Critical Conversations

TIFA’s most provocative discussion series returns with several engaging panels examining the culture and politics that shape the world around us.

Bite the Book

A new food-focused, multi-sensory series of events combining delicious tastings with conversations, readings, workings and food-writing experiences! Bring your appetite.

Pop Fiction

New this year, the POP Fiction series spotlights many of the world’s most beloved genres, including romance, crime, horror, graphic storytelling and more.

TIFA Kids

Explore comedies, ghost tales and everything in between for toddlers to teens, through interactive story times, theatre, crafts, free activities and more for the whole family.

Masterclasses

Learn how to craft compelling stories and bring captivating characters to life through hands-on lessons from acclaimed authors and industry experts.

The Performance Series

TIFA’s performance series, offered all Festival long, celebrates the joy and power of live storytelling from theatre to live music, poetry slams and more.

The Re-Read

Each session features a contemporary writer discussing influential books and authors, to offer their insight and share their joy as a reader.

The World in Other Words

Meet storytellers from unique communities around the world and across the local neighbourhoods of Toronto in the World in Other Words.

Taking Flight – Dreams of Democracy

A strand of Arabic events with writers from around Canada, the US and Iceland, curated in partnership with Kamel Riahi, whose book Tunisian Frankenstein was banned by the Tunisian government.

Humber Liberal Arts Conference

The ninth annual Humber Liberal Arts Conference seeks to explore displacement and the concept of diaspora through an interdisciplinary lens.