Start your summer with a bang: Luminato Festival Toronto begins June 7! Experience Luminato Festival Toronto June 7 – 18 with art and culture across the city. This year, we…
Start your summer with a bang: Luminato Festival Toronto begins June 7! Experience Luminato Festival Toronto June 7 – 18 with art and culture across the city. This year, we…
The holiday season is upon us and we’re gearing up for all the gift giving and shopping that will ensue in the following weeks. Are you dreading the massive lines…
Today we’re thrilled to share our first installment of the 2023 festival program featuring exceptional productions coming to the stage from June 7th to June 18th, 2023. With two world…
Cover photo of Naomi Campbell, Artistic Director (left) and Celia Smith, CEO (right) by Cassandra Popescu. Naomi Campbell has decided that Luminato’s 2023 festival will be her final festival as…
What if great art could come to life, defy gravity, and fly through the sky? That’s exactly what Katharine Harvey is bringing to Toronto’s skyline in Turning in the Light,…
Banner image of Jeremy Dutcher performing in Biziindan! Luminato 2019 by Jeremy Mimnagh. Supported by Slaight Music. Thank you to our long-term supporter, Gary Slaight and the Slaight Family Foundation,…
“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody…
It’s only been in the last few years that I’ve started to read the novels of Toni Morrison— Beloved, Sula, Jazz, and just recently her debut The Bluest Eye—and for…
Long days. Warm nights. It’s summer in Toronto and Luminato 2022 is here! We could not be more excited to reignite the city with 11 days of music, dance, theatre,…
There was this one summer, I must have been about 12, when I discovered the writing of both Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou. Maya’s writing was open, honest, embracing. Toni’s,…
My first step into environmental activism was at the age of 10, when I began reading about the Earth’s loss of biodiversity and realizing that the frequency at which species…
Don’t miss Quinn Hopkins’ Meeting of the Doodem at the Illuminating Ideas Tent at Woodbine Weekend – presented by Meta. When I think of augmented reality art, I think I’m…
Light dances over the page, sun shifting through shadows, fine leaves filtering the light. I sit in the half-shade, between classes, ignoring homework and assigned reading. I am 17, and…
The first time I read Toni Morrison’s work, I knew immediately that language was power. I found myself lost inside of its arms. I never wanted to apologize for this.…
I didn’t read a book by Toni Morrison until 1992. Song of Solomon was on the reading list of my African American Literature class; I became an ardent convert from…
In the fall of 2009, I taught a fourth-year undergraduate course on Toni Morrison. I haven’t looked at my course materials in over a decade. Here’s what I found. From…
Toni Morrison’s books entered my life in the late 1970s, when I was a wife and mother in a very busy household, and still in my 20s. I was not…
Toni Morrison has been gone now for going on three years but it seems that she is with us still, made eternal through every word and phrase she committed to…
I first read Beloved more than thirty years ago. What stayed with me was the haunting, the three women who sat together in their front yard, and the beauty of…
Hi! I’m Emily Maxwell, the new Accessibility & Programs Coordinator here at Luminato. I am so excited to be part of the Luminato team, and to support Luminato’s ongoing commitment…
3 Reasons Why We Need Theatre For the longest time, theatre has been spoken of as a dying artform. Whether that’s true or not, it’s clear that theatre continues to…
Stories have the power to shape and influence our worldview, as well as our relationships with each other. March 20th is World Storytelling Day and to celebrate, we sat down…
How do you have a healthy music city? How does music enhance public life in the city? How can Toronto venues be better supported to ensure that the city’s music…
The Possibility of the Compassionate Institution Featuring Sean Lee, Christine Malec, Teneshia SamuelWelcome back to the Access Hub Blog. This blog originates from a collective request from the 2021 Access…
We’re thrilled to announce the 2022 cohort of 5 local artists in our Artists in Residence (AIR) program. Luminato’s AIR program is a residency for Toronto-based mid-to-senior career artists, working…
Hi. It’s me again, the Festival and Community Engagement Manager at Luminato. I hope that 2022 is treating you ok so far. My hair is shorter. But after a tumultuous…
In August 2021, we brought together four civic leaders from the Greater Toronto Area to discuss the opportunities and challenges of leading city-building organizations through change during a global pandemic.…
Looking to expand your playlists? Discover the eclectic sound of Toronto with these 14 Toronto artists from diverse backgrounds and genres. Each artist brings their own unique spin on the…
Explore hidden pathways and imagined futures of Toronto in Desire Paths, a series of artist-led Toronto audio walking tours that will help you see the city in a new light.…
This blog post has been updated as of December 6, 2021 in response to new learning that came to us through Instagram. We want to lead with the work of…
Welcome to the last post of this series. I’ve written them in the hope of sharing with you Canada’s real history with Indigenous peoples. And I have one more important reason for…
In my last post I told you about land sovereignty and the strategies Indigenous nations are using to regain their sovereignty. Today we’ll be looking at water issues and access…
Welcome back. In the last post, I talked about residential schools, the harm they caused, and how the Truth and Reconciliation Commission sought to address and heal that trauma. If…
Hello readers! Welcome back. In the last post, we discussed land acknowledgements. Many non-Indigenous peoples see land acknowledgements as one small step towards reconciliation. But what is reconciliation? What does it actually mean? These are…
Hello everyone! In my last post I talked about the treaties: what they are, how they began, and what treaties became when colonial powers got involved. Now let’s take a closer look at treaties in relation to the new trend of land acknowledgements. Yes, this week…
Hello again! Mnawaate welcoming you back for a little more real Indigenous history of Canada. Last week we looked at the effects of European contact on the Indigenous population in…
Hello again and welcome. In the last post we talked about the Indigenous perspectives of first contact with Europeans, trade networks that existed before contact, and how much change the…
Hello everyone! In our first post, I covered a brief overview of the pre-contact years in North America all the way back to the end of the ice age. You…
Aanii and welcome. I’m Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere. I’m Anishinaabe and Cree from M’Chigeeng First Nation where I grew up, though I’ve spent most of my adult years in Toronto. I’ve recently…
The public world premiere of renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky’s In the Wake of Progress takes over the immense digital screens surrounding Yonge-Dundas Square June 11 -12, in a fully…
The public world premiere of renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky’s In the Wake of Progress takes over the immense digital screens surrounding Yonge-Dundas Square June 11-12, in a fully choreographed…
The public world premiere of renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky’s In the Wake of Progress takes over the immense digital screens surrounding Yonge-Dundas Square June 11-12, in a fully choreographed…
The public world premiere of renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky’s In the Wake of Progress takes over the immense digital screens surrounding Yonge-Dundas Square June 11-12, in a fully choreographed…
Toronto photographer Edward Burtynsky captures the parts of our lives that we often take for granted. Whether it’s an untouched landscape in a corner of the Earth we’ve never seen,…
Against the backdrop of the devastating effects of the COVID-19 global pandemic, Edward Burtynsky’s In the Wake of Progress challenges us to have an important conversation about our legacy and…
