Arts In The Parks: Community Partners

Our community partners play a key role in promoting Arts in the Parks events and volunteer opportunities throughout the summer.

Our 2025 community partners

Birchmount Community Action Council

Birchmount Community Action Council is a residential council run by community members dedicated towards making their neighbourhood safe and vibrant.

Community Nature Champions

Flemingdon Community Support Services

Flemingdon Community Support Services is a group of volunteers in Flemingdon Park who have come together to animate the green spaces in their community.

The Friends of Cedarbrook and Thomson Memorial Parks

The Friends of Cedarbrook and Thomson Memorial Parks is a local community group. Our purpose is to promote the appreciation of the wonderful parkland literally at our doorstep, to advocate for improvements, and to protect the park’s natural environment. All are welcome to attend our meetings and events. Join us and you can volunteer your time and energy as you are able. Meet neighbours and make some new friends, too. Anything and everything you contribute will go towards making our parks and our community a better place to live!

Friends of Guild Park

Friends of Guild Park is a volunteer organization founded in 2013 to increase awareness about historic Guild Park and bring “whole-park thinking” to the 88-acre site. The group organizes a variety of activities, programs and special events designed to revitalize and enhance the legacy of what was once the Guild of All Arts and the Guild Inn.In cooperation with other Guild Park stakeholder groups, Friends of Guild Park has welcomed more than 33,000 visitors to volunteer-led festivals, programs and events on the grounds. Activities range from weekend arts festivals, outdoor professional theatre, community gatherings, plus popular walking tours of the site, done in partnership with Doors Open-Toronto, Jane’s Walk and Heritage Toronto.

Friends of Earl Bales Park

Friends of Earl Bales Park is a volunteer group dedicated to improving our park for everyone and connecting with the park community. If you have an interest in our park or an idea for how you would like to see it improved please join us!

Friends of Parkway Forest Park

Friends of Parkway Forest Park (FPFP) is a group of neighbours from the Don Mills and Sheppard area who love being outdoors and organizing events in Parkway Forest Park.

Hopewell Community Garden

Hopewell Community Garden is an inclusive, intergenerational and community-led action group for sustainable development. Our mission is to create a thriving hub where neighbours of all ages, experiences and backgrounds gather to grow healthy food and a healthy community.

Lakeshore Arts

Lakeshore Arts an award-winning community arts organization creates and delivers innovative and unique arts education programming under three streams for the past 24 years; children and youth, artists and community. Youth are given opportunities to create art in a safe and non-judgmental environment. Emerging and established artists are supported through professional development workshops and by showcasing their work in our storefront gallery. Community projects and festivals provide hands-on and interactive experiences that strengthen our community and utilize public spaces. We use the transformative power of the arts to build community in an accessible and inclusive way.

Marbrook Residents Group

Mimico By The Lake BIA

The Mimico By The Lake BIA runs from Lake Shore Boulevard West, between Allen Avenue and Alexander Street. Our mandate is to work with businesses to improve the area, attract residents to shop and to organize events that create and cultivate a community spirit.

Rexdale Walking Club

Led by resident Viola Rawana.

Scarborough Rosewood Community Association

The Scarborough Rosewood Community Association is a community group run entirely by volunteers in the Rosewood community in north Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. We host clean-up days and an annual food drive, plant and maintain decorative gardens in the community, support our local schools and advocate for Rosewood in matters of interest to the residents.

Scarlettwood Warriors for Change

Scarlettwood is diverse community nestled on the edge of the Humber River near Weston Road and Lawrence Avenue in Etobicoke. Our TCHC community overlooks a beautiful ravine that drops down to the Humber River trail. Our group is made up of dedicated community members whose mandate is to improve the lives of the people who live here, and to beautify the outdoor space. This includes encouraging people to spend time outdoors by facilitating programs such as yoga in the park, planting native trees and plants in the community, nature walk in the ravine, weekly walking programs and community clean-up.

Shwasti

Shwasti is a grassroots community-based organization started it’s journey in 2013. It works in the Taylor Massey and Crescent Town Neighbourhood Improvement Areas. Shwasti’s mission is to make community people happy and bringing some kind of peace, comfort and relaxation towards their lives. Shwasti has hosted indoor health workshops for several years. In the year 2016 we hold a successful workshop outdoors for the first time. In 2017 Shwasti expanded this workshop into a festival and included more people from the neighbouring Crescent Town, Teesdale and Oakridge communities.

Through these programs Shwasti built up partnership with Oakridge Community and Recreation Centre, West Scarborough Neighbourhood Community Centre,Toronto Arts Foundation, Children peace theatre, Arts in the Park and connected with many other organizations. These exposed us with new opprtunities, new learnings, new friends, more outdoor activities and more use of green spaces and so many.

Willowdale Central Rateplayers Association

Supporting networking events that bring community members / groups together.

Providing information on a range of topics that directly affect our property, safety and quality of life.

Foster responsive governance by increasing the communication between residents and elected officials at the municipal, provincial and federal levels.

Where applicable, represent the membership in its dealings with the municipal, provincial and federal officials that are of broad community interests.