Events We’ve Worked on in Toronto & Ontario

Corporate events and product launches

Brand Launches and Corporate Events Gallery Launches are unforgiving. The room is usually not a venue, the schedule is built around a single reveal, and there is no second take.

• Stellantis — Pacifica launch 2026, and the R&D 30th anniversary 2026
• NextStar Energy — Windsor press conference 2026
• Heffner Toyota — 2010, 2012, 2016 to 2019, spring shows 2023 and 2024
• CAMI Automotive — Equinox 2004, Torrent 2005, XL7 2006, and again in 2009
• Diamond Aircraft — D-Jet launch 2006, Palm Springs 2006, Atlanta 2007, and 2016
• Google — 2011, 2012, and 2022 to 2025
• BlackBerry / RIM — 2004, 2005, 2006
• Coldwell Banker — Toronto 2006 and 2007, Vancouver 2007 and 2008
• Home Hardware — 2013, 2016 to 2020, and 2022 to 2025
• Cadillac Fairview — Fairview Park, Sherway Gardens, Markville and Limeridge Hamilton, 2019 to 2025
• Travelers Insurance — 2019, 2024, 2025
• BDC — 2019, 2023, 2024, 2025
• Eclipse Automation — 2018, 2021, a cocktail reception at Tapestry Hall 2022, and a town hall 2023
• Challenger Motor Freight — 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024
• Golden Ventures — 2025, 2026
• Com Dev — 2006 to 2009, 2014, 2015
• Melloul-Blamey Construction — 2008, and the AGM in 2025 and 2026
• Kuntz — 2003, 2008, 70th anniversary 2018, and 2021
• Bacardi — B-Live 2006, Brahma 2007
• Virgin — V-Fest 2007 to 2009, Vancouver 2007, Calgary 2008
• Conestoga Mall, grand opening — 2009 and 2019
• Gaslight District — condo launch 2019, Christmas Market 2023, New Year’s Eve 2023
• Tapestry Hall — 2019, and its grand opening 2023
• Ontario Lottery and Gaming — the Lotto 6/49 20th anniversary in 2002, Instant Millions, and the Trillium Foundation
• Deloitte — 2026
• Definity — 2023
• Eckler — the AGM at Langdon Hall, 2024
• Rogers — Monday Night Hockey, 2023
• Killam REIT — Waterloo, 2025
• Globus Family of Brands — 2024
• Arcadian Projects — the Baden solar event and an event in New Hamburg, 2026

Conferences, conventions and AGMs

• IBAO Convention — annually from 2010 to 2023, including Niagara Falls 2018, with webcasting from 2016
• Experior Financial — 2020, 2023, 2024, Dallas 2025, and the XFactor Conference in Orlando 2026
• Clio — 2015
• CanSPEP, the Canadian Society of Professional Event Planners — 2021
• Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan — 2019
• Explore Waterloo — AGMs 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026
• CAMGA — AGM and speaker summit 2026
• TEDx Kitchener — 2020
• CLAY Conference — 2023
• Responsible Gambling Council, the Discovery Conference — annually from 2014 to 2020, in Toronto
• Canadian Baking & Sweet Show — 2012 to 2015, 2017
• All Ontario Youth Convention — Lazaridis Hall, 2023
• Chicken Farmers of Ontario — 2025, 2026
• A national funeral planners’ conference — 2025, 2026
• ETH Global, the hackathon at Laurier — 2023
• Guelph Women in Leadership — 2024
• Canada Light Expo — 2025

The event companies who bring us in

Some of our longest relationships are with event companies and agencies. They are our clients; the brands below are theirs. We are named here as the production partner, which is the accurate way round and, we think, the more useful one — a planner who has used us twenty times is a better reference than a logo.

The Event Firm — 2016 to 2023, thirty-four events

• Toyota — 2018, 2019
• Lexus — NX launch 2022
• Gaslight Events — Christmas Market, New Year’s Eve and the Courtyard grand opening, all 2023
• United Way — 2023

MCI — 2023 to 2026

• Hyundai Canada — 2024, and the Hyundai Crater event 2026
• Compass Group — 2025
• MAC at the Omni King Edward — 2023, 2024, 2025

Fusion Events — 2014 to 2023

• Fidelity Investments — 2018, 2019, 2022
• TD Bank — 2023
• The Ritz-Carlton — 2017

4XM — 2019

• Samsung — May 2019
• SickKids — June 2019, two events

Edgehill Design — 2023 to 2025

• Google — 2023, 2024, 2025

21 Tours — 2024, 2025

• Genesis — 2024

XL Lifestyle — 2017 to 2026

• Taco Fest Toronto — 2024, 2026
• Taco Fest Port Credit — 2026
• Brunchfest — 2024
• Taco Fest and Pizza Fest — 2017 to 2022

Uma Nota — 2023, 2025, 2026

• Do West Fest — 2023 and 2026, and with the Portugal BIA in 2025
• MixTO — 2023

Impact Events Group — 2025

• Kitchener Ribfest — 2025

Max Events — 2025

• A conference at York University — 2025

Galas, fundraisers and awards

Galas, Fundraisers & Awards Gallery A fundraising night is judged on whether the room felt worth the ticket price. Sound that carries to the back table, light that flatters a stage nobody built for lighting, and a video package that plays without a stumble while eight hundred people are watching.

• South Huron Hospital Foundation Gala — 2018, 2019, and every year from 2022 to 2026
• Greater Kitchener Waterloo Chamber of Commerce — The Business Excellence Gala, 2003 to 2010
• Waterloo Region Home Builders’ Association — galas from 2005, the SAM Awards 2018 to 2021, and industry luncheons 2017 to 2024
• Guelph & District Home Builders — 2010, 2018, 2019, gala 2020
• St. Mary’s Hospital — 100th Anniversary Gala, and again in 2024
• Cambridge Memorial Hospital — 2020, and ribbon-cutting events 2024 and 2025
• Joseph Brant Hospital — 2003 to 2007, Crystal Ball 2006 and 2010
• Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, Awards Gala — 2026
• Carpenter Hospice — 2004, and its fashion show 2005 and 2006
• Canadian Cancer Society, CIBC Run for the Cure — 2018, 2019, 2022 to 2025
• Kidney Foundation — 2010, Men in Fashion 2017 and 2019, fashion show 2022, Sarnia 2018
• Virgin Unite — Midnight Magic 2007, Madhatter’s Ball 2008
• WWF Pandamonium — 2008, 2016
• World Vision — 30 Hour Famine 2005, and 2018
• Children’s Aid Teddy Bear Gala — 2009
• Alzheimer Society — Paris Getaway 2005, Peel 2009
• Brampton Mayor’s Gala — 2007, 2009
• Burlington Mayor’s Gala — 2003 to 2005, 2007, 2008
• Badminton & Racquet Club, Pro-Am fundraiser — 2025
• VON Oxford, the Oxford Auditorium — 2024
• Rego Realty, 20th anniversary — 2023
• Mirror Awards — 2009, 2010, 2014, 2015

Fashion

Fashion and Runway Events Gallery Runway is its own discipline. The lighting has to serve the garments, the audio has to hold a beat through a room with no acoustic treatment, and the whole thing is timed to the walk rather than to a script.

• Fashion for Life — 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019
• Fashion on Yonge — 2017, 2018
• Fashion Focus — 2002 to 2008, including Calgary, Saskatoon and Vancouver
• Men in Fashion — 2017, 2019
• Student fashion shows — 2022, 2023
• Miss Oktoberfest — 2006 to 2010
• University of Guelph Muslim Students’ Association fashion show — 2025

Concerts, festivals and outdoor events

Concerts & Festivals Gallery Outdoors, the job is weather, power and distance. Everything else follows from those three.

• Mariposa Folk Festival — annually since 2009, and before that from 2002
• Uptown Waterloo Jazz Festival — 2019, and 2022 to 2026
• Southside Shuffle Blues Festival — 2023, 2024, 2025
• Tecumseh Corn Festival — 2006, 2008 to 2011, and 2017 to 2019
• Cambridge Fall Fair — 2017 to 2019, and 2021
• Ride for Sight — 2004, 2005, 2007 to 2009
• B-Live — Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City and Winnipeg, 2007
• V-Fest — Toronto 2007 and 2009, Halifax 2009
• Yorkfest — 2022, 2024, 2025, 2026
• Paint the Town Red — 2018, 2019, and 2021 to 2025
• Beer, Bourbon & BBQ — 2017 to 2019
• International Punjabi Sports Club — 2025
• Port Credit BIA, Canada Day — 2018 and 2026
• Do West Fest, Toronto — 2023, 2025, 2026

Theatre

Theatre Gallery Full productions, most with a live orchestra, a flown lighting rig and a radio mic on every principal. This is the work that taught us cue-to-cue discipline, and it is the reason a corporate general session holds no terror for our operators.

• The Community Players of New Hamburg — thirty productions since 2004, including Cats, Fiddler on the Roof, Ragtime, Mary Poppins, Oliver!, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Murder on the Orient Express, Matilda, A Christmas Carol and Into the Woods. Closed 2020 and 2021.

School and community theatre

• Show to Go school musicals — 2022 to 2026: Mary Poppins, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Frozen, Matilda, Shrek, Newsies Junior and Singin’ in the Rain
• Performed at St. Bernadette, St. Clare, St. Dominic, St. John Paul II, St. Mary, St. Francis, St. Patrick, St. Mark Burlington, Walden, and in Sarnia and Oakville
• Breslau Mennonite Church, Godspell — 2024
• Rockway Mennonite — 2021, 2024, 2026

Universities, colleges and schools

Graduations Gallery Convocations and orientation weeks are large, repetitive and completely unforgiving of a missed cue, because the audience is families who have waited four years for thirty seconds.

• University of Guelph — more than a hundred events since 2008: spring, summer and fall convocations, O-Week on Johnston Green, homecoming half-time shows, the Hall of Fame Gala, She Got Game, the Alumni Awards of Excellence, donor appreciation, the Presidential Installation, the Royal Winter Fair, the OAC 150th anniversary, the Athletics luncheon, the Arboretum livestream, a professional development day and the March open house
• Wilfrid Laurier University — Waterloo and Brantford convocations 2018 to 2023, the Lazaridis Students’ Society Gala, and press events
• University of Guelph-Humber — convocation from 2004, and 2011, 2014 to 2023
• York University — 2009, 2010, 2014, and Frosh, Culturefest and Multicultural through 2024
• University of Waterloo — 2016 to 2023, including Hack the North, Waterloo Day, open houses and the Aviation Gala
• University of Toronto — 2014 to 2017, including the Dentistry Gala
• Branksome Hall — 2023
• Cameron Heights Collegiate — commencements 2010 to 2022
• Huron Heights Secondary School — 2017 to 2023

Sport and arena

Arena Shows Gallery Arena sound is the hardest room there is. Hard surfaces everywhere, reverberation that runs for seconds, and an audience spread across two hundred feet.

• Canadian Curling Association — the Brier 2007, 2011 and Saskatoon 2012; the Scotties Tournament of Hearts 2006, Red Deer 2012 and 2013; the Ford World Curling Championships in Lethbridge 2012; the Canada Cup in Cranbrook 2012; and the Continental Cup in Langley 2012
• Skate Canada — 2009, and the ISU event 2002 and 2015
• Kitchener-Waterloo Skating Club — 2014 to 2025
• Silver Blades Skating Club — 2024, showcase 2026
• Tennis Canada — at the Rexall Centre, now Sobeys Stadium, 2009, 2015, 2018, and a three-day concert in 2025
• Memorial Cup — 2008
• Special Olympics Ontario — 2025, 2026, a memorial event 2026, and North Bay in January 2027
• Brock University — 2023, 2026, and the Harmony annual conference 2027
• Canadian Pickleball League — the Guelph tournament and the Sleeman Centre, 2023
• Cambridge Figure Skating — 2026
• Empire Golf Classic, Rattlesnake Point — 2026

Virtual and hybrid

When the rooms closed in 2020, the work did not stop. It moved.

• uRequest Live — 2019, 2020
• IBAO Town Hall and AGM — 2020, with webcasting from 2016
• Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, AGM and town halls — 2019
• CKCO TV — Around the World 2003, and 2005

Faith-based conferences and conventions

Faith-based events gallery Multi-day builds for congregations that fill arenas and convention halls, not Sunday services. The conferences are named here; the congregation is named where it is the client.

• Reviving the Islamic Spirit — 2019 and 2022, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre
• The RCCG Convention — 2022, 2026
• Balanced Living, House of Praise — 2025, 2026
• Open Heavens, House of Praise — 2025
• The Women’s Conference and the Men’s Conference, House of Praise — 2025
• Efizzy Night, House of Praise — 2025
• Summer camp builds, House of Praise — 2025, 2026

Civic and ceremonial

Ceremonies have no second take and no tolerance for a missed cue, and the audience is usually families.

• York Regional Police — 2022, 2023, 2025
• Ontario Police Memorial — 2022