Toronto Waterfront Festival Announces 2024 Event
16 July 2024 - 4:33PM
The award winning Toronto Waterfront Festival, which last year
brought back the World’s Largest Rubber Duck, announced their 2024
event today.
The festival will be held at Sugar Beach from
September 14-15, 2024 and will feature the Canine Watersports
Canada competition (CWC). CWC is a premiere dog dock jumping
competition with a variety of cute pups diving, jumping and
fetching into a 45ft pool on land. The festival previously included
dog jumping competitions in 2014 and 2015 and it was a
fan-favourite.
The Toronto Waterfront Festival, which is a
not-for-profit, will remain a free event, but for the first time in
the festival’s 14 year history, festival producers are asking
attendees to voluntarily pay what they can.
“Our mandate has
always been to bring free, family-friendly, water-themed
entertainment to Toronto’s Waterfront, and we will continue to do
that for as long as we can,” says Michael Riehl, Chair of the
Toronto Waterfront Festival. “However, with the rising operations
costs and dramatic reduction in government funding from all levels
this year, it is a very tough time for most festivals and events in
Ontario. As a result, we are asking our visitors to pay what they
can to help in any small way to continue to keep the festival
alive.”
The festival, which is in partnership with The
Waterfront BIA, will also welcome the tall ship Empire Sandy, the
Canadian Armed Forces, Pirate Life Theatre, pop-up entertainment
presented by Redpath, interactive cultural activities, food and
sponsor giveaways.
2024 festival partners include: The Waterfront
BIA, Redpath Sugar, Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, Menkes
Developments, Porter Airlines and Westin Harbour Castle. For more
information on the festival visit www.towaterfrontfest.com and
@towaterfrontfest on social media.
ABOUT TORONTO WATERFRONT
FESTIVAL: The Toronto Waterfront Festival,
in partnership with the Waterfront BIA, is an annual summer
event that celebrates the uniqueness of Toronto’s waterfront with
on-land and on-water programming. The festival showcases the
history, culture and importance of water through nautical
attractions, arts, culture and indigenous entertainment, music,
food and interactive activities. Every three years, the event
welcomes a fleet of Tall Ships to Toronto, next in 2025.
www.towaterfrontfest.com
ABOUT WATER’S EDGE FESTIVALS &
EVENTS:Water’s Edge Festivals & Events is an Ontario
not-for-profit corporation created in 2011 with a mandate to
produce cultural family festivals and events to increase tourism to
Toronto’s waterfront. WEFE produces the annual Toronto Waterfront
Festival and Sugar Shack TO. Past projects have included the
pan-provincial TALL SHIPS 1812 Tour (2013) and the ONTARIO 150 Tour
(2017) which featured the World’s Largest Rubber Duck.
For additional information and interview requests, please
contact:Victoria Mahoney, Harmony
Marketingvmahoney@harmonymarketing.ca
A photo accompanying this announcement is available at
https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/fcba48bd-3ddf-4ea6-a073-42515dd808a8