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A couple getting a pair of skates sharpened at The Bentway Skate Trail.
Skate Sharpening

Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays from from 5:15pm - 7:45pm

Hit the ice in style, sharpen those skates so you can sharpen those skills! Starting January 5, we will be offering bookings for skate sharpening.

A group of people ice skating at The Bentway in Toronto.
Winter Skating (2025)

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We’re delighted to welcome neighbours and visitors back for another magical season of ice skating under the city lights. Lace up your skates and glide into the holidays with us! Be sure to check our Holiday and New Year hours before you visit.

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Polar Bear Skate (2025)

The Bentway’s boldest winter ritual returns on December 28 with the cheeky Polar Bear Skate! Brave Torontonians are invited to strip down to their skivvies and take a fearless lap around trail to bid farewell to 2025.

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Youth carrying colourful tie-dyed banners along a path beside the Bentway
Bentway After School

Two 5-week session options; Jan 6-Feb 3, or Feb 10-Mar 10.

This winter, The Bentway invites young urbanists to explore and learn about their city with lots of fun, creativity, and outdoor discovery along the way! The program empowers participants to understand and influence concepts in urban design, city building, and placemaking through neighbourhood investigations, storytelling, and recreation. 

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Concrete to Canvas: The transformative power of urban murals 

Much more than neighbourhood beautification, mural-making projects have the power to transform urban landscapes. Join The Bentway, The Creative Communities Commons (CCC) at the University of Toronto’s School of Cities, artists, and urbanists at a free public talk on November 20, exploring new models for “painting the urban landscape”. 

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Howl’oween (2025)

It’s the ulti-mutt fall celebration: Howl’oween at The Bentway, presented with Ren’s Pets! Gather the family, two-legged and four, for our spook-tacular costume contest. Enjoy prizes, music, local vendors, and cozy fall treats on this festive afternoon full of laughter, wagging tails, and Halloween fun for pups and their people!

Documentary Screening: A Lake Story

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After the on-water performance, gather at Harbourfront Centre’s Concert Stage during Nuit Blanche for a celebration of A Lake Story. Enjoy a documentary chronicling the project’s creative journey, see the wind-activated colour field paintings up close, and honour the community partners, paddlers, and artists who brought this story to life.

SOLAR

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A mesmerizing encounter with light transforms the Gardiner into a glowing horizon. Guided by a robotic arm and synchronized beams, SOLAR performs a spectacle of sunset by merging the sun’s rhythms with digital choreography to create an immersive experience of light and motion.

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Petal and Stone

October 2025 through to 2027

A 10,000 square-foot mural project inaugurates the Gardiner Wallworks series, transforming this concrete expanse into a poetic tableau of site memory, native flora, and symbolic passage. Inspired by the architecture and ecological communities bridging The Bentway and Exhibition Place, it offers commuters and residents an evocative new lens on their urban landscape.

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A Lake Story

Sep 27 & 28, 2025. Procession at 11am & 4pm

A procession of over one hundred canoes moves in unison across Toronto’s eastern Waterfront on September 27/28, each carrying colour field paintings made with pigments sourced from the lake/shoreline and activated by the wind. A Lake Story will articulate Lake Ontario’s colour story across the sky and water, amplifying the lake’s own voices of vibrancy, ecosystem, and community.

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Cool Spots: Remapping a Hotter Toronto

Public submissions collected July to September, 2025

Discover and share the places that keep you cool in Toronto! From shaded underpasses to breezy green spaces, your submissions will help shape a growing community map of urban relief and resilience.

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Moving Forest @ The Bentway Skate Trail

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See you under our smaller pop up canopy of 10 trees at the Bentway Skate Trail, from July 20 until the end of our summer season! These 10 trees were part of a flock of 50 trees in shopping carts that travelled throughout the city, stopping to create a refreshing shade canopy in usually-sunny spaces.

Group of people participating in a free eco workshop at Bentway Staging Grounds.
From Milkweed to Monarchs  

Did you know that monarch butterflies migrate 4,800km each year from Canada to Mexico? Join us for this hands-on workshop to learn how milkweed plants help support this journey with presented with Toronto and Region Conservation Authority!

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Casting a Net, Casting a Spell Art Workshop with Celeste

Meet artists María Fernanda Camarena and Gabriel Rosas Alemán, who together form the Mexico City-based duo Celeste, for an afternoon of art activities! Inspired by their installation Casting a Net, Casting a Spell –  a large-scale quilted canopy evocative of a suncatcher – come explore the power of the sun through family-friendly creative exercises.

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