November 22, 2013, 7 – 11 p.m.
Friday Night Live at the Royal Ontario Museum – Art, Food, Drink and more
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen’s Park, Toronto
Photo: Haafiz Karim
Friday Night Live is one of the few events in museums that caters towards a younger crowd. Friday Night Live held annually at the ROM, over the course of a few Fridays, this year between October 26 and December 6. It has everything you would be looking for in a fun night out. Interactive exhibitions coupled with food and lots of drink made for quite the interesting experience. Colorful lighting turned the ROM into somewhat of a mystical adventure, coursing through the exhibitions. I really loved it and I think it is a great idea.
Photo: Haafiz Karim
Every Friday Night Live has a specific theme, from fashion to climate and culture and everything in between. Being my first time attending this event I was quite amazed at how the museum had transformed, with a band playing, hundreds of people dressed up and enjoying art, food and wine.
Photo: Haafiz Karim
I particularly enjoyed the ‘Mesopotamia – Inventing our world’ exhibit, finding it to be quite a modern rendition of a civilization that did indeed change the world as seen through the more than exceptional artifacts.
Mesopotamia – Inventing our world, installation view. Photo: Brian Boyle © ROM, 2013
Mesopotamia – Inventing our world, installation view. Photo: Brian Boyle © ROM, 2013
Aside from that, it would be highly recommended that anyone above the age of 19 make a trip to this event one Friday between now and the finale on December 6th.
Haafiz Karim