Rhythms & Resistance
Past Exhibit
Friar’s Music Museum
238 Yonge Street, 2nd Floor
(inside Shoppers Drug Mart)
In 2023, the Rhythms and Resistance exhibition showcased rare and wide-ranging photographs, posters, handbills, recordings, videos, instruments, costumes, clothing and assorted ephemera related to calypso, reggae, soul, funk and hip-hop musicians in Toronto, dating back to the first arrival of Caribbean immigrants in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s.
Artists featured in the exhibition were Bob Marley, Lillian Allen, Jackie Mittoo, Louise Bennett, the Mighty Sparrow, JoJo Bennett, Leroy Sibbles, Michie Mee, Jay Douglas and many more.
The exhibit was co-curated by Nicholas Jennings and Klive Walker and produced by Mark Garner of the Downtown Yonge BIA,
