The 19th year of the BIG on Bloor Festival returns July 19th and 20th, 2025 with in-person pedestrian takeover of car-free Bloordale!

Bloor Street West, between Dufferin to Lansdowne. Celebrating community magic, creativity and diversity through arts and culture, providing opportunities to local disenfranchised artists and showcasing the small businesses that make Bloordale so amazing.

This year, we will explore the theme of BIZARRE; a celebration of the delightfully peculiar aspects of local culture, artistry, and community life, through workshops and installations led by local BIPOC artists, presenting conversations with their relationship to the individual, cultural oddities and how both are necessary for a healthy creative community.

Public spaces meet more than one community need. We are excited to present an alternative community event that celebrate community-building, local businesses and the diverse arts and culture of the area. Calm down zones, less vendor crowding and environmental installations are a focus this year to emphasis the community, its creators and the local shops which makes us great.

Made possible by the Bloordale BIA, BIG on Bloor is free and open to everyone