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Follow a trail of freshness and fun with our many markets, curiosity and wonder with our kids programs or exploration and recharge in nature. The Brick Works is a living space that becomes what you need it to be. The path to a new discovery is always waiting for you.

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Curious what there is to do at the Brick Works? Check out our lists of activities and events!

What's on this week

Every Saturday from 9am - 1pm

Saturday Farmers Market

Evergreen’s Saturday Farmers Market is open year-round, connecting people in Toronto to local Ontario farmers and producers.

Every Saturday and select Sundays

Weekend Nature Play

Let’s play! Join us every Saturday and select Sundays for free outdoor play programming.

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Evergreen Garden Market

The Evergreen Garden Market is a classic general store, a contemporary gift shop, and a sustainable garden center combined into one market.

What's on this month

April 20, 9am - 4pm

Earth Day at the Brick Works

Join us for a full day of family-friendly workshops and activities that promote sustainability!

April 20, 11am – 4pm

Mini Drop, Swap and Shop: Clothing Edition

Our beloved Drop, Swap and Shop event will be returning to Evergreen Brick Works as part of the Earth Day festivities!

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Community Spotlight

We have space, you have ideas – Let’s work together to bring them to life at the Evergreen Brick Works.

What's on for kids

Every Saturday and select Sundays

Weekend Nature Play

Let’s play! Join us every Saturday and select Sundays for free outdoor play programming.

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Sprouts: Early years

A Parent and Tot exploratory program where toddlers and children (ages 14 months-5 years) can engage and embrace nature with care and compassion.

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Nature Nut

Where kids can form a deep connection to nature in the heart of the city!

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Nature School: Learning Outdoors

Let kids think outside the box, with an outdoor classroom.

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Adventure Camp

Campers aged 6-14 venture out exploring the greener side of Toronto’s ravine systems in the heart of the Lower Don Valley!

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Outdoor Leadership Course

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Other things to explore at the Brick Works

Evergreen Garden Market
Picnic Cafe
Site tours
Audio tours
Art
Rent a game
SHADOWLAND Photography Exhibit

Every day from 10am – 5pm

A store like no other in Toronto, Evergreen Garden Market blends classic general store, contemporary gift shop and sustainable garden market into one place.

Evergreen Garden Market

Picnic is a family friendly café, restaurant & wine shop located at Evergreen Brick Works! They’re open for breakfast, brunch and lunch every day throughout the week. Menu items include coffee, pastries, pasta and more delicious goodies.

Picnic Café

Take a deeper dive into the story of Evergreen Brick Works and discover how Evergreen reclaimed and revitalized this former industrial site into an award-winning environmental community centre and green-technology showcase.

Site Tours

Curious about the sustainability of buildings at the Brick Works? Maybe you have an interest in the ecology of the site and how we protect nature throughout? With Evergreen’s free immersive self-guided tours we aim to reveal the hidden ways that ecosystems and people co-exist and co-create our most beloved urban places.

Audio Tours

Discover works on display at Evergreen Brick Works and throughout the site by local and international artists.

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Available seven days a week, we have an ever-expanding catalogue of games available. You are free to roam the site to find the perfect place to play!

Rental prices:
– Free play for 20 minutes or less
– Recommended $5 Tip Tap donation for up to 2 hours
– Recommended $10 Tip Tap donation for up to 4 hours
– Recommended $20 Tip Tap donation for up to 6 hours

All revenue generated from game rental will go directly towards supporting free programing at Evergreen Brick Works like Weekend Nature Play.

Starting May 1 2024, you can view SHADOWLAND, a photography exhibit by Sasha Chapman, in the City Builders Gallery, located in TD future city centre at Evergreen Brick Works. SHADOWLAND explores the tensions between the rational, built world of the conscious city and the unbuilt, unconscious ravine world that undergirds and erodes it. Twelve images from this on-going project will be paired with a soundscape as part of Toronto’s 2024 CONTACT Photography Festival.

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April
Earth Month art installation

Our Craft Club is going to be creating an art installation at Evergreen Brick Works using coffee cups and plastic bottles!

 

We need your help! We are going to be collecting these paper cups and plastic bottles so that we can start creating the installation. There will be collection bins next to the garbage cans in Building 14 (the building with Picnic Café and the Garden Market), Picnic Cafe, the Young Centre and in the TD Future Cities Centre during the Farmers Market.

Starting May 1
SHADOWLAND Photography Exhibit

Starting May 1 2024, you can view SHADOWLAND, a photography exhibit by Sasha Chapman, in the City Builders Gallery at Evergreen Brick Works. SHADOWLAND explores the tensions between the rational, built world of the conscious city and the unbuilt, unconscious ravine world that undergirds and erodes it. Twelve images from this on-going project will be paired with a soundscape as part of Toronto’s 2024 CONTACT Photography Festival.

 

Stay tuned for more info on the exhibit and opening times.

May 4
Outdoor Farmers Market

The Farmers Market will move outdoors under the Pavilions on Saturday, May 4.

Getting to the Brick Works

Want to know how to get to Evergreen Brick Works? Whether you’re using sustainable forms of transportation like the Free Shuttle Bus, walking or biking, or you’re driving, there are lots of different ways to get to the site.

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