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Annual events in Toronto

• Winterlicious
• Toronto Design Offsite Festival
• Toronto Design Week

• Canadian International AutoShow - at the Metro Convention Centre
• Winter City

• Cinéfranco
• St Patrick's Day Parade
• Canadian Music Week

• Sporting Life 10K
• Hot Docs
• Khalsa Day parade, first held in 1986
• Toronto Fashion Week

• Cabbagetown Forsythia Festival - Held the first Sunday in May.
• Doors Open Toronto
• Science Rendezvous
• Anime North - Usually held the weekend following Victoria Day, although some times during the long weekend.
• Toronto Comic Arts FestivalatToronto Reference Library

• Luminato a festival of arts and creativity established in 2007
• North by Northeast, an annual five-day live music and film festival and music conference
• Pride Week a large gay pride festival
• Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival - various indoors and located throughout the downtown core
• MuchMusic Video Awards
• Toronto International Dragon Boat Festival - Centre Island
• Fête de la Musique (World Music Day) - June 21 annually. Musicians from all over the world perform free concerts throughout the city
• VRTO Virtual & Augmented Reality World Conference & Expo - a virtual reality conference that takes place the 3rd week of June, annually.^[1]
• World Naked Bike Ride, annually since June 2004.^[2]

• Toronto Fringe Festival, Toronto's largest theatre festival
• Honda Indy TorontoatExhibition Place
• Caribana is North America's largest street festival, showcasing Caribbean/West Indian culture (in some years early August).
• Beaches International Jazz Festival - The Beaches
• Summerlicious
• ConBravo! fandom convention
• Brickfete LEGO Fan Festival
• Rogers Cup - An ATP World Tour Masters 1000 and WTA Tour Premier 5 tennis tournament held annually since 1881.

• The Canadian National Exhibition (CNE, or "the Ex").
• The Taste of the Danforth festival showcases the mostly Greek culture of The Danforth and has expanded to include other cultures of the area.
• Fan Expo Canada

• The Canadian International Air Show -off CNE grounds over Lake Ontario
• The Terry Fox Run
• The Toronto International Film Festival is considered one of the big three global film events, with Cannes and Berlin, with more screens and more films than either.
• Cabbagetown Fall Festival, - Held the second weekend in September.
• FIVARS Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories third week September
• Virgin Festival, based on the British festival
• Word on the Street - Canada's largest, annual outdoor book and magazine festival
• Taste of the Kingsway - A celebration of food and music, the Taste of the Kingsway festival is a family-friendly way to honour the community.

• Nuit Blanche
• The Toronto Waterfront Marathon - One of just five IAAF Gold Label marathons in North America, run along the waterfront starting and ending in downtown Toronto
• The Toronto After Dark Film Festival

• The Canadian FinTech Awards. An annual Gala Awards Dinner to celebrate Canadian Innovation, which was started in 2015.^[3]
• The Toronto Santa Claus Parade (Started in 1904 with just a single float, it now boasts 32 floats, 24 bands, and 2000 participants. It is one of the biggest productions in North America, and broadcast to many countries around the world.)
• Cavalcade of Lights.
• The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, an annual fall fair started in 1922.

• Reviving the Islamic Spirit

• List of Asian events in Toronto

• Toronto Festivals & Events Directory
• Event listings