{"id":41543,"date":"2018-09-19T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T22:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=41543"},"modified":"2018-09-26T19:42:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T23:42:20","slug":"moca-grand-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=41543","title":{"rendered":"MOCA Grand Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/rsz_press_release_-_moca_opens_sept_22-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41547\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/rsz_press_release_-_moca_opens_sept_22-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><strong>September 22, 2018 \/ 10 am &#8211; 7 pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>158 Sterling Road, Toronto<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Official Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Saturday, 10 am \/ Museum doors open at 11am<\/p>\n<p>Join us for <strong>MOCA<\/strong>\u2019s official public grand opening ceremony. Following the ribbon cutting ceremony we invite you to explore all five floors of the museum all weekend for free.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MOCA<\/strong> will be a community hub in the Junction Triangle, an area home to an expanding critical mass \u00a0of creative businesses and activity that boasts one of the highest number of artists per capita in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The<strong> floor one<\/strong> of the museum will be a free space for the community to gather.<\/p>\n<p>Greek artist <strong>Andreas Angelidakis<\/strong> was commissioned to create <strong>Demos \u2013 A \u00a0Reconstruction<\/strong>, \u00a0 consisting of seventy-four modules that can be moved and recomposed by the public to create different \u00a0 structures.<\/p>\n<p>Floor one will also include caf\u00e9 partners Forno\u00a0 Cultura, book store Art Metropole.<\/p>\n<p>MOCA\u2019s inaugural exhibition <strong>BELIEVE<\/strong>, curated by David Liss, spread over <strong>floors two and three<\/strong>, will feature 16 Canadian and\u00a0 international artists and explore the beliefs and systems that inform our values and behaviours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Floor four<\/strong> will be dedicated to <strong>Art in Use<\/strong>, and the <strong>Akin\u00a0 Studio Program<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information please visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/museumofcontemporaryart.ca\/exhibitions\/\">https:\/\/museumofcontemporaryart.ca\/exhibitions\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>September 22, 2018 \/ 10 am &#8211; 7 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>158 Sterling Road, Toronto<\/p>\n<p>we invite you to explore all five floors of the museum all weekend for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=41543\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41543"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41579,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41543\/revisions\/41579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}