Festival of Flight

Ontario Science Centre, Ismaili Centre Toronto, Aga Khan Park & Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada (July 16-17, 2016)

This weekend family festival explored the human fascination with flight, flying, the skies and the heavens. The festival program included a range of workshops including making birdhouses, origami flying creatures, stop-motion animation kite and lantern making, and illustration. The festival also featured presentations on the histories, arts, sciences and technologies of flying in different traditions as well as readings and talks by children’s fiction writers who tell stories inspired by flight and flying. A site-specific exhibition, Up in the Sky High, 2016, by Faisal Anwar, a Toronto-based interactive, new media artist/producer, was mounted in the Atrium of the Ismaili Centre. Musical performances were held by Rajasthan Josh & Maracatu Mar Aberto in the Aga Khan Park. 

Program was a Signature Project of the Cultural Hot Spot produced in partnership with the City of Toronto in association with the Aga Khan Council for Canada, the Aga Khan Museum, the Aga Khan Park and the Ontario Science Centre.