A woman wearing a red dress dancing in an art gallery space.

365 Steps: Of Sea and Colour

As part of KUUMBA 365: Second Edition, four dancers and choreographers will perform a solo piece inspired by The Power Plant exhibitions.

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A dancer working on choreography in a studio.

Masterclass: Syreeta Hector

Join Syreeta Hector for a movement session that invites participants to explore the intersection of identity, race, and classical ballet.

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Woman wearing a colourful dress dancing against a white background

Masterclass: Lua Shayenne

Celebrate your body as a temple of spirit, rooted in the energy of Mother Earth.

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Woman wearing a bright blue scarf posing for the camera against a yellow background

Masterclass: Esie Mensah

Get ready to engage with Esie Mensah’s creative process, where movement becomes a powerful language for storytelling.

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Two circles of wound-up fabric in yellow and pink.

Salvage

Inspired by sustainable design, a stunning collaboration between Coolican & Company and Calla Haynes.

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A close-up shot of blue waves.

Objects for Adaptation and Resilience

A collaborative body of work between curator Kate Tessier and current Artists-in-Residence.

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A close-up shot of a collection of colourful objects.

Laura Donefer: Amulet Baskets

Innovative international glass artist Laura Donefer shares her bombastic, joyful glasswork.

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A woman wearing a large green coat posing for the camera.

REVIVE

A multidisciplinary exhibition of innovative works in sculpture, photography and textiles.

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Many people dance in a room with coloured lighting and a DJ with angled ribbons decorating the space.

2025 DesignTO Launch Party

Join us for the official 2025 Design TO Launch Party

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intro to sculptural potter

Craft & Design Workshops

Taught by our Artists-in-Residence, these sessions provide you with the tools for hands-on creative expression.

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A group of musicians play large drums with sticks.

Nagata Shachu and Haneum

Nagata Shachu’s season’s finale concert featuring a collaboration with Haneum and Eunji Kim.

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Colourful artwork.

Elaborate: Sketches in Glaze

Part of the larger exhibition, Elaborate. Celebrate the marvel and resilience of an organism that endures for centuries

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Ceramic artwork featuring pink hues against a light background.

The Colours’ Colour

Colours sing as the human portrait encapsulates the potential beauty and vibrancy within.

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Close-up image of a ceramic artwork.

Elaborate

Celebrate the work of five stunning artists and the fascinating story of decorated ceramics.

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A multi-hued ceramic container

Bickers & Tsang

Explore the drama of daily life, emotion and imagination.

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A ceramic platter with plants along its border and a hand at its centre. Flowers are growing out of the hand.

Pullulate

As humans continue to put pressure on the planet, what does nature’s revenge look like?

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Colourful artwork combining components of downtown Toronto.

Not From Around Here

Not From Around Here is Alexa Samuels’ love letter to her hometown of Toronto and other places she’s visited. Her art celebrates urban streetscapes by shining unconventional light on hidden corners, back alleys, architectural underbellies and everyday landscapes’ seeming mundaneness. Her art turns iconic landmarks on their heads and rejoices in unsung street art. What […]

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Liquid Gold art with vivid pink and blue hues.

Liquid, Gold

A reflection of nature’s bounty as a testament to the fluidity of existence, renewal and transformation.

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Twist of Fate

Twist Of Fate

A performance that combines contemporary circus, theatre, dance, music, projection mapping, and memoir.

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Machine Dazzle

Taylor Mac’s

Twenty-four photos of costumes worn during a 24-hour performance of 24-Decade History of Popular Music.

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Mother Nature

Mother Nature

For Machine’s recent talk at the 2023 TED conference in Vancouver, he created Mother Nature, a detailed look that straddles the boundaries of costume and set.

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Whitman in the woods

Whitman In The Woods

Eight wearable sculptures created for Taylor Mac, who wore them in a film of the same name, will be on public view for the first time alongside a loop of the film.

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Treasure

Treasure

Treasure is a future psyche-sex-adelic synth rock experience with stories about Machine’s mother, their relationship and the legacy she left to him.

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Special Occasions

Special Occasions

Machine Dazzle’s Surreal Retrospective: Bespoke looks for special public events like Pride and Easter parade.

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