Community
Events

Join one of 50+ sites to get your hands dirty restoring local habitat this spring, summer and fall. Each site has its own schedule posted on our website. Sign up with a site to receive updates. No prior experience needed.

Join family-friendly, inclusive, and free arts events in parks across Toronto, all summer long: theatre, music concerts, film screenings, workshops & more!

Contribute to the preservation of Mont Royal’s natural environment by helping control invasive plant species. Most sessions take place on Saturday mornings from May to October, and some are held late Tuesday afternoons during the summer months.

Come garden with us bi-weekly on Wednesdays at the St Norbert Arts Centre from 6-8pm.
Jul 8 – Jul 15 – Jul 29 – Aug 12 – Aug 26 – Sep 9 – Sep 23 – Oct 7
This is a free club for community members of all ages.

Join us for a month of festival events including art, music, nature and workshops. This year’s theme, “Tiny Life”, invites artists and festival-goers to slow down, look closely, and celebrate the small, often overlooked wonders that thrive in Renfrew Ravine and our local greenspaces. See website for specific events!

Tamiko Suzuki, certified Nature Therapy guide, will lead seniors on a 2 hour walk along the nearby Champlain Heights Trails. It will be a restorative morning designed to help you unplug, rediscover the child within you, and reconnect with nature. This is not a traditional hike but a slow meditative walk and personal exploration of the forest around you.

This event is part of our Nature Series for Seniors. Registration form can be found on website.

Le Fungi Fest Mtl est de retour pour sa quatrième édition ! Au programme : une journée entière de divertissements autour des champignons. | Fungi Fest Mtl is back for its fourth edition! Expect a full day of fungi-filled fun.

Join us for a free hour-long workshop on how to compost. We will be distributing free compost bins and worms so you can set up your own composting system in your backyard.

Come help us plant native trees and shrubs to improve the resilience of Mount Royal’s forest ecosystems. No prior knowledge is required to participate in these volunteer activities.

Joignez-vous à nous pour cette dernière activité et célébrons ensemble la nature qui nous entoure ! Pour tout le monde – familles et curieux de nature bienvenus. | Join us for our final event and let’s celebrate the nature around us together! Open to everyone – families and nature lovers welcome.

Visite en franglais avec Coral de la Ruelle Esperanza et du sidewalk Châteaubriand. Collations et tisane offertes après la tournée.

Celebrate the beauty and wisdom of autumn through this calming, nature-inspired creative wellness experience led by Aruna NB Khan. Beginning with a gentle forest immersion, participants will slow down, observe the changing season, and gather fallen botanicals before creating a beautiful Moonlight Moth collage on a cotton paper moth template using dried botanicals and meditative hand stitching.

This event is part of our Nature Series for Seniors. Registration form can be found on website.

Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Art In Motion 10K/5K/2K Charity Run & Family Walk at Boyd Conservation Area in Vaughan. Runners, walkers and families of all ages are welcome to participate.

Planet in Focus is Canada’s largest environmental film festival. The multi-day event features live and virtual screenings of dozens of films from Canada and worldwide, each presenting engaging perspectives about important environmental issues.

Volunteer and help plant hundreds of native flowers, ferns, and berries along the Champlain Heights Trails in South Vancouver. Gloves, tools, and snacks provided! All ages welcome.

Join the volunteers of the Neilson Community Garden for a Harvest Festival! Taste traditional foods prepared from the harvest, visit other eco-groups, trade seeds/perennials with other gardeners, and collect free native trees/shrubs (order by Oct 8).

In this workshop, participants will be introduced to low-tech means of paper making and printmaking. We will learn how to craft sheets of recycled paper using invasive plant species such as Ivy, Reed Canary Grass and Tansy.

This event is part of our Nature Series for Seniors. Registration form can be found on website.