A list of Arts & Theatre Festivals in Toronto celebrating theatre, dance, music, literature, visual arts, magic, and more!
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All Arts & Theatre Festivals
Next Stage Theatre Festival
Toronto Tango Marathon
Enjoy an amazing weekend of Tango in Toronto. With great music, lots of dancing and delicious refreshments. We have invited outstanding DJs to keep you dancing to the wee hours. Get ready for an amazing three days and nights of pure tango in Toronto! Details
Dance Ontario Dance
235 Queens Quay W, Toronto
Toronto Design Offsite Festival
Toronto Design Offsite Festival (TO DO) takes design out of the studio and into the city, transforming Toronto into a hub for all things design. As an annual Festival, TO DO is a space to engage in design that’s unpretentious, exciting, accessible, and fun. Storefronts display exciting exhibitions, galleries host immersive installations, and local and international designers spark discussion with lectures and workshops open to everyone to participate and learn. Details
RHUBARB FESTIVAL
Canada’s longest-running new works festival returns for a 39th year. For two weeks, Buddies is transformed into a hotbed of experimentation, with artists exploring new possibilities in theatre, dance, music, and performance art. Rhubarb is the place to see the most adventurous ideas in performance and to catch your favourite artists venture into uncharted territory. Details
Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival
The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival is Toronto’s comedy festival, highlighting the best live, scripted comedy in North America all in one place. Since 2005 the Festival has brought sketch comedy to wider audiences with ticketed and free performances showcasing hundreds of artists in acts such as Kate McKinnon, Kids in the Hall, Michael Ian Black, Gavin Crawford, Sassy Gay Friend, FrankenMatt, Picnicface, and The Irrelevant Show. Details
New Ideas Festival
The annual New Ideas Festival is a three-week, juried festival of new writing, works-in-progress, and experimental theatre with a different program of plays each week and staged readings on the three Saturdays. Details
Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley Street, Toronto
Toronto Story Telling Festival
Stories and art activities for families, led by emerging community storytellers, professional storytellers, and artists. Details
Various venues, Toronto
Fashion Art Toronto
Fashion Art Toronto is an arts & fashion week that celebrates contemporary art + design through runway shows, live performances, fashion films, photography exhibits and art installations. This annual multi-arts event, held every April, features 200 Canadian and International fashion designers and artists each year, and welcomes over 5,000 guests; including buyers, curators, the media, and fashion and art lovers in general. Details
Daniels Spectrum
585 Dundas St East, Toronto
Paprika Festival
Performing arts festival of new work by young artists. Details
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival
Every year the Toronto Comic Arts Festival showcases Canada’s incredible comics talent on a world stage by promoting some of our best and brightest creators and publishers, and inviting the attention of the global cartooning community. Details
SOULO Theatre Festival
The SOULO Theatre Festival is Toronto’s annual One-Person Show Festival that celebrates the best of Solo Theatre with top notch workshops and panels that teach people how to create their own solo show. Details
COMBUSTION festival
Presented by Bad Dog Theatre. This week-long comedy party will bring together some of the most exciting, talented, boundary-pushing, genre-bending, industry-leading improvisers in North America and beyond – to showcase what they do best and to collaborate on festival-exclusive projects and shows. Details
InspiraTO Festival
Canada’s largest ten-minute play festival. With ten days of exciting theatre, it’s worth planning. Details
Toronto Festival of Clowns
The Toronto Festival of Clowns aims to bring together clowns and physical theatre artists of all disciplines and backgrounds and provide a common space to showcase their work. Details
Toronto Tango Festival
Toronto Tango Festival is a four day celebration of Argentine Tango, with workshops for all levels, practicas, milongas, performances and more. Explore and enrich your passion for this captivating dance at the biggest Argentine Tango event in Toronto. Details
Luminato Festival
One of the preeminent arts festivals in North America! Luminato Festival is Toronto’s international multi-arts festival for people open to having art change their outlook on the world. Each June, Luminato Festival transforms Toronto’s theatres, parks and public spaces with hundreds of events celebrating theatre, dance, music, literature, food, visual arts, magic, film, and more. Details
Multiple Venues, Toronto
Indigenous Arts Festival
The Indigenous Arts Festival celebrates traditional and contemporary music, dance, theatre, storytelling, spoken word, visual arts, crafts, and food created by indigenous artists. Energizing the grounds and buildings of Fort York National Historic Site in downtown Toronto with powerful ancient traditions and compelling contemporary creations. Details
250 Fort York Blvd, Toronto
Fringe Festival
Toronto’s largest theatre festival caters to people’s eclectic tastes with 1,100+ fresh, innovative and often jaw dropping performances! Choose Your Own Adventure denotes the ability to craft your own experience from a diverse list of theatre, comedy and dance performances, venues, Tent Talks, Visual Fringe, Shed Shows and Fringe After Dark programming. Details
Multiple venues, Toronto
Guild Alive with Culture
Arts & Music Festival. Details
Summer Works Performance Festival
Theatre, Dance, Music, and Live Art. 11 days of Canada’s most innovative and original performance, the latest and greatest in performance making and breaking. Details
Word on the Street
Participate in hundreds of author readings, discussions, and activities, and shop in a marketplace that boasts the best selection of Canadian books and magazines you’ll find anywhere. There’s plenty to see and do at Canada’s largest FREE book and magazine festival! Details
EDIT
Step inside a world where crickets combat global hunger, medical supplies are 3D-printed in outer space, drones deliver blood to remote communities, and shipping containers are the future of farming. Produced by Design Exchange, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme – UNDP, EDIT: Expo for Design, Innovation & Technology is a 150,000-square-foot immersive experience that envisions a world transformed by unparalleled design, innovation and technology solutions. Details.
Culture Days
Culture Days invites everyone to explore, discover and participate in arts and culture in every community across the country. The event will feature free, hands-on, interactive activities that invite the public to participate “behind the scenes”—and to discover the world of artists, creators, historians, architects, curators, and designers at work in their community. Details
Nuit Blanche
In addition to the downtown exhibition sites, on September 29, 2018 art enthusiasts will be able to experience artworks from local, national and international artists in a dedicated City-produced Nuit Blanche Toronto exhibition at Scarborough Civic Centre, Scarborough Town Centre and neighbouring institutions within the community. Details
TUDS Festival of Urban Dance Culture
La crème de la crème in Urban Dance reunite for TUDS Festival of Urban Dance Culture 9th edition. [Powered by Gadfly] – Professional All-styles Dance Battle, Urban Dance Theatre Shows, Workshops, Dance Debates, Awards. Details
Fall For Dance North
Fall for Dance North is an annual international dance festival. Details
Big City Improv Festival
Big City Improv Festival (BCIF) is Canada’s largest improv showcase, featuring the best performers from across North America. No scripts allowed at BCIF! Every act will make everything up on stage with the help of audience suggestions, meaning every show is a one-night-only event. Details
International Festival of Authors
Each fall, the International Festival of Authors brings together the world’s best writers of contemporary literature for 11 days of readings, interviews, lectures, round table discussions, public book signings and a number of special events, including celebrations of the Governor General’s Literary Award and Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize finalists, as well as the awarding of the Harbourfront Festival Prize. Details
235 Queens Quay W, Toronto
The FireWorks Festival
The FireWorks Festival offers new full-length plays developed at Alumnae, associated workshops, panel discussions and other events, offering a rare opportunity to explore behind-the-scenes issues and aspects of the productions. Details
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