Public Commons

Part of User View: Ward 18 Conservancy

Neighbourhood parks are meant for peaceful reflection, joyful games, and the liveliness of neighbourhood sociability. This last element is officially referred to as “events,” a category ranging from extended-family birthday parties to open-air theatre performances to larger acts (for instance the annual September pow wow at Dufferin Grove Park). The City, in its urgent quest for more revenue, has added permit charges to almost all park activities, including a fee for a new category called “social gatherings.” This bulletin board will chronicle the resistance to charging fees for community events.

List of events

Sunday May 6, 3 pm: Why cheap parks are more fun

Ward18 Dufferin Grove Ongoing Programs 2012

Ward 18 parks events 2012

Dufferin Grove, over the past 5 years

Women of winter – Women’s ice hockey league; annually for 5 years

Bikes on Ice

Syrup in the city – annually for 2 years

Matzah Bake – annually for 13 years

Norwegian Independence day

Clothing Swap

No One is Illegal – Annual event, often held at Dufferin Grove

Pollinator Activities

Garden Workshops – container gardening, prserving

Toronto Animal Services Adopt-a-thon – An animal adoption event

Roller derby car wash – a car wash held annually by a local women’s roller derby league

Bicycle Polo

Shavot bake-off – first wheat harvest baking

Hula Hooping in the park

Yoga in the Park – Free Sunday morning Yoga in the park

Clay and Paper Theatre’s Day of Delight and summer theatre performances

Morris Dancers' Labour Day weekend assembly

Cooking Fire Theatre festival

Annual Native Child and Family "Honouring our children" Pow wow

Wallace Emerson

Right 2 play concerts

Councillor's Day

MacGregor Park

Kristen Fahrig Arts Club

Winter campfire Rice Pounding ceremony (Japanese)

Campbell Park

Community suppers: every Saturday during rink season and during the summer season