Just in time for Earth Day, the Gladstone Hotel’s 4th annual Grow Op exhibition returns from April 21st - 24th, 2016. Grow Op is not your typical garden show. This four-day festival will transform the hotel’s second floor with 30+ immersive installations that take on urbanism, environmental sustainability, landscape design and contemporary art. Think Allans Gardens meets Come Up to My Room!

Using the juxtaposition of urban and wild, this year’s theme Cultivating Curiosity inspires such timely and important questions as: can we use the lake to commute to work? Will local food be able to feed us all? How did that bear get into my backyard?

Exhibition Information:

Grow Op takes place from April 21 – 24, 2016 in the Gladstone Hotel’s 2nd floor gallery and public space. This year’s exhibit will include evening events as well as both on and off-site participatory events.

Exhibition Hours:

Thursday: 11am - 8pm | Friday: 11am - 10pm | Saturday: 11am - 10pm | Sunday: 10am - 5pm

Special Events:

Thursday, April 21: Grow Op’s Alternative Food + Drink Show, Ballroom, 6-10pm | $10

Friday, April 22: Opening Reception, 2nd Floor Gallery, 7-10pm | After Party, Melody Bar, 10pm-late
(Your general admission ticket purchased from this page will grant you access to the opening reception!)

Saturday, April 23: Offsite Installation by Robert Cram + After Party, OCADU Gallery, 7-10pm

Sunday, April 24: Gladstone Flea Goes Green, Melody Bar, 10am - 4pm

Grow Op 2016 Participants

Adam Biehler, Rui Felix, Alan Poon + Noah Scheinman; Anna Bowen + Christina Kingsbury; Robert Cram; Daniel Griffin Hunt + Tiffany Schofield; Djuna Day; Deena DelZotto and Victoria Taylor; Design Build Grow Studio; Micah Donovan; D&S Projects; Shelly Dwyer; Jasmine Frolick + Robynne Redgrave; Stefanie Gogan; LandArtDesign Landscape Architects Inc.; Becky Lauzon; Ayelen Liberona + Natasha Myers; Nathan Isberg; Michael Rennick; Michaela MacLeod; Monique Resnick; Nomadic Vision Studio; Kelly Norman of Dopamine Collective; David Perrett; Shari Kasman; Kara Stone; Toronto Flower Market; [R]ed[U]x Lab, Wabi Sabi Collective