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Join us for the official 2025 DesignTO Launch Party as we kick off our 15th Festival and celebrate DesignTO’s legacy of fostering belonging and sparking vital conversations about design’s role in shaping a better world.
This event brings together Toronto’s creative community and serves as a fundraiser for our non-profit Festival. All proceeds will support our purpose of bringing people together to design a better future.
The Launch Party will take place at the Harbourfront Centre on Toronto’s waterfront! Experience a one-night-only installation by Toronto-based artist Asli Alin. Be among the first to see ‘REVIVE’, a Design TO-curated group exhibition in Gallery 235 featuring the work of seven local and international artists and designers. Additionally, explore three new exhibitions across the venue showcasing works in lighting, sculpture, glass, textiles, ceramics, and more. Dance the night away to music by DJs Fly Lady Di and others to be announced.
The ‘DesignTO Festival Launch Party’ is organized by DesignTO in partnership with Harbourfront Centre, and supported by the Government of Ontario, the City of Toronto, and Weston Premium Woods, with media partner AZURE Magazine.
About Fly Lady Di
Toronto born multidisciplinary artist Diana Reyes, also known as Fly Lady Di, has DJ’d for elite entities such as Dior, Toronto Maple Leafs, eBay, Twitter, Jay Z’s D’Usse Cognac, Rihanna’s FENTY Beauty, Just For Laughs, SOHO House, Royal Ontario Museum, and Art Gallery of Ontario -to name a few. As a dancer, her credits include the film Honey (2003), Fall Out Boy’s Dance Dance video, as well as Jason Derulo, Ciara, the Clipse with Pharell, BlackSTREET, and many more. Diana has been featured on eTalk, CP24, CBC’s The National, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Chatelaine Magazine, Toronto Life, Dance Current, amongst other media. She divides her time between Montreal and Toronto.
About Revive
‘REVIVE’ is a group exhibition featuring the work of seven local and international artists and designers, exploring endangered creative practices and materials as vital expressions of storytelling and identity.
Featuring Judy Anderson, Delali Cofie, Justine Gustafson, Ji Hee Kim, Mari Koppanen, Roda Medhat, and Jessie Sohpaul, this multidisciplinary exhibition includes a broad range of works in sculpture, installation, photography, functional objects, and textiles that explore the intersections of tradition and innovation.
About Harbourfront Centre Exhibitions
Harbourfront Centre presents ‘Material Practice’, a series of exhibitions highlighting craft and design methodologies that explore the intersections between making and material, to investigate ideas of sustainability and resilience, risk-taking and legacy.
About DesignTO
DesignTO is a non-profit arts organization celebrating 15 years of designing a sustainable, just, and joyful future. From January 24-February 2, 2025, the Design TO Festival features 100+ free events across Toronto, showcasing hundreds of artists and designers. Known as Canada’s largest annual design festival, DesignTO has welcomed over 1 million attendees, reached 2.6 billion people through media, supported 6,500+ artists, and generated $120 million in tourism impact. “DesignTO isn’t just a festival; it’s an anti-loneliness machine,” co-founder Christina Zeidler remarked, underscoring the organization’s power to foster belonging and spark vital conversations about design’s role in shaping a better world.
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^ After January 12