In the Soil Arts Festival 2025

In June we dug deep into the artistic process for Part One of In the Soil Arts Festival 2025. This September 12-13, we return to showcase what’s grown at Part Two: Harvesting the Soil. See bold ideas, raw experimentation, and local storytelling come to life in downtown St. Catharines.

In the Soil Arts Festival brings Niagara and visiting artists together, from a range of disciplines, to provide unique audience experiences. The festival nurtures the creation of new work, encourages innovation and offers intimate and uncommon platforms for artists to take risks, share thought provoking experiences, stories,workshops, installations and more.

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There are a variety of ways to experience Part Two: Harvesting the Soil on September 12 & 13th! All events taking place at one of two downtown St. Catharines venues: The Robby, (85 Church Street, behind Bridges Niagara - formerly Niagara Folk Arts Multicultural Centre) and Marilyn I Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Studio C, (15 Artists' Common).

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About the Festival

In the Soil Arts Festival brings Niagara and visiting artists together, from a range of disciplines, to provide unique audience experiences. The festival nurtures the creation of new work, showcases talent, encourages innovation, offers learning opportunities for youth and provides intimate and uncommon platforms for audiences to experience work by contemporary performing and literary artists, musicians and media artists.

In the Soil is Niagara’s homegrown arts festival and is working to make a Niagara that is self-determining and culturally distinct.

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