Saturday,
November 1st, 2025
WELCOME TO
TLALLI FESTIVAL 2025
CELEBRATING INDIGENOUS CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS
Tlalli Festival is a celebration of live Indigenous music, dance, and ancient culinary traditions. It’s dedicated to honouring and celebrating the multi-millenary-old connection among Indigenous Peoples across the Americas: from First Nations in Canada, Inca in Perú, Aztec in México, Guaraní in Brazil, Mapuche in Chile, Taino in the Caribbean Islands…to many more and beyond.
Join us in celebrating the rich cultural heritage of Indigenous Peoples across the Americas. Get your tickets today!
Tlalli Festival is created & curated by Quique Escamilla.
* Kids under age 7 y/o: FREE entry.
TLALLI means EARTH in the ancient Nahuatl language of the Mexica (meh-shi-ca) People
This celebration is an opportunity to honour and thank the Earth as the main source of sustenance for both ancient civilizations and modern-day cultures around the planet. People of ALL nations, cultures and ethnicities are welcome to join our one-day gathering and ceremony that will offer us the opportunity to ground and reconnect ourselves with our beloved and true homeland, Tlalli.
Each ticket includes 1x appetizer and 1x non-alcoholic beverage upon arrival.
ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY,
ZERO WASTE
TRADITIONAL FOOD BY INDIGENOUS CHEFS
INDIGENOUS MUSIC, TRADITIONAL DANCE & STORY-TELLING
MENU
Admission ticket includes 1 x complimentary appetizer upon arrival
Appetizers
3:00pm - 7:00pm
Hand-made sopes de pollo en achiote
Mayan recipe, slow cooked chicken
Vegetarian Nopal (cactus) sopes marinated with chipotle and spices
Dinner
Served at 7:00pm - For purchase
MOLE POBLANO
Mixtec Poblano recipe.
Artisanal mole sauce including 20 ingredients (roasted and hand-milled cocoa beans, Mexican dried peppers, almonds, sesame seeds, raising, plantain, etc...served on grass-fed chicken, with rice.
POZOLE ROJO
Mexican recipe.
Artisanally nixtamalized corn, slow-cooked with red chillies and chicken. (vegetarian version available)
Beverages
TASCALATE
Artisanal Zoque drink made of stone ground corn, cocoa, achiote and cinnamon
(Limited servings)
POZOL DE CACAO
Artisanal Mayan drink made of stone ground nixtamalized corn, cocoa and tortilla
(Limited servings)
MEXICAN COFFEE
Organic Oaxacan coffee beans
BEAU'S BREWERY
Lug Tread Lager, Full Time IPA & Fat Tire Classic Ale
RED & WHITE WINE
ARTIST LINEUP 2025
3:00pm - 4:00pm | Doors & Appetizers | Vinyl set by DJ Grouch (Panama/Colombia)
4:00pm - 4:20pm | Opening Ceremony by Darren Mcgregor Nimkii Beniishi (First Nations)
4:20pm - 4:40pm | Woodland Dance by Albert Plant & Mackenize Jacobs (First Nations)
4:40pm - 5:20pm | Rosalba Valdez - Live music (USA/Mexico)
5:20pm - 5:25pm | Dance of Xibalba - Dance
5:25pm - 5:50pm | Josuhé Lozada - Mayan Storytelling / Archeology
5:50pm - 6:00pm | Fandanguito - by Mexican Legacy Dance
6:00pm - 6:20pm | Honoring Dead Heroes and Ancestors by Quique Escamilla
6:20pm - 6:50pm | Quique Escamilla - Live Music (Mexico)
6:50pm - 7:00pm | Food & Guest Chefs Introduction by Curator Quique Escamilla
7:00pm - 7:30pm | Dinner Served / w/DJ Grouch
7:30pm - 8:10pm | Carmen Lienqueo - Live music (Chile)
8:10pm - 8:25pm | Tlakentli Dance by Carlos Rivera (Mexico)
8:25pm - 9:05pm | Raíz Viva - Live Music (Colombia)
9:05pm - 9:20pm | Fancy Dance by Albert Plant & Mackenize Jacobs (First Nations)
9:20pm - 10:00pm | Digging Roots - Live music (First Nations)
10:00pm - 10:10pm | Jarabe tapatio / Nayarit - by Mexican Legacy Dance (Mexico)
10:15pm - 11:00pm | Yasser Tejeda - Live Music - Closing (Dominican Republic)
INTERNATIONAL GUEST CHEFS:
Miguel Bravo (Acatlan, Puebla) & Ulises Perez (Chiapas, Mexico)
CONTACT US / SUBSCRIBE
FESTIVAL ADDRESS
TD MUSIC HALL
(Above Massey Hall)
Entrance: 178 Victoria St, Toronto, ON M5B 1T7
Tlalli Festival acknowledges, honours and celebrates the traditional land and territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and the Mississaugas of the Credit which this event takes place on.
