Aviva Chernick is an award-winning singer, singing in Hebrew, Ladino, and English. She was the first Canadian to be awarded a Virginia Folk Life apprenticeship to continue study with 'American National Treasure' and Sephardic musician Flory Jagoda whose music she celebrates in La Serena. Aviva is also trained in the Cantorial Arts and as a meditation teacher through the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. ...
She has entertained audiences at the Aga Khan Museum and around the globe. Now, Ramneek Singh shares this special, intimate performance that you can enjoy from the comfort of your own home. Ramneek Singh opened for Shujaat Khan (sitar), during the Aga Khan Museum's Great Poets Series. Ramneek Singh, introduced to Indian Classical Music at the tender age of six, is an accomplished ...
On Wednesday, May 6, Dr. Michael Chagnon will lead #MuseumWithoutWalls visitors on a video tour of the exhibition. Originally organized by San Fransico's FOR-SITE Foundation, Sanctuary features 36 woven rugs designed by some of the world's most impactful contemporary artists. Each carpet is a distinctive meditation on the theme of sanctuary, a term that has taken on new meanings in an age ...
Our Exhibitions team sourced as many sustainable building materials -- including 3,000 second-hand t-shirts -- as they could their hands on to create the Sanctuary's unforgettable gallery design. Watch this video, featuring Aga Khan Museum Exhibitions Manager Hayley Andrew, to find out how and why they did it. Sanctuary is presented with the support of Partners in Art, Mohammad and Najla Al Zaibak ...
Performing at the remixTOGETHER Festival, Raphael Weinroth-Brown, one half of Kamancello, dreams up and rattles out stirring melodies on the cello. The Museum's remixTOGETHER Festival on April 22, 2020 was presented in partnership with MusicTogether, a living-room concert series that supports Ontario artists in need. Funding for MusicTogether is generously provided by Slaight Music, Arts & Crafts, and the Ontario Ministry of Heritage, ...
Shahriyar Jamshidi, one half of Kamancello, transfixes with his masterful kamancheh-playing at the remixTOGETHER Festival. The Museum's remixTOGETHER Festival on April 22, 2020 was presented in partnership with MusicTogether, a living-room concert series that supports Ontario artists in need. Funding for MusicTogether is generously provided by Slaight Music, Arts & Crafts, and the Ontario Ministry of Heritage, Sport, Tourism, and Culture Industries. Bringing online ...
Performing at the remixTOGETHER Festival, Raphael Weinroth-Brown, one half of Kamancello, dreams up and rattles out stirring melodies on the cello. The Museum's remixTOGETHER Festival on April 22, 2020 was presented in partnership with MusicTogether, a living-room concert series that supports Ontario artists in need. Funding for MusicTogether is generously provided by Slaight Music, Arts & Crafts, and the Ontario Ministry of Heritage, ...
Shirlita Pili and Mark Rainey meld flamenco vocals and soulful Latin and pop guitar in their entrancing performance at the online remixTOGETHER Festival. The Museum's remixTOGETHER Festival on April 22, 2020 was presented in partnership with MusicTogether, a living-room concert series that supports Ontario artists in need. Funding for MusicTogether is generously provided by Slaight Music, Arts & Crafts, and the Ontario ...
In their performance for the online remixTOGETHER Festival, renowned kathak dancer and vocalist Bageshree Vaze and tabla maestro Vineet Vyas untangle mysterious relationships between rhythm, dance, and music. The Museum's remixTOGETHER Festival on April 22, 2020 was presented in partnership with MusicTogether, a living-room concert series that supports Ontario artists in need. Funding for MusicTogether is generously provided by Slaight Music, Arts & ...
Relive the magic of Toronto-based Afro-Cuban pop group OKAN's unforgettable remixTOGETHER Festival set. (You better believe they led the online audience in a comments-section sing-along!) The Museum's remixTOGETHER Festival on April 22, 2020 was presented in partnership with MusicTogether, a living-room concert series that supports Ontario artists in need. Funding for MusicTogether is generously provided by Slaight Music, Arts & Crafts, and the ...
Iranian-American-Canadian musician Maneli Jamal kicked off the Aga Khan Museum's remixTOGETHER Festival with his swirling, globe-trotting take on acoustic guitar. The Museum's remixTOGETHER Festival on April 22, 2020 was presented in partnership with MusicTogether, a living-room concert series that supports Ontario artists in need. Funding for MusicTogether is generously provided by Slaight Music, Arts & Crafts, and the Ontario Ministry of Heritage, Sport, ...
Join us for the final set of the remixTOGETHER Festival! Toronto's Sina Bathaie mesmerize with the soothing sounds of the santur. Hear Persian classical traditions reach new horizons. The Museum's remixTOGETHER Festival is presented in partnership with MusicTogether, a living-room concert series that supports Ontario artists in need. Funding for MusicTogether is generously provided by Slaight Music, Arts & Crafts, and the Ontario ...
Explore the rich patterns and potent symbolism of Iranian carpets, still considered some of the most luxurious items from the East. With a close examination of the world-famous Wagner Garden Carpet, on loan to the Aga Khan Museum from the Burrell Collection, Glasgow, Museum Curator Dr. Filiz Çakır Phillip delves into the concept of paradise in this rare 17th -century carpet. Bringing online ...
Part two of three videos that capture an immersive overview of the Aga Khan Museum's Spring 2020 exhibition, Sanctuary, featuring carpets designed by thirty-six of the world's leading contemporary artists who have reflected on the crucial role of sanctuary in an era of displacement and disaffection. Supported by: Partners in Art, Mohammad and Najla Al Zaibak and the Baytree Foundation and Global ...
Ahmed Salah Moneka was born in Baghdad, Iraq, where grew up in a creative, loving, and supportive family. He studied theatre at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad, and earned his Bachelor's Degree in Theoretical Acting from the University of Baghdad. After working professionally as a theatre actor for 9 years, Ahmed became the first black television presenter in Iraq, hired ...
An immersive overview of the Aga Khan Museum's Spring 2020 exhibition, Sanctuary, featuring carpets designed by thirty-six of the world's leading contemporary artists who have reflected on the crucial role of sanctuary in an era of displacement and disaffection. Supported by: Partners in Art, Mohammad and Najla Al Zaibak and the Baytree Foundation and Global Patrons of the Aga Khan Museum. Sanctuary was originally ...
Megan White, Registrar at the Aga Khan Museum, reveals how museums use climate control to protect the objects in their collections. And she shares tips on the best places in the home to display or store your favourite art. Bringing online Museum experiences to you is part of our mission to connect cultures and promote understanding between peoples. To learn more about how ...
Simon Barron, Installation Project Manager at the Aga Khan Museum, is responsible for the safe and secure installation of all the art on display at the Museum. In this video, he takes us through the steps of hanging a framed piece of art like museum professional does it. Bringing online Museum experiences to you is part of our mission to connect cultures and ...
Hussein Jadavji: Hussein uses spoken word as a tool to challenge perceptions and create dialogue. His work is in the non-profit space focused on equity, community building and strengthening quality of life. Celine George: Celine is a student of wonder and a proud citizen of this beautiful planet. She is always trying to challenge her own views on our existence by listening ...
Enjoy the exquisite artistry of Pandit Budhaditya Mukherjee, one of India's most accomplished sitarists and winner of India's 2019 Padma Bhushan award from the Government of India, recognizing exceptional achievements. Taped at the October 19, 2019 live performance, Mukherjee takes the Museum stage with his long-time accompanist Sri Soumen Nandy for a performance of evening raags and lighter melodies. Raags serve as the ...
Hasheel learned the basics of East Indian classical vocal performance when he was five years old. At the age of 9, he started professional vocal lessons and has since been performing and recording. Hasheel also started playing the bansuri under the guidance of his first teacher, Shri Jeetu Sharma. He quickly excelled in both Indian and Western music and started composing and ...
Director of Collections and Public Programs, Ulrike Al-Khamis shares her recipe for German Apple Cake, a recipe from her inter-cultural household, where German, Iraqi and Scottish cuisines intermingle. RECIPE For a cake tin 26 or 28 cm in diameter Ingredients: 750g apples, peeled, quartered and scored 125g soft butter (preferably unsalted, but salted will do) 100g sugar 200g flour Some Vanilla essence to ...
Sheniz Janmohamed is an author, artist educator, spoken word artist and land artist. A graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing program at the University of Guelph, Sheniz has been mentored by authors Dionne Brand, Kuldip Gill and Janice Kulyk Keefer. She has performed nationally and internationally for over 10 years, including features at the Jaipur Literature Festival (Jaipur, 2013), Aga Khan Museum ...
The Aga Khan Museum's Head of Performing Arts, Amirali Alibhai speaks with poet/author Tanya Evanson about life and art during COVID and National Poetry Month. They discuss two of her recent video poems YAHU and Act of Creation, both with relevant messages during these strange times. Under pre-social-distancing conditions, Tanya would have performed her Bothism - Experimental Sufi performance at the Museum, ...
Hand-eye coordination is the key to creating this piece of art. And once you've conquered it try your 'hand' at an image from home! ...
Poetry helps us listen better to each other. That's a message of a story written by the 12th-century Persian poet Nizami, according to Aga Khan Museum Assistant Curator Bita Pourvash. In this video, she recounts the tale of the Two Lovers using an elaborate 16th-century watercolour depiction of the story. Discover the pivotal role poetry and music played in bringing on-again-off-again partners Khosrow ...
Amirali Alibhai and poet/author Tanya Evanson talk about life and art during COVID and National Poetry Month. They discuss two of her recent video poems YAHU and Act of Creation, both with relevant messages during these strange times. Under pre-social-distancing conditions, Tanya would have performed her Bothism - Experimental Sufi performance at the Museum, so instead we bring her to you digitally. ...
Presented in collaboration with Rumi Canada, this performance was presented on February 13, 2020 to a sold out crowd! Showcasing reimagined Persian music from Hayiran Ensemble, the evening features quintet Shaho Andalibi, Amir Koushkani, and Farzad AttarJafari. Highly improvisational, this performance was inspired by the diversity of Iran's regional music, the ensemble fuses traditional, folkloric, spiritual, and modern styles to create a transcendent ...
Follow co-Curator Marianne Fenton as she shows pieces from the Aga Khan Museum exhibition Don't Ask Me Where I'm From. In this innovative collaboration between the Aga Khan Museum and the Luciano Benetton Foundation's Imago Mundi, 15 artists from around the world navigate their blended identities and act as emissaries between the cultures they inhabit. All the artists use their chosen art forms ...
Bring scenes of spring to life with two fun activities inspired by nature-themed art in the Museum's Collection. Watch the video to learn about materials humans used centuries ago to concoct vibrant paints and dyes. Then, create your own colourful work of art tying into the bold outfit and lush surroundings of a young man who appears in a painting in the Museum's ...
Maryem Tollar is a renowned Egyptian-Canadian vocalist, known for her world music performances as well as original compositions. Her voice has been heard on the theme of CBC's Little Mosque on the Prairie and A.R. Rahman's Bollywood hit, Mayya Mayya. Tollar was the featured vocalist in Tafelmusik's production of "Tales of Two Cities: The Leipzig-Damascus Coffee House" and "Safe Haven" and she ...
See the written word made material on a Poetry Tour of the Museum's first-floor gallery. In this video filmed from home, Assistant Curator Bita Pourvash showcases poetry-bedecked objects -- from candleholders to vases -- in our Collection. Be inspired! ...
A talk about renewal and rebirth - with stories about the Easter rabbits and eggs - traditions that have ancient roots in diverse traditions. A celebration of Spring and a reminder or our cross-cultural connections. ...
Enjoy the otherworldly melodies of Emel Mathlouthi in this special performance, celebrating the release of her third full-length album, Everywhere We Looked Was Burning. Balancing eloquent songcraft, sparse instrumentation, homemade synths, and the voices of the woods, wind, sea, and flames, Mathlouthi aligns nature and music on this evocative new record. Now based in New York, the Tunisian singer has been called the ...
Bea Labikova is a Slovak-Canadian saxophonist and improviser. Her music draws from her interest in free improvisation, avant-garde, modern jazz and Slovak folk music as she explores the boundaries between free improvisation and composition. She is a founding member of new music ensembles future proof, Wow & Flutter, Lila Ensemble, Quartet Pronk and is the saxophonist for avant-jazz group Triio, Asiko Afrobeat ...
Discover what inspired Curator Dr. Marika Sardar to bring Chrysalis, a portrait series by Greek photographer Olga Stefatou, to the Aga Khan Museum -- and meet two of the refugee women who participated in the project. ...
Meet Olga Stefatou, the award-winning photographer behind the Chrysalis exhibition. Learn about the artist's creative process, her drive to promote freedom and gender equality with her art, and the 11 refugee women who made this portrait series possible. ...
Wen Zhao is an internationally acclaimed pipa virtuoso, a sensitive and lyrical performer. Born in Beijing, she began to study the pipa at the age of seven, eventually winning the first prize at Beijing Youth National Instrument Competition in 1985. After completing her university study with the renowned pipa master Wang Fan Di, Wen continued her musical career in England, performing and ...
Make a dazzling piece of art inspired by John Akomfrah's design for Sanctuary. When creating his carpet design for the exhibition, the Ghanaian-British artist drew inspiration from 9,000-plus-year-old cave markings from the Caves de las Manos in Argentina. The materials you'll need for the activity are markers, a drawing pencil, and a sheet of paper. Let's get creative and have fun! ...
Led by magnetic frontman Ravid Kahalani, this is a performance that is at once uproarious and deeply spiritual, fusing Afrofunk groove and Yemenite Jewish culture. This nine-piece ensemble in their second appearance at the Museum will not only have you moving, but they'll also take you on a spiritual exploration. Hallel (הלל), meaning praise in Hebrew, is a Jewish prayer in which ...
