TCAF's Libraries and Education Day is returning to the 2025 festival!
Join us Friday, June 6
Check back soon for programming announcements!
We are very excited to announce the return of TCAF Libraries & Education Day (LED) June 6, 2025!
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TCAF LED is a FREE to attend, all day slate of programming open to library workers, students, educators, comic scholars, creators and anyone who wants to talk and learn more about comics, graphic novels, and education.
A mainstay of TCAF for many years, Libraries & Education Day 2025 will bring together broad public and academic audiences - creating a K-16 meets GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) comics conference. A key focus of LED this year will be graphic medicine, and comics as cultural heritage alongside panels focusing on graphic novel collection development, curation, readers advisory, and advocacy. Comics are such an interdisciplinary format that we are excited for the potential conversations across disciplines and professional circles uniting higher ed, K-12, public libraries, and GLAM communities.​
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Considered to be amongst the premier comic arts festivals in the world, TCAF is an annual two day festival in downtown Toronto. Held since 2003, TCAF is unique for its scale and scope welcoming 28,000+ local and international visitors and over 315+ artists, and its continued focus on independent arts culture and accessibility remaining a free public and non-commercial arts and cultural festival.
TCAF 2025 will be held from June 7-8, 2025 at our new location Toronto Metropolitan University's Mattamy Athletic Centre, with additional programming in the surrounding neighbourhood. Libraries and Education Day is scheduled for Friday June 6.
TCAF guests & programming will be announced in March 2025.
About TCAF
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Never visited TCAF before and wondering what it's like? Please visit one of our favourite videos from TCAF 2018 (video courtesy of Innerspace, 2018).
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TCAF Executive Director (and former librarian) Amie Wright, wrote, "Comics, Education, and Libraries Exploring the Northern Frontier at Toronto Comic Arts Festival," for American Libraries after her first TCAF in May 2017 on the value of attending TCAF Libraries & Education Day for professional development.