Toronto Luminato Festival Free Events

The fourth annual Toronto Luminato Arts festival is running from June 11th to 20th, 2010. The festival is a celebration across Toronto and includes major venues, streets and public spaces covering a range of artistic disciplines including theatre, dance, music, film, literature and visual arts.

Part of what makes the festival special are the numerous free events, making the arts accessible to all.

Luminato is a charitable, not-for-profit, cultural organization whose vision is to commission and present significant local, national and international programming that reflects the city of Toronto as a diverse and accessible city that engages domestic and international audiences.

Check the Luminato website for the full list of free events.

Louis Vuitton Cultural Centre New Exhibit

The flagship Louis Vuitton store in Paris has a beautiful museum or cultural centre at the top, not to mention fantastic view of the Champs-Elysees.

From June 4th to September 5th a new exhibit "Perspectives" is running featuring two French, female artists, Odile Decq and Camille Henrot.

"Perspectives" is the first time that the Louis Vuitton cultural centre will feature two artists. These two artists are said to have different yet complementary presentations.

Odile Decq is an established architect who has just completed the extension and fitting of the MACRO (Rome); Camille Henrot is a 31-year-old visual artist pre-selected for the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2010.

This exhibition presents sixteen works which offer an attempt to understand space and the world from a dual point of view.

Mediums include steel, glass, weaving, photography and video.

Check out this free exhibition before it ends on September 5th. For more information visit the Louis Vuitton Espace Cultural

Free Museums London

Free = truly affordable travel and free museums make us very happy here at affordable travel.

We've previously posted an article on Free museums in Paris so be sure to check that out.

London while actually quite pricey is fantastic for offering free museum visits to most permanent collections (note temporary collections often have a fee).

Free London museums include:
British Museum
Tate Modern
National Gallery
National History Museum
Tate Britain
Science Museum
Victory and Albert Museum
Museum of London
Saatchi Gallery
Horniman Museum

Enjoy your free museum visits in London.

Free Museum Day In Montreal

If you missed the free museum day in Montreal on Sunday, mark it on your calendar for next year.

Montreal can be a wonderful city for affordable travel seekers. One example is free museum day. The board of Montreal Museum Directors (BMMD) invite citizens to enjoy museum visits to 30 select Montreal museums on May 30th between 10 am and 6 pm and includes free shuttle services.

For complete details visit the following:
http://www.museesmontreal.org/en/Montreal_Museums_Day
http://museesmontreal.org/uploads/JdM_dep_10_fr_ang.pdf