2026 DesignTO Festival: Call for Host Venues

If you have a venue you’d like to have activated with a window installation, event, or exhibition, DesignTO wants to hear from you! Potential venues include spaces in the City of Toronto such as shops, galleries, studios, cafés, schools, and lobbies.

The DesignTO Festival brings people together to celebrate contemporary design across the city January 23 – February 1, 2026.

DesignTO Festival is Canada’s leading and largest annual design festival that celebrates design as a multidisciplinary form of creative thinking and making, with over 100 exhibitions and events forming Toronto’s design week each January. Since 2011, the DesignTO Festival has welcomed over 1 million visitors, showcased the work of over 6,500 artists and designers, and reached over 2 billion people through print and digital media.