SummerWorks

Walk/move where the city of Toronto’s southern surfaces meet the northwestern shore of great Lake Ontario 🌊 🏙️

Festivals are Scary: River Walk by the Lake
by 에밀리 / Emily Jung, Theresa Cutknife, Nancy Anne Perrin and རིན་ཆེན་སྒྲོལ་མ་ / Rinchen Dolma

An ambulatory theatre workshop exploring what being in solidarity with water means to Toronto’s humans in 2026. “What is not/here that is supposed to be here”.

This workshop iteration also aims to raise awareness about the 2026 Grassy Narrows River Run, taking place September 23, 2026.

🗓️ August 10th @ 10:00 AM
📍Canada Square at Harbourfront Centre (meeting point)
⭐️ FREE

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Photo by Emily Jung

Flesh, as a convergence of time and space. 👐🏽

Free Touch
by Chou Kuan Jou

An ongoing artistic practice exploring the boundaries between body and space. The practice invites strangers to engage in one-on-one, consensual touch in different public spaces, such as plazas, stadiums, parks, and markets, to ask: What is public touch?

🗓️ Aug 8 @ 12:00 - 2:00 PM
📍Evergreen Brick Works
⭐️ FREE

🗓️ Aug 15 @ 2:00 - 3:00 PM
🗓️ Aug 15 @ 4:00 - 5:00 PM
📍Lisgar Park
⭐️ FREE

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This presentation of Free Touch is generously supported with funding from Taipei Cultural Center in New York.

Photo by: Hsinyun Tsai