Tamil Fest

Event Details

This event finished on 25 August 2019

Tamil Fest 2019 is the largest Tamil street festival of its kind outside of the Indian subcontinent. Last year crowds exceeded 200,000 people including Toronto’s Mayor John Tory and Jaffna’s Mayor Emmanuel Arnold over two days marking Tamil Fest in its fourth year as Scarborough’s largest street festival. This two-day festival is expected to draw thousands of people from across North America and is a unique platform to showcase and exhibit traditional and modern Tamil culture, cuisine, arts and entertainment.

Markham Road (Between McNicoll Avenue & Passmore Avenue)

Some of the highlights of this two-day festival:

• World class Canadian and Tamil entertainment

• A variety of traditional Tamil cuisine

• Tamil Exhibits

• Interactive educational youth and children’s exhibitions and midway rides

• Traditional Tamil street performances