Celebrate Ontario 2012 Events

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.

2012: April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December

2013: January - February - March

Read about Celebrate Ontario success stories

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