Freedom
Takes the Stage
August 1
August 1, 2025 · 12–4 pm EST
Main Stage, The Distillery Historic District (Toronto)
Join us for an afternoon of art, music, dance, a live DJ, & vibrant community spirit.
Featuring the Rosemary Sadlier Award—honouring visionary leaders shaping our future.
Come celebrate with us!
Free admission
All are welcome
Family friendly
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FreeUp! 2025 – Jokes, Jokes, Jokes
Eight sets from some of the country’s sharpest comics, spotlighting Emancipation Day with humour and heart. Because let’s be real… laughter might just be the most radical thing we’ve got right now.
FreeUp! Emancipation Day 2025 – Jokes, Jokes, Jokes is a fresh take on marking Emancipation Day in Canada—an eight-episode comedy series for CBC Gem that centres truth, joy, and resistance. Each digital short features one of Canada’s sharpest comics, including Chris Robinson, Lisa Berry, Daniel Woodrow, Ngozi Paul, Keesha Brownie, Alan Shane Lewis, Hoodo Hersi, and Tamara Shevon taking the mic to share stories, observations, and moments only they could deliver.
This is freedom experienced live and unfiltered through humour, honesty and the immediacy of stand-up comedy. From family dynamics and historical absurdities to everyday truths, FreeUp! Emancipation Day 2025 is an open invitation to laugh, think, and genuinely connect.
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