Family Programming
The AGB is ready to rock with the Sound of Music Festival!
Family Programming
The Art Gallery of Burlington (AGB) is partnering with the Sound of Music Festival for a vibrant weekend of art, music, and community engagement. This collaboration features exhibitions showcasing local artists, interactive family activities, and creative activations that celebrate the intersection of visual and performing arts. Visitors can enjoy the AGB’s 50th Anniversary exhibitions and hands-on artmaking. Get ready for a weekend of community connection for all ages in Burlington’s creative landscape!
Art Gallery of Burlington (AGB)
1333 Lakeshore Road, Burlington
June 14 – 15, 2025
Tuesday – Thursday: 10:00AM – 9:00PM
Friday – Sunday: 10AM – 5:00PM
Family Art Making
Collaborative Weaving
Saturday, 14 June, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Come on over to AGB’s Creative Commons studio and weave your ideas into giant pieces of collaborative, contemporary, functional art. Using hula hoops, fabric scraps and yarn, artist-educators guide participants in weaving giant floor rugs together and how to make your own loom with recycled materials at home, whether it’s mini or massive!
Family Open Studio
Sunday, June 15th, 1:00 PM- 4:00 PM
Smudgy, saturated, glorious colour! Get into this irresistible medium that melts into the paper with gentle pressure. Mixing colours is always fun to try, too!
Participants are free to come up with their own ideas, and work with the materials provided to bring those ideas to life. Grownups are encouraged to assist, especially with trickier tasks like using a glue gun, and to tune into their children’s creative inner worlds. Make sure you take a stroll through our current exhibitions to get inspired! Stop by the Take & Make cart if you’re looking for some free art supplies, or for somewhere to drop off supplies you’re no longer using.
The Family Open Studio runs every Sunday (except for some holiday weekends) from 1-4pm, with rotating instructors and featured materials. Check our website for full details.
Exhibitions
The Art Gallery of Burlington’s 50th Anniversary Permanent Collection exhibition, A Curve, Not A Line, is the result of a dynamic collaboration between the Gallery’s curatorial and education teams, bringing together different perspectives to create a multi-sensorial experience. Designed to highlight key works from our collection of Canadian contemporary ceramics, the exhibition explores thematic and material connections that speak to timefulness, slowness, and playfulness with both historical and ancestral traditions and contemporary innovations. By integrating curatorial research with educational insights, the exhibition fosters deeper engagement, inviting visitors to connect with the artworks through multiple lenses and positions—whether artistic, cultural, or social. This collaborative approach ensures a rich and accessible exploration of the collection, inspiring dialogue, and discovery for all audiences.
In the Perry Gallery, Artist Leila Fatemi’s A Vessel to Bend Water unravels the complex dynamics of colonial artifacts in a multifaceted project unfolding across various mediums, including textiles, cyanotypes, lenticulars, ceramics, and photolithography. Within the expansive history of photography, depictions of women, particularly from the SWANA region, have often been imbued with symbolism that undermines their agency, subjecting them to a struggle between their identities and the ideologies imposed upon them. A Vessel to Bend Water emerges as a critical response to this historical context, drawing from Orientalist digital archives and physical postcards to explore the intricate link between photographic representation and the props used to denote societal status. Central to this exploration is the vessel—a recurring visual metaphor in Orientalist photography—employed to perpetuate colonial agendas and shape societal perceptions of women, their bodies, and their prescribed roles.
Community Art Event
USE YOUR WORDS
Saturday, June 14, 2025, 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Local artists Vanessa Cress Lokos, Dominique Prévost, and Briar Emond want you to discover how words can shape and inspire artistic expression in both visual and multimedia forms including screen-printing, zine making, and spoken word. Burlington poet Joanna Sparrow will share an original reading, offering a fresh perspective on the intersection lyrical potential of language and art.
USE YOUR WORDS has been supported by the Burlington Arts and Culture Fund (BACF).
Volunteer Space (Quiet Zone)
The AGB’s photography studio will provide a quiet zone during gallery hours for festival volunteers to unwind, recharge, and enjoy refreshments between shifts. Designed as a retreat from the excitement of the festival, this indoor space offers comfortable seating, air-conditioning, and a calming atmosphere. Volunteers can grab a drink or snack, connect with fellow team members, or simply take a quiet moment to relax.