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Luminato Festival brings 8-hour aerial spectacle to Toronto's Sankofa Square
Think fighting climate change is hard? Try dancing on a melting iceberg. The show, Thaw, is a call to action for the planet.
Arts June 4
Dandyism pays tribute to how Congolese sapeurs use fashion as 'a way of resisting'
Dance piece makes its North American debut in Toronto as part of the Luminato Festival
Chris Dart
Arts June 3
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June's logo is a last 'symbolic' collab with the late artist, Preston Buffalo
The piece by Pascale Jean also pays tribute to Pride and National Indigenous History Month.
Arts June 2
Gen Z TikTok star Jack Innanen tackles generational tension head on in Adults
Toronto-born viral sensation makes his TV debut in new FX series about a group of 20-something New Yorkers trying to figure out adult life
Radheyan Simonpillai
Arts May 30
LE BEL ÉCRAN
Building a new type of cinema to fight climate collapse in Waiting for the Storms
Justine Smith
Arts May 30
Comedian Lisa Gilroy is tapping into Canada's 'pure creative energy'
Chris Dart
Arts May 29

The most exciting performances at the 2025 Luminato Festival

Destination: Art

What can this hidden masterpiece of Canadian land art tell us about place?

Annie Murphy and Murray Bartlett on why we love watching dysfunctional families

Marriska Fernandes

The rural P.E.I. music hall that makes history pop

Hillary LeBlanc

This play is about Christmas Eve at a strip club. It's also about loneliness

Neema Nazeri wants you to know he's 'a real comedian'

Chelsea Muirhead knows how to play an overworked surgical intern, because she was once a struggling actor

Marriska Fernandes

'I wanted to make an October crisis film meets Alice in Wonderland'

Radheyan Simonpillai

Killer filmmaking: Meet the Vancouver-based duo who made the new Final Destination 'a classier affair'

Radheyan Simonpillai

Canada brings living experiment to the Venice Architecture Biennale

Kurdish refugee artist paints 'stories that need to be told'

When chronic illness is your full-time job

This new book explores the Art of Dancehall, and features Toronto in a massive way

Let's hear it for all the mothers (and aunts!) who raised us — including the ones onscreen

Anne T. Donahue

Srutika Sabu graduated medical school. Then she became a clown

He had his 1st solo show months before he died. Now, friends are making sure his art lives on

Hillary LeBlanc

Love You Wrong Time uncovers the horrors of dating as an Asian woman

Re-introducing Judi Singh. New doc tells the very Canadian story of a Black-Punjabi jazz sensation

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