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!
2024–2025 Programs
Clay – Building Beasts
Grades 1–12 | Half-Day
Grades 4–12 | 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 4–12 | 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
Dance – Latin
Grades 4–12 | Half-Day
How can traditional Latin dances influence today’s dance styles?
Available all year
Regular rates apply
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 4–12 | 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
Indigenous Studies – Exploring Treaties
Grades 4–8 | Full-Day
How can exploring our Treaties and other agreements help us move towards reconciliation?
Available all year
Regular rates apply
Mixed Media – 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
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
Painting – Colour Explorations
Kindergarten | Half-Day
How can we use colour to represent the world around us?
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
Painting – Random Acts of Paint
Grades 4–6 | Half-Day
How can you use the circumstances of chance and accidents to create your painting?
Available all year
Regular rates apply
Printmaking – Collograph
Grades 4–12 | Full-Day
How can works of art influence your collograph print?
Available all year
Regular rates apply
Printmaking – Kinder Collograph
Kindergarten | Half-Day
How can we use shape and texture to create an artwork?
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 Collograph
Grades 1–3 | Half-Day
How can works of art influence your collograph print?
Available all year
Regular rates apply
Seasonal Program – Design Your Own Gift Wrap
Grades 4–8 | Half-Day
How can the history of block printing inspire your own pattern making?
November-December 2024
Regular rates apply
Seasonal Program – My First Field Trip
Kindergarten | 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
Seasonal Program – Waterfront Explorations
Grades K–8 | Full-Day
Grades K–8 | Half-Day
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
SHSM Program – 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
SHSM Program – Leadership
Grades 9–12 | Full-Day
Special Program – In Partnership with DanceWorks
Grades 7–12 | Full-Day
How can the experience of being an audience member at a performance inspire multiple forms of creative expression?
November 29, 2024
$10 per student–20 per student
Special Program – In Partnership with STO Union & Toronto’s Nuit Blanche: Textile Merchandise
Grades 6–12 | Full-Day
How can understanding the bridge between art and commerce deepen our appreciation for an artistic practice?
October 4, 2024
Regular rates apply
Special Program – In Partnership with The Power Plant
Grades 7–12 | Full-Day
How can an examination of art inspire the creation of your own artwork?
September 21, 2024-March 2, 2025
Regular rates apply
Special 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
Special Program – Screen-printing
Grades 4–12 | Full-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
Textile Arts – Changing the Social Fabric
Grades 7–12 | Full-Day
How can you use art to inspire positive social change?
Available all year
Regular rates apply
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
Textile Arts – Family Portraits
Grades 1–3 | Half-Day
How can a collaborative work of textile art tell a story?
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
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
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