Roller Skate Lessons: September 25
September 25, 6:30pm-7:30pm and 7:30pm-8:30pm
Learn how to roll with us! This summer, we’re offering weekly roller skate lessons for those who are looking to gain basic skills. Our expert instructors will help novice skaters build confidence on wheels and navigate our figure-eight trail.
Roller Skate Lessons: August 7
August 7, 6:30pm-7:30pm and 7:30pm-8:30pm
Learn how to roll with us! This summer, we’re offering weekly roller skate lessons for those who are looking to gain basic skills. Our expert instructors will help novice skaters build confidence on wheels and navigate our figure-eight trail.
Roller Skate Lessons: August 14
August 14, 6:30pm-7:30pm and 7:30pm-8:30pm
Learn how to roll with us! This summer, we’re offering weekly roller skate lessons for those who are looking to gain basic skills. Our expert instructors will help novice skaters build confidence on wheels and navigate our figure-eight trail.
Roller Skate Lessons: August 21
August 21, 6:30pm-7:30pm and 7:30pm-8:30pm
Learn how to roll with us! This summer, we’re offering weekly roller skate lessons for those who are looking to gain basic skills. Our expert instructors will help novice skaters build confidence on wheels and navigate our figure-eight trail.
Roller Skate Lessons: August 28
August 28, 6:30pm-7:30pm and 7:30pm-8:30pm
Learn how to roll with us! This summer, we’re offering weekly roller skate lessons for those who are looking to gain basic skills. Our expert instructors will help novice skaters build confidence on wheels and navigate our figure-eight trail.
Roller Skate Lessons: September 4
September 4, 6:30pm-7:30pm and 7:30pm-8:30pm
Learn how to roll with us! This summer, we’re offering weekly roller skate lessons for those who are looking to gain basic skills. Our expert instructors will help novice skaters build confidence on wheels and navigate our figure-eight trail.
Roller Skate Lessons: September 11
September 11, 6:30pm-7:30pm and 7:30pm-8:30pm
Learn how to roll with us! This summer, we’re offering weekly roller skate lessons for those who are looking to gain basic skills. Our expert instructors will help novice skaters build confidence on wheels and navigate our figure-eight trail.
Roller Skate Lessons: September 18
September 18, 6:30pm-7:30pm and 7:30pm-8:30pm
Learn how to roll with us! This summer, we’re offering weekly roller skate lessons for those who are looking to gain basic skills. Our expert instructors will help novice skaters build confidence on wheels and navigate our figure-eight trail.
Roller Skate Rentals
Fridays 5:00pm–8:00pm, Saturdays & Sundays 1:00pm–7:00pm. From August 7–September 27, 2026.
The Bentway Skate Trail continues to be the best place to rock and roll in the summer, visit our Skate Rental Container on site to rent your roller skates and protective gear from Fridays-Sundays in August and September!
Roller Skate Lessons
Fridays from Aug 7 to Sep 25, 2026. Two sessions: 6:30pm-7:30pm or 7:30pm-8:30pm.
Learn how to roll with us! This summer, we’re offering weekly roller skate lessons for those who are looking to gain basic skills. Our expert instructors will help novice skaters build confidence on wheels and navigate our figure-eight trail.
Dino Runs @ The Bentway
August 22, September 19, 2026.
Dino Runs are an interactive family event packed with movement and imagination! Kids join lively Dino Specialists for songs, stories, and games before heading out on a playful mission to track down runaway dinosaurs. This prehistoric adventure is part learning, part make-believe, and all about laughing and being active together.
Roller Skate Party
Glide and groove to the music of local DJ’s and celebrate the dog days of summer. Whether you’re still learning at our weekly lessons or have some superfly moves to show off, it’s an open invitation to move your own way!
Dino Run: August
Dino Runs are an interactive family event packed with movement and imagination! Kids join lively Dino Specialists for songs, stories, and games before heading out on a playful mission to track down runaway dinosaurs. This prehistoric adventure is part learning, part make-believe, and all about laughing and being active together.
Dino Run: September
Dino Runs are an interactive family event packed with movement and imagination! Kids join lively Dino Specialists for songs, stories, and games before heading out on a playful mission to track down runaway dinosaurs. This prehistoric adventure is part learning, part make-believe, and all about laughing and being active together.
Net Scape
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Sit down and relax in Net Scape, a new furniture installation from Toronto-based RAW Work. Created using the elements of the game—soccer balls and goal netting—these fun, interactive pieces create the perfect way to watch the matches with your friends at the Bentway Strachan Gate.
Make the World Go Round
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Toronto-based illustrator and muralist Caitlin Taguibao brings the city to life with Make the World Go Round, a striking signature mural installation that wraps the columns of the Bentway Skate Trail, immersing viewers in the iconic sights and scenes of the Toronto that we know and love. A vibrant tribute to the diversity of experiences that make Toronto great, this newly commissioned mural will offer fans a lasting impression as they leave the festival.
United in Light
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Montreal-based LeMonde Studio presents United in Light, a luminous new installation celebrating the many nations of the FIFA World Cup™. Featuring four largescale, interactive LED-screen flags at the Bentway Skate Trail, the work responds to human touch, transforming as visitors engage. Fans are invited to interact with the installation, celebrating their home teams while reflecting the global spirit of the city.
The Bentway Presents Public Art Programming as part of FIFA Fan Festival™ Toronto for FIFA World Cup 2026™
April 27, 2026
New artworks transform space beneath the Gardiner Expressway into a civic gathering place for art, culture, and global fandom.
FIFA Fan Festival 2026™ Toronto
April 27, 2026
The Bentway is a proud fan of Toronto, and The FIFA Fan Festival™ offers a meaningful moment to ignite civic pride and uplift Toronto as a world within a city. For this global moment, The Bentway’s public art programming embraces fandom in all its forms – celebrating the city’s cultural diversity and shared rituals that unite us.
Fans Can Dance
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Fans Can Dance by Montreal-based studio Daily tous les jours invites you to a collective soccer celebration—part dance party, part game. This interactive installation explores the popular phenomena of soccer players’ goal score celebrations through dances, poses, and gestures. Bring your dancing cleats and join the team for this engaging imitation game at the Bentway Strachan Gate.
Shore Lines
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Toronto-based design firm RAW Work presents Shore Lines, a series of modular, soccer field-inspired furniture welcoming you to connect and rest underneath the Gardiner. Inspired by Toronto’s original shoreline, which the Gardiner Expressway traces, these comfortable benches will appear as one continuous soccer pitch along the Bentway Skate Trail’s southern edge.
Daylight Saving Skate
Daylight saving steals an hour of sleep, and we’re giving it back the best way we know how: on the ice! On our final day at the skate trail, we’re inviting neighbours to reset their internal clocks together with complimentary coffee and an extra hour of skating –pajamas encouraged!
The Bentway Extends Skate Trail Season Through March 8
February 12, 2026
We are pleased to announce that our popular figure-eight outdoor Skate Trail will remain open through Sunday, March 8, giving skaters more time to glide beneath the Gardiner Expressway and enjoy one of Toronto’s most distinctive winter experiences.
Winter Skating, Extended to March 8!
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We are pleased to announce that our popular figure-eight outdoor Skate Trail will remain open through Sunday, March 9, giving skaters more time to glide beneath the Gardiner Expressway and enjoy one of Toronto’s most distinctive winter experiences!