Our Main Building and galleries will not be open to the public for Nuit Blanche. Access to “Hopes and Fears Assembly” will be on the northwest side of the Main Building.

2024–2025 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 4–12 | 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

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

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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

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

Available all year

Regular rates apply

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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

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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

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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
Kindergarten | Half-Day

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

Available all year

Regular rates apply

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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 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

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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

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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

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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

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

May – June, 2025

Regular rates apply

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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

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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

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SHSM Program – Leadership
Grades 9–12 | Full-Day

Available all year

$25/student

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Group of students walking outdoors in downtown Toronto.
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