Editing Oakville, Ontario (section)

===Events===
====Downtown Oakville Jazz Festival====
The [[Downtown Oakville Jazz Festival]] is an annual summer jazz festival established in 1992. The event includes performances at a number of stages along [[Lakeshore Road]] in downtown Oakville. The event is free to the public.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://visitoakville.com/events/downtown-oakville-jazz-festival/|title=Visit Oakville|publisher=City Of Oakville|access-date=Aug 11, 2015}}</ref>

====Waterfront Festival====
Beginning in 1982, Oakville's Coronation Park played host to the annual [[Oakville Waterfront Festival]]. Among a range of events, the festival included small amusement park rides, arts and crafts, food and drinks, free concerts headlined by Canadian bands, and nightly fireworks displays. The Waterfront Festival took place in late June of each year until 2010, when it was cancelled due to financial difficulties,<ref>{{cite web|date=2009-12-03|title=Plug pulled on Oakville Waterfront Festival|url=http://www.insidehalton.com/news/article/437645|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713043514/http://www.insidehalton.com/news/article/437645|archive-date=July 13, 2011|publisher=InsideHalton}}</ref> despite having annual attendance of up to 100,000 visitors. It returned in August 2013,<ref>{{cite web|last=Lea|first=David|title=Oakville's Waterfront Festival returning in August|url=http://www.insidehalton.com/news/article/1589407--oakville-s-waterfront-festival-returning-in-august|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130312080701/http://www.insidehalton.com/news/article/1589407--oakville-s-waterfront-festival-returning-in-august|archive-date=March 12, 2013|access-date=23 April 2013|work=insidehalton.com}}</ref> which was the most recent festival to date.

====Kerrfest====
Kerrfest is an annual outdoor music festival that takes place in early September in Oakville. Having begun in 2014, the event includes free performances and is open to the public, located at Westwood Park.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kerrfest and Kerrfest Kids |url=https://kerrfest.ca/ |access-date=October 23, 2022}}</ref>

====For the Love of the Arts Festival====
The For the Love of the Arts Festival is an annual event taking place in the late spring in Oakville. Inaugurated in 2002, the event is hosted by CommUnity Arts Space (originally known as Music and Art Shared Space who initiated the festival), a local umbrella group advocating for shared physical space for Oakville's arts and cultural groups.<ref>{{cite web|title=In Ontario: Oakville Music And Art Shared Space|url=http://www.inontario.ca/ArtsEntertainment/OakvilleMusicArt/tabid/178/Default.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130913163549/http://www.inontario.ca/ArtsEntertainment/OakvilleMusicArt/tabid/178/Default.aspx|archive-date=September 13, 2013|website=In Ontario}}</ref> Currently the only such multi-disciplinary community festival of its kind in Oakville, the event serves to showcase local talent, skills, crafts, literary art, dance performances, theatre groups and music performances. The event is intended as a symbolic presentation of a "shared space" and is entirely sponsored by local corporate and private donations.<ref>{{cite web|title=For Love Of The Arts Festival|url=https://oakville.snapd.com/event/168969#/|website=Snapd Oakville|access-date=Aug 11, 2015}}</ref>

====Northeast Oakville Fair====
The Northeast Oakville Fair is an annual event that takes place toward the end of spring across from the Iroquois Ridge Community Centre. The fair brings together local businesses, inflatables, food trucks, hot air balloon rides, family activities, and a DJ that's free and open to the public.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fifth Northeast Oakville Fair takes place this weekend |url=https://www.oakvillenews.org/local-news/fifth-northeast-oakville-fair-takes-place-this-weekend-8799467 |website=Oakville News |access-date=18 August 2024}}</ref>