VIBE Arts is pleased to announce an upcoming collaboration with the City of Toronto’s Youth Equity Strategy (TYES) with support from Solid Waste Management. On Saturday, May 4th, 2019, VIBE will be co-presenting a series of free arts programming and performances as part of Youth Week 2019.
Join us in the Toronto City Hall Rotunda at 4pm for the launch and receptions of two photography exhibitions. The first, titled Resiliency Through Immigration, is curated by Anthony Gebrehiwot and Lillian O’Brien
A second photo exhibition features works from VIBE and TYES’ online Instagram campaign, #ResiliencyLooksLike. Through March and April 2019, VIBE and TYES took to the web to encourage youth age 18-29 to submit photos that showed what #ResiliencyLooksLike to them. The selected finalists’ works will be displayed at City Hall and celebrated at a reception beginning at 4pm.
At 4:30pm, join us for a Platform A ‘A Talk’; an artist panel discussion moderated by Freedom
5:30pm will begin an evening of musical performances with the ResilienTOgether concert series. This event features headliners TOBi and 11:11, as well as the performers we heard from at the Artist Talk; Sydanie, MighLoe, Quincy Morales, IP The Poet and LolaBunz. Hosted by Emcee Ebone with tunes from DJ Gonnie Garko, this will be an evening of good vibes and tight rhymes that you won’t want to miss.
That’s not all! From 4-8pm, we’ll be offering a variety of free arts activations, installations, and programming for creatives of all ages. Look out for Drive the VIBE, our mobile van parked outside City Hall to engage attendees with hands-on arts workshops, led by a team of talented VIBE Artists. Urban Arts will also be bringing their beat-making station, so be sure to come out on Saturday, May 4th, and make some time to create!