GUELPH – Doors Open Guelph is a day-long celebration of Guelph’s finest buildings, creative spaces, and artistically or architecturally relevant sites.
Presented annually by Guelph Arts Council since 2002, the program showcases and celebrates Guelph’s hidden gems, as well as the great resources, businesses and creative spaces. The 2019 event will take place on April 27 from 10am to 4pm.
This year Doors Open Guelph will be enhanced by Telling Guelph’s Stories, an event-within-an-event that will increase the role the arts play in Doors Open.
Visitors can experience dramatic storytelling at the Gow Bridge with artist Jay Wilson, guided public art and downtown gallery walks, and arts activations at Doors Open sites.
Launching the weekend, Guelph Museums’ Doors Open After Dark will celebrate Guelph’s 192nd birthday, and commemorate the 240th birthday of Guelph founder John Galt, with history and art activations at and around the Civic Museum from 9pm April 26 to 1am April 27.
Artists and historians can respond to a Call to Artists for Doors Open Guelph and Doors Open After Dark by visiting guelphmuseums.ca.
Doors Open Guelph attracts about 6,000 people annually, 25 to 50 per cent of whom are visitors to the city.
Since its inception, Doors Open Guelph has been part of Doors Open Ontario, an Ontario Heritage Trust initiative that was also launched in 2002 to celebrate community heritage. Guelph’s event is the kick-off event for Doors Open Ontario’s season.
To volunteer at Doors Open Guelph express interest online or contact Katie Wilde at administration@guelpharts.ca or 519-836-3280.
2019 Locations
– The Victory School;
– Greenbriar House;
– Lornewood Mansion;
– Marcolongo Heritage Farm;
– Trails Open: The Guelph Hiking Club will run 15-20 minute hikes throughout the day at Marcolongo Heritage Farm.
– St. Mary’s Ukrainian Church;
– Gow’s Bridge Stories
– Heritage Hall
– Provincial Offenses Court
– Diyode Community Workshop;
– Spring Mill Distillery;
– KidsAbility Centre for Child Development;
– The Sovereign; and
– 17 Aberdeen Street.
