Re-imagining parking spaces
as people spaces

Activations around the city, September 19-21, 2025.

**Grant applications deadline extended to Saturday September 6th at 12 noon! **

Park(ing) Day is a global, public, participatory art project that takes place annually on the third weekend of September. Around the world, people temporarily repurpose on-street, boulevard or lot parking spaces and convert them into tiny parks and places for art, play, and activism.

  • Toronto 2024 | SVN

  • Toronto 2023

  • Toronto 2024 | BNKC

  • people doing yoga in pop-up park on the road

    Toronto, 2022

  • people enjoying pop-up park in roadside parking spot

    Toronto, 2022

  • San Francisco, 2012

  • Miami, 2017

  • Philadelphia, 2020

  • Knoxville, 2019

  • Philadelphia, 2020

  • Knoxville, 2020

  • Den Haag, NL, 2019

  • Toronto 2024 | ARUP

  • Toronto 2024 | TMU

  • Toronto 2024 | UofT

Why Park(ing) Day?

Park(ing) Day is a unique and exciting opportunity to engage in the ongoing dialog around how our cities are designed and built. The event draws attention to the need for improving access and quantity of public open spaces in densely populated urban areas as well as the need for these spaces to provide social and environmental engagement. The ethos of Park(ing) Day is to celebrate the use of urban public space for people and challenge the dominance of the automobile in cities.

Participate

Join the movement across the Greater Toronto Area on the third weekend in September by transforming a parking space into a People Space—a pop-up park, art installation, or community gathering spot—for one day, or all three!

“We have expensive housing for people and free parking for cars. We have our priorities the wrong way around.” - Donald Shoup

Non-profits, community groups and individual activists can apply for a grant of up to $500 toward the cost of hosting an activation. Get a grant >>