“Join over 100 youth from the GTA, Calgary, Vancouver and Halifax to kick-off National Youth Arts Week at the AGO,

May 1st at 6:00 pm!

Special guest speakers include Canada’s former Governor General Michaëlle Jean & Jean-Daniel Lafond, Co-Founders & Co-Chairs of the Michaëlle Jean Foundation!

The evening will feature a dynamic Youth Dialogue to build arts-based solutions to pressing issues facing youth in the GTA and across Canada. Plus, a breaking battle and beat-boxing showcase by UNITY, DJs and live performances.

Also, check out the AGO Youth Council’s new projects, a pop-up shop by Oasis Skateboard Factory, live painting with Elicser Elliott, grant-writing and fundraising workshop teasers for youth by ArtReach Toronto and other drop-in artmaking activities. We hope that you will share this with youth and encouraging them to take part.

Free and open to everyone. Come get connected! Free food and drinks.

Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)

317 Dundas St West,  Toronto
Doors open at 5:45 p.m. Event starts at 6:15 p.m.

The National Youth Arts Week Kick-Off is organized as a partnership of the Arts Network for Children and Youth, the AGO, the Michaëlle Jean Foundation, Artreach Toronto, the Remix Project, GYC, UNITY, Get Schooled, Sketch, Supporting Our Youth, LOVE, Oasis Skateboard Factory, AGO Youth Council, Toronto Kiki Ballroom Alliance, Pink Ink, The People Project, Lost Lyrics, Manifesto, Grassroots Youth Collective, Remix Project.

 National Youth Arts Week, is the largest annual youth-led celebration of creative expression in Canada! It represents an opportunity for youth to engage in creative expression, have their voices heard and demonstrate the power of art to transform the world. The National Week is a project of the Arts Network for Children and Youth, in partnership with the Michaëlle Jean Foundation, and funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage.

For more information or to join us via LiveStream visit, ago.net or http://youthartsnetwork.ca/”

-posted with permission from Linda Albright, Executive Director, Arts Network for Children and Youth  & Peter Flegel,  Director of Communications and Programs, Fondation Michaëlle Jean Foundation

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