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The possibility of viewing the world differently: Autumn Edition
Gallery Arcturus · Toronto, ON
12:00 p.m. · 30 upcoming dates
A show from curator Deborah Harris, who has gathered artists' works including several drawings by E.J. Gold. Voyage through our nine gallery spaces exploring different themes, mediums, and artists. The Genesis Gallery: “The possibility of viewing the world differently”, Up North Gallery: McConnachie, Claustro, ᐃᑖᒥ ᓴᐃᒪᐅ and others, Ascending Gallery: mobile sculptures, paintings, "cloth collage", Collage Gallery:…
Free
Free Night at the Museum
Royal Ontario Museum · Toronto, ON
4:00 p.m.
Access to most galleries will be free for everyone, on the third Tuesday Night of each month!
Free
Tween Hub (9–12 yrs)
Central Branch · Richmond Hill, ON
4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Ages: 9–12 years Looking for a hangout where you can express your creativity? In October, we'll create spooky 3D art!
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27th Annual Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival
Paradise Theater · Toronto, ON
6:30 p.m. · 6 upcoming dates
Don’t miss this lineup of groundbreaking documentary films focusing on the planet we share. The festival includes Canadian and international films, a free Industry Conference, a free Family Day Program, special guests, panels and filmmaker QnAs.
From $15.00 CAD
Legends of Horror
Casa Loma · Toronto, ON
7:00 p.m.
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Legends of Horror
Casa Loma · Toronto, ON
7:30 p.m.
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Sleuth
The Fleck at Harbourfront Centre Theatre · Toronto, ON
7:30 p.m. · 15 upcoming dates
A love letter to the classic crime thriller, Anthony Shaffer’s Sleuth is packed with razor-sharp dialogue and psychological games that will keep you guessing until the very end. When a celebrated mystery writer invites his wife’s lover to his secluded English country estate, what begins as a seemingly civilized encounter quickly spirals into a dangerous contest of wit and manipulation. But who is really in control,…
From $52.00 CAD
Tales of the Damned: Immersive Theatre Experience
Campbell House Museum · Toronto, ON
7:30 p.m. · 10 upcoming dates
Experience a bone-chilling Halloween tradition! From the creators of the immersive sensations “Tales of the Grotesque” (2023, 2024) and the landmark production of “Tales of the Damned” (2025) comes the revival of Toronto’s favourite gothic horror anthology. With fresh characters, familiar tales, and its twisted brand of terror, this site-specific theatrical experience brings literature’s most depraved characters to…
From $42.15 CAD
Legends of Horror
Casa Loma · Toronto, ON
8:00 p.m.
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Legends of Horror
Casa Loma · Toronto, ON
8:30 p.m.
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Legends of Horror
Casa Loma · Toronto, ON
9:00 p.m.
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Legends of Horror
Casa Loma · Toronto, ON
9:30 p.m.
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Legends of Horror
Casa Loma · Toronto, ON
10:00 p.m.
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Rebirth: The Quiet Becoming Installation at Fort York
Fort York National Historic Site · Toronto, ON
10:00 a.m. · 9 upcoming dates
Experience a bold new outdoor installation on the Gardiner Expressway beside Fort York Visitor Centre. Created by artists Delali Cofie and Yuma Dean Hester, it reimagines the site’s layered histories through contemporary art. An accompanying exhibition inside the Visitor Centre deepens the experience, inviting visitors to encounter the Fort as a living cultural landscape shaped by reflection, dialogue and…
Free
GATHER in Toronto Exhibition
Market Gallery · Toronto, ON
11:00 a.m. · 10 upcoming dates
Come learn about ways we move through the world, honouring the land, our stories and each other, celebrating triumphs in our journeys, strengthening fibres in our connectedness. It is within this sacred act of coming together that we find common values, building a unified vision for our future. Listen to local sports origin stories alongside artistic reflections on identity, resilience, and belonging through works…
Free
They Walked These Streets...and Answered the Call - Remembrance Installation at Fort York
Fort York National Historic Site · Toronto, ON
11:00 a.m. · 25 upcoming dates
Presented by They Walked These Streets, a Toronto-based community Remembrance Project, this new temporary installation highlights the people and places along Toronto’s waterfront that shaped the war effort from 1914–1918 and 1939–1945. Through historical documents, photographs, and artifacts, you are invited to honour the sacrifices of Torontonians, discover how communities united, and to explore how the city, along…
Free
Unweaving Ceremony: Gathering Across Diaspora at Todmorden Mills
Todmorden Mills Heritage Site · Toronto, ON
11:00 a.m. · 5 upcoming dates
This exhibition brings together photography, film, writing, fashion, and installation to explore uncertainty, embodied perception, memory, and belonging within diasporic experience. Through image, body, material, and time, the exhibition creates a shared space for reflection, relation, storytelling, and gathering across differences.
Free
Always In Fashion
Textile Museum of Canada · Toronto, ON
12:00 p.m. · 55 upcoming dates
Curated by Amber-Dawn Bear Robe, enjoy an immersive exploration of Indigenous design languages and their transformative impact on the fashion landscape of the lands we call Canada and the United States. This exhibition emerges from the urgent need to recognize and celebrate Indigenous designers who are reshaping the industry by reclaiming cultural narratives, innovating with ancestral techniques, and challenging…
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Exhibition: "Returning to Ourselves and Michael Massie: now and then"
Onsite Gallery · Toronto, ON
12:00 p.m. · 60 upcoming dates
Please join us at the 'Returning to Ourselves - Rebecca Baird and Kenny Alvin Baird: A Retrospective of Art and Design by Cree Métis Siblings'. Curated by Lisa Deanne Smith. This exhibit presents over 40 years of transformative work by Rebecca Baird and Kenny Alvin Baird. The exhibition spans sculpture, painting and traditional material practices, alongside interior design and more. 'Michael Massie: now and then'…
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Keeper’s Exhibit by Artist-in-Residence Kendra Yee
Toronto, ON
12:00 p.m. · 6 upcoming dates
Experience a reimagined corner store that draws on artist Kendra Yee’s personal narratives alongside histories uncovered through research with the City of Toronto Archives. Together, these stories and materials honour Toronto’s history of Chinese-founded family businesses, represented as a series of new ceramic sculptures embedded with archival imagery that interpret objects commonly found in convenience stores.…
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Retracing Tatreez: Palestinian Thobes through the Twentieth Century
Textile Museum of Canada · Toronto, ON
12:00 p.m. · 80 upcoming dates
Featuring several examples of Palestinian tatreez (embroidery) from the Textile Museum’s collection, most of which will be exhibited for the first time! Retracing Tatreez highlights what these belongings can tell us about the relationship between Palestinians and their homelands in the twentieth century and beyond. In this exhibition, curator Nina Rafique showcases these pieces with restored historical context and…
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Tanya Marcuse: Portent
The Image Centre · Toronto, ON
12:00 p.m. · 28 upcoming dates
Tanya Marcuse’s multichannel video Portent presents ominous scenes of the natural world: trees swaying in the wind, vapour rising from volcanic fumaroles, icy branches illuminated by flickering light, and other small disturbances that hint at forces beyond our understanding. The quiet is deliberate; the frame remains fixed while the environment shifts restlessly within it, evoking a tension between stillness and…
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Tony Ranieri: Fear of the Dark, Beauty Unseen
Leslie Grove Gallery · Toronto, ON
12:00 p.m. · 5 upcoming dates
As light is needed for our basic vision, it is also a manipulator of what we see. A place, a view, or scenery can be seen as beautiful and awe inspiring in one light, then plain and drab in another. Much of the world is not explored at night for various reasons, and therefore much of the night's beauty goes unseen. This series explores landscapes that would be taken as plain and drab in the day time, and exposes its…
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Sala-Manca Group: Like a Bird’s Nest
PIX FILM Gallery · Toronto, ON
1:00 p.m. · 30 upcoming dates
Enjoy a landmark retrospective from the international artist collective, the Sala-Manca Group. Installation, video and photography are exhibited together for the first time, all connected to the ritual object of the sukkah, a temporary hut traditionally erected during the Jewish festival of Sukkot. Over the last twenty years, Sala-Manca has explored the symbolism and function of the sukkah and related themes of…
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