Join Berry Hill Co. for Holiday Tea at the RMG!
For three days, Berry Hill Co. will be in Arthur’s hosting a delightful holiday event.
Reservations and any queries must be made directly through Berry Hill Co.
Holiday Tea at the RMG
RMG Friday: Bright and Merry
Join us for the final RMG Friday of the year! In the spirit of the Bright and Merry Market happening in downtown Oshawa, we’re hosting a festive evening filled with music, creative art activities, and warm beverages.
While you’re at the Gallery, explore our exhibitions, or drop by the RMG Shop to find unique gifts from local makers and artists.
Free entry. Everyone welcome!
What to expect:
❆ Free mini hot chocolate
❆ Desserts and warm beverages for purchase
❆ Free art-making activities
❆ Seasonal gift shop items for purchase
❆ Free access to our exhibitions
Gabe and Pancha’s presents a Bright & Merry Paint n’ Sip!
Enjoy a complimentary zero-proof cocktails and warm and cozy beverages. Paint, sip, and get creative with a drop-in style winter-themed activation led by Chelsea Frattura.
Zine-making workshop with Zadeh
Join local artist Zadeh for a free, hands-on zine-making workshop. Zadeh is a visual and sculpture artist based in Oshawa, known for working with ceramics, recycled materials, and scanography, as well as for co-creating Zene Magazine. This publication amplifies the creative voices of individuals from across the community.
In this workshop, participants will explore the art of zine-making through the lens of culture and celebration. Together, we’ll reflect on how we celebrate the holiday season, how traditions evolve, and how creativity connects us across cultures. After a quick introduction to the history and DIY spirit of zines, you’ll dive into creating your own personal zine using collage materials like magazines, markers, and stickers.
No experience is needed, just curiosity and a love of creativity! This free session provides an inclusive and welcoming space for experimentation, sharing stories, and celebrating community through art.
O’Neil Dance Performances
7pm – Grade 9/10 piece
Echoes of Us – 7 min run time
7:15pm – Grade 11/12 piece
Ebullience – 5 min run time
7:30pm – Grade 9/10 piece
Echoes of Us – 7 min run time
7:45pm – Grade 11/12 piece
Ebullience – 5 min run time
O’Neill Dance and Movement Studies Alumni – Erin Ramenda – Grade 9/10 Artist
Erin Ramenda is a contemporary dance artist and choreographer whose work embodies a dark, mysterious aesthetic grounded in emotional depth and physical precision. A graduate of Concordia University with a BFA in Contemporary Dance, Erin has developed a distinctive choreographic voice that seamlessly weaves together expressive movement and conceptual exploration.
Guided by the Limón technique , Erin’s choreography finds strength in softness and freedom in control, exploring the emotional landscapes that live within the body. Her pieces often dwell in darker tones—curious, introspective, and magnetic—revealing beauty in tension and vulnerability.
Recipient of two choreography awards and certified through The British Association of Teachers of Dancing (BATD), Erin continues to share her passion through teaching, where she nurtures movement as both discipline and discovery. For her, dance is not only performance—it is conversation, ritual, and release.
O’Neill Dance and Movement Studies Alumni – Zuri Skeete – Grade 11/12 Artist
Zuri Skeete (she/her) is an emerging multidisciplinary dance artist within the Toronto community. Zuri is a recent graduate from York University’s Choreography/Performance Specialized Honours BFA in Dance. She is a performer, choreographer, and teacher with a heavy focus on improvisation and contemporary dance. She has had the opportunity of working with artists such as David Norsworthy, Syreeta Hector, Tracey Norman, and Susan Lee. Zuri has co-choreographed pieces for Dance Ontario Weekend and Fever After Dark. She has also choreographed and performed a commissioned piece for Toes for Dance’s Common Ground Festival. Additionally, she is the co-founder and artistic director of The Meaningful Movement which aims to create spaces, events and conversations for all artists and art lovers. Zuri is constantly striving to explore her identity and movement aesthetic, persistently questioning if she can go deeper in everything she works on. Being present, staying curious and always ready to play allows her to fully immerse in the language of dance. She is always grateful for opportunities to collaborate and share her passions with other artists.
Artist Statement
Ebullience – Choreography by Zuri Skeete in collaboration with the O’Neill Performing Arts Dance and Movement Studies Grade 11 and 12 Dancers.
Ebullience is an exploration and journey of joy. How can we find and achieve joy within ourselves? How can we share it with others? This piece has elements and inspirations from Georgia Fullerton’s current exhibit in the gallery: Being In and Moving Through. Her abstract works and the words that she uses to describe her feelings and art resonated deeply with us within our creation process. It helped us understand how self discovery further connects to the root of what joy is.
The RMG reserves the right to cancel this event due to circumstances beyond RMG’s control or not reasonably anticipated, including but not limited, to weather, or inability of Facility to host Event.
Learn to Bead: Peyote Stitch Workshop with Olivia Whetung
This two-part workshop is presented alongside Olivia Whetung: inawendiwok and will teach beginner and advanced-beginner geometric peyote stitch skills.
In the first workshop (Nov 22), participants will learn basic peyote stitch including flat even-count peyote and even-count tubular peyote. This session will focus on learning the skills and producing test swatches rather than producing a finished piece.
The second workshop (Dec 6) will build on those skills, covering increases and decreases in peyote as well as stitch-in-the-ditch techniques. In this session, participants will create a triangular pendant which can be added to a chain or cord and worn in a variety of ways (as a necklace, keychain, car dangler, bookmark, or more).
This workshop series is free, but registration is limited to 12 participants. Please complete this form to reserve your spot.
If you have any questions or there’s anything we can do to support your participation in this event, please email Hannah Keating at [email protected].
Olivia Whetung is anishinaabekwe and a member of Curve Lake First Nation. She completed her BFA with a minor in anishinaabemowin at Algoma University in 2013, and her MFA at the University of British Columbia in 2016. Whetung works in various media including beadwork, printmaking, and digital media. Her work explores acts of/active native presence, as well as the challenges of working with/in/through Indigenous languages in an art world dominated by the English language. Her work is informed in part by her experiences as an anishinaabemowin learner. Whetung is from the area now called the Kawarthas and presently resides on Chemong Lake.
Courtyard Concerts
We’re pleased to host Courtyard Concerts in our Backyard this fall. Join us on September 17 and October 15 from 1-2pm for this exciting music performance series.
September 17
1 – 2pm
ABBYGABBY is a sister duo who blend catchy melodies, soulful harmonies, and playful energy to create music that’s both heartfelt and fun. Rooted in pop, gospel, and R&B, their songs tell real-life stories and celebrate love in all its forms. Through their music, they aim to create a space where people feel the vibes, connect, relate, and have a good time.
October 15
1 – 2pm
Kromatix_ is the sultry sound of Funky R&B and Neo-Soul reimagined. A singer, pianist, and storyteller from Scarborough, he blends lush harmonies and timeless grooves inspired by
D’Angelo and Stevie Wonder. With a Canada Council–funded debut album on the way, his
intoxicating artistry is set to mesmerize globally.
Courtyard Concerts are free live music series featuring diverse Ontario-based artists. Performances are curated with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and accessibility. Artists range from solo instrumentalists, acoustic singer-songwriters, duos, trios, and full bands.
Courtyard Concerts is made possible thanks to the generous support of Ontario Creates
Par Nair: Exhibition Opening + Artist-led Tour
Help us celebrate the opening of Par Nair’s solo exhibition at the gallery, featuring a new series of large-scale landscape paintings and embroidered artworks.
Remarks will begin at 1:30pm with a musical performance by Hasheel followed by an artist talk with Par. She will reflect on her time in the RBC residency program and share insights into her new work in an artist-led walkthrough of the exhibition.
Learn more about the exhibition here. This event is free and open to everyone. If there are ways we can support your participation, please contact Hannah at [email protected].
Hasheel is a South Asian Queer Hindustani Classical Musician. He began training at the age of five under his father. He also started playing the bansuri under the guidance of his first teacher and original flautist on the Life of Pi score, Shri Jeetu Sharma. He quickly excelled in both Indian and Western music and started composing and writing his own pieces at the age of thirteen.
Hasheel lived in India to pursue his musical training and is currently a senior student of the legendary Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia. Hasheel has performed around the world and across Ontario. He is also featured in numerous albums and film scores and his collaborations include those with Balkan musicians all the way to electronic House and Drum and Bass artists.
Hasheel pushes gender fashion norms that exist in and outside of India. He often gender bends while wearing clothing inspired by Indian bridalwear. His music mixes hip-hop, electronica, R&B, and Bollywood with a steady undertone of traditional Indian Classical.
Performances have included those with Kailash Kher, Hariharan, Karthik, Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan, Karsh Kale, and for academy award winner A. R. Rahman. He has also headlined stages at Pride Toronto, Small World Music Festival, Basement Bhangra Beyond in NYC, and Iceland Airwaves in Reykjavik. His most recent work includes ‘LIMCA’ and ‘RaagRani’. Released as a spin on Beyonce’s ‘Lemonade’, ‘LIMCA’ is a celebration of Indian culture and queer expression. ‘RaagRani’ is a documentary style music video celebrating the union of his cultural identities.
The RBC Emerging Artist Residency Program is generously sponsored by the RBC Foundation’s Emerging Artist Project.
Closing Activities: We are ten thousand hands that plant seeds
Installation of We are ten thousand hands that plant seeds at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 2025. Photos by Toni Hafkenscheid.
Free admission. Everyone is welcome.
Dive deeper into the themes, histories, and techniques behind the group exhibition We are ten thousand hands that plant seeds. Learn from the artists directly, enjoy a delicious lunch, and experience the exhibition before it closes on October 6.
11am-1pm – “Mapping with Embroidery”
Hands-on workshop with exhibiting artist Sharmistha Kar 16+
This workshop has limited registration, so please save your spot here!
12:30pm-2pm – Lunch
Join us for delicious food from local restaurants! Enjoy RMG’s backyard and meet the artists and curator.
2-4:30pm – “Sounds of Resistance”
Sound Talk + Listening Session with exhibiting artist Soledad Fatima Muñoz
All ages
Drop-in! No registration required.
Refreshments provided.
Sharmistha Kar, Soft Shelter IV (detail), bunka on tarpaulin, 2018.
Mapping with Embroidery
Hands-on workshop with Sharmistha Kar
11am-1pm
Ages 16+
Register here.
While learning the slow and meditative technique of Bunka embroidery, workshop participants will consider ideas of memory, mapping, migration, and movement. Together we’ll ask: how does it feel to experience a new place or to imagine a familiar place in a new way? Sharing stories, and travelling by way of thread across fabric, participants will encounter a unique pace of making, with support from artist Sharmistha Kar.
Sounds of Resistance
Sound Talk + Listening Session with exhibiting artist Soledad Fatima Muñoz
2-4:30pm
All ages
Drop-in! No registration required.
Led by artist Soledad Fatima Muñoz, let’s dive into the sounds of South American resistance. Featuring selections from her personal record collection, the session will focus on the groundbreaking Chilean label, Discoteca del Cantar Popular (DICAP). Founded in 1967 by the Communist Youth of Chile, DICAP became a vital voice for politically engaged musicians whose work was often silenced by mainstream outlets. It played a central role in the Nueva Canción Chilean (New Chilean Song) movement, offering a sonic platform for anti-capitalist expression and cultural resistance. Even after the 1973 military coup and the destruction of its Santiago offices, DICAP’s mission lived on—operating from exile in Paris and Madrid and continuing to release music under the sub-label Canto Libre for Chilean artists in diaspora.
Through an afternoon of shared listening, Soledad Fatima Muñoz will guide us through this sonic history—tracing threads of resilience, memory, and artistic defiance that resonate deeply in her own creative practice.
This event is free and open to everyone. If there are ways we can support your participation, please contact Hannah at [email protected].
Co-presented with SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre).
Opening Reception: Ekow Nimako: Building Black Civilizations: Journey of 2,000 Ships
Join us in celebrating the opening of Building Black Civilizations: Journey of 2,000 Ships, a solo exhibition by Toronto-based artist Ekow Nimako curated by Alyssa Fearon. We’re pleased to align this exciting event with Convergence 2025 in downtown Oshawa, featuring a performance by our very own artist in residence, Pixel Heller.
Please RSVP using this form.
Event details:
- Remarks at 2pm
- Artist Talk + Tour at 2:15pm
- Hands-on LEGO activities for all ages
- Light refreshments provided
Coming from Toronto? We’ll pick you up! Save your seat on the art bus
shuttle using the RSVP link. The bus will collect guests from the
ROM (100 Queens Park, Toronto) at 11:30am and return around 5pm.
Ekow Nimako, Wawa Aba, The Sunrise Dancer (circa 1358), 2022. Courtesy of the artist.
About the exhibition:
Continuing his afrofuturistic reimagining of ancient African kingdoms in the medium of LEGO bricks, Ekow Nimako explores the mysterious fourteenth century sea voyage of Mansa Abu Bakr II in Journey of 2,000 Ships. Combining architecture, historical accounts, and fantastical possibilities, Nimako transcends the geometric form of LEGO to recreate the epic voyage, presenting an uninterrupted and unco-opted narrative of Black civilizations and liberated futures. Visit the exhibition page for more information.
This event is free and open to everyone. If there are ways we can support
your participation, please contact Hannah at [email protected].
Organized and circulated by Dunlop Art Gallery.
Fall Seniors Social
Back by popular demand, this free event encourages seniors (age 55+) to spend the afternoon curating their own program. We will offer refreshments, tours and drop-in art making sessions.
Schedule of events:
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1- 3pm – Light refreshments in Arthur’s
1 – 3pm – Record and CD Acrylic Painting Activity in the studio
1pm and 2pm – Guided tours of the RMG’s current exhibitions starting in the lobby
1:30 – 2:30pm – Canoe on the Lake sketching class with Jade Wysotski in the lookout
Untitled design – 3
1:30-2:30pm │The Lookout │1st Floor
Canoe on the Lake
Guest Instructor: Jade Wysotski
Working with graphite and graphite blend pencils, this piece will bring you back to calm days on the lake. We will capture the beauty of a Northern Ontario landscape using reductive techniques to communicate rich values and soft textures. Enjoy creating a work of art suitable for all drawing abilities.
1 – 3pm │Studio │1st Floor
Join us in our onsite art studio to create mandala acrylic dot-paintings on CD’s and Vinyl Records. Fun for total newbies and veteran artists alike. Drop-in at any time throughout the senior social and spend any amount of time creating. All materials provided, don’t forget to take home your unique creation!
1 and 2pm │ Lobby │Main Floor
Meet us in the lobby for exploratory exhibition tours. View historical Canadian artworks that are protected and selected from our Permanent Collection, including the influential Group of Seven, an Andy Warhol work and Painters Eleven member, Hortense Gordon.
1 – 3pm │ Arthurs │4th Floor
Join us in our charismatically renovated event space, featuring lush autumnal views from above Oshawa. We are serving free, light refreshments including hot tea, coffee and small bites. Perfect to warm up and socialize with new and familiar friends!
Receive 10% off on regular priced items in our gift shop. Not including books or member pricing, in store only.
This event is supported by Sienna for Seniors Foundation.
Georgia Fullerton: Opening Reception
Join us in celebrating the opening of Georgia Fullerton: Being In and Moving Through! The artist and curator will be in attendance.
Refreshments provided.
Read more about the exhibition here. This event is free and open to everyone. If there are ways we can support your participation, please contact Sonya at [email protected].
Being in the Dream, Moving Through the Awakening: An Expressive Arts Workshop Inspired by Georgia Fullerton
Join us for a free expressive arts therapy-based workshop that invites deep reflection and creative exploration in response to the work of artist Georgia Fullerton. Through guided movement, intuitive artmaking, and reflective writing, participants will journey through themes of emotional memory, ancestral connection, and personal transformation. No art experience is necessary—just a willingness to trust the process. Come as you are and leave with a renewed sense of self-awareness and creative insight.
FREE
Registration required