The Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) is dialling up the suspense with the return of MOTIVE Crime & Mystery Festival, now in its fifth year. Celebrating this milestone year, MOTIVE 2026 will host its most expansive programme to date, featuring more than 55 events, author talks, and immersive workshops designed to captivate crime and mystery lovers of all kinds.
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The Canada Ireland Foundation (CIF) brings the second annual Bealtaine Theatre Festival to Toronto, featuring Canadian premieres of some of Ireland’s most captivating contemporary theatre productions.
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Native Earth Performing Arts premieres its 38th edition of Weesageechak Begins to Dance; an annual festival showcasing new works and works-in-development by 10 Indigenous creators from across Turtle Island and beyond.
The festival theme for this year is ‘Complexities and Curiosities’, weaving stories, conversations, workshops, and more around a fulsome gathering of creativity and inspiration.
Each night of the festival will feature a double bill with presentations from two Weesageechak creators.
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The Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) will launch its inaugural Ever After Romance Festival Presented by Rakuten Kobo from November 21 to 23, 2025.
The Ever After Romance Festival is a “celebration of beginnings, in books, in love, and in life”, as described by Festival Artistic Director Roland Gulliver.
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SummerWorks Performance Festival continues in Toronto for its second week. As the festival celebrates its 35th anniversary, it continues to serve as a launchpad for new voices, bold ideas, and transformative experiences.
In co-presentation with DanceWorks, SummerWorks is featuring two performances created by amazing Latin American female choreographic voices, Irma Villafuerte (El Salvador/Toronto) and Sonia Bustos (México/Montréal).
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The Toronto Fringe Festival is a platform for innovative theatre and performance. Shows are selected by lottery or first-come-first-served processes, and all ticket revenue goes straight to the artists.
The Toronto Fringe is Ontario’s largest performance festival and will include three dance shows, five KidsFest shows, over a dozen new Canadian musicals, the Next Stage Series, plus dramatic theatre, clown, storytelling, comedy, puppets, and more.
Below, I give you the first half of my curated personal picks for shows I hope you and I get to enjoy at this year’s Fringe. So many shows… how exciting!
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Over the past three decades, KUUMBA has become one the most highly anticipated events to celebrate the creativity and artistic expression of Toronto’s Black diaspora through the multidisciplinary fields of music, theatre, dance, spoken word and more.
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Aluna Theatre presents its 6th edition of the RUTAS International Performing Arts Festival this month. For two weeks, RUTAS will present a variety of theatre and dance performances, installations, workshops, and a three day gathering in partnership with Factory Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, York University, Hemispheric Encounters, and the Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition (CALTAC).
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Sharing more titles from my TIFF short list in this second volume, which includes about 26 films, in alphabetical order. Again, this will give you an idea of the variety of films at this year’s festival.
As well, this list includes short films, feature films and Primetime / Series titles. Lastly, this short list contains film titles for which I have public tickets; it also includes films I have screened pre-festival and others I aim to see using my media/press pass.
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In my last preview of this year’s SummerWorks Performance Festival, I am highlighting an interactive narrative piece.
I always make a point of attending one or two interactive or immersive experiences at SummerWorks every year. By doing so, I have discovered new artists, took part in the telling of a story, and even canoed to one of the Islands for a ‘celebration of life’ of sorts. Each one is always so memorable.
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