AC Events

Join Adventure Canada and gracious hosts Bill and Paula Lishman for Purple Hill Poluza this Spring. This fun filled day will launch our summer season and include musical guests and many Adventure Canada alumni. Details coming soon.

The date has been changed to May 31, 2008

Click here to visit Bill Lishman's Site

Take in Passage, the new hotdoc based on the book Fatal Passage by award winning author and Adventure Canada resource team member, Ken McGoogan. Veteran documentarian John Walker takes us on an epic historical adventure that involves cannibalism, a vengeful woman and an historical cover-up by British authorities that credited the wrong man with the discovery of the Northwest Passage. Based on the lives of Dr. John Rae, explorer for the Hudson's Bay Company, and Sir John Franklin, British Royal Navy officer and leader of an ill-fated 1840s Arctic expedition. Stunningly cinematic, the film follows a trail from London to the Orkney Islands to Nunavut, elegantly slipping between past and present, drama and documentary, observational and self-reflexive cinema, to present the forces that made Franklin a hero and banished Rae to the margins of history. A cast of characters, including respected Inuit stateman Tagak Curley and the great great grandson of Charles Dickens, join the director as he unravels a historic fraud and sets the record straight.

Passage is screening in Toronto at the following locations:

Royal Cinema 608 College St. on April 20th at 21:30

ROM Theater 100 Queens Park April 23 at 16:30

For more information on passage please click here.

Ken McGoogan is joining the Adventure Canada team on our High Arctic Adventure: Sept 18-30, 2008 as featured historian.


Click here for more info on our High Arctic Adventures

Canadian Inuit art has created a niche for itself in the world of collecting. Attracting knowledgeable buyers from across North America this art form has risen rapidly in value and profile. Collectors are passionate - traveling to Toronto, Canada, twice a year to congregate at Waddington's auctions of Inuit art, where in 2007 some 1500 pieces totaling over $2.7 million were sold.

Each auction sees new price levels set and Inuit art finds new homes in museums, art galleries, corporate and private collections around the world. Waddington's next auction of fine Inuit art is being held on April 14 - 15th with details and highlights available at the Waddington's Website

Adventure Canada musician, Tom Barlow is hosting a CD release party for his indie band The Beautiful Unknown. The group has been together for three years now and Riot in the House of Ruin is their debut album. You can attend the party March 1, 2008 at:

El Mocambo
464 Spadina, Toronto

For more info, visit here

At the end of February join us at DeLeon White Gallery in Toronto to support the Pouch Cove Foundation. Since its inception in 1990, The Pouch Cove Foundation has provided a retreat for more than seven hundred visiting artists from around the world. The Foundation is located in a small town of the same name (pronounced pooch) twenty minutes drive north of St. John's, the capital of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

The Foundation is a not for profit organization that receives no operational funding from any arts council or government agency. It has been self-sustaining through the support of its founders and the participant residents.

The aim of the 2008 fundraiser is to bring the main residency and studio, an old school house, up to 2007 National Building Code standards and allow Pouch Cove to remain a center for creativity.

Preview: Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 12-8pm

Auction: Thursday, February 28th, 2008, 8 pm.

Location: Deleon White
1139 College Street (west of Dufferin)
Toronto, ON M6H 1 B5

Contact
Pouch Cove Foundation
P.O.Box 693
Pouch Cove, NL
A0A 3L0

James Baird
pouchcoveauction@hotmail.com
1 800 563 9100

For more information, visit the site

PhotoSensitive is inviting Canadians to pick up their cameras, reach into their communities and capture portraits of people whose lives have been affected by cancer. Founded in 1990, PhotoSensitive is a non-profit collective of photographers committed to harnessing the power of the camera to achieve social goals. The Cancer Project is an initiative to increase Canadians' awareness of how deeply this disease affects our society.

The goal is to engage Canadians in the fight against cancer through the faces of those closest to us – family, friends, neighbours, co-workers and colleagues – and their stories of hope, loss and survival.

Participation in The Cancer Project is open to all Canadians. Photographs can be submitted in JPG format to james@photosensitive.com. They must be accompanied by a signed release form as well as a caption of around 30 words, giving a description of the photo's subject/s and how they have been affected by cancer. Closing date for submissions for the Toronto exhibition is February 29, 2008.
PhotoSensitive also welcomes donations to help bring this ambitious project to fruition.
The exhibit will be edited by PhotoSensitive.

Join Adventure Canada this May as we explore the magni?cent fjords and spectacular islands of the Great Bear Rainforest on the British Columbian Coast. We'll travel aboard the 66 ft sailboat Achiever enjoying birds as well as grizzly and black bears, whales, and possibly wolves among pristine watersheds of towering forests. Heading up this wildlife-rich itinerary are Adventure Canada guides, Cam Gillies, Heidi Krajewsky and Stephen Stephen Anstee.

May 15 - 25, 2008

For more information please contact Rob Postma:
Email Rob or call 1-800-363-7566 ext. 34

So the time is finally upon us, our super amazing, most fun ever art show. Join Adventure Canada's staff, family, and friends June 26th – 28th at the Gladstone Hotel to celebrate and support some of Canada's most talented artists! Great door prizes have been donated by Newfoundland and Labrador tourism, and a few lucky winners will also get Adventure Canada Gift Certificates!

Don't miss the GRAND OPENING Tuesday June 26th, All are welcome!! The show will be open to the public until Thursday June 28th and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

For any questions about the show contact artshow@adventurecanada.com

RSVP to us at RSVP@adventurecanada.com to guarantee your space at the Grand Opening: June 26, 2007 - 6 - 10pm at the Gladstone Hotel, Toronto.

If you can't make the Grand Opening, the show will run Wednesday and Thursday as well from 12 - 7pm. See you there!

For more Art in the Arctic, join us on our Rock Odyssey Program, August 6 - 18, 2007 as we visit the famous Inuit Art communities of Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Kimmirut (Lake Harbour) and Pangnirtung - among others!

Click here for more info on the voyage.

You can download the show calalog here.