Luminato – Toronto’s art extravaganza is back – June 7 to 23, 2019

Internationally lauded and beloved puppet master, Ronnie Burkett, returns to Luminato with the world premiere of Forget Me Not, a tender and provocative call-to-arms for hope and the enduring power of love.

Standing over 12.5 feet and weighing over 55 tonnes, House of Mirrors is an awe-inspiring kaleidoscopic maze designed to mesmerize.

A free massive choral event with 200 diverse voices from 8 choirs, 4 soloists and an Indigenous musical ensemble, braiding together their songs and styles, voices and cultures, set against the backdrop of Toronto’s picturesque waterfront.

Lose yourself in breathtaking moments as the dancers
of La Compañía Cuerpo de Indias sweep you away into 

a serendipitous homage to the spirits of Leonard Cohen
and Kazuo Ohno.

Presented by 
Cheryl and Rob McEwen, YPO Toronto and St. Joseph Communications

Friends of Luminato
Gretchen and Donald Ross, OC; Tiana Koffler Boyman and Marc Boyman; and many others.

A visual dialogue between five North American visual artists, whose work questions how art can be employed as a testament to love, resilience, resistance, and belonging.

Staged in a found space, Monday Nights is an an interactive basketball clinic/theatre hybrid that highlights how a simple game can help us understand ourselves and connect us to our community

A forest fire rages as a group of animals escape to the safety of The Cave; an entertaining cabaret that responds to our changing environment, created by John Millard, Tomson Highway, and Martha Ross.

Time itself begins to erode while a family of women struggle to face the apocalyptic world around them in this new theatre movement hybrid created by critically-acclaimed artists Susanna Fournier and Amanda Acorn.

Celebrate humanity as one village, and its sacred bond to nature in this dynamic dance production from innovative African choreographer Fara Tolno and the Toronto-based 
Lua Shayenne Dance Company.

Luminato’s ideas program features a series of panel discussions, films, workshops and masterclasses that are designed to frame the festival within a real world context and engage audiences in meaningful and thought-provoking conversations that carry on well after the final curtain.

Through forums and films, this year’s ideas program, Illuminating Ideas, takes a deeper look into LGBTQ censorship in art, climate change in the North, building healthy male communities through sport and witch hunts through history.

Luminato’s 2019 film series is curated in partnership with Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema.

From award-winning artists Daniel Brooks & Kim Collier comes a provocative film theatre hybrid about an aging matriarch who must contend with her family’s corrupt legacy before she dies.

One of Moscow’s oldest theatre companies returns to Toronto with a show that will sweep you off your feet and into a storm of intrigue, hidden truths, and heaps of snow.

Following a sold-out run at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in 2017, the 2018 Dora Award-winning Kiinalik: These Sharp Toolsreturns; witness two powerful storytellers as they map new territory, giving voice, music, and ceremony to the histories, cultures, and climate we have all inherited.

Back by popular demand! See the world premiere of the full-length version of Obeah Opera, a hypnotizingly rhythmic, a capella retelling of the Salem witch trials, from the perspective of the Caribbean slave women who experienced it.

Following its work-in-progress presentation at Luminato 2018, see the world premiere of the musical theatre production featuring internationally-renowned baritone Russell Braun portraying the rise and fall of famed Austrian exile, Hollywood film composer and “unperson”, Hanns Eisler.