We’re so excited to be one of the many venues in which the SummerWorks Performance Festival will unfold this year.

This year’s Festival theme, Back to the Future | Forward to the Past invites reflection, imagination, and disruption with bold creative expressions that dive deep into temporality, exploring and questioning the past, present, and future, with a gentle curiosity and a critical ferocity. Entering its 35th year, SummerWorks Performance Festival returns with a landmark season of bold performance, intimate creative experiences, and daring artistic interventions exploring time — personal and collective, real and imagined. From August 7–17, 2025, artists and audiences will gather across Toronto for 11 days of theatre, dance, music, and live art in theatres, in public parks, in galleries, at transit hubs, and in the spaces between.

“For our 35th anniversary, we’re not just looking back — we’re pausing in the present to listen carefully, and to imagine what’s ahead. This milestone Festival is filled with contemporary performance works that examine memory, identity, ritual,and resistance… the result is strikingly intimate and deeply connected.”

– Michael Caldwell, Artistic Director, SummerWorks

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SummerWorks at Factory Theatre

Here’s what you can expect to see at Factory Theatre. For SummerWorks’ complete 35th anniversary programming, visit their website here!

 

Public Consumption

Theatre

 

 

 

 

26 Doctors

Storytelling / Theatre

 

 

 

 

SlowPitchSound presents: Within Touch

Live Art / Music