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The Expansion Pack Call for Submissions is now open!
📣 SummerWorksPerformance Festival: August 2026
💪 Supporting artists and engaging audiences year-round

https://linktr.ee/SummerWorksFun
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📣 Accepting project proposals for The Expansion Pack Call for Submissions!

❗️DEADLINE: December 18, 2025 @ 5:00pm EST

🤝 SummerWorks and @outside_the_march are proud to launch a new partnership that aims to support innovative, sustainable, site-engaged performance.

Learn more + apply @ LINK in BIO
📣 Accepting project proposals for The Expansion Pack Call for Submissions!

❗️DEADLINE: December 18, 2025 @ 5:00pm EST

🤝 SummerWorks and @outside_the_march are proud to launch a new partnership that aims to support innovative, sustainable, site-engaged performance.

Learn more + apply @ LINK in BIO
November 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Just over 24 hours to go before the Call for Submissions deadline: November 5th at 11:59pm EST!
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
📣 Just one more week to submit your project proposals to the 2026 Festival Call for Submissions !

❗️DEADLINE: November 5th, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST

Uncover more detailed information about the Call for Submissions, learn more about our Festival processes, and apply at LINK IN BIO 🔗

#summerworksfun
October 29, 2025 at 6:38 AM
🙋Learn more about the 2026 Festival Call for Submissions, and register for our Online Info Session!

Saturday, October 11th
10:00 - 11:30 AM ET
Online (Zoom)

ASL interpretation will be provided.

Register at LINK IN BIO 🔗
October 6, 2025 at 9:42 AM
⭐️Are you passionate about the arts and live performance?

We are actively seeking new board members who are excited to contribute to SummerWorks’ future!

Please detail your relevant professional experience and why you would like to join the SummerWorks community, and send to board@summerworks.ca
October 6, 2025 at 8:34 AM
📣 Now accepting project submissions for our next Festival: August 6 - 16, 2026 in Tkaronto (Toronto), Canada, as well as other year-round programming initiatives and presentation opportunities.

Uncover more at summerworks.ca

❗️DEADLINE: November 5th, 2025 at 11:59 PM
October 2, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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In my latest newsletter, I review Soulpepper's OLD TIMES,
@outsidethemarch.bsky.social's RAINBOW ON MARS and a handful of performance pieces at the just-closed @summerworksfun.bsky.social.

I also point out a new monthly sketch series at Second City.

www.goaheadsumi.com/reviews-old-...
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Reviews: Old Times, Rainbow on Mars, SummerWorks
The summer season winds down with some Pinter, some performance art and the announcement of a new monthly sketch series
www.goaheadsumi.com
August 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Had the chance to check out some neat shows at @summerworksfun.bsky.social this year. Here's my recap of three of 'em: Le Concierge, The Sankofa Trilogy and The Chains.

www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...
At SummerWorks Performance Festival, audiences got down and dirty with experimental theatre
Festival is a playground for artists and audiences alike with nothing off-limits, including poetry slams, workshops and immersive pieces
www.theglobeandmail.com
August 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
🌟It’s not too late to catch The Sankofa Trilogy

“extraordinary stories of three generations of powerful Jamaican womxn“

🗓️August 15, 9:00 PM - benu
🗓️August 17, 1:00 PM - word! sound! powah!
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#torontotheatre
August 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
🌟Sharing moments from a great opening night! #torontotheatre #koreanartists

“stories told from ghosts, whose vibrant lives have been interrupted in the name of human joy”

(info in thread)
August 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Tonight’s @summerworksfun.bsky.social show.
August 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
👀Did you miss this show last night?
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The Red Rose Bleeds
by Phoenix The Fire (Gaitrie Persaud)

🗓️ August 14, 9:00 PM | August 16, 5:00 PM

📍Venue: Theatre Passe Muraille, Mainspace, 16 Ryerson Ave, Toronto
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Photos by Jae Yang.
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#toronto #theatre #torontofestival
August 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
‼️Don’t miss your last chance to catch this show at SummerWorks today!
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Public Consumption by Lester Trips

🗓️August 14, 7:30 PM

📍Venue: Factory Theatre, Studio,
125 Bathurst St, Toronto
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Photos by Jae Yang
#toronto #torontotheatre
August 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Lunchtime Visuals: My conversation with multidisciplinary artist Irma Villafuerte.

Her latest choreographic work, XILOPANGO, premieres @summerworksfun.bsky.social this Friday.

youtu.be/xBj_9XnOhPw?...
SummerWorks 2025: XILOPANGO by Irma Villafuerte
YouTube video by Hye's Musings
youtu.be
August 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Lunchtime Visuals: Para mis amiguis que hablan español, mi conversacion con la artista Mexicana-Canadiense Sonia Bustos sobre su ultima pieza 'Je ne vais pas inonder la mer' que se estrena en @summerworksfun.bsky.social este fin de semana.

youtu.be/TuRgTzNAfog?...

#Toronto
SummerWorks 2025: I WILL NOT FLOOD THE OCEAN by Sonia Bustos
YouTube video by Hye's Musings
youtu.be
August 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
🗞️Read our feature article on Next Magazine about our exciting programs!
nextmag.ca/preview-summ...
Preview: SummerWorks 2025 boldly looks both ways » NEXT Magazine
Festival collapses time to explore past, present and the potential of performance
nextmag.ca
August 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
TUESDAY, AUG 5TH

5:30 - 7:30 PM - SummerWorks at Union
Co-curated with The Black Pledge, and presented with Union

📍Venue: Union Summer, TD Stage, 65 Front St W, Toronto
📣This is a FREE event (no registration required)

#summerfun #reclamationto #afriquelikeme #launchparty #tbp #reclamation2025
August 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
🌟ASL Vlog for SummerWorks 2025🌟

www.instagram.com/reel/DM3i1Z0...

Uncover more about the ASL interpreted programs at the 2025 SummerWorks Performance Festival, with this ASL Vlog produced by Deaf Spectrum, with our Festival friend and signer, Sage Lovell.
August 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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UPDATE!
Switching Regent(s) is moving forward at 9 PM this evening…. Meet at Daniels Spectrum — public sharing will happen outdoors, and audience will be under a covered area! Bring your ☔️!
July 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM