{"id":70944,"date":"2021-04-27T15:10:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T19:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=70944"},"modified":"2021-04-27T15:10:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T19:10:35","slug":"scoop-luminato-festival-toronto-postpones-fall-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2021\/04\/27\/scoop-luminato-festival-toronto-postpones-fall-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Luminato Festival Toronto Postpones To Fall 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70945\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Luminato-2021.jpg\" alt=\"Luminato-2021\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the COVID-19 transmission rates on the rise in Ontario, the summer arts festival season is looking more and more at risk.<\/p>\n<p>While many summer festivals in Ontario have yet to confirm events this summer, Luminato has officially decided against it.<\/p>\n<p>Luminato Festival Toronto has confirmed today that they are rescheduling the planned 2021 summer festival to October. This is the first time in their 15-year history they have postponed the festival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe latest restrictions are a new challenge that require us to move the Festival forward to the Fall season to ensure that we can safely deliver a powerful program which shares the artists\u2019 collective vision and offers hope and inspiration,\u201d says Luminato Festival Toronto CEO Celia Smith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoving the Festival forward to October puts the health and safety of artists, production teams, and creators first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luminato Festival is working closely with the city of Toronto. They have engaged the services of a health and safety specialist to ensure all of the artists and staff can work in a safe environment.<\/p>\n<p>The Festival initially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2020\/05\/15\/scoop-luminato-take-festival-online-june\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cancelled<\/a> the 2020 season, before later announcing they would take the festival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2020\/03\/27\/scoop-luminato-festival-2020-cancelled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">entirely online<\/a> in June 2020.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>By the numbers<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Last summer\u2019s move to go online was a significant blow to the festival\u2019s typically strong audience metrics. Luminato\u2019s revenue declined from <strong>$6.7M<\/strong> in 2019 to <strong>$3.8 M<\/strong> in 2020. The majority of that was government funding, which kept them from sliding into the red.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Attendance: 291,758<\/li>\n<li>Tickets: $730,000<\/li>\n<li>Artists: 659<\/li>\n<li>Performances: 191<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Attendance: 17,700<\/li>\n<li>Tickets: $8,805<\/li>\n<li>Artists: 12<\/li>\n<li>Performances: 30<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>#LUDWIGVAN<\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily\u00a0\u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/bowtie.mailbutler.io\/tracking\/hit\/583e6ce0-dfd0-48be-8a33-61256b3c58e3\/a01723d1-1d1d-44ee-9d0c-779ed93a798c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><i>HERE<\/i><\/span><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luminato Festival Toronto has confirmed today that they are rescheduling the planned 2021 summer festival to October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":70945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38476,35839,39,59,63],"tags":[39651,35697,2032],"yst_prominent_words":[16236,26350,7765,10459,10683,22216,19492,20632,8453,8503,7060,37359,7552,7416,8301,6741],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Luminato-2021.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-isg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70946,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70944\/revisions\/70946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70944"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=70944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}