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Wexford Dhaba

We are so excited to invite you to our first
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a FREE Desi-inspired night market and mela featuring local vendors, restaurants, and musicians!

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On July 27, 6:30-9:30pm, come and enjoy delicious pani-puri and other fun treats, peruse wares from local vendors (supported by @ileo.greatergoldenmile!), dance to live music, all while taking in the vibrant beauty of our 2024 plazaPOPS hub site, Wexford Blooms 2gether (2020 Lawrence Ave E)!

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Stay tuned for more details including musical line ups and vendor profiles, but for now, put it in you calendar!

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The Wexford Dhaba is funded by the City of Toronto’s CaféTO Dining District Grant Program

plazaPOPS is funded by @feddevontario through the @cityofto’s Main Street Recovery and Rebuild Initiative

Saturday, Jul 27
6:30pm
2024: Wexford Blooms 2gether

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Seed Planting Workshop

On June 22nd join plazaPOPS and GSF for a planting workshop for the beginning of summer!

RSVP here!

Saturday, Jun 22
2:00pm
2024: Wexford Blooms 2gether

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Wexford Blooms 2gether Opening Party and Community Planting Day!

Excited to announce that our 2024 plazaPOPS: Wexford Blooms 2gether in the Wexford Heights BIA be officially opening June 15!


Join us for an opening day celebratory party at our hub site (2020 Lawrence Ave E) where we’ll be launching our 2024 season with a community planting day – many hands make light work and we need YOUR help greening the parking lots with native plants from Native Plants in Claremont!

Bring your own sunscreen, garden gloves, and dancing shoes, we’ll be providing extra for people who don’t have their own. Food and drink for amazing local restaurants will be provided! See you there!

plazaPOPS is a part of the The City of Toronto’s Main Street Recovery and Rebuild Initiative, funded by the Federal Development Agency for Southern Ontario

Saturday, Jun 15
12:00pm
2024: Wexford Blooms 2gether

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plazaPOPS 2024 Open House

💡Have ideas on how we can make this year’s Lawrence Avenue East plazaPOPS the best ever? 🙌

Join us at our drop-in OPEN HOUSE, Thursday April 18th, 5:00 pm -8:30 pm, at Precious Blood Church (1737 Lawrence Ave E)! We’re back with another plazaPOPS event as we prepare for this year’s project in @wexfordheights❗️

Invite your friends, family, and colleagues to join us and to share your ideas on what inclusive place-making and celebrating local culture looks like. What events do you want to see this year? Who should we partner with? What are you most excited about?

We can’t wait to hear from you on what you want to see happening at this year’s Wexford Blooms 2024! 🎉

Refreshments will be provided.

If you plan on coming, please register here — (registration is not required, we just want to know how much delicious local snacks we should order!) We can’t wait to see you! 🎉

Thursday, Apr 18
5:00pm
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Wexford Blooms Harvest Festival

Wexford Blooms Harvest Festival!

2072 Lawrence Ave E

On Oct 14, from 12-6pm at Wexford Plaza (2072 Lawrence Ave E) we will celebrate the all the brilliant community spirit that went into this year’s plazaPOPS in Wexford Heights! 🍁 🍂 🥔🥕🌽

Programmed by the Working Women Community Centre and Scarborough Arts the evening celebration will include music! 🎉food! 🎉 dancing! 🎉 art! 🎉 and merriment! 🎉

We’ll also have a Grow Better Gardens booth, the brilliant vegetable and plant soil and mulch makers who donated all our soil and mulch this year!

Many thanks to our Gold Sponsor, Aiden Rad and the Rad Team for funding this event.

And shout out to our media partner The Green Line!

Saturday, Oct 14
12:00pm
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Summer Blooms Fest

Location:

Wexford Blooms Hub, at Wexford Plaza, 2072 Lawrence Ave E

Join us at Wexford Plaza for Summer Blooms Fest, a celebration of the opening of WexPOPS: Wexford Blooms, and all the brilliant community spirit that went into this year’s plazaPOPS in Wexford Heights!

Programmed by Golden Mile Impact Network, the evening celebration will include music! food! dancing! art! and merriment!

Scarborough Arts will be hosting an interactive artist installation, and we’ll have a Grow Better Gardens booth, the brilliant vegetable and plant soil and mulch makers who donated all our soil and mulch this year!

Shout out to our media partner The Green Line, and volunteers from For You Telecare Family Services!

We are so excited to host you next week, tell your friends and spread the word!

Thursday, Aug 17
5:30pm
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Wexford Blooms Movie Night

Location:

Wexford Blooms Hub, at Wexford Plaza, 2072 Lawrence Ave E

A new take on the drive-in, a magical movie night under the stars and by the dynamic lights of strip-mall signage with an unique double bill film screening: “Scarborough” (2021) and “The Wexford” documentary (2016), hosted right in the heart of Wexford Plaza!

Director of “The Wexford”, Michael Barry will share opening remarks.

The event is open to all and free!

Based on the award-winning novel by Catherine Hernandez, “Scarborough” explores the struggles, endurance, and resilience of this culturally diverse Toronto community through the lives of three kids growing up within a system that has set them up for failure. Filmed on location in the Kingston-Galloway/West Hill neighbourhood, Scarborough takes place over the course of a school year.

Before “Scarborough,” the heartwarming documentary “The Wexford” will take the screen, directed by Michael Barry. This endearing documentary sheds light on the treasured Wexford Restaurant, a beloved Scarborough landmark in the Wexford Heights community, operated by three generations of the Kiriakou family. “The Wexford” pays homage to the restaurant’s rich history, serving as a nostalgic tribute to the memories shared by generations of patrons. This heartfelt film celebrates the enduring legacy of the Wexford Restaurant, which closed its doors after 63 years in 2020.

This film screening is being produced by Toronto Outdoor Picture Show and made possible by the generous support of Well Grounded Real Estate (1925 Victoria Park).

In the spirit of supporting local businesses, attendees are encouraged to patronize the Wexford Heights BIA’s delectable array of restaurants to purchase snacks for the film. Indulge in the flavours of Wexford Heights while basking in the joy of cinema under the starry skies.

Tuesday, Aug 8
8:00pm
2023: Wexford Blooms
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Takeout Talent Night

Our next event is TAKEOUT TALENT NIGHT, on Sat Aug 17 from 5-9pm!

We cordially invite you to Wexford Heights, grab your fave local takeout, and enjoy it at WexPOPS during an evening of music by Pete Eastmure, spoken word/DJ by Berma, printmaking by Nigel Martin, dance by Megha Subramanian, and an inspiring talk by Howard Tam. Co-curated with Scarborough Arts.

Come at 5pm for a walk to The Meadoway lead by the TRCA!

⚠️ this will be your last chance to hang out at WexPOPS as we are popping down the following day! ⚠️

Saturday, Aug 17
5:00pm
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Pop-up PATTY-O

One event done, already excited for the next!

THIS THURSDAY come lime with us at our WexPOPS PATTY-O with sounds by Mix Master Caesar, a talk by Howard Tam, eats by local Jamaican Halal resto Rose’s, and much more! FREE! This pre-Caribana weekend hang is brought to you by our partners the Working Women Community Centre!

Thursday, Aug 1
4:30pm
2019: WexPOPS

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WexPOPS Launch

Celebrate the launch of our community-lead design project that is re-imagining the potential for strip mall parking lots to host public gathering places that support small businesses while strengthening the local community. WexPOPS will be popped up until August 17, 2019.

Enjoy the sites, tastes and sounds of Wexford Heights during the Taste of Lawrence, and make a “Wexford” bag with local artist Nigel Martin!

Friday, Jul 5
6:00pm
2019: WexPOPS

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PlazaPOPS is funded by the City of Toronto’s Main Street Recovery and Rebuild Initiative, as part of Government of Canada support through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario).

Research for plazaPOPS is funded through a SSHRC Partnership Development grant, in partnership with the City of Toronto and the University of Guelph’s School of Environmental Design and Rural Development (SEDRD) in the Ontario Agricultural College.