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Richard Avedon: Immortal: Portraits of Aging
The Image Centre · Toronto, ON
11:00 a.m. · 49 upcoming dates
For nearly half a century, celebrated American photographer Richard Avedon confronted one of portraiture’s enduring taboos: aging. From his earliest years at Harper’s Bazaar, Avedon broke with the conventions of idealized celebrity portraiture, revealing the marks of time on his subjects’ faces with unsparing clarity. Bringing together nearly 100 portraits made between the early 1950s and 2004, the exhibition…
Free
Toronto Sunday Market
The Parkdale Hall · Toronto, ON
11:00 a.m. · 10 upcoming dates
Celebrating local food, antiques, handmade goods and community.
Free
Toronto Sunday Market
The Parkdale Hall · Toronto, ON
11:00 a.m. · 10 upcoming dates
A vibrant weekly market celebrating local creators, delicious food & community Handmade Goods • Antiques • Vintage • Family-friendly Support local. Shop small. Eat fresh.
Free
Unweaving Ceremony: Gathering Across Diaspora at Todmorden Mills
Todmorden Mills Heritage Site · Toronto, ON
11:00 a.m. · 6 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. · 56 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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Fur Ball 2026
St. James Park · Toronto, ON
12:00 p.m.
Join us for the Fur Ball, a Halloween dog costume contest and fashion show, and your dog is invited to strut their stuff on the stage. Dress up your dog in their spookiest, silliest, or most stylish costume. Our judges will be on the lookout for the best of the best, with awesome prize packs up for grabs. Plus, some of our favourite vendors will be there selling all things dog, so bring your wallet along with your…
Free
Harvest & Pumpkin Carving at Scarborough Museum
Scarborough Museum · Toronto, ON
12:00 p.m. · 2 upcoming dates
Celebrate the beauty of the harvest season at Scarborough Museum with a family-friendly pumpkin carving experience. Choose your pumpkin, create a unique design, and explore harvest traditions in one of Toronto's most historic settings. Enjoy seasonal refreshments while museum staff share stories about autumn customs, harvest celebrations, and fall traditions from the past. Participants will receive a pumpkin and…
From $15.00 CAD
Keeper’s Exhibit by Artist-in-Residence Kendra Yee
Toronto, ON
12:00 p.m. · 7 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.…
Free
Madison Chow: Overflow
The Image Centre · Toronto, ON
12:00 p.m.
The water has a body, and so do I. A body as old as time itself, one that has ebbed and flowed for longer than I can comprehend. Within the tradition of photography, we have often constrained bodies of water and other natural elements to romantic fragments within their time. We halt them within the photographic moment, failing to recognize water for its ephemeral and animate nature, one that requires our dedication…
Free
Retracing Tatreez: Palestinian Thobes through the Twentieth Century
Textile Museum of Canada · Toronto, ON
12:00 p.m. · 81 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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Sala-Manca Group: Like a Bird’s Nest
PIX FILM Gallery · Toronto, ON
12:00 p.m. · 31 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…
Free
Tony Ranieri: Fear of the Dark, Beauty Unseen
Leslie Grove Gallery · Toronto, ON
12:00 p.m. · 6 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…
Free
AFC Toronto vs. Calgary Wild FC
BMO Field · Toronto, ON
1:00 p.m.
Capacity: 29,261 Please take note of the venue's [Bag Policy](https://www.bmofield.com/plan-your-visit/bag-policy)
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Downsview Park Community Planting
Downsview Park · Toronto, ON
1:00 p.m.
Celebrate the end of summer by increasing the biodiversity and natural beauty of Downsview Park. We’ll work together to plant a selection of native shrubs and trees, expand Toronto’s urban forest, and improve the health of our shared environment! This event is perfect for families with kids and adults who are excited to learn more about native tree and shrub species and how to plant them. What you’ll need to know: –…
Free
Ravine walk at Raymore
Raymore Park · Toronto, ON
1:00 p.m.
Join Raymore Nature Stewards on a guided walk through the park. Learn about plants for ink-making & natural dyes; ecological restoration; foraging for food & flavour; birds of the valley; and the annual salmon migration. Raymore Park’s dramatic history helped shape Toronto’s conservation movement. In 1954 Hurricane Hazel washed away the suburban neighbourhood where the park now stands. The TRCA’s floodplain…
Free
Swiftie Session
Trivia Escape Rooms · Toronto, ON
1:00 p.m.
Calling all Swifties! We are turning an outdoor space into a Taylor Swift-inspired playground! Enjoy a one-day drop-in celebration designed for fans to come together, make something, sing something, play something and, of course, compete for prizes and bragging rights. Guests can drop in at any point during the event and participate in as many activities as they like. The afternoon will feature friendship…
From $10.00 CAD
Taste of Downtown Yonge Beverage Tour
Meeting Point: Daon Cafe · Toronto, ON
1:30 p.m. · 10 upcoming dates
Six drinks. Local cafés, tea shops, bakeries and neighbourhood hot spots. 90 minutes of discovery. Explore Downtown Yonge in a whole new way with a special beverage focus. You’ll visit a selection of 6 local cafés, tea shops, bakeries and neighbourhood hot spots, sampling six different beverages along the way. Discover hidden gems, hear some of the stories behind the neighbourhood, and find places you may never have…
From $15.00 CAD
Hugh's Room Live - Next Up
Hugh's Room Live · Toronto, ON
2:00 p.m. · 8 upcoming dates
Among Toronto music venues, Hugh’s Room Live has always stood alone - a wonderful quiet space where musicians could be heard. A place that gives voice to the broad ‘roots’ canon of North American and Global Music representing our rich multicultural fabric. Hugh’s Room has hosted some of Canada’s most iconic musicians, including Dan Hill, The McGarrigles, and Sylvia Tyson, as well as international giants like Al…
From $15.00 CAD
LEGO® Mania
Springdale · Brampton, ON
2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Imagine, build, create! Engineer your very own creation, meet other LEGO® fans, and work together to create a masterpiece.
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Mini-Makers
Thornhill Village Branch · Thornhill, ON
2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Drop in anytime between 2-3 PM for a fun-filled hour of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) exploration! Designed for curious young minds, Mini-Makers offers hands-on activities ranging from simple crafts to creative LEGO builds. It’s a great opportunity for families to learn, play, and discover together. Materials will be available while supplies last.
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SHACKLED: A Horror Movie Escape Game
Trivia Escape Rooms · Toronto, ON
2:00 p.m. · 29 upcoming dates
Think you know your horror movies? Now you’ll have to prove it, all while one of your team members are literally chained to the wall. This October, Trivia Escape Rooms is bringing back its fan-favourite horror experience, SHACKLED: A Horror Movie Escape Game, for one month only. Players will enter a twisted study of horror, where their knowledge of classic slasher films is just as important as their ability to solve…
From $26.00 CAD
Sleuth
The Fleck at Harbourfront Centre Theatre · Toronto, ON
2:00 p.m. · 16 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
Storytime
Aaniin Branch · Markham, ON
2:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Join us on for an interactive storytime full of books, songs and activities for little ones and their caregivers. Drop-in program. Please Note For Tuesday Storytimes Only (Starting August 18th!) Join us every Tuesday for a SPECIAL storytime with an interactive focus on phonics (letter identification and letter sounds). Ideal for 2-6 years old. A few things to consider: Do I have to attend every Tuesday?: This is a…
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Susan Hoeppner and Kelly Zimba Lukić on Flute
Mazzoleni Concert Hall · Toronto, ON
2:00 p.m.
Two of Canada’s leading flautists and Glenn Gould School faculty members join forces with the school's flute and string players for a virtuosic duo recital featuring works by Bach, Hindemith, Fauré, and Canadians Derek Charke and Andrew Staniland.
From $25.00 CAD