The Toronto Biennial of Art 2026 will close its central exhibition, 'Things Fall Apart', with a three-day convening of gatherings, meals, performances and conversations from 16 to 18 October. Titled 'An Arrival, A Grounding, A Departure', the major public programme of this year's biennial was organised with exhibiting artists and invited co-curators around six new commissions, and is free with registration. The first day, 'An Arrival By Water', begins on Friday 16 October at the Native Canadian Centre, centring Indigenous perspectives and practices through food, music and conversation, including a drum social and a discussion with biennial artists Bonnie Devine, Taqralik Partridge and Rebecca Belmore. On Saturday 17 October, 'A Grounding' takes over the Scarborough Gurdwara, where Nirbhai (nep) Singh Sidhu's new permanent public sculpture and garden, 'A Deathless Potential In Remembrance By You', becomes the setting for an artist talk, Simran, music and shared food in the Langar Hall. The convening closes on Sunday 18 October with 'A Departure', a day of growing, harvesting, tasting and collective gathering that begins at the Toronto Black Farmers and Food Growers Collective farm at Downsview Park and returns to the Art Museum at the University of Toronto for closing remarks. Its centrepiece is 'Carnet de Retour/Notebook of Return', a new collaborative commission by Céline Semaan and Jean-Marc Bullet that treats the garden as archive and the seed as knowledge. The programme embodies curator Allison Glenn's framing of the biennial as a constellation of site-specific interventions across Toronto and the Great Lakes region. With the exhibition itself running through 20 December, the convening is the biennial's largest collective moment — and a rare chance to encounter its commissions through the voices of the people who made them.