2013
Saturday, July 20, 1-9pm
Sunday, July 21, 12-6pm
Bloor Street, Toronto
Dufferin to Lansdowne
BIG on Bloor Festival, car-free Bloordale celebrates arts, culture, community & small business, on Bloor Street, Toronto, Dufferin to Lansdowne. We welcome everyone!
2013 BIG on Bloor Festival
We welcomed 70,000 people last year with visitors saying, “The BIG on Bloor Festival was an exceptional experience with so much to see, do and really be engaged with.”
This year we are in full swing to surprise and delight you again with event to enjoy and participate in.
July 20/ 21, 2013 car-free Bloor St., Toronto, Dufferin to Lansdowne, celebrates arts, culture, community & small business with a unique community and city-building festival featuring hundreds of events, activities and exhibitions including: Bloordale Market: more than 200 arts, crafts, vendors and information tables!
BIG on Bloor 2013 leading events: Celebrate Here: Music, performance and dance! Culture Works: Institutions, collectives, artists creative events… see, touch, learn, participate! Savour Bloor: In the stores, restaurants, patios and the Bloodale Food Court! Big Awards: Community appreciation! Play Fair: Games for children and adults and the Bloordale Market!
The BIG On Bloor Festival an initiative of the Bloordale BIA, BIG: Bloor Improvement Group and the Bloordale community.
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2012 BIG On Bloor Festival
July 21/ 22, 2012 car-free Bloor St.,Toronto, Dufferin to Lansdowne, celebrates arts, culture, community & small business with a unique community and city-building festival featuring hundreds of events, activities and exhibitions including:
News
BIG Festival Planning Meetings:
WHEN: First Wed. of every month beginning, Wed. Mar 13, April 3, May 1, June 5, July 3
WHERE: New Horizon Towers, 1140 Bloor Street, West (just west of the Dufferin Subway Station)
TIME: 7:00 pm
WHO: Everyone welcome!
Call Out To Volunteers:
Opportunities to participate, sign up on this website beginning mid-March. BIG meetings, all welcomed to find out more and get involved, help organize the festival – volunteers, table vendors, sponsors, performers, artists, local business and residents.
Program PDF
Download the Big on Bloor Festival
Program leaflet as a PDF file.
Quotes of Support
Culture is a vital way to build and sustain engaged, healthy communities which is why festivals like BIG on Bloor are so important. I hope you’ll join me in supporting BIG by coming to the BIG on Bloor Festival. I’m really looking forward to being there both as Davenport’s new Member of Parliament and as a musician performing in the festival.
Andrew Cash, MP
NDP Member of Parliament for Davenport
I believe cultural engagement is a vital way to improve neighbourhoods. BIG: Bloor Improvement Group is leading in this effort and this festival is an excellent, innovate and exciting approach. I enthusiastically encourage your support and participation.
Ana Bailão
Councillor for Ward 18
The Bloordale Business Improvement Association is excited and proud to again initiate and host the BIG On Bloor Festival in our neighbourhood. We appreciates that cultural events make important contributions to the atmosphere and economic viability of Bloor Street. The Bloordale BIA offers BIG and BIG events our full support and we encourage your support. Working together we can help create a vital community for everyone.
Spiro Koumoudouros
Bloordale Business Improvement Association, President
BIG on Bloor showcases excellent local businesses and promotes our vibrant neighbourhood. I’m thankful to the organizers and proud to support such a great initiative. I truly look forward to the festival this summer.
Jonah Schein, MPP
NDP Member for Davenport
The Bloorcourt Business Improvement Association supports BIG: Bloor Improvement Group and the BIG On Bloor Festival. We encourage your support to make BIG events big successes.
Antonia Yee
Bloorcourt Business Improvement Association, Chair
BIG: Bloor Improvement Group, is a coalition of community members working for the advancement of the economic, physical, cultural and social life of Bloor. The BIG On Bloor Festival is our community and city building event and a shared project – BIG encourages and thanks everyone for their participation and support.
Dyan Marie
BIG: Bloor Improvement Group, Co-Chair