ROM Announces Highlights for Summer 2016
ROM Summer Fridays run from July to September
Enjoy lectures, events, and daily tours inspired by ROM exhibitions
TORONTO, June 21, 2016–This summer, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is Toronto’s best destination for engaging exhibitions and events for the entire family to enjoy. Highlights include CHIHULY, Tattoos: Ritual. Identity. Obsession. Art, and A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Prints. Featured activities this season are ROM Summer Fridays, lectures, gallery activations, and more. Visitors to the ROM will discover:
Exhibitions:
CHIHULY, on display until January 2, 2017, features groundbreaking explorations in colour, light, and form by Dale Chihuly—a pioneer of the studio glass movement and considered to be one of the world’s foremost artists working in glass today.
Tattoos explores the fascinating history and evolution of tattooing and offers insights into the ancient practices, histories, meanings and the revival of the global phenomenon of body art. Tattoos is specially priced and on display until September 5, 2016.
A Third Gender explores issues of gender while telling a pivotal story of sexuality in Japan’s Edo period (1603-1868). The objects in the exhibition consist of woodblock prints, samurai armour, screen paintings, lacquerwork, and illustrated books. A Third Gender is on display until November 27, 2016.
Also on display at the ROM are Made in China: Cultural Encounters through Export Art, closing on August 1, 2016, as well as Point & Punch: Historical Editorial Cartoons of J.W. Bengough (1851-1923) and Sam Hunter (1858-1939), closing on September 18, 2016, and The Franklin Exploration.
Events:
August 16, 2016 Kitchen Conversations: An Industry INKED
7:00 pm, $45 ROM Members, $50 General Public
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Join us for an in depth conversation on the prevalence of tattoos in the culinary industry with sociologist Deborah Davidson and Photographer and creator of Industry Ink, Brilynn Ferguson. Exclusive after-hours access to Tattoos is included.
ROM Summer Fridays:
This summer at the ROM, visitors can enjoy exhibitions, music, food and film during ROM Summer Fridays, taking place Friday evenings from July 1 until September 23, 2016. ROM visitors get discounted Museum admission from 4:30 pm to 8:30 pm, while experiencing live musical performances by a range of talented local artists across jazz, classical, world and soul genres, including Kayla Diamond (July 1), Yiannis Kapoulas (July 15), Maiko Watson (July 29) and Bill King (July 8 and July 29). ROM Summer Fridays also feature film screenings and fantastic food delights with themed nights include the exciting Canada Day debut, Game Jam, and Fall Equinox.
ROM Tours:
Daily tours of the ROM are offered to the public between 11:00 am to 3:00 pm (many are free with ROM General Admission). Visitors can join general tours, specific gallery tours or tours of special exhibitions, including CHIHULY, Tattoos and A Third Gender. Details are available here.
Visit www.rom.on.ca for event information and to purchase tickets.
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Wendy Vincent, Bilingual Publicist
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About the ROM
Opened in 1914, the ROM is Canada’s largest museum of natural history and world cultures and has six million objects in its collections and galleries showcasing art, world cultures and natural history. The ROM is the largest field research institution in the country, and a world leader in research areas from biodiversity, palaeontology, and earth sciences to archaeology, ethnology and visual culture - originating new information towards a global understanding of historical and modern change in culture and environment. For tickets, memberships and 24-hour information in English and French, visit www.rom.on.ca or call 416.586.8000.