Art + Community: Memory of the Makers

6:00 – 10:00 PM
Wednesday, November 4, 2026

Join artist instructor Lacie Williamson of LVW Creative Barracks for a
hands-on artmaking experience that grows through the contributions of Festival visitors. Create your own cyanotype artwork, then see it become part of Memory of the Makers, an evolving large-scale wall weaving built collectively over the course of the Festival

Art + Music: Super Choir

6:00 – 10:00 PM
Wednesday, November 4, 2026

What happens when voices from across Hamilton come together under one roof? Super Choir brings singers and musical communities from across the city together for a joyful celebration of the human voice.  

Art + Community:  Paper Forest

Thursday, November 5 – Sunday, November 8, 2026

Watch a forest take root inside the AGH! Working alongside artist instructor Vanessa Crosbie Ramsay, create a colourful paper tree using a variety of materials and techniques.

Art + Community: The Big Weave

Thursday, November 5 – Sunday, November 8, 2026

Join artist instructor Kayla Whitney of Koe Design Studio and learn to weave with reused materials. Add your square to The Big Weave, a collaborative paper quilt that takes shape over the course of the Festival.

Nocturne: A Night of Movement, Light and Form

6:00 – 10:00 PM, Main Performance 7:00 PM
Thursday, November 5, 2026

Nocturne is an immersive after-hours experience that transforms the Gallery through live performance. Wander into a world of aerialists, dancers, theatrical characters and musicians. Watch the magic unfold around you before the evening builds toward its main show. 

PUSH Film Screening and Panel

6:00 – 10:00 PM, Show at 7:00 PM
Friday, November 6, 2026

Presented by the Art Gallery of Hamilton in partnership with the Hamilton Burlington Society of Architects (HBSA) and Young Architects of Hamilton (YAH), this special screening of director Fredrik Gertten’s acclaimed documentary PUSH looks at the forces making cities increasingly unaffordable to the people who live in them. Following Leilani Farha, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing, the film travels across cities and continents to investigate the financialization of housing and the growing divide between housing as a home and housing as a commodity.

Art + Wellness: Dream Tea Workshop

8:30 – 10:00 AM
Saturday, November 7, 2026

Enjoy a slow Saturday with tea, conversation, and a little space to wonder. Facilitator Nadia Ishmail leads an intimate morning workshop exploring dreams through guided discussion, personal reflection, and journaling. 

Art + Wellness: Mapping the Self Workshop

10:00 – 11:30 AM
Saturday, November 7, 2026

What would your life look like if you could map it through art?  
 
Led by instructor and therapist Robin Lacambra, Mapping the Self uses somatic practice and visual art as tools for exploring memory, emotion and lived experience.  

Art + Wellness: Slow Looking Gallery Tour

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Saturday, November 7, 2026

This guided slow-looking experience invites you to spend meaningful time with selected artworks in the AGH collection, noticing details, ideas and reactions that can disappear when we rush through a gallery. Sketching and journaling options will be available.

Come as you are, slow down and see what you notice.  

Art + Wellness: Workshop Package 

8:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Saturday, November 7, 2026

Slow down and spend your morning connecting with yourself and the Gallery through three guided experiences. The Wellness Workshop Package includes Dream Tea with Nadia Ishmail, Mapping the Self with Robin Lacambra and a Slow Looking Gallery Tour. Through conversation and reflection, each experience offers a different way to pause and explore.

Creative Playground!

11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Saturday, November 7, 2026

Creative Playground! transforms the Gallery into a drop-in hub of artist-led making and playful participation. Move freely between stations hosted by Hamilton artists and creative organizations, trying everything from punch needle and printmaking to zines, clay, poetry and beat-making.

Bus Stop with Kim Adams

6:00 – 7:00 PM
Saturday, November 7, 2026

Before the runway begins, meet the artist whose wonderfully strange creation inspired it.

Join Kim Adams, artist behind the AGH’s iconic Bruegel-Bosch Bus, for an informal encounter with one of the Gallery’s most beloved—and delightfully bizarre—works. Take a closer look at the extraordinary details packed into the sculpture, bring your questions and wild interpretations, and hear directly from Adams about the imaginative world behind the work.

Bruegel Bosch-Bus Couture: AGH Fashion Show

6:00 – 10:00 PM
Saturday, November 7, 2026

One sculpture. A runway full of possibilities. 

Inspired by Kim Adams’ iconic Bruegel-Bosch Bus, this one-of-a-kind fashion experience invites local designers, makers, and models to reimagine the strange, intricate world of the artwork through clothing, costume and character.

Art + Community: Collaborative Cookbook

11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Sunday, November 8, 2026

Every family has a dish or recipe with a story behind it. Collaborative Cookbook invites Festival visitors to share those stories and help create a community cookbook.  
 
Join facilitator Maryna Salagub in the Creative Lab to contribute a favourite recipe, food memory or illustration. Throughout the day, these contributions will come together to celebrate the foods that connect us to family, culture and each other. 

Art + Food: Family Fare

11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Sunday, November 8, 2026

Family Fare fills the AGH with art, food and music for kids and their grown ups. Spend the afternoon exploring at your own pace, with hands-on activities, $5 food tastings and a kid-friendly rave in the Pavilion. 

Fabulicious: The Creative Social

2:00 – 6:00 PM
Sunday, November 8, 2026

Fabulicious: The Creative Social brings young adults together for an afternoon of music, creativity and connection. Enjoy a live DJ spinning Reggae, Afrobeats, R&B, hip hop, dancehall and soca; catch emerging artists on the open mic; join a live podcast conversation; and contribute your own mark to One Stroke: The Collective Canvas—a collaborative artwork created by everyone who attends. With food available for purchase and plenty of time to relax, eat and connect, this is a creative social made for community, conversation and fun.
*Please note this venue is not wheelchair accessible.