Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre

Imagining Toronto’s better future

editor — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:51:56 +0000

Join the Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre and Small Wooden Shoe in Imagining Toronto’s better future.

What kind of city would you want to live in, if we could make a city from scratch?

Upper Toronto starts with a terrible idea. We want to build a new city in the sky above the current Toronto.

It’s a terrible idea that allows us to ask what would happen if, knowing what we now know, we could start fresh.

We are meeting with people from all across Toronto to ask them [...]

Buy the book “Let’s Face It”

editor — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:33:37 +0000

A 241 page book filled with creative work from PARC members you would want to have in your library and share with friends. “Let’s face it” documents and presents publicly the talent of the homeless, social-isolated and marginalized people in Toronto.

I thought that you were lost or in hiding

I thought that you had abandoned me

I found myself searching for you everywhere

I looked in the trees

I looked amongst the leaves

and the bark

and the roots……

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Happy Volunteers Day

editor — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:59:36 +0000

December 5th is the International Volunteer Day and we at PARC want to remember it locally. PARC started with the efforts of many volunteers and still volunteers have an important role in the daily activities. More than 100 volunteers help the organization wherever the need is: kitchen, drop-in, music and art groups, committees and boards, admin and event. Some are PARC members who want to give back being thankful for the support they are receiving. Others are supporters from the [...]