Check out our ongoing and upcoming events and series.
events calendar
Free Hot Chocolate Mondays: February 3
Stop by The Bentway skate trail to enjoy free hot chocolate every Monday evening from January 6 – February 10! Starting January 6, enjoy free hot chocolate every Monday evening (5:00pm-8:30pm) and explore the local neighbourhood. A big thank you to our friends at CityPlace Fort York BIA for their generous support!
Partner Event Skate with Ausma
Join Deputy Mayor Ausma Malik at skating rinks across the ward to embrace winter fun and meet your neighbours! Deputy Mayor Ausma Malik invites you to lace up your skates for her skating party at The Bentway! Courtesy of the Deputy Mayor Malik’s team, we are excited to offer: Be sure to check out other […]
Free Hot Chocolate Mondays: February 10
Stop by The Bentway skate trail to enjoy free hot chocolate every Monday evening from January 6 – February 10! Starting January 6, enjoy free hot chocolate every Monday evening (5:00pm-8:30pm) and explore the local neighbourhood. A big thank you to our friends at CityPlace Fort York BIA for their generous support! TDSB PA Day
The Bentway Skate Trail is open 12pm-9pm on Friday, February 14!
Family Day (2025)
Join us for this season’s final day of skating at The Bentway Skate Trail! We will be open 12pm-9pm on Monday, February 17.
Panel: Rx for Social Connection
Exploring how public space design and programming can combat loneliness and strengthen communities. This event welcomed attendees to discover insights from Rx For Social Connection: Public space as a strategy to combat loneliness with the interdisciplinary research team from The Bentway, Gehl (New York) and Dalla Lana School of Public Health (University of Toronto) during […]
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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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Skate Sharpening
Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 6:15pm and 6:45pmHit the ice in style, sharpen those skates so you can sharpen those skills! Starting January 5, we will be offering bookings for skate sharpening on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 6:15pm and 6:45pm.
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Winter Skating
toWe’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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Petal and Stone
October 2025 through to 2027A 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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Declaration of the Understory
May 23, 2025 to Spring 2026Secwépemc artist Tania Willard approaches the space below the highway as a tree canopy, reminiscent of the “understory” floor of southern Ontario forests, where pockets of shade and sunlight shape unique ecosystems below. In a stunning mixed-media installation, floral motifs, iridescence, and powerful slogans offer a mediation on the power of shade as a lifeforce.
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Bathed in Strange Light
May 23, 2025 to Spring 2026Working in collaboration with the sun’s rhythms, Natalie Hunter’s photographs on the windows of The Bentway Studio (facing Canoe Landing Park) explore how ever-shifting sunlight shapes our experience of public spaces. As the sun moves throughout the day, translucent images cast down a colorful, slow-moving cinema.
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Waterfront ReConnect: Boom Town
On view nowBoom Town employs vibrant colour, playful characters, and environmental lighting to enliven the York Street intersection, improving safety and accessibility for pedestrians and cyclists.
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Waterfront ReConnect: Pixel Story
On view nowPixel Story references the multitude of vantages, scales, speeds, and distances at which to view the Expressway, enticing passersby to move forward towards the waterfront, or pause to reflect on its diverse stories.
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Bentway Staging Grounds
On view nowBentway Staging Grounds is a site of active, environmental learning that continues The Bentway’s creative work along the Gardiner Expressway. Visitors are invited into a living laboratory for urban ecology, with experimental gardens that use rainwater run-off from the highway above to support the growth of flowering plant species.
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Memory Work
On display May 1, 2022 onwardsSituated at the western entrance to The Bentway, Memory Work is a mural made up of twelve embellished photographic portraits of revolutionary women and non-binary figures from a future Toronto. Initiated by studio From Later with artist Rajni Perera and Memory Work Collective, this speculative monument imagines a city characterized by collective care and politics…