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Printmaking – Reduction Lino
Grades 7–12 | Full-Day

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

Printmaking – Young Collagraph
Grades 1–3 | Half-Day

How can works of art influence your collagraph print?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

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Seasonal Program – My First Field Trip
Grades K | Full-Day

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

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Seasonal Program – National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Grades 4–8 | Full-Day

How can we demonstrate a personal commitment to reconciliation through artistic expression? 

Available September 17 - October 4, 2024

Regular rates apply

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Seasonal Program – Waterfront Explorations
Grades K–8 | Full-Day

May 6 – June 26, 2024

Regular rates apply

A group of high school students around a table work on their artwork
SHSM – Behaviour Management
Grades 9–12 | Full-Day

How can understanding behaviour management techniques support your development as a programming facilitator with participants of all ages?

Available all year

$25/student

Group of students learning to how make clay sculptures
SHSM Program – Advanced Training in a Skill Visual Arts: Clay Sculptures
Grades 9–12 | Full-Day

How can the relationship between form and function influence the creation of your sculpture? 

Available all year

$25/student

A group of high school students around a table work on their artwork
SHSM Program – Leadership
Grades 9–12 | Full-Day

Available all year

$25/student

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Special Program – Screen-printing
Grades 4–12 | Half-Day

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

Students sit around a group of artwork on the floor
Textile Art – Family Portraits
Grades 1–3 | Half-Day

How can a collaborative work of textile art tell a story?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Students work on their artwork at a table
Textile Arts – Community Activism
Grades 4–6 | Half-Day

How can a collaborative work of art evoke social change within a community?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

Urban Studies – Harbourfront Centre Discovery Walk
Grades K–6 | Half-Day

How can a comparison of different communities lead to a better understanding of the world? 

Available all year

Regular rates apply

A group of students gathered outside Old City Hall
Urban Studies – Kensington Market & Chinatown
Grades 4–12 | Full-Day

How do different immigrant groups leave their mark on our urban landscape?

Available all year

Regular rates apply

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Urban Studies – Sustainable City
Grades 7–12 | Half-Day

How can the concept of sustainability be used to understand the development of Toronto’s waterfront community?

Available all year

Regular rates apply