Anime North

Anime North is a non-profit, fan-run anime convention, held every year in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its major events include a Masquerade, Dealer's Room, Artist Alley, Guest of Honor presentations, Gaming (Video and RPG), Panel Discussions, Video Presentation, Contests, and Dances. The convention is hosted at the Toronto Congress Centre, the Doubletree International Plaza Hotel and the Renaissance Toronto Airport Hotel And Conference Centre, all of which are in close walking distance of one another.

Beaches International Jazz Festival

The Beaches International Jazz Festival is an annual outdoor music event in the Beaches neighbourhood, in Toronto. The festival is a four day event in July celebrating the best of Canadian and international jazz music. The Main Stage performances are the core of the festival, and are always held at the bandshell in Kew Gardens on the Saturday and Sunday afternoons of the event. Streetfest runs the Thursday to Saturday evenings of the festival, where bands line the streets for over 2 kilometers along Queen Street East, running from Woodbine Avenue to Beech Avenue. In recent years almost one million people have come to the festival as a whole.

Canada Blooms

The Flower & Garden Festival invites you to visit a paradise bursting with six acres of glorious gardens in full bloom, more than 100,000 square feet of green thumb shopping and much, much more at Canada's largest and most prestigious flower and garden festival.

Canadian International Air Show

The Canadian International Air Show (CIAS) is an annual air show that has been held at the conclusion of the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) in Toronto since 1949. Aircraft from Canada and the United States, as well as other countries, perform over Lake Ontario for three days in September.

Canadian International Auto Show

The Canadian International Auto Show is the largest autoshow in Canada. This event is held in Toronto, Ontario. Located in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and Rogers Centre. It is a major tourist attraction and is extremely popular in Ontario, bringing in large volume traffic throughout its showing. The show generally takes place in February on an annual basis.

Canadian Music Week

Canadian Music Week (or CMW) is an industry conference and music festival held over four days in various venues throughout Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Canadian National Exhibition

Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), aka The Ex, is an annual event held at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The CNE grew out of an annual late summer fair at a time when Toronto was the centre of a farming community. It is Canada's largest fair and the fourth largest in North America, with an average annual attendance of 1.3 million.

Contact Toronto Photography Festival

CONTACT is an annual month long festival of photography with over 1000 local, national and international artists at more than 220 venues across the Greater Toronto Area in May. Founded as a not-for-profit organization 13 years ago, CONTACT is devoted to celebrating, and fostering an appreciation of the art and profession of photography. As the largest photography event in the world, and a premiere cultural event in Toronto, CONTACT stimulates excitement and discussion among a diverse audience that has grown to over 1,000,000 and is focused on cultivating even greater interest and participation this year.

Doors Open Toronto

Doors Open Toronto is an annual event held in the City of Toronto, Ontario, that showcases many of the city's unique and historically significant buildings to the public. Among the buildings included are offices, places of worship, and historical landmarks (such as the house of William Lyon Mackenzie, first mayor of Toronto).

Eh!U Meet the Europeans

Since its creation in 2004, the Eh!U Meet the Europeans - European Film Festival has grown to become the only European film festival in Toronto.

Festival of South Asia

A festival of the South Asian culture of Gerrard India Baazaar.

Honda Indy Toronto

The Honda Indy Toronto is an annual IndyCar Series race, held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Originally known as the Molson Indy Toronto, it was a Champ Car World Series race held annually from 1986 to 2007. The track has 11 turns, is a 1.755-mile (2.824 km) street circuit, and is located at Exhibition Place.

Gourmet Food & Wine Expo

The annual Gourmet Food & Wine Expo is held in November at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, South Building. Each year the Expo offers 35,000 guests an unparalleled opportunity to sample over 1,200 fine wines, spirits and beers from around the globe.

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is North America's largest documentary film festival, conference and market, held annually in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Luminato

Luminato, Toronto's Festival of Arts and Creativity, is a publicly-attended, multi-disciplinary arts festival held annually over a 10-day period each June in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Luminato festival showcases local, national, and international artists from several different genres, including classical and contemporary music, dance, theatre, film, literature, visual arts, and design. Events take place in multiple indoor and outdoor locations throughout Toronto’s downtown-core to highlight the city’s unique vibrancy and cultural diversity.

Markland Wood Annual General Meeting

Markland Wood Annual General Meeting is held on the second Monday but the Markland Homes Association to review the year's activities and plan for the next year.

McLuhan International Festival of the Future

The McLuhan International Festival of the Future is a federally incorporated charity dedicated to educating, edifying, and entertaining people about media, cultural, technology, and society, while using the precepts of Marshall McLuhan as guideline.

North by Northeast

North by Northeast (or NXNE) is an annual five-day live music and film festival and music conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, held each June.

Nuit Blanche Toronto

For one sleepless night experience the city transformed by close to 500 artists for Toronto's fourth annual sunset to sunrise celebration of contemporary art. Discover art in galleries, museums and unexpected places. From churches and grocery stores to chimney stacks and bus stations, choose from 130 projects and chart your own path.

Pride Week

Pride Week is a ten day event held in Toronto, Canada, during the end of June each year. It is a celebration of the diversity of the LGBT community in the Greater Toronto Area. It is the one of the largest organized Gay Pride festivals in the world, featuring several stages with live performers and DJs, several licensed venues, a large Dyke March, and the Pride Parade. The epicentre of Pride Week is the city's Church and Wellesley village, and both the Dyke March and the main Pride Parade are primarily routed along the nearby Yonge Street, Gerrard Street and Bloor Street.

Roncesvalles Village Polish Festival

News and information about an annual fall celebration of Polish art, music and culture in Toronto's west end.

Royal Agricultural Winter Fair

The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, colloquially called The Royal, is an annual fall fair in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which takes place in the first two weeks of November. Innagurated in 1922, and riginally housed in the Coliseum, on the grounds of Exhibition Place, the event has expanded to also take up the Direct Energy National Trade Centre, and remains an important exhibit for livestock breeders. Elizabeth II, as Queen of Canada, is the fair's royal patron.

Science Rendezvous

Science Rendezvous is an annual science festival in Canada; its inaugural event happened across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).

Student Life Expo

Canada's largest post-secondary lifestyle fair showcased to over 50,000 senior highschool students.

TaiwanFest

We are the largest non-profit organization dedicated to promoting Taiwanese Arts and Culture. TaiwanFest has focused on contemporary artistic expressions and presenting programs that reflect today's Taiwan. In every aspect, Taiwan has leaped forward and blossomed with astonishing creativities.

Taste of the Danforth

Taste of the Danforth is a yearly festival held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the Greektown area along Danforth Avenue for a period of three days in August, spawned from the Taste of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Started in 1994, it celebrates Greek food and culture every second weekend in August. Past attendance numbers have reached as high as one million people over the two and a half day event. Approximately 1.5 kilometres of the Danforth is closed from Broadview Avenue to past Jones Avenue.

Toronto Buskerfest

A festival of Street Performers. Toronto International Street Performers Festival takes place in August.

Toronto Fringe Festival

The Toronto Fringe Festival is an annual theatre festival, featuring uncensored plays by unknown or well-known artists, taking place in the theatres of Toronto. Several productions originally mounted at the Fringe have later been remounted for larger audiences, including the Tony Award-winning musical The Drowsy Chaperone.

Toronto International Dragon Boat Race Festival

The Toronto International Dragon Boat Race Festival (TIDBRF), is an annual dragon boat regatta, first held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1988. It developed from the Canadian International Dragon Boat Festival held in Vancouver, BC. An associated festival highlights Asian and other culture in Toronto.

Toronto International Film Festival

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is a publicly-attended film festival held each September in Toronto, Ontario. The festival begins the Thursday night after Labour Day (the first Monday in September, in Canada) and lasts for ten days. Between 300-400 films are screened at approximately 23 screens in downtown Toronto venues. Annual attendance at TIFF exceeds 300,000 from public and industry audiences. In terms of audience attendance, it is regularly ranked in the top five, after Cannes, Berlin, Venice, New York and Sundance; however, it is considered the second-most important and prestigious festival after Cannes.

Toronto Jazz Festival

The Toronto Jazz Festival is a jazz event in Toronto and takes place in June and July. Unlike the Toronto Beaches Jazz Festival, most of the events are indoors and located throughout the downtown core. Formerly known as the DuMaurier Jazz Festival until the ban on tobacco advertising by the federal government forced the need for a new sponsor. Today, the festival is now sponsored by TD Canada Trust and has since dropped the word "Downtown" from its title.

Toronto Marathon

The Toronto Marathon, held annually in October, is a race from Mel Lastman Square, in the north end of Toronto, to Queen's Park. The race was initially called the Canadian International Marathon, and was first held in 1995. In 2003, its name was changed to the Toronto Marathon. In 2008, it was again renamed for a new primary sponsor, GoodLife Fitness. It is held on the third Sunday in October, the first Sunday after Canadian Thanksgiving.

Toronto Santa Claus Parade

The Toronto Santa Claus Parade, is a Santa Claus parade held annually near the middle of November in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. More than a half million people attend the parade every year.

Toronto St. Patrick's Day Parade

The Toronto St. Patrick's Day Parade begins at noon with the procession starting from Bloor and St. George (near old U of T Varsity Stadium). The Parade will continue along Bloor Street down Yonge and finishes on Queen Street at Nathan Philips Square.

Toronto Wine & Cheese Show

The Toronto Wine & Cheese Show is known worldwide for its informative and refined selection of gourmet food and award-winning wines. It also features cuisine from renowned restaurants, exciting seminars, beers, spirits, single malt whiskies, and forthcoming vintages. It's a show that has a consistent loyal following that increases in numbers every year.

Word On The Street

The Word On The Street is a national celebration of literacy and the written word. On one extraordinary Sunday each September, in communities coast to coast, the public is invited to participate in hundreds of author events, presentations and workshops and to browse a marketplace that boasts the best selection of Canadian books and magazines you'll find anywhere. There is always plenty to see and do at Canada's largest book and magazine festival, and best of all, The Word On The Street and all of its events are FREE!