Plan your Park(ing) Day
Map out the activations of most interest or those closest to you and pay a visit! We’re adding more activation sites each day so check back soon! Scroll down for our interactive map.
Park(ing) Day Toronto thanks its generous partner organizations for supporting the 2026 Park(ing) Day Grant Program.
September 18–20, 2026
Park(ing) Day Toronto 2026 Activation Locations
1. Open-Air Gallery – by Gleam Makers Collective @gleamnsip
Saturday & Sunday, September 19–20, 2026.
Location: 215 Madison Ave (rear lane off Dupont St.)
Gleam Makers Collective transforms a gravel parking lot into a free open-air gallery and community rest space. Featuring artwork by emerging local makers, second-hand fabric canopies, reclaimed-pallet seating, borrowed plants and repurposed materials, the activation creates a welcoming place to pause, encounter art and connect with the neighbourhood. Complimentary matcha for every visitor!
2. Meet Me at the Steps – by Queer Arrival @queer.arrival
Saturday September 19, 10am-10pm (Rain Date: Sunday, September 20, 10 am–10 pm)
Location: 546 Church St, Toronto
Meet Me at the Steps recreates a lost gathering place from Toronto’s queer history within a street parking space in the Church-Wellesley Village. Inspired by the Steps that once served as an informal meeting place for the queer community, the installation invites visitors to explore archival material, sit together and share their own thoughts, stories and “tea” on the recreated steps.
3. Community Living Room – by Toronto Public Space Committee @toronto_public_space
Saturday September 19, 11 am–3 pm
Location: 286 Harbord St, Toronto
The Toronto Public Space Committee creates a temporary community living room on Harbord Street, with shade, seating, plants, flowers and a communal table. Visitors are invited to linger, draw and map their favourite public spaces, browse books about Toronto and urban planning, and share their ideas about street furniture, public washrooms and what makes a great public space.
4. Flotsam – by TMU Architecture Students @dastorontomet
Friday-Sunday, September 18-20
Location: 55 Gould Street, Toronto Metropolitan University
Flotsam transforms a parking space into an unconventional setting for play, gathering and unexpected encounters. Constructed largely from discarded and overlooked materials from previous design-build projects, the installation reassembles these fragments into an interactive spatial landscape that embraces imperfection, curiosity and continual transformation.
5. Staging Pedagogy – TMU Architecture Students @dastorontomet
Friday-Sunday, September 18-20
Location: 55 Gould Street, Toronto Metropolitan University
Staging Pedagogy transforms a parking space into a playful public forum for reimagining the spaces where learning happens. A stage with movable tables and stools supports conversations, performances, debate and creative projects, inviting students and passersby to explore how spatial and legal frameworks shape our educational environments.
6. Free Poetry Desk – by Department of Neighbouring @departmentofneighbouring
Location: 170 Memorial Park Ave, North York (near S. Walter Stewart Library)
The Free Poetry Desk transforms an on-street parking space into a tiny public writing room, complete with a manual typewriter, table and two chairs. Passersby can write a poem, a few lines or a thought—or ask the Street Poetry Division to write one for them—while contributing to a growing street anthology of words created by neighbours and visitors.
7. Stack Together – by Louise Wong
Saturday, September 19 | 10 am – 5 pm
Location: 7 Northtown Way, North York
Stack Together transforms an on-street parking space into a colourful place to sit, pause and gather. Using discarded plastic bottles, cans, recycled cardboard, balloons and other reused materials, the installation creates a playful temporary urban garden along the street.
8. Love Letters to Toronto – by Xinqi Wang
Sunday, September 20 | 10:30 am– 5 pm
Location: 2384 Yonge St, Toronto (in front of Montgomery Square Park)
Love Letters to Toronto transforms two on-street parking spaces into an interactive space for gathering, reflection and expression. Inspired by the site's history as a former postal station, visitors are invited to write messages, wishes, memories and drawings to Toronto and their neighbourhood, creating a growing public collection displayed on two wishing trees.
9. Meter Rex: Extinct Species Only – by Nanyan Wu @alexto.ny
Sunday, September 20, 10 am – 6 pm
Location: 2384 Yonge St, Toronto (in front of Montgomery Square Park)
What happens when a parking space stops measuring vehicle time and starts measuring human connection? Meter Rex brings an inflatable dinosaur, a cardboard parking meter and a 30-second invitation to dance into one on-street parking space, turning a familiar piece of urban infrastructure into a playful experiment in participation, humour and public interaction.
10. Hula Hoop Canopy – by Alejandra Fajardo @embracce3
Sunday, September 20, 10 am – 5 pm
Location: 4 Madison Ave, Toronto (just north of Bloor St)
A colourful canopy of suspended hula hoops creates an artful, shaded gathering space in the Annex. Visitors are invited to contribute to an interactive neighbourhood board, sharing how they experience the area, how they get around, what they enjoy and what would make the neighbourhood more welcoming.
11. Strangers Calling – by the Mundane Collective
Sunday September 20, 11am-5pm
Location: 278a Queen Street West, Toronto (at Queen & John)
Strangers Calling turns a parking space into a living room and social experiment, complete with a bright pink vintage telephone that rings intermittently. Passersby are invited to pick up the phone and discover who—or what—is on the other end, creating opportunities for spontaneous conversations between strangers in one of Toronto’s busiest pedestrian areas.
12. What Should We Make Room For? – by Michaela Pterova @themichaelapetrova
Saturday September 19, 10am – Midnight
Location: 130 Cumberland St, Toronto
What Should We Make Room For? transforms a single parking space into a temporary public room for reflection, conversation and collective imagination. Inside a lightweight timber frame and curtain enclosure, visitors are invited to respond to the question “What should we make room for?” by sharing thoughts, wishes, memories, drawings and ideas that gradually fill the space throughout the day.
13. Co-Designing a Heat-Ready Neighborhood – by Community Climate Co-designers @community_climate_codesigners
Saturday September 19, 10am – 6pm
Location: 107 Lorraine Drive (at Finch Ave West), North York
Co-Designing a Heat-Ready Neighborhood explores how everyday streets and parking spaces could become cooler and more comfortable during extreme heat. Visitors are invited to experiment with a small-scale neighbourhood model, testing strategies such as shade, trees, vegetation, seating and cool surfaces, while contributing their own ideas to a collective Community Heat-Action Map.
14. The Soundtrack of Toronto – by The Biglieri Group
Friday September 18, 10am-4pm
Location: 2472 Kingston Rd, Scarborough
“The Soundtrack of Toronto" is an interactive Park(ing) Day activation that connects places, memories, and music. The Biglieri Group Ltd. is pleased to host this 2026 Park(ing) Day event. Visitors are invited to mark a meaningful spot on a map of Toronto and pair it with a song that brings back a memory or captures a feeling. Every contribution becomes part of a shared city playlist. By the end of the day, the map will reveal Toronto through the songs and stories of the people who experience it.
15. Park(ing) Makes Space for Climate - by Toronto East End Climate Collective
Sunday September 20, 10am – 2pm
Location: 50 Musgrave St., Toronto (south-east corner of Loblaw’s parking lot at Musgrave and Victoria Park)
Toronto East End Climate Collective invites you to take a moment with us – to pause and sit in a parking spot beside a tree and join in a conversation prompted by our version of Solutions: The Game. Talk about hope and collaborative action for the climate. Colouring for kids