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| Event: Art Exhibition - "Beyond the Rhythm" |
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| Place: Royal Ontario Museum |
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| Date: July 22 to August 2, 2010 |
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| Time: 12:00 pm 09:00 pm Daily |
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Cost: “The Scotiabank Caribana Festival features a fantastic discount rate. Buy your tickets ahead online and enter promo code ”  |
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| Map: Click Here |
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Description:A Visual Art presentation of 50 works on canvas, celebrating our survival and accomplishments, beyond the bounds of hardship and sorrow.
Beyond the Rhythm - produced by the Association of African Canadian Artists - is the Scotia Caribana 2009 Visual Art Exhibition – On display from July 23rd to August 3rd, at the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada’s largest and the fifth largest museum in North America.
The quality of this art exhibition and the majesty of the venue makes this event a growing highlight of the line-up of Scotiabank Caribana events.
The exhibit consists of 50 large 3’X4’ canvases, created by twenty-five artists – 11 male and 14 female - ranging in age from the 20’s to the 60’s - half of the artists born outside of Canada (Caribbean, Africa, England, and America) and bring to their canvases - their difference, their history and their struggles.
Each of the works were created and inspired by the poem “Beyond the Rhythm” written by the exhibit curator Joan Butterfield.
Beyond the Rhythm
It’s the rhythm of our journey that has kept us alive,
it’s our strength as a people that helped us survive.
It’s more than the rhythm that set us free,
we are more than what you imagine us to be.
We are people proud of who we are,
and all that we have accomplished thus far.
We do more than play ball, bop and jive,
we have achieved much more in our lives.
We are artists, writers and teachers too,
read about us in the pages of who’s who.
Doctors, Scientists and Inventors - that’s what we are,
in spite of the obstacles we have come so far.
Business owners and corporate CEO’s,
actors and director’s of Broadway shows.
Houses in the country, condos downtown,
mega yachts floating leisurely in the sound.
We are proud mothers, fathers and children who,
have hopes and dreams for our families too.
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