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Hi, Both look like great tours....hard to decide... I saw the Textile Museum of Canada " *Dare toWear Love*" exhibit.It is fabulous. zita On 2/27/2012 10:12 AM, Sigurdson, Victoria wrote: > > *If you aren't already registered to attend the conference's First > Nations Art & Culture tour on Monday April 2nd, please consider > joining us from 9:15am-6:00pm for the Fashion, Costume, Textiles Tour!* > > * > * > > *First stop: National Ballet of Canada Walter Carsen Centre* > > The Walter Carsen Centre is in King's Landing condominium designed by > Arthur Erickson on the Toronto waterfront. The lower levels house the > headquarters of the National Ballet of Canada and the ballet's > rehearsal space. This behind-the-scenes tour includes visits to the > Archives and Eric Bruhn library, costume archives, shoe room and > wardrobe workshop. > > > *Second stop: Bata Shoe Museum* > > The Bata Shoe Museum, housed in Raymond Moriyama’s award winning > “shoebox”, is a collection of over 10,000 shoes, illustrating the > history of the style and function of footwear. The exhibitions > currently on display are: */The Roaring Twenties; Art in Shoes-Shoes > in Art; Beauty,/ /Identity, Pride: NativeNorth American Footwear; All > About Shoes:/ */*Footwear Throughout the Ages*./ > > > *Third stop: Royal Ontario Museum Textile Department* > > *Featured exhibit: /Riotous Colour, Daring Patterns: Fashions +/ > /Textiles 18th to 21st Centuries/* > > This dazzling display features over 120 items from around the world, > drawn from the ROM’s extensive textile and costume collection, many of > which are on display for the first time. A look at how designers and > artists, from Dame VivienneWestwood and Jean Paul Gaultier to Pablo > Picasso, have applied their work to printed furnishing and fashion > textiles, with often witty, ironic and political outcomes. > > *Sarah Fee * > > *Associate Curator, **Eastern Hemisphere * > > *Anu Livandi* > > *Assistant Curator, **Textiles and Costumes * > > Both curators will be on hand to show us some treasures in the > workshop and conservation lab. > > > *And our Final Stop: The Textile Museum of Canada* > > With almost 13,000 objects representing more than 200 countries and > regions and 2,000 years of human history, the TMC is uniquely > positioned to speak to cultures and identities in a global context. > The Museum offers a broad variety of exhibitions based on its > permanent collection and the contemporary work of Canadian and > international artists. > > *Portable Mosques: The Sacred Space of the Prayer Rug: *Tour will be > lead by the curator, Natalia Nekrassova. An important element of > worship within the Islamic world, the prayer rug, is apowerful > expression of world view; integrating local aesthetics and materials > as well as textile practices shared across centuries and generations > of weavers. This exhibition features 30 prayer rugs created during the > early 19th and early 20th centuries. > > The Textile Museum of Canada is currently featuring*Dare toWear Love*, > the first exhibition devoted to the celebrated work of top Canadian > fashion designers created to raise awareness and funds for the > AIDS/HIV pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Presented by the Textile > Museum of Canada in collaboration with Hoax Couture and the Stephen > Lewis Foundation, Dare to Wear Love not only showcases the vibrancy of > contemporary Canadian design, but the long-standing connection between > the fashion community and grassroots activism. > > > To register, please visit the tour listing > <http://arlisna2012.sched.org/event/cd97529eb928bc7a7fd88f195b3d5854> on > SCHED > <http://arlisna2012.sched.org/event/cd97529eb928bc7a7fd88f195b3d5854> via > the conference website <http://www.arlisna.org/toronto2012>. Don't > delay, register today! > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]> For information about joining > ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative > matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to > [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ARLIS-L > Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org > Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: > [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > -- Zita Murphy Librarian,Learning Services Ryerson University Library 350 Victoria St. Toronto Ontario M5B 2K3 Phone: 416-979-5084 Fax: 416-979-5215 [log in to unmask] www.library.ryerson.ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~