Events

6th Annual CORN ROAST
Sunday, September 12, 1:00 to 4:00 pm
Wolf Sculpture Garden

Join London artist and rogue roaster Ron Benner at his garden installation As the Crow Flies for a corn roast. Part sculpture, part installation and part performance, the event will feature Benner’s roving corn roasting wagon Maiz Barbacoa. The site-specific piece—first exhibited in Montreal in 1984 after years of research—features a pond, garden and corn plants surrounded by black and white laminated photographs that trace the militarization of food and society, as well as themes of activism, environmentalism and global food politics.

Musician Frank Ridsdale will entertain us with his resolute songs of political misdemeanours covering a wide geographical range from the Port Stanley harbour to Latin American revolutionary songs. The London native and his band Slugfest are best known for their 2006 CD “The Port”, which pays homage to the Lake Erie beach he visited as a child and performed at as an adult.

Admission: FREE

Mexican Fiesta London
Thursday, September 16
Reception: 6:00 pm Dinner: 7:00 pm
Lorraine Ivey Shuttleworth Community Gallery

The Fiesta brings the sound, culture and taste of Mexico to Museum London in an evening of fun, food and Mariachi for everyone. In partnership with the La Jornada and Sabor a Mexico.

Tickets: $60/person. To order tickets and for more information, please visit MexicanFiesta.ca.

Tribute Gala Dinner
Saturday, September 18
Reception: 5:00 pm Dinner: 6:30 pm
Lorraine Ivey Shuttleworth Community Gallery

To celebrate the partnership and exhibition success and to honour Dr. Kwan Yee Lo and Ken Louie. Sponsored by the Chinese Canadian National Council, London Chapter in association with Chinese Calligraphy & Painting Association and Chinese Freemasons of Canada (London).

Tickets: $65/person. To order, please call 519.661.0333.
 

DOORS OPEN London
September 18 and 19, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

Experience everything uniquely London at this year’s Doors Open London, managed by the London Heritage Council. Special Museum tours will be available, as well as tours of Eldon House.

Exhibition Opening and Book Launch

Friday, October 1, 8:00 pm
Centre Gallery

Museum London is pleased to formally open the exhibition Paint by Numbers: Painters Eleven, and help launch Canadian author Iris Nowell’s newest book Painters Eleven. The Wild Ones of Canadian Art. Published by D&M Publishers, this is the first book to chronicle a major period of Canadian art history in vivid, intimate detail. Nowell will be on hand to sign copies which will be available at a special price.