Toronto 
Events Description
One of Canada’s most vital platforms for new performance and artistic development, SummerWorks proudly returns to its 11-day Festival format, to include a line-up of contemporary performance and large-scale installation works, participatory experiences, and celebratory community gatherings.
Our 2026 edition features 27 live performances, including three world premieres, six works-in-development, five site-engaged performances, along with seven workshops and panel discussions. This year marks a significant moment in SummerWorks’ history, as 1/3 of the overall curated programming features international artists and creative collaborators from ten (10) countries and regions, making this one of our most internationally-diverse summer Festivals to date.
This year’s Festival theme, Fight | Flight brings forward urgent creative responses to this troubling moment in time. Across the 2026 Festival, artists root themselves in place, community, ancestry, and practice, while also shifting perspectives, rewriting histories, and creating new narratives through the body, exploring memory, consent, transformation, and identity, through resistance, humour, and intimacy.
Who is it for?
All ages
HOW MUCH
Tickets :
Free & Ticketed Events
How to get tickets?
WHEN & WHERE
Date: August 6-16, 2026
Venue & Address
Various venues and public spaces in neighbourhoods all across Toronto, including indoor theatres, beaches, parks, alleyways and sidewalks. , Toronto
Wheelchair accessible
