# @toronto_archives on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DL7Zz2htYnk
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/33999345-toronto-archives-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-07-10T13:01:03.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** City of Toronto Archives (@toronto_archives) — https://gondola.cc/toronto_archives

## Caption

Summer is the time for street festivals! Today we look back on the Celebrate Toronto Festival, which took over five intersections of Yonge Street and turned them into open air performance spaces for the weekend of July 4 to 6, 2003. City photographer Jose San Juan was there to capture these fantastic images.

1. A fire performance at Yonge and Eglinton. Series 2311, File 3263, Item 885.

2. An acrobatic performance at Yonge and Eglinton. Series 2311, File 3263, Item 1184.

3. A martial arts performance at Yonge and Eglinton. Series 2311, File 3263, Item 832.

4. A Flamenco dancer at the festival's VIP reception at the Summit House Grill, 40 Eglinton Avenue East. Series 2311, File 3263, Item 25.

5. A dance performance on the Street Moves stage south of Bloor Street. Series 2311, File 3263, Item 150.

6. A pavilion where you could create mandalas. Yonge Street south of Bloor. Series 2311, File 3263, Item 195.

7. The Saigon Water Puppet Theatre on Yonge Street south of Bloor. Series 2311, File 3263, Item 343.

8. Acrobat, Yonge Street at Eglinton. Series 2311, File 3263, Item 862. 

9. A performer dressed as a knight takes a break near Yonge and St. Clair. Series 2311, File 3263, Item 1312.

10. The smallest performer. Series 2311, File 3263, Item 67.

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