Artsweek 2025
September 28 to October 5
IT’S A WRAP! THE 2025 FESTIVAL RAN FROM SEPTEMBER 28th TO OCTOBER 5th
Thank you to all participating artists, Funders, Sponsors, and Community Partners for making the Festival a great success. Our Artsweek 2025 recap video on the spectacular 8-days of arts programming is incoming. Stay tuned for updates and information on the next Artsweek Festival.
Artsweek 2025 featured the work of over 80 artists across 45 events during the 8-day Festival. This year’s line-up was ambitious and drew large crowds. The Artsweek Team is so grateful for all the creativity and hard work that all of the artists put into each and every project.
Artsweek 2025 was also made possible by the generosity of spirit and the collaboration of our phenomenal 20 Community Partners, a record number, the success of this year’s Festival was made possible through their generosity.
Similarly generous, every year we are blown away by the work proposed and produced throughout Artsweek. The artists involved bring their all into their productions and the community engagement aspect of the Festival.
All photographs by Julie Gagné for Artsweek.
Events pictured in descending order: A Dandy Lion’s Guide: How to Bloom from Rotted Roots (Artist: Sahira) at the Launch, A Broader View (Artists: Caylie Staples and Victoria Yeh, with Laurel Paluck), Hot Spots (DJ Flaco), A Spider’s Tale (Artists: Nicole Malbeuf with Jeffery Cadence, Victoria Kopf, Toria Summerville), and Nitaawigi (Artist: Josh Morley) at the Launch.
ARTSWEEK 2025 LAUNCH
OPENING CEREMONIES
Sunday, September 28 at 3:00pm at Millennium Park
The Electric City Culture Council (EC3) invites you to attend the launch and opening ceremonies for Artsweek 2025, kicking off 8 days of performance, poetry, visual arts projects and music, featuring dozens of events and 100 artists.
Join us at Millennium Park, by the Silver Bean Café at the foot of King Street. Don’t miss remarks by Councillor Alex Bierk, and guest artists
Take-Out Poetry Cart
Blues in the Bottle
Washboard Hank
Samantha Banton
Janet McCue
Sahira
Victoria Yeh
Caylie Staples
Josh Morley
Eliza Jenkins
and more.
All Events Are Free!
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Land Acknowledgement
We respectfully acknowledge that the land on which we work and gather is in the traditional territory of the Michi Saagiig Anishnaabe, home to the Williams Treaties First Nations, who have been the stewards and caretakers of these lands and waters for countless generations. We support them in this work, which they continue to this day.
We are grateful to be here, and pledge to listen and learn from traditional Indigenous knowledge and ways. EC3 is committed to doing all we can to further efforts at real Truth and Reconciliation, which includes providing support to the artistic work of Indigenous artists, examining the ways we do this, and providing a space and a platform for Indigenous voices to be heard and respected.