Free Skating on the Natrel Rink

Open Daily
Hours may vary

Set against the beautiful shoreline of Lake Ontario, the city’s most scenic rink awaits! Skate & helmet rentals available. Call the Rink Hotline at 416 954 9866 to confirm today’s hours.

Canadian Writers' Summit

Thursday, June 14, 2018
9:00am – 9:00pm

The Canadian Writers’ Summit (#CWS2018) is a super-conference jointly hosted by a cohort of Canadian writer organizations. Members of all of these organizations are especially encouraged to attend, but #CWS2018 welcomes everyone and anyone interested in writing and publishing in Canada. Presented by the Book and Periodical Council and Humber College in association with IFOA, the Book Summit opens the first day of the #CWS2018. #CWS2018 takes place June 14–17, 2018.

CWS 2018 presents d’bi.young anitafrika

Thursday, June 14, 2018
8:00pm –10:00pm

d’bi.young anitafrika will be reading from her fresh off the press autobiography, Memoir of An Ugly Duckling: My Life, Art & Method, and her keynote will focus on the artist’s accountability and responsibility.

Tomson Highway: The Margaret Laurence Lecture

Friday, June 15, 2018
8:00pm –10:00pm

For more than 30 years, the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Margaret Laurence Lecture Series has invited Canada’s most prominent authors to discuss the theme of “A Writer’s Life.” Intimate in tone, frank, and revealing, the lectures give us unprecedented access to the heroes and heroines of Canadian literature. This year’s lecture will be delivered by Tomson Highway, a renowned playwright, novelist, and musician, and a trailblazer in the Indigenous creative artist community.

CWS 2018 presents Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau

Saturday, June 16, 2018
8:00pm – 9:00pm

Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau will discuss the recent surge of francophone Indigenous writers in Québec; she’ll explore their writing, and the critical responses to it. She’ll also share with us her own work in the form of literary fiction and poetry.

In Conversation: Ellen Gallagher

Sunday, June 24, 2018
1:00pm – 2:30pm

With choices curated by Summer 2018 artist Ellen Gallagher, The Power Plant will present a conversation with the artist and poet Natasha Tretheway, to be moderated by Ivy Wilson at the Art Gallery of Ontario's Jackman Hall. This talk will take place at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Jackman Hall.

Films of our Land – stories of identity, community and artists

Saturday, June 30, 2018
3:45pm – 4:45pm

These short films provide a unique window into the meaning of identity and how we see and define ourselves - in terms of gender, as communities and as artists. The National Film Board of Canada co-presents selections from their invaluable collection of powerful stories.