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Performance Festival
August 6-16, 2026
Matt Hertendy
The Party That Opens The Festival
Venue
Winchester Street Theatre
THU AUG 6, 9:30 PM
120 Minutes
Ticket Price
FREE
Celebrate the opening of the Festival at The Party That Opens The Festival, immediately following the performance of The Butterfly Who Flew into the Rave at the Winchester Street Theatre. Hosted by drag diva STARLIGHT, join us for drinks and dancing to kick-off the next 11 days of bold, boundary-pushing, and FUN performance. We have the ravey vibes, you bring the dance moves.
All are welcome; no registration required. Cash bar.
ASL Interpretation will be provided at this event.
Foam earplugs will be available on site.
The venue will have a designated relaxed space, as well as other less-sensory stimulating areas outside of the dance party area.
Learn more about SummerWorks’ Access Measures HERE.
Sensory: loud music, bright/flashing/strobe lighting.
SummerWorks Performance Festival
August 6-16, 2026
Tickets on Sale > July 13th!
This year’s Festival theme, Fight | Flight brings forward urgent creative responses to this troubling moment in time. Across the 2026 Festival, artists root themselves in place, community, ancestry, and practice, while also shifting perspectives, rewriting histories, and creating new narratives through the body, exploring memory, consent, transformation, and identity, through resistance, humour, and intimacy.