Toronto Halal Bites Festival is a vibrant three-day celebration of food, culture, and art at Nathan Phillips Square, embracing our city’s diverse halal cuisine as well as family, community, and artistic expression. This multicultural and family-oriented event also features a Kids’ Zone, live art installations and gallery, cultural performances, live
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Canadian Latin Fest celebrates culture, unity and diversity at Nathan Phillips Square, including free entertainment, food vendors, kids zone, multicultural community zone, and more! Join this dynamic celebration of Latin Canadian culture, multiculturalism, heritage, and the enduring impact of Latin Canadians on our shared future. Canadian Latin Fest Date: May
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SING! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival is Canada’s premier music festival featuring artists performing “a cappella”, which means to sing without instruments. SING! bring together Canadian and international professional singers, students and teachers to illustrate that the voice has no limits and knows no constraints of genre, language or cultural
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The Carassauga Festival of Cultures brings out the world’s best in food, music, dance, art and history in a packed two-day weekend at numerous venues throughout Mississauga. The event features entertainment on 13 stages, over 50 ethnic food vendors, artisan displays, arts and crafts, cooking demonstrations, dance lessons, Kids Zone
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Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC) hosts their new SakuraFest to celebrate the traditional appreciation (or “hanami”) of cherry blossoms, Japan’s spectacular flowering trees. SakuraFest is a month-long event that includes activities for the whole family, including film screenings and concerts, shopping bazaar, tea ceremonies, workshops and food pop-ups. Japanese Canadian
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The City of Toronto hosts the Spring Bird Festival at Colonel Samuel Smith Park in Etobicoke, where families can enjoy a day of guided bird walks, live birds, reptiles and amphibians, backyard habitat building, art workshops, children’s activities, and educational displays. Take your whole family (including leashed dogs) on a
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Toronto Newcomer Day celebrates our city’s diversity by welcoming new citizens with activities and entertainment, as well as more than 100 information booths where newcomers can meet representatives from local organizations. This free event features a citizenship ceremony for new Canadians, live cultural performances, kids activities, tours of City Hall,
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Toronto comes alive with the newly transformed Departure Festival + Conference (formerly Canadian Music Week), a dynamic convergence of music, art, comedy, and technology. Hotel X Toronto hosts a visionary conference with speakers including Matty Matheson, Tegan and Sara, Bryan Adams, and Dallas Green, along with a diverse lineup of
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Cabbagetown Forsythia Festival celebrates its community through the bright yellow forsythia shrubs found in early spring throughout this historical and close-knit neighbourhood just east of Toronto’s downtown. Hosted by the Cabbagetown Residents Association, the festival starts with a neighbourhood parade starting at Riverdale Farm and continues with a party at
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Toronto International Storytelling Festival celebrates oral storytelling through poetry, traditional stories and personal true stories. Once again, free family events take place on Sunday with the Teddy Bears’ Picnic, Family Day Blessings and Tales, the Parent-Child Mother Goose Program, and Nature Songs and Stories with children’s performer Pete Moss. Toronto
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