Join MOCA’s Youth Council, Creative Youth, for their seasonal pop-up exhibition and workshop!
Creative Youth is a twelve-week programme of workshops and creative sessions for youth to transform their emerging community arts passion into practice. The programme aims to expose participants to programme production, community outreach, curation and artistic professional development and culminates in a co-produced exhibition and public programme. In developing their programme, members of Creative Youth have the opportunity to respond to MOCA’s exhibitions and to broader contemporary issues. Throughout the twelve-weeks, members are responsible for coordination and facilitation of the programme including, marketing, writing, art-making and curation.
About the Exhibition
Future Ruins: Memorializing Fragments of a City in Flux
Wednesday, December 11 - Sunday, December 15
This season, Creative Youth presents an exhibition and public programme exploring Toronto’s evolving architecture and how buildings are demolished, repurposed, and adapted in a city constantly in flux.
How can we meaningfully mourn buildings as they evolve within an urban landscape? Future Ruins invites us to reflect on the mortality and impermanence of architecture and its infrastructure. Exploring case studies of demolished and re-adaptive architecture in Toronto and other international locations, Future Ruins engages with archived material, found objects and artefacts from the deceased heritage sites, and architectural landmarks.
The works in Future Ruins grapple with the alteration of built forms, striving to memorialize places and spaces to honour the life of architecture, while reconciling the discrepancies of their loss.
This exhibition is held on MOCA’s Ground Floor.
About the Workshop
Paper Flower Workshop
Saturday, December 14 | 1–3 pm
Following themes of mortality and practices of mourning, this workshop asks visitors to engage in a paper flower making workshop. Through the delicate practice of origami paper folding, this workshop aims to apply the motif of flowers as an expression of sympathy, grief, love, celebration, and respect for the dead.
This workshop is free with general admission; no additional tickets are required. Book your visit in advance or on the day of at the front desk.
