Women From Space Festival

we're going into
deep space for 2026

We will be back in 2027

♡ stay in touch ♡

Dear friends of Women From Space Festival!

The time has come to let you all know that after a LOT of thinking we decided to let the festival explore deep space for this year. Unfortunately our core funding didn’t come through so we chose to re-apply, rest up and return in 2027 with the spaciest party in town!

We will miss all of you wonderful people who each year gather around this festival and bring in the playful, celebratory and curious vibes. We will all get together again, we just have to wait a little longer

In the meantime, we will keep posting old WFS videos and will keep amplifying all the cool shows that are happening all year in the Toronto experimental music scene! It’s quite exciting.
Long live the grass-roots arts

Hope to stay in touch, keep sending ideas, and please don’t forget about us.⁠

We LOVE this festival and we will bring it back, spacier than ever!

❤︎⁠
WFS

2025 archive

Festival info

March 7
918 Bathurst, doors at 7.30pm, $15/$20

Allison Cameron: Small Scale Experimental Machine

Enigmatic solo performance bringing together electronics, visual projections, surround sound field recordings plus audience-made sounds.

Plastic Babies Album Release

Celebrating a debut release from three beloved Toronto improvisers - Christine Duncan, Patrick O'Reilley and Laura Swankey.

Women From Space Big Bang! Plays Nina Simone

Our very own 20-piece, all-star in-house big band reimagines the music of Nina Simone through the out-there arrangements of 6 cutting edge Canadian composers.

with live visuals by Meghan Cheng

Women From Space Big Bang! Plays Nina Simone performers:

Tara Kannangara (trumpet/voice) ★ Janel Jones (voice) ★ Aniqa Dear (voice) ★ Shn Shn (voice/guitar/synth) ★ Elisabeth Dorion (voice) ★ Keisha Bell-Kovacs (piano) ★ Rebecca Henessey (trumpet) ★ Atcheleh Aryee (trumpet) ★ Heather Saumer (trombone) ★ Carolina Lopez (guitar/voice) ★ Naomi McCarrol-Butler (woodwinds) ★ Nirvana Sagar (woodwinds) ★ Eileen Rene Vogn (flute) ★ Bea Labikova (woodwinds) ★ Diane Roblin (synths) ★ Pursuit Grooves (electronics/beats) ★ Mira Riselli (upright bass/electric bass) ★ Racha Moukalled (vibraphone/piano/mallet station) ★ Angelica Zavala (drumset) ★ Yang Chen (vibraphone/percussion/drumset) ★ Kayla Milmine (conducting)

Featuring arrangements by Mingjia Chen ★ Pursuit Grooves ★ Madeleine Ertel ★ Tania Gill ★ Alexa Belgrave

March 8
918 Bathurst, doors at 7.30pm, $15/$20

Erin Poole movement
Rosina Kazi voice
Chantelle Mostacho movement
shn shn synths, voice

Deep improvised dialogues between sound and movement.

co-presented with Toronto Dance Theatre

yuniya edi kwon (US)
violin, voice

Blending of voice, violin and movement through improvisation and ritual.

Azumi OE (US)
Eucademix (US)
Waldo Walle (US)

Fierce and raw mixture of electronics with Butoh dance, and improvised lighting.

This show might contain strobe lights.

March 9
918 Bathurst, doors at 7.30pm, $15/$20

Meara O'Reilly's
Hockets For Two Voices
performed by
Mingjia + Linnea Sablosky
(US)

Mingjia Chen & Linnea Sablosky
(voice)

Perception-bending and intricate acapella vocal music.

Arushi Jain (IN)
modular synths

Lush and driving experimental electronic sounds intersecting with traditional Indian idioms.

Myra Melford's Fire and Water Trio (US)

Myra Melford (piano)
Ingrid Laubrock (saxophones)
Lesley Mok (drums)

A legendary avant-jazz pianist alongside her all-star trio.

tickets

Advance tickets $15
(Sold Out)

TICKETS at the door $20

Limited number of tickets might be available at the door
for March 8 and March 9

depending how many festival pass holders will turn up. We will only know clsoer to the showtime.

festival passes $38
(sold out)

March 7
(sold out)

We are at capacity for our opening night

Thank you All so much
for being part of the festival

💚💚💚

our venue

918 BATHURST
(918 BATHURST ST, TORONTO)

Performers

big Bang 2025

About

THE WOMEN FROM SPACE FESTIVAL’S GOAL IS TO CELEBRATE AND AMPLIFY EXPLORATORY AND EXPERIMENTAL MUSICAL TRADITIONS AND THE ART OF VISIONARY WOMEN DURING INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY WEEKEND IN TORONTO.

WE COMMIT TO BEING A HOME FOR ALL WOMEN ARTISTS AS WELL AS NON-BINARY, GENDERQUEER, GENDERFLUID AND GENDER NON-CONFORMING ARTISTS AND ALL WHO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP TO THE TERM WOMAN.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, FEEL FREE TO CONTACT BEA LABIKOVA at [email protected]

We have a rolling call for applications. If you have an idea/project that you would like to propose let us know. Once you fill it in we will keep the submission in our idea pool for all future editions.

Artist Submission Form