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Please note that event details such as date, time, and location are subject to change, so be sure to verify the most current information on the organizer’s official website or social media channels.
Park City Cleanup Toronto
Sam Smith Park,Toronto
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST May 11, 2025
We are cleaning the entire Toronto shoreline, from Mississauga to Pickering. Weather permitting, we will continue from where we left off the previous week.
Turtle Protectors
Colborne Lodge Museum, High Park,Toronto
1:00 pm – 3:00 am EST May 11, 2025
Join us this Mother’s Day (and bring your mom!) to make a turtle puppet for our 2nd Annual Turtles on the Move Parade (Saturday May 24, 2:00 – 4:00 pm). There will be lots of art supplies on hand, so all you need to bring is your creativity and your love for turtle!
Toronto
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST May 24, 2025
Led by Grandmother Vivian Recollet, it will feature Turtle puppets made by Ange Loft, Shadowland Theatre, Clay and Paper Theatre, Indigenous Drummers and Singers, Maracatu Mar Aberto and volunteers from Turtle protection groups across Ontario.
Free the Fern Stewardship Society
Kinross Creek Co-op Common Room (8001 Curate Wynd), Vancouver,Vancouver
10:00 am – 12:00 pm PST May 31, 2025
Explore the amazing world of native bees! Learn how to identify common pollinators, why they are important, and what you can do to help them thrive. After a short pollinator walk and a delicious honey tasting, we will create mason bee houses!
Cornerstone Parks
Douglas Fir Teaching Garden,Vancouver
10:00 am – 12:00 pm PST Jun 7, 2025
Volunteer and help remove invasive species from along the Champlain Heights Trails in South Vancouver. This is part of our Free the Fern effort to restore our local forest. Gloves, tools, and snacks privided! All ages and abilities welcome!
Ecology Action Centre
Kjipuktuk/Halifax waterfront,Halifax
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm AST Jun 7, 2025
Join us for this year’s People’s Parade for Life on Earth to honour the Water and Mother Earth and to strengthen our collective spirits. Mi’kmaw Elders tell us that now is the time to come together across all our communities in defense of the Ear
Douglas Fir Teaching Garden (east of 3530 Swansacre), Vancouver,Vancouver
10:00 am – 12:00 pm PST Jun 28, 2025
Join us for Eco-Art Festival! Join 7 local artists, who use plants and upcycled material, to create art together! Art includes weaving, paper making, and dying. Enjoy complimentary bannock & a performance by the Coastal Wolf Pack.
Kaeja d’Dance
Porch View Dances Lane & London St.,Toronto
7:00 pm EST, Jul 17, 2025 to
2:00 pm EST, Jul 20, 2025
Fun for the whole family! Our annual Porch View Dances (PVD) celebrates the stories of our local neighbourhood by taking dance out of the theatre and into our daily lives. A pay what you want event.
Arts In the Parks