Join Us at Cultural Festival 2025!
Celebrate the Town of Georgina’s first-ever Cultural Festival – a vibrant day bursting with music, dance, art, food, and traditions from around the world.
Cultural Festival 2025 is a free, all-ages event celebrating the many cultures that make Georgina a welcoming and diverse community. You’ll experience live performances ranging from Bollywood and Scottish Highland dancing to Nyabinghi drumming, Latin, Irish and Timli dance, plus hands-on activities like henna, weaving, cultural painting, macrame, yoga, international tabletop games and photo booths filled with traditional costumes and artifacts.
Date: Saturday, Sept. 20
Time: 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Location: The ROC Chalet
Cultural Food Passport:
Pick up your Cultural Food Passport at the entrance, then travel from station to station and enjoy free samples along the way. Once your passport is filled, you’ve completed your culinary adventure! Passports and samples are available while supplies last – so be sure to start your journey early.
Enjoy delicious tastes and treats from the following participants:
- Canadian Madeira Club
- Caffe Bella
- Georgina Black Excellence Society
- Georgina Parivar
- Dina’s Cuzina
- Wela’s Kitchen
- Al-Falah Islamic Centre
- Sloaneys Lemonade Shak
- Georgina Chinese Association
Cultural Festival Activity Schedule
Drop by and get creative at our Cultural activities, running all day from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m.
- Henna, Clay Lantern painting and Yoga - Georgina Parivar
- Weaving craft - Georgina Village Museum
- Learn to braid - Georgina Black Excellence Society
- Tabletop games from around the world
- Dragon boat paddle simulators - Georgina Dragon Boat Club
- Learn different Macramé knots - Saade
- Cultural Mosaic - Crock a Doodle
- Button making and Story reading - Georgina Public Library
- Photo Booths
- Tea Art Performances
- Chi He - Fan Painting (1:00pm)
- Art Exhibit - Black Excellence Society, Canadian Madeira Club, The Georgina Centre for Arts and Culture
and more!
Main Stage Schedule
11 a.m. - Opening Remarks
11:30 a.m. - Canadian Madeira Club - Folklore group performance
12 p.m. - Bollywood Performance
12:30 p.m. Georgina Black Excellence Society -Djembe Drumming, Performance by Dancehall Queens, Pan-African Poet
1 p.m. - Scottish Highland dancing
1:15 p.m. - Georgina Chinese Association- Chinese Drums and Gongs, Xinjiang & Mongolian Dance, Qipao Fashion Show
2 p.m. - Timli Dance performance
2:30 p.m. - Canadian Step
2:45 p.m. - Latin Dance performance
3 p.m. - Connor’s Irish/Maritime Culture band
Photo and video
Media and Town of Georgina staff will be taking photos and video footage at Town of Georgina special events. These images may be used, re-used and published in news stories, social media and on websites, in addition to distributed to our event partners.