CORKTOWN

Category: Events

  • Samhain mask workshop, October 2024

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    We led an inaugural mask making workshop in collaboration with Corktown’s own The Lost and Found Gallery to celebrate Samhain, a traditionally Celtic festival marking the end of the harvest season. Celts historically wore masks on Samhain as a means of protection, like today’s Halloween tradition of costumes. Participants attending on the day consequently created…

  • Pumpkin parade, November 2024

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    We organized the inaugural Corktown pumpkin parade, where local families brought their pumpkin carving creations to cast a warm glow over Corktown’s Sackville Playground, as part of the City of Toronto’s most popular community engagement programs. Special recognition for all the creativity exhibited by our young Corktown carvers!

  • ‘The Light in the North’ mural installation, December 2024

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    We installed a new mural on external building wall just west of Corktown’s Sackville Playground through the generous support of the City of Toronto’s Outdoor Mural & Street Art Program and collaboration of Corktown business Green Roofs for Health Cities, designed to promote a local theme and facilitate commercial or industrial neighbourhood identity. Entitled ‘The…

  • Corktown community clean up, April 2024

    Corktown community clean up, April 2024

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    We provided Corktown residents with free or borrowed supplies (gloves, hand sanitizer, bags, etc.) to clean Corktown together as part of the City of Toronto’s annual Clean Toronto Together initiative, held annually on Earth Day weekend. This was the second annual Corktown community clean up, initially undertaken through the kind support of the Downtown East…

  • Historic street name unveilings, February 2024

    Historic street name unveilings, February 2024

    Coralina Lemos, Corktown Historian, along with heritage advocates Adam Wynne and Pancheta Barnett joined forces to commemorate two new street signs honouring Corktown’s Black and Indigenous history and persons of historical significance.   Event attendees included MPP Kristyn Wong-Tam (Toronto Centre), City of Toronto Counsellor Chris Moise (Toronto Centre—Ward 13) and area residents. The two…

  • Corktown 2021 AGM – March 2nd

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    It’s our first event of 2021 – and our Annual General Meeting! We’ll provide you with updates from our last year of work. From the Foundry to Small Business Advocacy, the last year has flown by but our team has been active in the background – and sometimes foreground – to advocate for our Residential…