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05/25/2026

Open House this Wednesday 6-8 pm

We are throwing the doors wide open! Come in and check out what our students are up to.

Photography by Marina Dempster Photography
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05/19/2026

The latest bad news for students in Ontario:

In a statement Thursday, the TDSB said it has made the “difficult decision” to close the outdoor education centre at Warren Park, end the leases at the Forest Valley and Etobicoke locations and end programming at two in-school sites, the Toronto Urban Studies Centre and Island Natural Science School. CBC News, May 14, 2026

“With mounting evidence showing nature’s ability to buffer developing brains from stress, improve concentration, and boost confidence, it’s clear that increasing access to natural spaces can be an important tool for improving the mental health of children.” UNature.org

$6.4B cuts to education over the past eight years mean:
49% of Grade 6 students are failing math. 289 elementary teachers have been cut from classrooms. Class size caps for Grades 4–8 have been removed. All teacher collective agreements expire in August of this year.

We Can Do This Differently.

Our programs are rooted in a century of proven Montessori theory. We don’t follow political trends. We follow the child. While student satisfaction drops elsewhere, our students are becoming joyful, enquiry-based citizens of the world.

Is it possible?

At our schools, the “impossible” happens every day. Here’s a snapshot:
-3-year-olds mastering the decimal system.
-Grade 3s fluently dividing fractions.
-9-year-olds becoming published poets.
-Grade 6s debating resolutions in the UN General Assembly.
-12-year-olds generating electricity from plants.
-18 year old former students enter university on scholarships.

Book a tour at one of our schools today to see our students in action:
The Orchard Montessori: ages 2-9 years
The Orchard Lyceum: ages 9-14
Links in Bio

05/08/2026

City of Light: Paris
Martin Reis
Lyceum Gallery
969 Queen Street West
Until May 18th

Visit the gallery this weekend to immerse yourself in the experience or view the work and diary online. Prints of the 345 images are also available online (link in bio):

Prints Price List
Prints are 8.5 × 11 inches on Ilford Galerie Smooth Pearl 310 GSM, signed au verso.

$125 Print only — Image size 10×7″ or 7×7″
$125 Matted print — Image size 8×6″ on a 9×12″ mat, or 6×6″ on a 8×10″ mat
$450 Framed print — Matted, black or white wood frame

City of Light combines street scenes and images of street art to portray a different and unique view of this major European city. Step into the photo studio of a fictional Paris street photographer and how they see this iconic city. Photo paste-ups, a street photographers diary, an immersive soundscape and a large selection of mostly black & white photographs combine to portray central Paris as it is today.

Photography, diary and original soundtrack by Martin Reis
Curated by Holly Venable

This exhibition is part of the Contact Photography Festival.

05/05/2026

Gibraltar Point 2026

Funded by their weekly bakery, Lyceum students spend a school week at Gibraltar Point Centre for the arts. This year, they worked on backgrounds for a marionette show they will be launching in the gallery in June. We scoured the beach for stones and glass, had a campfire, got around the island, wrote some island ghost stories inspired by Alfred Hitchcock and still managed to get the work done. Stay tuned for All The Places You’ll Go…coming up soon.
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05/01/2026

Martin Reis
Paris: City of Light
OPENS TONIGHT 6-9!

Story Five
Can you imagine the lives lived here? Families, friends, lovers, strangers, artists, students, Les Flic, riot police firing tear gas canisters outside old families’ shops. A busy street market. Above the chimneys and rooftops, there are clouds and sky like in any other city in the world. But somehow you think they are different. That this city is different, special. Unique story, a process. A continuation of myth. Or is it simply just a place? A beautiful place. Where we receive knowledge when we go to school. Where we learn how to live in our churches. And learn how to love in our homes and bedrooms. Where we buy a simple loaf of bread for money in a boulangerie. A baguette tradition. Where we exchange ideas on the street or in a cafe. Or are we just like that tired old beautiful French song you once heard in a movie? Ah, oui, La Piaf!

04/30/2026

City of Light
Martin Reis
Opening tomorrow!
May 1 from 6-9pm

Story Four
A man sitting along the canal brought his transistor radio and a bottle of beer. There are a million songs about Paris, I still prefer this song by Les Fatals Picards: “J’habite en plein cœur de Paris, au bord du canal Saint-Martin. Un rez- de-chaussée, quai de Valmy, sans balcon ni petit jardin.”

04/29/2026

City of Light
Martin Reis
Opens Friday, May 1st
Lyceum Gallery

Story Three
10/07
Along the boulevards, in small parks and large squares, groups of retired, under-employed and migrants pass the time in conversation. Along the canal Saint-Martin and the Seine River, families, co-workers, friends and lovers eat and drink and enjoy life together. A time of truce between strikes, protests and elections.
Locks lock hearts get broken and lock anew with new lovers attached to aching arching age-old bridges.
We wait for life to happen to us.

04/28/2026

Martin Reis
Opens this Friday, May 1st
6-9 pm
The Contact Festival

Paris:City of Light
Story Two
19/07
There are promises. Promises accompanied by long embraces. And even longer shadows and the sound of bicycle chains, freewheels and bells. Echoes of children laughing. I file everything away in memories and preserve it all in a black, white on film. Grayscale tones, salt and pepper. Sharp edges and soft textures. And then there is the quiet, humble dignity of the women of Paris. The one with a cloth shopping bag in her left hand. Hunched over a little crossing the busy street between tourist infested streets or vanishing into thin air at the end of an alley.

04/27/2026

Opens this Friday, May 1st 6-9 pm
City of Light: Paris
Martin Reis

City of Light combines street scenes and images of street art to portray a different and unique view of this major European city. Step into the photo studio of a fictional Paris street photographer and how they see this iconic city. Photo paste-ups, a street photographers diary, an immersive soundscape and a large selection of mostly black & white photographs combine to portray central Paris as it is today.

Story One
07/07
Early in the morning, Julien and I rode up to Parc de Belleville before it gets too busy and the light is still softly caressing the city below. Gentleness. Julien sketches out his ideas for the day in his notebook, and I will take another picture of the city at my feet. He calls me: ’Ma Fotoriste’.
We will have a coffee before he goes to work, and I will load a roll of film into my camera. I am never quite sure what I will do with all these images I take on grainy film. He tells me that each moment is a small history of light, of life in this city. And what I do is very honourable.

04/18/2026

Justin Morris
Féithe
until April 25th

In Gaelic, the word Féithe has many meanings. A muscle or sinew, a time to wait, a stillness, or a channel of slow water. Justin’s photographs have that stillness to them, a suspended animation of past activity lifted out of a fog.

Justin will be in the gallery today. Step out of the world and come into the gallery for a few minutes to check out this show!

04/17/2026

Mark your calendars for the next show in the gallery!

Repost from ._.rain
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City of Light: Paris
May 1-18, 2026
Opening May 1, 6-9pm
The Lyceum Gallery | www.thelyceumgallery.com

Special thank you to Holly Venable, Sam Higgs, Wendy Lucas & Todd Parsons

Paris 2014-2025 in over 200 images
Photographs, installation and more 
Soundscape (96 min., reel to reel)
Piano improvisations by Martin Reis | Recorded by James Anderson at the Music Gallery | Paris protests and transit sounds: Michel Kristof Archival Paris Street recordings: BBC & Archive.org

Postcard and poster designs by Studio:Blackwell

Diary (excerpt)
City of Light: Paris

‘When you stop and look it all begins.’
- Annie Ernaux

‘When I open my eyes, I pray for light.
Beautiful light.
Earth, water, air.
We have ruined almost all things.
But light is still pure.
Magical. Eternal. Immutable.
Light is life.
I live in a City of Light.
We ride our bicycles in its light.’

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