• A Festival of Ideas
  • May 7 – 10, 2026
  • Guelph

2026 ArtsEverywhere Festival

The ArtsEverywhere Festival is the place where conversations, ideas, and artistic experiments presented on ArtsEverywhere.ca come alive in our home community of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Join us for our 2026 edition running from Thursday, May 7th to Sunday May 10th, where you can enjoy conversations, music, artistic performances, workshops, literary readings, and community with an international roster of presenters.

See below for full program schedule!

Header image: detail of Raven’s Hair at Night by Shelley Niro

Program

Workshop
Workshop: Collaborating Through Scores 1
Thursday, May 7, 2026
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm • Free • GYD
Speaker
Big Ideas: Care, Storytelling and Spacemaking with Sundus Abdul Hadi
Thursday, May 7, 2026
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm • Free • HH
Workshop
Workshop: Collaborating Through Scores 2
Friday, May 8, 2026
11:00 am - 3:00 pm • Free • GYD
Performance
The Guelph Lecture—On Being 2026
Friday, May 8, 2026
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm • $25.00 • RRC
Performance
Live Reading & Book Launch of Hilot Means Healer by Jo SiMalaya Alcampo
Saturday, May 9, 2026
9:30 am - 11:30 am • Free • RRC
Conversation
Talk & Book Launch of The Sound of the Homeland Drum by Peter Schuler
Saturday, May 9, 2026
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm • Free • RRC
Performance
Resistance Revue featuring The Ratskin Family Band, Taqralik Partridge and Lacey Hill
Saturday, May 9, 2026
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm • Free • RRC
Conversation
Bend your ear: a panel conversation on listening 
Sunday, May 10, 2026
10:00 am - 12:00 pm • Free • 10C
Performance
Performance: L CON in collaboration with Nina Vroemen // Karen Ng
Sunday, May 10, 2026
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • Free • ImprovLab
Performance
Empathy supper: improvising new ecologies of trust
Sunday, May 10, 2026
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm • Free • 10C