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Shared Rhythms: Music at West Block

Gather at West Block for a joyful afternoon of live performances as musicians from Small World Music’s Incubator program create a shared listening space that celebrates community and cultural exchange. Set against Anahita Akhavan’s newly unveiled mural مجلس Majles / Sitting Room, the event invites neighbours to linger, listen, and connect.

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Social Fabric: A Community Textile Activation

Drawing on the textile traditions reflected in Anahita Akhavan’s new mural, West Block becomes a place for shared making. Working with SHEEEP Studio, visitors of all ages will assemble textiles throughout the afternoon, gathering colour, pattern, and the gestures of many hands.

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مجلس Majles / Sitting Room

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Rooted in archival Persian rug work, the inaugural Step-Up Series commission transforms the West Block staircases and courtyard into a vivid cultural tapestry, one that threads migration, memory, and everyday connection through the local architecture to welcome gathering and mark shared urban space.

Concrete to Canvas: The transformative power of urban murals 

Much more than neighbourhood beautification, mural-making projects have the power to transform urban landscapes. Join The Bentway, The Creative Communities Commons (CCC) at the University of Toronto’s School of Cities, artists, and urbanists at a free public talk on November 20, exploring new models for “painting the urban landscape”. 

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SOLAR

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A mesmerizing encounter with light transforms the Gardiner into a glowing horizon. Guided by a robotic arm and synchronized beams, SOLAR performs a spectacle of sunset by merging the sun’s rhythms with digital choreography to create an immersive experience of light and motion.

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Robotic arm guiding sunset coloured beams of light at SOLAR, a new light installation coming to Toronto this October
SOLAR, an immersive spectacle of sunset, reimagined with robotics and 200 beams of light 

August 26, 2025

Skip-the-line tickets now on sale for SOLAR, The Bentway’s new commission by acclaimed Italian artist Quayola From October 16-19, The Bentway transforms the Gardiner into a glowing horizon with SOLAR, an expansive light installation by Italian artist Quayola. Over  four nights only, audiences can experience a city sunset reimagined through cutting-edge technology and contemporary art.   […]

Art, Arts & Culture
Petal and Stone

October 2025 through to 2027

A 10,000 square-foot mural project inaugurates the Gardiner Wallworks series, transforming this concrete expanse into a poetic tableau of site memory, native flora, and symbolic passage. Inspired by the architecture and ecological communities bridging The Bentway and Exhibition Place, it offers commuters and residents an evocative new lens on their urban landscape.

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A Lake Story

Sep 27 & 28, 2025. Procession at 11am & 4pm

A procession of over one hundred canoes moves in unison across Toronto’s eastern Waterfront on September 27/28, each carrying colour field paintings made with pigments sourced from the lake/shoreline and activated by the wind. A Lake Story will articulate Lake Ontario’s colour story across the sky and water, amplifying the lake’s own voices of vibrancy, ecosystem, and community.

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Moving Forest @ The Bentway Skate Trail

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See you under our smaller pop up canopy of 10 trees at the Bentway Skate Trail, from July 20 until the end of our summer season! These 10 trees were part of a flock of 50 trees in shopping carts that travelled throughout the city, stopping to create a refreshing shade canopy in usually-sunny spaces.

The Bentway co-commissions a new work by media artist Quayola, premiering this weekend at Italy’s Videocittà festival

July 2, 2025

Set to close out our Sun/Shade program this October, this debut international collaboration will dazzle visitors with an immersive night-time solar experience.  The Bentway is proud to announce a landmark partnership with Videocittà, Rome’s celebrated festival dedicated to video and digital culture, through the co-commissioning of a major new artwork by Italian artist Quayola. SOLAR […]

Art, Behind the Scenes
Group of people participating in a free eco workshop at Bentway Staging Grounds.
From Milkweed to Monarchs  

Did you know that monarch butterflies migrate 4,800km each year from Canada to Mexico? Join us for this hands-on workshop to learn how milkweed plants help support this journey with presented with Toronto and Region Conservation Authority!

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A Giant Sand Dune is Appearing Under the Gardiner this week

June 9, 2025

Experience the world premiere of Sand Flight, from choreographer Ingri Fiksdal and theatre director Jonas Corell Petersen. Eight dancers and a 50-person choir descend on a massive sand dune under the Gardiner Expressway for a powerful performance that speculates on climates-to-come, where shade-worshipping becomes a new tradition. Sand FlightA new creation by Ingri Fiksdal and Jonas Corell […]

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Moving Forest @ Harbourfront Centre

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See you at the Harbourfront Centre, July 14 to July 20! A flock of 50 trees in shopping carts travels throughout the city,  stopping to create a refreshing shade canopy in usually-sunny spaces.

Moving Forest @ Waterfront Neighbourhood Centre

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See you at the Waterfront Neighbourhood Centre, July 7 to July 11! A flock of 50 trees in shopping carts travels throughout the city,  stopping to create a refreshing shade canopy in usually-sunny spaces.

Moving Forest @ The Bentway Studio Terrace

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See you on the Studio Terrace, June 17 to July 4! A flock of 50 trees in shopping carts travels throughout the city,  stopping to create a refreshing shade canopy in usually-sunny spaces.

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