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Workshop is for an Adult Audience. This workshop is for participants ages 18+.
With artist and illustrator Tina J. Seemann as your guide, experience Wild Cats through your sketchbook in an engaging half-day drawing workshop. Featuring an in-class introduction to the anatomy of cats, Seemann presents basic and more advanced drawing techniques that will help you capture cats on the page. Working from the skeleton out, practice your drawing skills using unique and dynamic specimens held in the Museum’s collections and galleries.
Explore the tree-lined streets of a prestigious enclave, the suburb of choice for Toronto’s wealthy citizens in the early 1900s. Admire the impressive architecture spanning 150 years.
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Are you ready for a ROM adventure? Join our friends at Urban Capers Scavenger Hunts to explore the museum in a whole new way!
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Exclusively for ROM Members.
For one weekend only, ROM Members Save 20%* on Toronto Zoo Admission on September 21 & 22, 2024.
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Sunday, September 22, 2024, 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Worskhop is for an Adult Audience. This workshop is for participants ages 18+.
Cats are some of the fiercest predators alive today, but their extinct relatives would have been even more impressive. From the giant American lion to the sabre-toothed cat with its ferocious teeth, join scientist Ashley Reynolds for an examination of the past, present, and future of one of humanity’s favourite creatures.
All in a short walk, the Riverside neighbourhood will fascinate you with stories of architecture, athletics, factories, film making, bees, bakeries, Metrolinx and more.
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Wednesday, September 25, 2024, 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm EST
FREE
Zoom program. RSVP Required.
Just how wild is your cat? Join David Evans for a conversation with biologist Jonathan Losos as they discuss how researchers today are unraveling the secrets of the cat using all the tools of modern technology. From GPS tracking (where do backyard cats roam?) and genomics to forensic archaeology, today’s research continues to reveal the mysteries of your cat’s past.
Explore history in this heritage community, full of incredible homes dating back to the 1850s, many preserved through restoration, renovation, and community pride.
This walk is provided in English and French.
Saturday, October 5, 2024, 8:30 am - 5:30 pm - Meet at York Mills Subway Station, South Exit (Old York Mills Rd Exit)
Travel with us to unique agricultural region that is now an important source of Ontario’s fresh produce. We learn about the productive agricultural land now contained in this incredible ecosystem, and the unique farming community that works it.
![Saitō Kiyoshi, Japanese, 1907–1997, Two Cats, designed 1954, printed 1955, The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Gift of Charles and Robyn Citrin, 2015 Saitō Kiyoshi, Japanese, 1907–1997, Two Cats, designed 1954, printed 1955, The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Gift of Charles and Robyn Citrin, 2015](https://www.rom.on.ca/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_thumbnail/public/event/thumbnail/image-653x369_0.jpg?itok=CeLRAwzM)
Whether lurking in corners or demanding center stage, cats are everywhere in Japanese art. They invite good fortune, illustrate a traditional story, or provide evidence of an unseen world of magic and supernatural happenings.