Aurora Through the Archives is taking part in the 2024 CONTACT Photography Festival and for its inaugural entry will feature archival images dating from the 1870s to 1980s.
WHEN & WHERE:
May 7 to June 30
WHAT:
Displays at the Aurora Armoury (outdoors), Hillary House National Historic Site, and Royal Rose Gallery & Gifts.
The exhibition is a collaboration between the Aurora Museum & Archives, Aurora Armoury, Hillary House National Historic Site Royal Rose Gallery, Maddison Dearlove-Marshall, Amanda Jenkins and Sophie Langille who are Master of Museum Studies students from the University of Toronto.
Photography enthusiasts are also encouraged to visit Aurora’s Skylight Gallery from May 6 to June 3 to view the contemporary photography exhibition “Window on the World” by Sean Stone, whose artwork is also part of the CONTACT Photography Festival.
The CONTACT Photography Festival is based in Toronto and has grown since 1997 to become one of the world's largest photography festivals, attracting as many as 1.5 million people a year in venues and public places across Canada's most populated cities.
For more information about the CONTACT Photography Festival in Aurora, visit auroramuseum.ca. To find out more about the CONTACT Photography Festival, visit contactphoto.com.
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