Watch the neighbourhood come alive with music, visual art installations, pop-ups, food and more in a local, DIY celebration of the arts.
The first Geary Art Crawl was produced by Uma Nota Culture in 2021 with partners Art Spin, The Music Gallery, All Ours, Promise and Lula Music and Arts.
Now in its fourth year, the Geary Art Crawl maintains its commitment to showcasing local artists alongside international talent.
Bringing parties, installations, and spontaneous creation to unexpected places along our beloved Geary Avenue, all while highlighting the businesses that give Geary its unique character.
Honouring the Land and its Peoples
The City of Toronto, and the Geary Avenue area within it, have been inhabited by Indigenous peoples for millennia, or time immemorial. Beneath Davenport Road, one block north of Geary Avenue lies an ancient trail created by Indigenous peoples.
The trail ran at the foot of the bluff which formed the former shoreline of Lake Iroquois, the forerunner of the much smaller Lake Ontario. The Indigenous trail linked Indigenous settlements with hunting and fishing grounds and with trade routes.
Defined by the geography of the former Lake Iroquois shoreline, Davenport Road stands out from the colonially imposed rectilinear street grid and connects us with the area's indigenous history.
"Geary Avenue is a vibrant employment area within the established low-rise residential neighbourhood of Davenport. Geary Avenue is prized for its "maker" uses such as small scale manufacturing, food production, artists' studios and production studios. The eclectic mix of these uses with small-scale restaurants, bars and other cultural uses in old low-rise industrial buildings gives the street an authentic, alluring "vibe" that is increasingly making Geary Avenue a commercial and social destination."
-City of Toronto Planning