FIFA Fan Festival 2026™ Toronto

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June 11 – July 19, 2026

The Bentway is a proud fan of Toronto, and The FIFA Fan Festival™ offers a meaningful moment to ignite civic pride and uplift Toronto as a world within a city. For this global moment, The Bentway’s public art programming embraces fandom in all its forms – celebrating the city’s cultural diversity and shared rituals that unite us. 

Fandom is fierce, loud, and joyfully over the top, and The Bentway’s FIFA Fan Festival™ programming channels that electric energy. Playful public artworks and creative furniture explore fandom as a powerful form of collective expression and social connection, celebrating the exuberant traditions of fan culture and the many ways we come together to celebrate both our city and the sport of soccer. These moments of art, gathering, and collective optimism transform the energy of global sport into a vibrant, diverse reflection of the city itself. 

Help us cheer on Toronto during the Games and beyond!

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Full Program

  • Fans Can Dance
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    Fans Can Dance by Montreal-based studio Daily tous les jours invites you to a collective soccer celebration—part dance party, part game. This interactive installation explores the popular phenomena of soccer players’ goal score celebrations through dances, poses, and gestures.  Bring your dancing cleats and join the team for this engaging imitation game at the Bentway Strachan Gate.

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  • Shore Lines
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    Toronto-based design firm RAW Work presents Shore Lines, a series of modular, soccer field-inspired furniture welcoming you to connect and rest underneath the Gardiner. Inspired by Toronto’s original shoreline, which the Gardiner Expressway traces, these comfortable benches will appear as one continuous soccer pitch along the Bentway Skate Trail’s southern edge.

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  • Net Scape
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    Sit down and relax in Net Scape, a new furniture installation from Toronto-based RAW Work. Created using the elements of the game—soccer balls and goal netting—these fun, interactive pieces create the perfect way to watch the matches with your friends at the Bentway Strachan Gate.

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  • Make the World Go Round
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    Toronto-based illustrator and muralist Caitlin Taguibao brings the city to life with Make the World Go Round, a striking signature mural installation that wraps the columns of the Bentway Skate Trail, immersing viewers in the iconic sights and scenes of the Toronto that we know and love. A vibrant tribute to the diversity of experiences that make Toronto great, this newly commissioned mural will offer fans a lasting impression as they leave the festival. 

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  • United in Light
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    Montreal-based LeMonde Studio presents United in Light, a luminous new installation celebrating the many nations of the FIFA World Cup™. Featuring four largescale, interactive LED-screen flags at the Bentway Skate Trail, the work responds to human touch, transforming as visitors engage. Fans are invited to interact with the installation, celebrating their home teams while reflecting the global spirit of the city.

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about us

Anchored under Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway and guiding its complex future, The Bentway transforms an overlooked stretch of infrastructure into dynamic public spaces and an innovative platform for year-round public art experiences, recreational activities, and educational programming. The Bentway is a non-profit organization dedicated to igniting urban imagination, using the city as site, subject, and canvas.