Join us for a vibrant journey with Opti, Expo's lovable robot mascot as we visit the Canada and Venezuela pavillions. Enjoy watching the show and chat on Facebook, YouTube or Twitch account to earn points! Your points convert to Seeds of Change which you can pledge to the cause of your choice. Photosensitivity warning: some locations in Live@Expo broadcasts may feature bright flashing lights that may affect photosensitive viewers.

Live@Expo: Ep 34: Canada and Venezuela Pavilions with Opti

211203 Live@Expo Visual Venezuela Canada-02

Join us for a vibrant journey with Opti, Expo's lovable robot mascot as we visit the Canada and Venezuela pavillions.

Use your Facebook, YouTube, Tik Tok or Twitch account to join the chat and earn points!

Interactive, chat-driven tour co-curated by you, the audience.

Earn badges, go on treasure hunts and top the leaderboard!

Venezuela 1

stamp Sustainability-Venezuela

For centuries, the indigenous Yanomami people of Venezuela’s Amazon rainforest have dwelled in grand, ring-like communal huts called shabonos. With its colourful shabono-inspired circular architecture and luminous central skylight, the Venezuela Pavilion brings the nation’s timeless collaborative spirit to Expo 2020. The pavilion’s exhibits focus on Venezuela’s greatest resources: its people and natural splendour. Explore the country’s rich folklore and craftsmanship, discover its incredible sand-to-snow ecological diversity and unwind with fresh coffee and chocolate at the pavilion’s restaurant and tasting room.


Venezuela logo

Bright and cheery, the Venezuela Pavilion is a large cube, decorated with white vertical slats that cover all four faces of the building. A second layer of shorter vertical slats form a wide, wave-like band across the middle of each wall, coloured in a shifting rainbow that represents the tones of Venezuelan nature as well as its national flag.

Visitors at the Venezuela Pavilion Web Image m53318

of colour

A wave

Venezuela Pavilion

Canada

stamp Canada

Canada Carousel

From its people to its sweeping terrain, Canada is a nation of astounding diversity. With its circular design based on the drum, an instrument found across all the world’s cultures, the Canada Pavilion at Expo 2020 celebrates the unity of its diverse inhabitants, as well as their bright shared future.

From outside, the pavilion impresses with its encircling wooden lattice, which evokes Canada’s natural landscapes while paying homage to the geometry of Islamic mashrabiya screens. But the wonder truly begins within, as an immersive theatre experience takes you on a stirring tour of Canada’s land, peoples and technological innovations.


360 show

Canada Feature 2 

Novel exhibits featuring interactive shafts of light

Interior of Canada Pavilion Web Image m3693

Celebration of Canada’s diverse people and landscapes

Canada Features

Canada Logo

The Canada Pavilion evokes the shape of a drum for its commanding, elegant Expo pavilion. Hundreds of pieces of Canadian lumber form a round lattice of diamond-like shapes that pays homage to the captivating geometry of Arabic mashrabiya screens. The massive disc seems to hover weightless over the pavilion’s central core, which is also decorated with wood.

Canada Theatre 2

of unity

A universal symbol 

Canada Pavilion

Live@Expo Ep 34: Canada and Venezuela Pavilions with Opti

Welcome to an interactive live tour where you and a community of virtual visitors from around the world control where the guide goes and what you see! Earn points and top the leaderboard, win badges and reveal treasures. Your points convert to Seeds of Change which you can pledge to the cause of your choice.

Live@Expo

211104 Live@Expo Visual DEC-02 - 2

Join a new virtual tour of the Expo! You control where the guide goes as they explore Expo 2020.

L&E logo

Les Grands Hurleurs - recipients of Canada's Felix Award – perform at Expo 2020 Dubai, presented by the Canadian Pavilion.

Les Grands Hurleurs

Canada: Les Grands Hurleurs

Enjoy an evening of classical piano music with this incredible gala concert featuring renowned pianists Tony Yike Yang and Szymon Nehring. In 2015, Canadian-Chinese Yike Yang became the youngest-ever laureate in the history of the International Chopin Piano Competition. A fellow competitor in the same event, Nehring is also an accomplished musician and the only Pole to win First Prize at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv. Together, they light up Dubai Millennium Amphitheatre in an event that's unmissable for lovers of classical music. 

Canada-Poland: Piano Concert

Canada-Poland Piano Concert

A breathtaking gala concert from pianists Tony Yike Yang and Szymon Nehring. 

The Dubai Millennium Amphitheatre is a performance space hosting cultural performances and live music for seated crowds, located in Al Forsan Park. The venue’s design features a model of two Ghaf trees that intertwine above the centre of the stage. 

Dubai Millennium Amphitheatre

Poland pavilion feature image 

stamp Poland

Poland Carousel

The Poland Pavilion at Expo 2020 is an elegant homage to the country’s ecological wonders, with a special focus on its treasured native birds.

The forests, rivers and lakes of Poland are the breeding grounds for 25 per cent of Europe’s migratory birds, and you’ll see these fine feathered friends honoured in grand style with the pavilion’s impressive centrepiece: a kinetic sculpture suspended in the air, featuring thousands of fluttering “birds”. Fly on in for a wealth of imaginative exhibits, from immersive virtual-reality experiences to a unique “Polish Table” art installation, complete with interactive light projections.


poland

The Poland Pavilion is a three-level modular wooden structure that expands upwards, surrounded by flocks of white kinetic bird sculptures inspired by the country’s treasured winged residents. Vertical slats of exposed timber form the exterior surfaces of the main building, which resembles a stack of shipping containers arranged into an upside-down pyramid.

Poland Intro image 

by nature

Inspired

Poland Pavilion

Dominique Fils-Aimé is a Canadian singer from Quebec, whose album Stay Tuned! was shortlisted for the 2019 Polaris Music Prize and won the Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2020.

Live@Expo Ep 34: Canada and Venezuela Pavilions with Opti

Live@Expo: Ep 34: Canada and Venezuela Pavilions with Opti

Highlights

Participants

Live@Expo.