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• Heritage Toronto Guild Park Walking Tour #1

  • When
    09 Jul 2017
  • Location
    Guild Park, 201 Guildwood Pkwy, Toronto

  Guild Park was site of the innovative Guild of All Arts, founded in 1932. The park’s 88 acres includes a Sculpture Garden featuring works by notable Canadian artists including Sorel Etrog, Emanuel Hahn, Francis Loring, E.B. Cox and Florence Wyle. This outdoor tour highlights those sculptures, as well as architectural remnants saved from dozens of Toronto’s heritage buildings demolished in the 1960s and 1970s. 

  
  

  Due to the popularity of this location a second Heritage Toronto Tour will be held on Aug 6 2017
  

  Walking Tours co-sponsored by the Friends of Guild Park and Gardens.
  
  

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• Guild Alive With Culture

  • Start
    28 Jul 2017
  • End
    30 Jul 2017
  • Location
    201 Guildwood Parkway, Scarborough, ON

  The popular arts festival filled with unique crafts for sale, entertainment, community services. On-site food and licensed refreshments from the Olde Stone Cottage.

  
  

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• Heritage Toronto Tour #2

  • When
    06 Aug 2017
  •  
    1:30 PM
  • Location
    Guild Park, 201 Guildwood Pkwy, Toronto

  HERITAGE TORONTO FREE EVENT:

  Join us as we explore Guild Park and the new Monument Walk, created from more than a dozen sculptures and fragments of historic architectural features from Toronto buildings, including the popular Greek Theatre, specially commissioned artworks, and the natural beauty of the Scarborough Bluffs.

  Co-Presented with the Friends of Guild Park & Gardens
  

  Start/End Point: Entrance to Guild Park’s new Monument Walk (near 201 Guildwood Pkwy)

  Download a copy of the Walking Tour Guide

  
  

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• Outdoor Movie Night -Save the Date

  • When
    17 Aug 2017
  •  
    8:00 PM
  • Location
    201 Guildwood Parkway, Scarborough, ON

  Outdoor Movie Night at Guild Park (weather permitting). Organized by Toronto Civic Union Employees’ Union, Local 416 in partnership with the Friends of Guild Park.

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• Celebrate Summer - Guild Park Public Walking Tour

  • When
    27 Aug 2017
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    2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Meeting location TBD

  Celebrate Summer at Guild Park and Gardens
  

  Sunday August 27, 2017 Friends of Guild Park volunteers will highlight more than a dozen newly-installed sculptures and heritage features in the 88-acre park. The free afternoon tour takes about 90-minutes, or longer depending on interest of participants. The walk is designed to give first-time and returning visitors - families, history buffs, art lovers, travellers and local residents - an in-depth appreciation of the 88-acre site. Topics covered on the tour include insights about Guild Park's: • forest, geology and gardens • public art, created by some of Canada’s top sculptors, and • legacy as the Canadian artists’ community founded by philanthropists Rosa and Spencer Clark, who owned the site for almost 50 years. The volunteer-led tour is free, Memberships available from tour guides and donations welcome. Join, extend or renew your support of Guild Park and Gardens future activities and revitalization.  Visit our FaceBook page.

  
  

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• Fall Shoreline Clean-Up at Guild Park

  • When
    16 Sep 2017
  •  
    9:00 AM
  • Location
    201 Guildwood Parkway, Scarborough, ON

  Friends of Guild Park & Gardens is proud to be part of the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup presented by Loblaws Companies Limited. We invite our members and supporters to help collect debris and garbage from the lakeshore area below Guild Park.
  
  Our registration page will be available a month before the clean up.
  
  The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup is one of the largest direct action conservation programs in Canada. A joint conservation initiative of the Vancouver Aquarium and WWF, the Shoreline Cleanup is about removing shoreline litter to help create healthy waters for everyone, including the wildlife and communities that depend on them.

  
  

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• Friends of Guild Park and Gardens AGM 2017

  • When
    21 Sep 2017
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    6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    TBD

  We would like to invite all members and supporters of the Guild Park to attend our 2017 Annual General Meeting Thursday Sept 21.

  Registration starts at 6:30 proceedings start at 7 
  

  Friends of Guild Park and Gardens Members will receive and AGM information package.

  We hope to see you there!

  The Board of the Friends of Guild Park & Gardens

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• Guild Park Walking Tour

  • When
    24 Sep 2017
  • Location
    Guild Park, 201 Guildwood Pkwy, Toronto

  Guild Park was site of the innovative Guild of All Arts, founded in 1932. The park’s 88 acres includes a Sculpture Garden featuring works by notable Canadian artists including Sorel Etrog, Emanuel Hahn, Francis Loring, E.B. Cox and Florence Wyle. This outdoor tour highlights those sculptures, as well as architectural remnants saved from dozens of Toronto’s heritage buildings demolished in the 1960s and 1970s. Volunteer led by members of the Friends of Guild Park and Gardens.
  
  

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