TOPHATs Contact Photography Festival and Waterworks Food Hall
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Join Lawrence, your top hatted host, for an afternoon of great photography, delicious food and Happy Hour drinks.
Our adventure begins at the CONTACT Festival headquarters, at 80 Spadina.
We will see Sin Wai Kin - CLOSER THAN IT'S EVER BEEN
Be part of the art as you step into two-channel-video installation The Time of Our Lives presented at CONTACT Gallery, viewers can choose to sit or move around the space, their experience oscillating between lived and imaginary realities.
https://contactphoto.com/festival/2026/core/closer-than-its-ever-been
Then you can peruse the Women's Image Library by Artexte. The curators of Women’s Image Library activated its archives to reveal women photographers’ significant and often overlooked contributions to the Canadian art scene.
At 3 pmish, we will head outside to see mural at 460 King St W
Thandiwe Muriu - An Abundance of Plenty
An Abundance Of Plenty references classical Renaissance portraits while praising the sisterhood between two women which allows each to become the best of herself.
https://contactphoto.com/festival/2026/map#venue-460-king-st-w-north-facade
Afterwards, we will cross Spadina to 401 Richmond ArtSpace to see more.
Gallery 44 - Suite 102
Group Exhibition - Corpus Obscura
Across black-and-white prints, photographic sequences, and material interventions, the works engage photography as a site of becoming.
Urbanspace Gallery - Ground Floor
Yann Pocreau - The Prefix Prize 6
YYZ Artists' Outlet - Suite 140
Hong Yu (Casey) Chan - Listening to the Pathways of the Dead
Conservation + Culture
Chloé Beaulac - Sanctuary
At 4:30 pmish, we will head over to Waterworks Bar for some Happy Hour Social and refreshment.
https://www.waterworksfoodhall.com/happy-hour
50 Brant St, Toronto, ON M5V 3G9
If you want to continue to explore the 401 Richmond Art Space, head to the basement to discover these gems.
Museum of Toronto to see The 52 exhibit on women who influenced Toronto
http://www.museumoftoronto.com/
Spacing Store, or as I like to call it the Toronto Store, where you can find upscale souvenirs.
50 Brant St, Toronto, ON M5V 3G9