Through the catalyst of contemporary jewellery, artists use materials redolent with meaning and the body as a site to confront issues of identity, social critique and political change.

Stories and more from Arctic Norway.

An exhibition featuring stories of hope, resilience and change by the Nordic Bridges Nordic-Canadian Fellows in Environmental Journalism.

Celebrate the spectacular finale of Nordic Bridges, a year of exceptional Nordic–Canadian arts and culture collaboration.

Clear away those winter blues away with Film and FIKA.

Mobile Sweat is a nomadic wood-fired sauna and platform for contemporary art, featuring a unique program of sound and video art to be experienced while you sweat, a series of sound bathing performances and visiting Nordic sauna guides.

The culmination of the Nordic Talks series featuring a Sustainability and Social Impact Consultant, Norway’s Ambassador to Canada, a top 30 under 30 Sustainability Leader and an International Environmental Lawyer to discuss society’s role in the next seven years.

Is it a sheep, ape or even human? What’s the difference? It’s all meat.

A continuation of the Nordic Talks series featuring discussions on the future of activism in the arts.

TIFF spotlights Nordic Noir films in November, the final of three retrospectives in a year-long series celebrating the best of Nordic cinema.

A high-energy double bill to chase away the winter blues.

The PCA audience is invited to bid for artworks in new ways, and actual transactions occur. The twist: bidders are invited to make offers not only with money; understanding, opportunity, and/or exchange are equally accepted currencies.

Seven actors, 50 puppets, video projections, a drowned orchestra and a whale-sized whale equals a visually striking theatrical adaptation of Melville’s magnificent beast of a book from award-winning French-Norwegian puppetry company Plexus Polaire.

An on-demand video of Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman's piece combining dance, theatre, music and song into a high-energy spectacle that explores play through the various stages of life, performed by the Paris Opera Ballet.

A continuation of the Nordic Talks series featuring discussions on the future of fashion.

With extraordinary design featuring large-scale puppetry and an outstanding cast of 16 actors, The Breathing Hole / Aglu ᐊᒡᓗ is a masterful feat of stagecraft and imagination.

An evening of performances by Norwegian artist Tuva Hellum Marschhäuser (Tuvaband) and Montreal based Norwegian artist Marthe Halvorsen.

An annual gathering of professionals in the world music industry, Mundial Montréal is North America’s leading industry showcase 100% dedicated to world music.

Mobile Sweat is a nomadic wood-fired sauna and mobile platform for contemporary art, featuring a unique program of sound and video art to be experienced while you sweat.

FIKA(S) creates bridges between Nordic and Scandinavian cultures and Quebecers and Canadians by offering intimate and unifying cultural and artistic events.

Nordic Screendance is a series of 7 short films from each of 5 Nordic countries that puts a spotlight on the creativity of dance-film artists from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

Mobile Sweat is a nomadic wood-fired sauna and mobile platform for contemporary art, featuring a unique program of sound and video art to be experienced while you sweat.

Through the catalyst of contemporary jewellery, artists use materials redolent with meaning and the body as a site to confront issues of identity, social critique and political change.

Arctic Imagination is a multi-year, interdisciplinary transatlantic speaker series and collaboration between cultural institutions, libraries, and museums that sheds light on the transformation of the Arctic as a powerful symbol, an inspirational landscape, and a geopolitical factor.

A two-channel video projection of artwork by Åland Islands video artist Rita Jokiranta shown on the harbourfront wall of the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

A selection of recent original paintings by the Faroese artist Edward Fuglø presented in a non-traditional gallery space: the 245 Queens Quay West warehouse.

An ongoing photography series that began in 2011 to study personifications in nature and folkloric explanations of natural phenomena.

The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery spotlights contemporary Indigenous artists from the circumpolar Arctic and the Amazon.

BreakOut West is an annual music event that includes an immersive music development conference and music festival hosted by the Western Canadian Music Alliance.

The Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA), Canada's largest and longest-running literary festival invites audiences to enjoy exciting, insightful and entertaining stories, conversations and performances from Canada and across the world.

Caustic Effect is a new experimental opera work-in-progress by Monique Holt and Landon Krentz in a partnership between Canadian, US, and Swedish deaf artists.

A continuation of the Nordic Talks series featuring discussions on the future of adult learning.

Embark on a journey along the Arctic highway of culture and life that stretches from the past into the future – without ever passing a border – in this exhibition featuring Twelve Indigenous artists from the Arctic region.

Twelve Circumpolar Indigenous artists will be featured in ARCTIC XR and ÁRRAN 360 ° with new 360-degree screen-based works created by leading Sámi and Canadian artists.

Join the artists of the SPHERE Festival: musicians, writers, photographers, performers, in a round table discussion about art and climate.

An ongoing photography series that began in 2011 as a study of the personification of nature and of folkloric explanations of natural phenomena.

A sound installation created by Canadian composer rebecca bruton and Icelandic composer Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir, two musical creators attuned to one another’s practices in experimental music, sound, and the interconnectedness of art and ecological systems.

Wolfgang invites you to take another walk on the wild side with this Session, featuring stellar NACO musicians in an intimate evening of exciting music about the Earth at Club SAW.

We honour the voice of water and ice with music dedicated to the critical ecological milestones our planet faces, including two works from ground-breaking female composers Anna Clyne and Outi Tarkiainen.

The NAC Orchestra honours the Earth and the perseverance of life against increasingly difficult odds by performing works from three very different composers: Outi Tarkiainen, Max Richter and Alexina Louie.

Celebrate the art and importance of listening with empathy – to our environment, our elders and each other – in a concert featuring music inspired by nature and creative responses to our world, the climate crisis, and the times we live in.

Artistic Fraud premieres their latest stage work, I Forgive You, a collaboration with Scott Jones telling the story of the 2013 attack that left Jones paralyzed -and the moment during the attempted murder trial when he forgave his attacker- featuring choral music from Sigur Rós.

An enchanting adventure awaits at the 43rd Calgary Folk Music Festival, presented by ATB. This year's program includes the Alberta debut of Nordic artists VILDÁ and Trio Svin.

The highly-acclaimed Swedish "Folk’apella" vocal group Kongero performs at this year's Vancouver Island MusicFest held July 8 - 10, 2022.

With their fresh approach and willingness to try anything (twice), Amahl Arulanandam and Bryan Holt (VC2) are always discovering new sonic possibilities in the two-cello medium.

Greenlandic band Nive and the Deer Children and Sara Ajnnak from Sweden bring a Nordic fire to the Harbourfront Centre Concert Stage.

Vök is an Icelandic dream pop and indietronic band from Reykjavík known for their upbeat and large sounds. Eivør continues the night with music inspired by the wide open, choppy seas and coasts of her homeland, while electronica artists GusGus hail from the larger-than-life Nordic dance music scene.

The Alianait Arts Festival, now in its 18th year, will feature artists from across Inuit Nunungat and the Nordic world.

Featured at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival on July 15, 16 and 17 are diverse musical groups from around the globe, including VILDÁ from Finland.

A continuation of the Nordic Talks series featuring discussions on sustainability within the culinary world.

Traditional Sámi yoiks are pushed up against present-day pop with Sápmi band VILDÁ, followed by an electronic response in ISÁK.

Åland musician leoblu wraps us in velvety dream pop at the Stage-in-the-Park, while The Cliks frontman Lucas Silveira intertwines piano and guitar soundscapes as the first transgender man signed to a major record label.

On sublime new album Opening, the Norwegian pianist reveals a fresh angle to his highly lauded investigations into Nordic folk hymns, gospel and jazz.

With their voices moving together in tight harmony or intertwining in a whirling tempo, the highly acclaimed “Folk’appella” vocal group Kongero draws traditional Swedish music out of the past and into the present, taking the listener on a fabulous Nordic folk musical journey.

Music duo VILDÁ is an original blend of Indigenous Sámi yoiks, grooving rhythms and improvisation.

An exploratory circus show created by a Swedish company and aimed at an audience eager for unusual discoveries.

Piste, piste, piste is an interdisciplinary show combining contemporary circus, dance and visual arts.

In FASE, three performers explore social mechanisms and dynamics and invite the audience to participate in their experience. Through circus and dance, the performers build, spin and swirl around each other.

Grammy-nominated artist Sara Ajnnak from Sweden creates something very personal: traditional yoik mixed with vibrant strings, featuring electronic influences in a contemporary soundscape, all inspired by the north.

Daytime performance by music duo VILDÁ, with an original blend of Indigenous Sámi yoiks, grooving rhythms and improvisation.

Music duo VILDÁ is an original blend of Indigenous Sámi yoiks, grooving rhythms and improvisation.

Singer-songwriter Eivør Pálsdóttir grew up surrounded by a harsh, windswept landscape in the North Atlantic — a rugged backdrop that has, unsurprisingly, deeply influenced her music.

Kolonien is a four-member family band from Sweden, reinventing their roots with rich vocal harmonies, and fierce melodies and rhythms.

Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA), in partnership with KOBO Plus, uncovers Canada's newest and largest crime and mystery writing festival taking place from June 3 to 5 at Harbourfront Centre.

One of cinema’s most revered artists, Roy Andersson has created a singular body of work, most notably with his “Living Trilogy” (Songs from the Second Floor; You, the Living; and A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence) and his recent feature About Endlessness.

Harbourfront Centre's Visual Artist-in-Residence Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen.

Join us for an undersea workshop, put on a performance and take part in a silent demonstration for our oceans!

A panel of three celebrated Deaf artists on the term Deaf-led and why it matters. Co-presented with Theatre Passe Muraille.

Celebrating the long history of Deaf and disability art, connecting living international artists with their chosen ancestors. Curated by Alex Bulmer.

A continuation of the Nordic Talks series featuring discussions on the future of disability integration.

Coastal Dance Festival is a celebration of the stories, songs and dances of the Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast with guest national and international artists.

Held in Toronto each spring, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is North America’s largest documentary festival, conference and market.

The Days invites the audience to share an encounter with two exceptional Finnish dancers Maria Nurmela and Ville Oinonen.

The Days invites the audience to share an encounter with two exceptional Finnish dancers Maria Nurmela and Ville Oinonen.

The Days invites the audience to share an encounter with two exceptional Finnish dancers Maria Nurmela and Ville Oinonen.

A building wide-exhibition of Danish artist Gudrun Hasle's work, spanning Harbourfront Centre's entire main building with pockets of messages throughout.

This family oriented drop-in workshop will work with textiles to create a giant carpet.

TIFF is celebrating International Women's Day all month long with a spotlight on Nordic Women Filmmakers.

An exhibition of Greenlandic artist Liv Aurora Jensen's work.

This edition of Nordic Talks looks into the current turbulent climate of work culture and if workin’ 9-5 is really the way to make a livin’.

One of cinema’s most revered artists, Roy Andersson has created a singular body of work, most notably with his “Living Trilogy” (Songs from the Second Floor; You, the Living; and A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence) and his recent feature About Endlessness.

This edition of Nordic Talks continues the dialogue of Black youth and their development in an increasingly connected society.

One of cinema’s most revered artists, Roy Andersson has created a singular body of work, most notably with his “Living Trilogy” (Songs from the Second Floor; You, the Living; and A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence).

Objects and methods of design that allow for reflection over the true meaning of functionality, durability and beauty.

Environmental and social responsibility are integral to good design. In Denmark, robustly funded research & development in green technology, design and production helps to create jobs and contributes to building a strong economy.

This piece looks at the relationship between lies and love and the surprising things we do in our everyday lives to present a more likeable narrative of ourselves to the world.

A story about how long the road home is when you run away in anger.

A coming-of-age story that follows a young shaman named Pitu as he learns to use his powers and ultimately finds himself lost in the world of the spirits.

Join us for an expedition into a world full of trash with a fun performance that explores the musical underground world of trash.

Join Signmark, a Finnish Deaf rapper who uses bass and low frequencies as a crucial part of his performance with a message.

The Power Plant presents Shona Illingworth’s first major solo show in Canada.

The Power Plant presents Sasha Huber’s first solo show in North America.

Join us on campus as we celebrate the opening of Nordic Bridges. Nordic Lights is a cross-campus series of public light art installations from Nordic and Canadian artists.

‘Shared Terrain’ is a group exhibition that fosters cultural exchange between the Nordic region and Canada through a collaboration between five Canadian and five Nordic artists and designers.

BreakOut West is an annual music event that includes an immersive music development conference, music festival hosted by the Western Canadian Music Alliance.

Alan Lucien Øyen and his company winter guests tell stories of the contemporary world. Drawing from real-life experiences, his innovative multi-disciplinary works of dance and theatre have gained critical acclaim and an international following.

Throughout history, the role of the public library has adapted to the times and the community it lives in. Perhaps the most dramatic shift has occurred within the last 20 years.

A live discussion on the impact the last two years have had on artistic creation. Part of Nordic Talks.