Plan your Park(ing) Day
Map out sites of most interest or those closest to you and pay a visit! We’re adding more activation sites each day so check back soon!
Park(ing) Day Toronto thanks its generous partner organizations for supporting the 2025 Park(ing) Day Grant Program.
Park(ing) Day Toronto 2025 Activation Locations
TORONTO
THIS STREET IS YOURS!
George Brown Campus, 200 King St. East
Friday, September 19, 11AM - 2PM
SVN Architects + Planners
SvN Architects + Planners is supporting The Old Town Toronto BIA for Park(ing) Day at George Brown College on Friday, September 19 from 11 AM–2 PM! Join us in front of the GBC Library at 200 King Street East (at George St.) for an interactive community engagement session — with our community, about our community — to explore what a campus street can be. We’ll be taking over the street to spark conversations about public space, design, and the future of Toronto’s streets. Bring your ideas, your curiosity, and your appetite — because yes, there’ll be pizza!
PARK(ING) ON PURST
60 Purst Avenue, Toronto
Sunday, September 21
See the transformation of the parking spot in front of 60 Prust Ave into a neighborhood gathering spot. We'll have tea and snacks and will be hosting a kids craft table, an open mic event (without a mic lol), and free tarot readings.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE VILLAGE
499 Church Street, Toronto
Saturday, September 20 - Sunday, September 21
Queer Arrival
"Once Upon a Time in the Village" is a public art installation and storytelling event for Park(ing) Day Toronto. It transforms a parking spot in the heart of the Church-Wellesley Village, outside the former Glad Day Bookshop, into an open-air library and gathering space where memory and imagination collide.
The installation features pink furniture, including book shelves, benches, and tables, forming a whimsical backdrop amidst the busy traffic on Church St. When visitors approach the shelves, they would discover the books are all blank! The empty covers invite passersby to invent their own stories: writing down the title of their memoir, a summary of an alter ego, or a fictional tale. Visitors can decorate and personalize these books to reflect their journeys. When finished, they may take the books home, leave them on the shelves for others to borrow, or sit nearby to browse through others’ stories.
This project is further activated by storytelling sessions. Throughout the weekend, the public can hop in a series of scheduled talks led by community leaders, learning about the life and lived experiences of individuals and institutions of the neighbourhood. Potential speakers include local historians, community activists, the staff from the ArQuives and Glad Day. These talks and the colourful books in the background, make the parking spot a living archive of stories of the past, present, and future.
TINY HOUS(ING)
142 Westmount Avenue, Toronto
Saturday September 20th, 10am - 3pm
DUBBELDAM Architecture + Design
Come visit the tiny house constructed in one day to fit a street parking spot in front of Dubbeldam’s offices. Join in for our 3rd annual HIT fitness class in the transformed park(ing) spaces at 12:30pm hosted by local circuit training gym @Andwellfitness. Interactive workshop where participants can share what they would do with a parking space if not used for a car. Activities for kids. Take a break and enjoy fresh coffee and treats at Lion Coffee.
FROM PARKING TO POLLINATORS!
275 Spadina Road, Toronto
Saturday, September 20, 10am – 5pm
Gow Hastings Architects
Join us as we transform a curbside spot into a vibrant mini-habitat featuring native plants, pollinator education, and a place to sit and connect.
With a commitment to leaving no waste behind, the pop-up parklet repurposes pallets to create inviting seating and a sense of place. Discover how urban spaces can support biodiversity, spark conversations, and foster a stronger sense of community. In partnership with Gleam+Sip, we're turning pavement into possibility.
Whether local, tourist, or just curious, swing by to relax, learn, and meet a neighbour. Let's reimagine what our cities can be- welcoming, wild, and wonderfully alive.
TMU DAS ACTIVATION
55 Gould Street, Parking Spot
Friday, September 19 - Sunday, September 21
Toronto Metropolitan University Department of Architectural Science (DAS)
In this project, we used materials from previous design-build projects completed by TMU DAS undergraduate students. Walking through TMU’s downtown campus, students are fixed on their destinations, rarely finding a moment to pause. We wanted to provide a space where students can slow down and enjoy being surrounded by the city.
A collection of red pipes acts as a spatial threshold rather than a “wall” separating the project from the street. Organized in an organic mountainous shape, the interior is visible from outside but also protected by a dense cloud of floating connecting pieces. The thin connectors stabilize the structure but seem to disappear and reappear as people walk past them. Enlarged connecting pieces form a collection of individual seats that appear to emerge from the wall. Visitors can sit and relax in groups or on their own.
At night, the installation lights up, signaling a space where people can sit and slow down to take a picture or relax with their friends. The installation is never closed, just like the city.
ARUP TORONTO
130 Cumberland Ave, Toronto (curb lane)
Saturday September 20th 10am - 4pm
Stay tuned for more information!
LEMONADE LANE
2472 Kingston Rd, Toronto (laneway off street)
Friday, September 19th
“Lemonade Lane” is a simple activation of a private laneway off Kingston Road that invites passers-by in the neighbourhood to share their thoughts on their community, see what others have said, take a seat, and enjoy some free lemonade and snacks. The goal is to create an unexpected space for fun and friendliness along Kingston Road, and have passersby recognize how even a small laneway typically only seen as a functional connection point, can be easily transformed into a space for rest, fun, and socializing.
MISSISSAUGA
Apple Cider Workshop
355 Princess Royal Drive, Mississauga
Visit @globalsustainablefoods for updates
Global Sustainable Foods
For Park(ing) Day 2025, GSF is hosting a workshop where participants learn how to make their own apple cider vinegar and apple scented potpourri. The goal is to teach participants easy ways they can incorporate sustainable practices in their day to day life. We will leverage our connections with local farmers and community organizations to source necessary materials, promoting GSF’s mission of advancing food security and sustainability.
OUR SPACE
4665 Central Parkway East, Mississauga
Our Space is a new community-driven initiative focused on reimagining underutilized suburban parks to foster connection, inclusion, and a stronger sense of belonging. We are responding to the growing social isolation in suburban neighborhoods, often worsened by car-centric design and limited walkable public space, by creating places where people of all ages, from seniors to teenagers, can walk to, gather, and coexist.
Our Space activation will provide pre-fab CNC cut furniture components for participants to assemble and paint to make their own unique street furniture that can be disassembled and reassembled for future activations.