Holiday Skating Party!
Schedule
Sat Dec 06 2025 at 01:00 pm to 06:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Harbourfront Centre Public Square | Toronto, ON
About this Event
It’s the picnicmuppets Holiday Skating Party!
Connect with a few local shenaniganizers, burners, artists, weirdos + experience collectors! This is a chill collaborative event with some movement: we welcome storytelling, silliness, art + sharing from your current capacity levels!
Come for the picnic, stay for the food trucks + fire show!
When: Dec 6th 1 - 6 pm
Where: Harbourfront Centre Skating Rink + Surrounding Galleries
235 Queens Quay West - Close to the Lake
The NorthFire Circus Show after the picnic is also at this location!
What: Skating + hot chocolate, then group art lookin’
Clown Timing * 1 - 3:30 pm Skate/ Picnic Base by the Rink with hot chocolate/ tea
* 4 - 6 pm Group art wander
* 6 pm Northfire Circus Show @ Harbourfront Centre / Skedaddling
Group Art Wander Stops:
- Fluid Fossils
- Copper Canopy
- Mr. Dressup to Degrassi: 42 Years of Legendary Toronto Kids TV
What to Bring:
- Drinking water + a cup for tea!
- Skates if you have them
- Comfy shoes, layers in case it’s windy
- Snacks to share, or lunch money for the food trucks that open at 4pm
Cranky Weather Plan: Indoor gallery tour as a group, adding more things from the extended list of free indoor art below.
We ask that you:
- Stay hydrated
- Help connect each other
- Reign in your curmudgeon
- Respect the general public sharing this space with us because there will be small + large humans having their first skate around us
- Imbibe responsibly
- Appreciate the warm, flush loos (there will be many!)
- Ask for consent before taking photos
We’re taking what we learned from last year to create a more comfortable picnic experience for everyone: not everyone skates in a crowd/ at all or enjoys standing around in winter, so..
Suggested Extra Sidequests:
HarbourFront Centre: Gallery 235
- Meet Your Maker
- https://harbourfrontcentre.com/event/meet-your-maker/
- Traces
- https://harbourfrontcentre.com/event/traces-by-designto/
- 235 QQ West
The Powerplant Gallery
- https://www.thepowerplant.org/
- 231 QQ West
(Also Nearby: Vietnamese coffee flights [lePearl], an Indian Grocery that never fails me for snacks[Navs], the Nautical Mind Bookstore, Banksy's Guard with Balloon Dog piece, the Sur Gallery, . . and a little bit further a banger Japanese Cheesecake place [Cuckoo])
Hope to see you there!
Where is it happening?
Harbourfront Centre Public Square, 235 Queens Quay West, Toronto, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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