Festivals and events funded by the Celebrate Ontario initiative. The Celebrate Ontario program gives tourists more to see and more to do at Ontario's festivals and events.
| Date |
Event |
Location |
Amount Received |
| April 1 to 4 |
Float Your Fanny Down the Ganny |
Port Hope |
$25,000.00 |
| April 10 to 22 |
TIFF Kids 2012 |
Toronto |
$75,000.00 |
| April 12 to Oct. 28 |
Stratford Festival - You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown |
Stratford |
$350,000.00 |
| April 12 to 21 |
Images Festival |
Toronto |
$50,000.00 |
| April 25 to Sept. 3 |
Science North - Body Worlds Vital |
Sudbury |
$75,000.00 |
| April 26 to Oct. 25 |
Ottawa International Writers Festival |
Ottawa |
$71,200.00 |
| April 26 to Dec. 31 |
Hot Docs |
Toronto |
$227,500.00 |
| April 27 to 29 |
Collingwood Girlfriends' Getaway |
Collingwood |
$40,000.00 |
| April 28 |
Powassan Maple Syrup Festival |
Powassan |
$10,000.00 |
| May 1 to 31 |
Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival |
Toronto |
$52,000.00 |
| May 1 to 31 |
Vietnamese Cultural Festival |
Ottawa |
$17,504.00 |
| May 3 to 26 |
desiFEST |
Markham |
$75,000.00 |
| May 4 to 6 |
Spring Arts Trail Festival |
Bloomfield |
$40,000.00 |
| May 4 to 21 |
The Canadian Tulip Festival |
Ottawa |
$350,000.00 |
| May 9 to Sept. 1 |
2012 Summer Season |
Bobcaygeon |
$37,929.00 |
| May 10 to 12 |
10th Annual Hamilton Spring Music Festival |
Toronto |
$40,000.00 |
| May 11 to May 27 |
Niagara Folk Arts Festival |
St. Catharines |
$44,300.00 |
| May 12 |
Muskoka Chautauqua |
Port Carling |
$75,000.00 |
| May 12 to June 17 |
Rice Lake Spring Fishing Festival |
Peterborough |
$30,849.00 |
| May 12 to Oct. 28 |
A League of Their Own |
Hamilton |
$74,777.00 |
| May 16 to 27 |
Toronto LGBT Film and Video Festival |
Toronto |
$72,500.00 |
| May 16 to Oct. 31 |
VPP Summer Festival |
Petrolia |
$75,000.00 |
| May 17 to 22 |
2012 Canada Open |
Toronto |
$125,000 |
| May 18 to July 14 |
IANA Theatre Company 2012 Season |
Toronto |
$6,750.00 |
| May 20 to 21 |
Sedan Chair Challenge 2012 |
Markham |
$75,000.00 |
| May 25 to June 21 |
Taste of Glenhyrst |
Brantford |
$40,000.00 |
| May 25 to 27 |
The Dandelion Festival |
Kemptville |
$36,000.00 |
| May 25 to June 4 |
The Warkworth Lilac Festival |
Warkworth |
$38,000.00 |
| May 27 |
Carassauga Festival of Cultures |
Mississauga |
$67,329.00 |
| May 30 to June 3 |
Ottawa International Children's Festival |
Ottawa |
$75,000.00 |
| May 30 to June 24 |
Welland Rose Festival |
Welland |
$47,500.00 |
| May 31 to June 30 |
Portugal Week |
Toronto |
$74,000.00 |
| June 1 to 3 |
Just Add Water Festival |
Port Severn |
$72,000.00 |
| June 1 to 3 |
Bicentennial Heritage Fair |
Spencerville |
$39,202.00 |
| June 1 to 3 |
Hockeyfest |
Brantford |
$350,000.00 |
| June 1 to 3 |
The Great Canadian Cheese Festival |
Pickering |
$75,000.00 |
| June 1 to 24 |
Summer Solstice Aboriginal Arts Festival |
Ottawa |
$55,000.00 |
| June 5 to 10 |
Worldwide Short Film Festival |
Toronto |
$75,000.00 |
| June 8 to 10 |
Guelph & District Multicultural Festival |
Guelph |
$40,000.00 |
| June 8 to 10 |
Orillia Spring Blues Festival |
Orillia |
$40,000.00 |
| June 8 to 16 |
Festival franco-ontarien |
Ottawa |
$15,000.00 |
| June 8 to 17 |
Cobourg's Anniversaries Week |
Cobourg |
$9,550.00 |
| June 8 to 24 |
Carrousel of the Nations |
Windsor |
$75,000.00 |
| June 9 to Oct. 9 |
19th Annual Ottawa Folk Festival |
Ottawa |
$350,000.00 |
| June 11 to 17 |
North by Northeast (NXNE) |
Toronto |
$350,000.00 |
| June 14 to 17 |
Burlington's Sound of Music Festival |
Burlington |
$180,250.00 |
| June 15 to July 1 |
Summer Festival |
Windsor |
$40,000.00 |
| June 15 to 17 |
Mississauga Waterfront Festival |
Mississauga |
$75,000.00 |
| June 15 to Sept. 15 |
Jackson Triggs Amphitheatre Festival |
Niagara on the Lake |
$75,000.00 |
| June 15 '12 to Mar. 31 '13 |
Bicentennial Commemoration of the War of 1812 |
Toronto |
$200,000 |
| June 16 to Oct. 6 |
Heritage Mica Festival |
Perth |
$39,600.00 |
| June 21 to 23 |
1000 Islands Wine & Food Festival |
Brockville |
$9,190.00 |
| June 21 to 24 |
Redpath Toronto Waterfront Festival |
Toronto |
$350,000.00 |
| June 21 to July 1 |
TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival |
Ottawa |
$350,000.00 |
| June 22 to 24 |
Ottawa Dragon Boat Race Festival |
Ottawa |
$75,000.00 |
| June 22 to 25 |
Salsa at Blue Mountain |
Blue Mountain |
$40,000.00 |
| June 22 to July 1 |
Pride Toronto/Pride Week |
Toronto |
$275,625.00 |
| June 23 to 24 |
Toronto International Dragon Boat Race Festival |
Toronto |
$75,000.00 |
| June 23 to 24 |
LGBT Summer Solstice in the 1000 Islands |
Gananoque |
$40,000.00 |
| June 23 to Aug. 19 |
1000 Islands Extreme Sports Weekends |
Gananoque |
$37,160.00 |
| June 29 to July 2 |
Friendship Festival |
Fort Erie |
$27,500.00 |
| June 29 to Aug. 5 |
Concerts at the Barn |
Campbellford |
$55,000.00 |
| July 1 to 15 |
Barrie New Music Fest |
Barrie |
$40,000.00 |
| July 1 to Aug. 30 |
Dinosaurs Live |
Toronto |
$30,000.00 |
| July 3 to Aug. 21 |
Star Struck |
Gravenhurst |
$36,600.00 |
| July 3 to Sept. 1 |
4th Line Theatre |
Millbrook |
$75,000.00 |
| July 4 to 15 |
RBC Ottawa Bluesfest |
Ottawa |
$350,000.00 |
| July 5 to 8 |
TD SUNFEST |
London |
$75,000.00 |
| July 5 to 16 |
Music and Beyond |
Ottawa |
$75,000.00 |
| July 5 to Aug. 4 |
Huntsville Festival of the Arts |
Huntsville |
$75,000.00 |
| July 6 to Aug. 10 |
Cultura |
Toronto |
$20,000.00 |
| July 6 to 8 |
Northern Lights Festival Boreal |
Sudbury |
$50,000.00 |
| July 7 to 8 |
Salsa on St. Clair |
Toronto |
$40,000.00 |
| July 9 to Aug. 26 |
Festival Players of Prince Edward County |
Bloomfield |
$29,000.00 |
| July 12 to 15 |
Holstein Rodeo |
Durham |
$20,000.00 |
| July 12 to 15 |
International Dragon Boats Festival |
Tecumseh |
$60,000.00 |
| July 12 to 15 |
Belleville Waterfront & Ethnic Festival |
Belleville |
$26,000.00 |
| July 12 to 21 |
Sarnia Rogers Bayfest |
Sarnia |
$350,000.00 |
| July 13 to 15 |
Carabram - 30th Anniversary Festival |
Brampton |
$20,000.00 |
| July 13 to 15 |
Burlington Country & Blues Bar B Que |
Burlington |
$40,000.00 |
| July 13 to 15 |
Frankford Island Blues Festival |
Carrying Place |
$23,500.00 |
| July 13 to 22 |
Day Out With Thomas |
St. Thomas |
$53,300.00 |
| July 13 to Aug. 18 |
St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival |
Prescott |
$48,000.00 |
| July 14 to 21 |
2012 World Deaf Athletics Championships |
Toronto |
$200,000 |
| July 14 to Aug. 6 |
Irie Music Festival |
Mississauga |
$40,000.00 |
| July 16 to Aug. 12 |
Scotiabank Caribbean Carnival |
Toronto |
$350,000.00 |
| July 16 to Sept. 22 |
Theatre Collingwood |
Collingwood |
$40,000.00 |
| July 16 to Aug. 26 |
Stratford Summer Music |
Stratford |
$75,000.00 |
| July 17 to 22 |
1812 Bicentennial HistoryFest |
Sault Ste. Marie |
$60,000.00 |
| July 19 to 21 |
Fusion of Taste |
Toronto |
$40,000.00 |
| July 20 to 22 |
Minden Hills Bluegrass Festival |
Minden |
$13,200.00 |
| July 20 to 22 |
Toronto Thriathlon Festival |
Toronto |
$66,000.00 |
| July 20 to 22 |
Sun Life Financial Uptown Waterloo Jazz |
Waterloo |
$19,250.00 |
| July 20 to 22 |
Home County Folk Festival |
London |
$50,000.00 |
| July 20 to 29 |
Beaches International Jazz Festival |
Toronto |
$75,000.00 |
| July 21 to 22 |
The Celtic Fair |
Thunder Bay |
$40,000.00 |
| July 21 to 22 |
BIG on Bloor Festival |
Toronto |
$38,000.00 |
| July 23 to 29 |
RBC Canadian Open |
Oakville |
$350,000.00 |
| July 25 to Aug. 6 |
Festival Kompa Zouk Toronto |
Toronto |
$38,000.00 |
| July 26 to Aug. 10 |
Ottawa Intenational Chamber Music Festival |
Ottawa |
$350,000.00 |
| July 26 to 29 |
Collingwood Elvis Festival |
Collingwood |
$48,500.00 |
| July 27 to 28 |
Make a Splash in Gravenhurst |
Gravenhurst |
$28,000.00 |
| July 28 to 29 |
Battle of 1812 |
Thunder Bay |
$20,500.00 |
| July 29 |
Coney Island Music Festival |
Kenora |
$32,000.00 |
| August 2 to 5 |
Rockhound Gemboree |
Bancroft |
$40,000.00 |
| August 2 to 5 |
Haweater Festival |
Little Current |
$26,500.00 |
| August 3 to 5 |
Summer in the Park |
North Bay |
$75,000.00 |
| August 3 to 6 |
Kempenfest 2012 |
Barrie |
$47,000.00 |
| August 3 to 6 |
Rideau Canal Festival |
Ottawa |
$75,000.00 |
| August 3 to 5 |
Downtown Oakville Jazz Festival |
Oakville |
$75,000.00 |
| August 3 to 5 |
Muskoka Big Weekend Festival |
Toronto |
$40,000.00 |
| August 3 to 6 |
Tweed Stampede & Jamboree |
Tweed |
$36,500.00 |
| August 3 to 12 |
Sioux Lookout Blueberry Festival |
Sioux Lookout |
$32,000.00 |
| August 4 to 5 |
Piratefest |
Gravenhurst |
$40,000.00 |
| August 4 to 12 |
Rogers Cup Tennis |
Toronto |
$350,000.00 |
| August 5 to 12 |
Royal Canadian Henley Regatta |
St. Catharines |
$66,000.00 |
| August 8 to 12 |
Brampton Global Jazz and Blues Festival |
Brampton |
$75,000.00 |
| August 9 to 12 |
TD Kitchener Blues Festival |
Waterloo |
$45,000.00 |
| August 9 to 12 |
Brockville Ribfest |
Brockville |
$25,000.00 |
| August 9 to 12 |
Barrie Caribfest |
Barrie |
$40,000.00 |
| August 10 to 11 |
Wilberforce Agricultural Fair |
Wilberdforce |
$11,560.00 |
| August 10 to 12 |
Wawa Drag Races |
Wawa |
$40,000.00 |
| August 10 to 12 |
Williamstown Fair |
Cornwall |
$26,000.00 |
| August 10 to 12 |
Festival of Friends |
Jerseyville |
$75,000.00 |
| August 10 to 12 |
Fergus Scottish Festival & Highland Games |
Fergus |
$42,928.00 |
| August 10 to 12 |
Kingston Sheep Dog Trials |
Kingston |
$38,700.00 |
| August 15 to 19 |
Walton TransCan |
RR3 Walton |
$75,000.00 |
| August 16 to 19 |
Mosaic |
Mississauga |
$40,000.00 |
| August 17 |
Fife & Drum Muster & Soldiers' Field Day |
Niagara-on-the-Lake |
$29,000.00 |
| August 17 to 19 |
Markham Jazz Festival |
Unionville |
$30,000.00 |
| August 17 to 19 |
Calabogie Blues & Ribfest |
Calabogie |
$75,000.00 |
| August 18 |
1812 Overture at the Fort |
Kingston |
$75,000.00 |
| August 23 to 26 |
Tecumseh Corn Festival |
Tecumseh |
$75,000.00 |
| August 23 to 26 |
Summerfest |
Sudbury |
$35,000.00 |
| August 24 to 25 |
Music in the Fields |
Lucknow |
$75,000.00 |
| August 24 to 25 |
Lighthouse Street Festival |
Terrace Bay |
$39,000.00 |
| August 24 to 26 |
Canadian Wakeboard Open |
Peterborough |
$40,000.00 |
| August 24 to 26 |
CMT Country Music Festival |
Toronto |
$350,000.00 |
| August 24 to 26 |
Tweed Tribute To Elvis Festival |
Tweed |
$14,590.00 |
| August 26 |
Pan-American LATIN JAZZ Festival |
Mississauga |
$40,000.00 |
| August 30 to Sept. 3 |
Paris Fair |
Paris |
$58,500.00 |
| September 1 to 2 |
MuslimFest |
Mississauga |
$40,000.00 |
| September 5 to 9 |
Guelph Jazz Festival and Nuit Blanche |
Guelph |
$75,000.00 |
| September 6 to 9 |
Russell Fair |
Russell |
$65,500.00 |
| September 6 to 9 |
Shores of Erie International Wine Festival |
Amherstburg |
$73,000.00 |
| September 6 to 9 |
Orono Fair |
Newcastle |
$32,600.00 |
| September 6 to 9 |
Jazz Sudbury Festival |
Sudbury |
$75,000.00 |
| September 6 to 16 |
Toronto International Film Festival 2012 |
Toronto |
$350,000.00 |
| September 7 to 9 |
Tarantella Festival-formerly Fiera |
Toronto |
$20,000.00 |
| September 7 to 9 |
Rotary Ribfest |
Oshawa |
$26,000.00 |
| September 14 to 16 |
Roncesvalles Polish Festival |
Toronto |
$40,000.00 |
| September 14 to 16 |
Native Harvest Festival & Pow Wow |
London |
$25,600.00 |
| September 14 to 16 |
16th Annual Toronto Ukrainian Festival |
Toronto |
$75,000.00 |
| September 14 to 16 |
Niagara Food Festival |
Welland |
$71,800.00 |
| September 14 to 16 |
KOI Music Festival |
Kitchener |
$25,000.00 |
| September 14 to 16 |
Brantford International Jazz Festival |
Brantford |
$40,000.00 |
| September 14 to 22 |
PEC Music Festival |
Bloomfield |
$6,000.00 |
| September 15 to 23 |
Cinefest Sudbury International Film Festival |
Sudbury |
$75,000.00 |
| September 18 to 22 |
International Plowing Match and Rural Expo |
Guelph |
$288,750.00 |
| September 19 to 23 |
158th Lindsay Exhibition |
Lindsay |
$75,000.00 |
| September 19 to 23 |
Ottawa International Animation Festival |
Ottawa |
$75,000.00 |
| September 20 |
Canada's Walk of Fame Annual Tribute |
Toronto |
$350,000.00 |
| September 20 to 23 |
Hike Haliburton Festival |
Minden |
$15,800.00 |
| September 21 |
Thunder Bay Marathon - Miles with the Giant |
Thunder Bay |
$40,000.00 |
| September 21 to 23 |
Savour Stratford Perth County Culinary |
Stratford |
$75,000.00 |
| September 21 to 30 |
JFL42 - Just for Laughs Toronto |
Toronto |
$350,000.00 |
| September 21 to 30 |
Niagara Wine Festival |
St. Catharines |
$66,500.00 |
| September 21 to Oct. 31 |
Fort Fright |
Kingston |
$75,000.00 |
| September 24 to 30 |
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche |
Toronto |
$350,000.00 |
| September 28 to 30 |
The Tom Thomson Canadian Arts Festival |
Owen Sound |
$40,000.00 |
| October 2 to 6 |
13th Canadian Comedy Awards & Festival |
Toronto |
$75,000.00 |
| October 2 to 8 |
Norfolk County Fair & Horse Show |
Simcoe |
$229,189.00 |
| October 5 to 13 |
Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest |
Kitchener |
$349,308.00 |
| October 6 to Nov. 4 |
Pumpkinferno |
Morrisburg |
$75,000.00 |
| October 12 to 13 |
Hastings Beer and Cheese Festival |
Bracebridge |
$40,000.00 |
| October 12 to 14 |
Cranberry Festival |
Bala |
$40,000.00 |
| October 12 to Nov. 4 |
Algoma Fall Festival |
Sault Ste. Marie |
$50,000.00 |
| October 16 to 25 |
Navratri Festival |
Richmond Hill |
$40,000.00 |
| October 17 to 21 |
imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival |
Toronto |
$45,000.00 |
| November 1 to 3 |
NorthWords, Muskoka Literary Festival |
Huntsville |
$30,000.00 |
| November 2 to 11 |
Royal Agricultural Winter Fair |
Toronto |
$350,000.00 |
| November 3 to Jan. 31 '13 |
CAA Winter Festival of Lights |
Niagara Falls |
$350,000.00 |
| November 6 to 11 |
Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival |
Toronto |
$40,000.00 |
| November 6 to 14 |
Fall into Nature |
Burlington |
$39,500.00 |
| November 6 to 18 |
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival |
Toronto |
$50,000.00 |
| November 8 to 11 |
Huntsville Girlfriends' Getaway Weekend |
Huntsville |
$70,000.00 |
| November 15 to Jan. 6 '13 |
Holidays Traditions 2012 |
Burlington |
$75,000.00 |
| November 22 to 25 |
Festival de Noël de Casselman |
Casselman |
$40,000.00 |
| November 24 |
Santa Day |
Fenelon Falls |
$27,100.00 |
| November 29 to Dec. 1 |
2012 Red Bull Crashed Ice Niagara |
Niagara Falls |
$200,000 |
| November 30 to Dec. 16 |
Toronto Christmas Market |
Toronto |
$75,000.00 |
| December 31 to Jan. 1 |
ET Canada Niagara Falls New Year's Eve |
Niagara Falls |
$75,000.00 |
| 2013 |
| January 12 to 20 |
Winter WineFest |
Vineland Station |
$32,000.00 |
| January 18 to 27 |
WinterFest |
Collingwood |
$40,000.00 |
| January 25 to Feb. 3 |
57th Wiarton Willie Festival |
Owen Sound |
$40,000.00 |
| February 1 to 3 |
Hillside Inside |
Guelph |
$37,705.00 |
| February 1 to 10 |
Bon Soo Winter Carnival |
Sault Ste. Marie |
$27,000.00 |
| February 1 to 10 |
Carnaval de Hearst Carnival |
Hearst |
$30,500.00 |
| February 1 to 18 |
Winterlude 2013 |
Ottawa |
$350,000.00 |
| February 7 to 10 |
Laugh Out Loud (LOL) Sudbury Comedy Festival |
Sudbury |
$75,000.00 |
| February 9 to 12 |
Huntsville Winter Comedy Carnival |
Huntsville |
$40,000.00 |
| February 16 to 24 |
2013 Scotties Tournament of Hearts |
Kingston |
$150,000.00 |
| February 28 to Mar. 3 |
2013 Kingston Canadian Film Festival |
Kingston |
$12,500.00 |
| March 15 to Mar. 24 |
Canada Blooms Garden Festival |
Toronto |
$75,000.00 |
