Wins for winter: Holiday happenings & more
Wins for Winter: Holiday Happenings & More
It might be hard not to hibernate when temperatures fall, but this month’s selections of winter winning events will keep you busy outdoors and indoors.
Welcome TO Winter
The City of Toronto has a variety of winter activities available, offering endless opportunities for outdoor fun. From parks to outdoor ice rinks and tobogganing, there’s something for all ages and activity levels. Visit the Welcome TO Winter web page to learn more about City of Toronto winter programming.
Holiday Hills at STACKT Market
STACKT Market is an award-winning ever-evolving, cultural marketplace made entirely out of shipping containers. Featuring a range of shops, a microbrewery, top chefs, amazing city views, and lots of ongoing community programming, STACKT Market has something for everyone. Holiday Hills at STACKT Market has a variety of seasonal offerings from a 120-foot tunnel of lights with a stunning view of the city, to delicious food and even outdoor curling lanes, live music and more.
Date: November 17 –
December 31, 2023
Tuesday – Sunday
Location: 28 Bathurst St, Toronto, ON M5V 0C6
M2N 6R8
Immersive Disney Animation
Date: December 7, 2023 – January 28, 2024
Location: 1 Yonge St, Toronto, ON M5E 1W7
Are you a Disney fan or do you know one? If so, you won’t want to miss the Immersive Disney Animation event. The magic and artistry of classic Disney movies comes to life and takes you inside the greatest films of Walt Disney Animation Studios. Learn how your favourite characters a drawn, see the locations that inspired iconic Disney films, and discover how animators create special effects.
Sediment: The Archive as a Fragmentary Base
Opening night:
Wednesday, January 17
6 pm – 8 pm
Exhibition Dates:
January 18 – March 23, 2024
Location: Art Museum at the University of Toronto
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (in Hart House)
7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 3H3
Sediment: The Archive as a Fragmentary Base, is a new exhibit at the U of T Art Centre. The pieces in this exhibit link the theme of sedimentation —a geological process of settlement and solidification— with the idea of archives as material fragments that resist colonial ordering. The exhibit features the works of artists who represent anti-colonial movements and how their text and image archives become sedimentary bases that resist empire and encourage the creation of new identities, nations, and diasporas. The exhibit opens at the Art Museum with a reception on January 17.
Machine Learning Insights
Date: Monday, January 22, 2024
11:00 am – 12:00 pm (in-person)
Location: Data Sciences Institute
10th floor Seminar Room
700 University Avenue,
Toronto ON M5G 1Z5
The Complex Systems View of AI Ethics is the next event in the U of T Data Sciences Institute speaker series, co-sponsored by the U of T Centre for Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Engineering (CARTE). In her lecture, professor Tina Eliassi-Rad will delve into the risks and harms that AI machine learning systems could create when it comes to democracy, misinformation, and even algorithm use for school admissions, as well as ways to mitigate negative outcomes in those areas.
Toronto History Museums – FREE
If you’re interested in Toronto history, general admission to all 10 Toronto History Museums is permanently free, ensuring that all Torontonians have an opportunity to enjoy these cultural heritage spaces. This initiative stems from an ongoing effort to dismantle the colonial legacy of museums, foster reconciliation and healing, and promote an understanding of Toronto’s diversity of stories and perspectives throughout the city’s history.