photo by Jae Yang
Anchored by our annual SummerWorks Performance Festival in August, SummerWorks offers a year-round program of creation, presentation, and learning opportunities for artists and audiences.
Creative Risk
We support bold ideas and artistic experimentation, with space to innovate and be creatively adventurous – to try, to fail, and to succeed.
Connection and Collaboration
We prioritize ongoing dialogue and community gathering, to build trusting and reciprocal relationships that are generous and long-lasting.
Complexity and Difference
We work to hold dynamic perspectives and centre practices that are welcoming, equitable, and accessible – encouraging meaningful participation from different communities.
Curiosity and Flow
We stay reflective, nimble, and responsive – questioning and adapting to our community of artists and audiences, and to the land and water.
As an organization that brings together performance nationally and internationally, we wish to acknowledge that SummerWorks takes place on the traditional territory, Tkaronto, “Where the Trees Meet the Water,” “The Gathering Place” of the Mississauga, Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Wendat Nations. As we come together, we pay our respects to all our relations who have gathered and will continue to gather in this place.