#canadian national exhibition

[julianrichingsstuff]

#julian richings #instagram #canadian national exhibition

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"THE AUTO POLO MATCH EXCITING SCENES AT TORONTO," Toronto Star. June 30, 1913. Page 13. --- Exciting incidents at the opening auto polo matches at the Exhibition Grounds. The upper cut shows the forward cars rushing down on the ball at full speed on the face off. The bail is between them. The lower picture shows a mallet man thrown out. This car an instant later dumped its driver and ran away across the street. In the corner is Mayor Hocken firing the starting pistol.

#toronto #canadian national exhibition #car racing #racing #auto polo #motorsport #polo #equestrian sports #life of the automobile

[thewildbelladonna]

The Other Side of the Mirror Tour, Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, Canada, August 17th, 1989.

© Dion Simte Photography

#stevie nicks #fleetwood mac #the other side of the mirror #tosotm tour #canadian national exhibition #toronto #ontario #canada #1989 #big hair #white satin #white robe #satin robe #shoulder pads #bustier dress #black dress #sparkly #sequins #silver belt #flowers #stuffed animals #stuffed toys #link

[carbombrenee]

CNE 2022

#photo365 #cne #canadian national exhibition #2022 #fair #toronto #summer daze #fried food #flower show #scadding cabin

[crawling-over]

August 31 2023

#skyline #toronto #canadian national exhibition #ferris wheel #sky

[solitudesister-pt2]

Canadian National Exhibition

8/23/23

#toronto #CNE #Canada #ontario #taken #canadian national exhibition

[thereviewsarein]

2023 CNE Country Stage Schedule

Every summer, as the season fades and back-to-school approaches, the CNE comes to Toronto – and brings country music with it. The 2023 CNE Country Stage has a 17-day schedule of music lined up for exhibition visitors. It’s a great place to sit and have a rest. Have something to eat. Grab a drink. And of course, enjoy the music. With a list of up-and-comers, indie artists, and even Canadian…

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#Bianca Bernardi #Canadian National Exhibition #CNE #David Boyd Janes #High Court County #Johnson&039;s Creek #Mackenize Leigh Meyer #Marshall Dane #Matt Morson #New Moon Junction #Nice Horse #One Ugly Cowboy #Southern Fried #Ty Baynton

[karimamk]

I went to the CNE, and won a small prize, the guy asked me what I wanted and I said the clown. He grabbed the clown and then looked at it before handing it to me and then asked me if I really wanted it. This guy probably thinks something is wrong with me 🥲

I promise the clown is cute and not scary

#toronto #karimamk #CNE #canadian national exhibition #the ex #the exhibition #clown #clown plush #he’s not even scary #he’s so cute

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #Woodensday:

Kwakwaka'wakw artist Baleen Whale Mask, 19th century Alert Bay, Cormorant Island, British Columbia, Canada Cedarwood, pigment, hide, cotton cord, metal nails From Brooklyn Museum’s “Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas” exhibition

#animals in art #whale #mask #Brooklyn Museum #museum visit #exhibition #Woodensday #woodwork #19th century art #First Nations art #Indigenous art #Kwakwaka'wakw #Canadian art

[1000-year-old-virgin]

Archival photo of the cat show champion of 1964 at the Canadian National Exhibition

#cats #animals #cne #60's #cat show #the Canadian National Exhibition

[uwmspeccoll]

Staff Pick of the Week

My staff pick this week is the trade edition of The Tale of the Shining Princess by Japanese-born writer Hisako Matsubara (b.1935) and Japanese-Canadian artist-printmaker Naoko Matsubara (b.1937), published by Kodansha International LTD. Tokyo, Japan in 1966. 

As a artist-printmaker and bookmaker who makes woodcuts, I am greatly inspired by Naoko’s prints. Naoko Matsubara’s work carries on traditions of Japanese printmaking while having its own contemporary flavor. Her woodcuts are ecstatic, they are vibrating with movement. Her use of bold shapes and the white line of the the carving tool makes the most of what woodcut has to offer. In the book form, the active images carry the reader’s eyes through the book space. Her use of negative space activates the page. Additionally, her woodcuts have translated beautifully to commercial printing. 

The Matsubara sisters are daughters of a senior Shinto priest, and were raised in Kyoto. Both studied, lived, and worked in the United States. Hisako received her Master of Arts degree from Pennsylvania State College, moving to Germany where she continued her studies and became a prominent writer, publishing her work in Japanese, English, and German. In the 1980s she moved back to the United States, this time to California where she worked at Stanford University. 

Naoko received her Master of Fine Arts from Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, now Carnegie Mellon University. After her studies she traveled across Europe and Asia. She returned to the United States and became the personal assistant to the artist and wood engraver Fritz Eichenberg, an artist who has been featured many times on our blog. Naoko taught at Pratt University in New York and at the University of Rohde Island. She also lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts for a time. Naoko is currently living and working in Canada in Oakville, Ontario, where she continues to work and exhibit nationally. 

The work of both Hisako and Naoko have had great influence inside the United States and around the world. So lets celebrate their accomplishments! 

This book has end sheets of mulberry paper with inclusions of Bamboo leaves, the cover is a red textured paper with a gold stamped design by Naoko. 

View some of our other AAPI selections for this month.

View our other Staff Picks.

- Teddy, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#staff pick of the week #The Tale of The Shining Princess #hisako matsubara #naoko matsubara #Japanese artists #Japanese writers #Japan #AAPI Hertitage Month #Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month #AAPI #canadian artists #trade edition #Matsubara #woodcuts #printmaking #color printmaking #fiction #stories #teddy

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"WATCHING ATHLETIC EVENTS AT EXHIBITION GROUNDS," Toronto Star. September 9, 1912. Page 1. --- On the right is Mayor Geary, and on the left Messrs. C. A. B. Brown and Noel Marshall. Below, taking in everything to be seen, is ex-Controller Ward.

#toronto #municipal politics #mayor of toronto #canadian national exhibition #sporting events #human interest story

[oldguydoesstuff]

"Bertie the Brain", an exhibit in the 1950 Canadian National Exposition allowed visitors to play against a computer AI in a game of tic-tac-toe. Most likely the first time any of them had actually seen or interacted directly with a computer.

#vintage computer #retro computing #computer history

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Canadian zoos won't be able to bring in new elephants or apes under new federal legislation introduced this week, except under specific circumstances. Bill S-15 looks to ban all new captivity of the species except where a licence is granted for conservation, research or an animal's best interest. It will also fully bar the use of elephants and apes as entertainment, though that does not currently include exhibits where people can ride on an elephant. Saskatchewan Sen. Marty Klyne is sponsoring the bill in the Senate and says it can and should lead to the "world's first nationally legislated phase-out of elephant captivity."

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#animal welfare #Zoos #cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news

[museum-spaces]

There has been a recent surge in repatriation/give everything back posts in Museum Tumblr so I thought I would share a story I found out about recently.

Background; I did some volunteer work for the Canadian Museum Association that included looking pretty in depth at a few exhibitions from 2023. One of them really caught my eye because it goes into an aspect of Originating Cultural Relationships that I don't see reflected in the public sector a lot even though its not that uncommon among my coworkers.

So back in the 1860s the Prince of Wales was gifted a series of baskets from the Michi Saagiig [Mississauga] women. These were a gift and have remained in the Royal Collection Trust ever since.

It is agreed upon by all parties that the Royal Collection is doing a good job caring for the baskets. However, the baskets still represent the women, the ancestors, who made them. They are family. And the living Michi Saagiig missed their grandmothers and aunts.

So the Peterborough Museum and Archives [Peterborough Canada, not the one in the UK] worked out a temporary loan from the Royal Trust Collection to bring the ancestors back 'for a visit' to their ancestral lands of Nogojwanong-Peterborough.

This was facilitated by the Museum, but the partnership was multi way, between Hiawaitha First Nation, Mississauga Nation, Museum, and the Trust.

This exhibition ran from April to November last year and was ALWAYS meant to be a 'visit' - that language is deliberate. The baskets came home for a visit before returning to their new home in the UK.

here's an article about it

Now, from a layman's perspective this might seem like a small victory - the baskets, the makakoons, didn't even stay in Hiawatha which is the modern location of the village they were made in. And it was only a few months, but still cool. Still pretty neat.

But from my perspective this is MASSIVE. This means that the ROYAL FAMILY has agreed to send things home - at least on the short term. This will bring about change in British collection law. It won't be quick. But we will see more and more British institutions sending things on visits. And eventually we will see repatriation. It is going to take a very long time, and this is by no means the first rung on the ladder. But

THE MAKAKOONS CAME HOME FOR A VISIT