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Mount Pleasant Cemetery · Toronto, ON
8:00 a.m. · 29 upcoming dates
Walk through a series of artistic and interpretive installations across ten cemetery sites and several funeral centres. Across the participating sites, visitors will encounter a constellation of experiences, including interpretive panels, meditative spaces, soundscapes, experimental film, symbolic thresholds, and opportunities to leave a message of their own. Cemeteries bring generations into conversation. They hold…
Free
Seeing Sound Exhibit (A Synesthetic Experience) by Pauline Douady
Alliance Française Toronto · Toronto, ON
8:30 a.m. · 6 upcoming dates
French Synesthete artist Pauline Douady transforms sounds, voices, and atmospheres into visual art: drawings, prints, and paintings. The exhibition is enriched with audio content accessible accessible directly on your phone via QR codes, creating a space for pause and inner reflection. For the full immersive experience, don't forget your headphones!
Free
Dancing Blossoms Installation
Clark Centre for the Arts · Toronto, ON
9:00 a.m. · 32 upcoming dates
Delight in Paula Hartmann's Dancing Blossoms, a kinetic installation composed of dozens of delicate paper mobiles suspended in air, evoking the quiet poetry of spring trees swaying in the wind. Crafted from featherlight paper and fine wire, each mobile captures a fleeting moment of bloom, movement, and renewal. About the Artist Paula Hartmann is a Canadian visual artist whose joyful, kinetic sculptures transform…
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Ontology Exhibition
Cedar Ridge Creative Centre · Toronto, ON
9:00 a.m. · 10 upcoming dates
In this solo exhibition, Zhan Zhang creates hypothetical paper-based life forms and biotic communities to explore the delicate interplay between visibility, memory and cultural identity. The title “Ontology” refers to the study of being – examining what types of entities exist, how they can be grouped and how they relate to one another. Existence is not static; it is intertwined with absence, memory and what has not…
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Turning in the Light Exhibition
Clark Centre for the Arts · Toronto, ON
9:00 a.m. · 18 upcoming dates
Be inspired by Katharine Harvey's new body of work which explores the remarkable architectural fragments preserved at Guild Park. Historic stone carvings rescued from demolished Toronto buildings now coexist with forests, gardens and Lake Ontario. Through vibrant paintings, Harvey reveals layered stories that connect built heritatge, nature and memory, inviting viewers to see the park with fresh eyes. About the…
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Falling Into Autumn Long Weekend Dance Jam
National Ballet School · Toronto, ON
10:00 a.m.
Join us at a welcoming dance jam exploring connection, movement, and contact improvisation, with international and local teachers. The first day there is a beginner-friendly workshop, open to all levels. Come explore contact improvisation in a supportive, playful environment, where bodies listen, respond, lift, roll, play and discover movement together as we fall into autumn. Get a full festival pass of just come…
From $10.00 CAD
Essence of the Garden: Plein Air Art Exhibition and Sale
Toronto Botanical Garden · Toronto, ON
10:30 a.m. · 7 upcoming dates
Celebrating art, nature and community! Enjoy over 100 original artworks created outdoors by 46 talented local artists at Toronto Botanical Garden and Edwards Gardens and participate in artist-led workshops and more! This curated, site-specific show invites visitors to experience the Garden through the eyes of the artists who paint here, capturing moments of light, movement, and the essence of the natural world. This…
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Richard Avedon: Immortal: Portraits of Aging
The Image Centre · Toronto, ON
11:00 a.m. · 55 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…
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Legends of Horror at Casa Loma: Toronto’s Ultimate Halloween Night Out
Casa Loma · Toronto, ON
7:00 p.m. · 20 upcoming dates
Watch as the iconic castle is transformed into an unforgettable Halloween night out this October. Guests can wander through two kilometres of interactive sets across the castle’s lower gardens, underground tunnels and haunted stables. Encounter classic horror characters, dramatic lighting, 3D projections, animatronics and unexpected scares throughout the journey, then keep the evening going with Halloween-inspired…
From $35.00 CAD
Haunted ROM Tour
Royal Ontario Museum · Toronto, ON
Time on the event website · 21 upcoming dates
Discover the haunted history of the Museum as you walk through the very halls where ghosts are said to roam. Uncover eerie tales, hear ghostly whispers, and explore hidden corners where shadows play tricks on the mind. Don't miss this unique opportunity to explore the supernatural side of art, culture and nature.
From $5.00 CAD
"The Moore Sisters: DEEP ROOTS" by Nancy L. Moore and Janet Moore
Riverdale Hub · Toronto, ON
10:30 a.m. · 19 upcoming dates
Two sisters, two perspectives, one creative legacy. Explore a vibrant responses to nature, place and family. The Moore family has always been especially creative, with art and imagination woven into their lives from the beginning. Their father Wayne often painted en plein air, sharing his love of nature and the experience of painting outdoors. Deep Roots brings Nancy and Janet together for the first time to…
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Piece by Piece: Mosaics for Seniors at Cedar Ridge Creative Centre
Cedar Ridge Creative Centre · Toronto, ON
9:30 a.m. · 2 upcoming dates
Join Mural Routes for a free multi-session mosaic art workshop series for older adults. Led by mosaic mural artist Cristina Delago, participants will learn mosaic-making techniques, create a personalized artwork to take home, and contribute to a larger community mosaic installation. A final culminating event held on October 23 will take place after workshops are complete to celebrate all participants and what they…
Free
In Broken Light Exhibition at Spadina Museum
Spadina Museum · Toronto, ON
11:00 a.m. · 5 upcoming dates
See a contemporary art exhibition of five sculptural interventions located throughout the historic Spadina Museum, created by artist Ry Van Der Hout and curated by Adrien Sun Hall. Working with photography, stained glass, mirrors, and acts of rupture and repair, Van Der Hout reveals the emotional residue held within objects, architecture and stories. Cracks and fractures become apertures through which forgotten…
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Unweaving Ceremony: Gathering Across Diaspora at Todmorden Mills
Todmorden Mills Heritage Site · Toronto, ON
11:00 a.m. · 10 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.
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Madison Chow: Overflow
The Image Centre · Toronto, ON
12:00 p.m. · 5 upcoming dates
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
Tanya Marcuse: Portent
The Image Centre · Toronto, ON
12:00 p.m. · 32 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. · 10 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
Piece by Piece: Mosaics for Seniors at East Scarborough Storefront
East Scarborough Storefront · Toronto, ON
1:00 p.m. · 2 upcoming dates
Join Mural Routes for a free multi-session mosaic art workshop series for older adults. Led by mosaic mural artist Cristina Delago, participants will learn mosaic-making techniques, create a personalized artwork to take home, and contribute to a larger community mosaic installation. A final culminating event held on October 23 will take place after workshops are complete to celebrate all participants and what they…
Free
Youth Voices Creative Workshop Series
East Scarborough Storefront · Toronto, ON
6:00 p.m. · 2 upcoming dates
Join a free arts-based program where youth can explore different forms of creative expression while developing original work for a community showcase. Through weekly workshops, participants will experiment with a range of artistic disciplines, build creative skills, and collaborate with peers and facilitators in a supportive environment. Through the program, youth will explore and express their experiences,…
Free
Curator Talk: Paul Roth on Richard Avedon Immortal
The Image Centre · Toronto, ON
7:00 p.m.
Join Image Centre Director (and exhibition curator) Paul Roth for a special talk focused on Richard Avedon’s influential series Jacob Israel Avedon, which chronicled his father’s final years through nine extraordinary portraits. These photographs, first displayed at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1974, were hailed by many as Avedon’s masterpiece, while others saw them as exploitative and cruel. Roth will discuss…
Free
Legends of Horror
Casa Loma · Toronto, ON
7:00 p.m.
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LUMINOUS 2026: A Photography Exhibit
Toronto Heliconian Club · Toronto, ON
7:00 p.m.
Come see an exhibition of fourteen women photographers. Eight performance artists engage with the spirit of selected photographs.This interaction of art disciplines is called 'ekphrasis.' Photographers include Linda Briskin, Brianna Caryll, Lucie Collins, Martha Davis, Kye Marshall, Denise Roberts, Jana Skarecky and Henrietta Walmark, with Taivi, Brianna (Bri) Clarke, Kate Marshall Flaherty, Bianca Lakoseljac, Kye…
Free
Legends of Horror
Casa Loma · Toronto, ON
7:30 p.m.
See event website for price
Legends of Horror
Casa Loma · Toronto, ON
8:00 p.m.
See event website for price