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SummerWorks Performance Festival

SummerWorks is Canada’s largest curated performance festival of theatre, dance, music, live art and interdisciplinary forms. This year’s 11-day Festival features 52 unique projects, as well the SLIP series of artist workshops, a collection of new performance experiments in the SummerWorks Lab, and nightly parties.

For more information, the full festival schedule, and to purchase tickets please visit SummerWorks.

August 3, 2017
to August 13, 2017

Tickets are Pay What You Decide: $15–$35 | Passes available

Venue

The Theatre Centre

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