Arts & Culture

Ilya & Emilia Kabakov – Between Heaven and Earth

May 31, 2025 – September 20, 2025, at Gairloch Gardens, 1306 Lakeshore Road East, Oakville.

Ilya & Emilia Kabakov will mount two exhibitions in our galleries and two public sculptures in Gairloch Gardens, including the infamous Ship of Tolerance. This project involves over a thousand children involved in the production of the ship’s sails.

Kristan Horton – None of This is in My Mind

February 22, 2025 – May 10, 2025, at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square, 120 Navy Street.

Kristan Horton presents his endless drawing project as an exhibition. Perpetually extending, this singular work, rendered in black ink on craft paper, speaks to the primal, meditative, and ritualistic aspects of creation. At the heart of the artist’s practice is a philosophy of accumulation.

Karen Kraven– Bloemenlust

February 22, 2025 – May 10, 2025, at Gairloch Gardens, 1306 Lakeshore Road East, Oakville.

Bloemenlust at Oakville Galleries presents new and recent works by Karen Kraven, whose sculptures and installations navigate the politics of pleasure and pain within the cut-flower industry. These works intertwine themes of illness, grief, and the deceptive allure of redemptive productivity. What does it mean to inhabit a body—under duress, under capitalism?

Oakville Museum – The Home Team Wins

May 2024 to April 2025 at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex, 3070 Neyagawa Blvd, Oakville.

This display spans the history of Oakville’s hockey teams from their modest beginnings on local waterways to the dozens of competitive teams representing our community at local, provincial, and national levels today.

At Home in Bronte Muskoka Chair Display – Winter Edition in Bronte Village

Visitors are invited to bundle up and get outside to walk, push and cycle to Bronte Heritage Waterfront Park and the local business district to see – and use – 100 professionally painted Muskoka chairs. In partnership with ArtHouse Halton, Sheridan College and other local artists, the Bronte BIA has doubled the number of chairs from last winter!

History of Sledge Hockey

Sixteen Mile Sports Complex 

What is sledge hockey? Sledge Hockey of Canada (SHOC) was established over twenty-five years ago. Learn about the history of the sport, the rules of the game and get introduced to some of its leading athletes, some of which call Oakville home.

The Underground Railroad: Next Stop Freedom

Permanent Exhibit at Erchless Estate 

In this exciting and moving multi-media presentation, the ghost of Deborah Brown tells the true story of her heroic flight from a life of slavery in Maryland to her new life of freedom in 19th-century Toronto. Presentation available in French and English.

Freedom, Opportunity and Family: Oakville’s Black History

Permanent Exhibit at Erchless Estate 

Discover the stories of early Black settlers in Oakville including Branson Johnson, a freeborn African-American, who arrived with his family in 1855. His Certificate of Freedom from a Maryland court and the pocket watch in which it was hidden for many years are featured.