Events
Scroll down for upcoming events including Climate Fresk workshops, our inclusion dances and the annual Wild Westboro Garage Sale.
Monthly recreation workshops
Sign up for our monthly workshops including crafts, sports and date nights! See the monthly flyers on our Flyers & schedules page.
A Company of Fools returns in Summer 2025
Save the date: The Company of Fools theatre company returns to the Westboro Kiwanis Park (at Dovercourt) Wed. July 30, 7-8:30pm with a production of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors.
Bring your blankets and chairs. Pay what you can (suggested $20).
WAVE fundraiser
Plant & Seedling Sale Fundraiser, May 27-29.
May 27-29.
Our WAVE apprentices sold plants and seedlings including little succulents in hand-made pots. It was a big success! Thank you to everyone who supported it. All proceeds went directly to Dovercourt’s WAVE program.
Stay tuned for their next fundraiser!
Sat. June 7, 2025
What a great day! Thank you to all who came out to buy or sell!
A message from the Westboro Community Association:
The WCA counts on this garage sale as its major annual fundraiser. Our Association raised over $500, which included table rentals, raffle baskets and again this year, the popular two tickets to any Sen’s game for the upcoming season. We thank the TD Bank in Westboro, Royal LePage Team Realty and Equator Coffee Roasters for their financial and basket donations.
New this year were the Girl Guides selling cookies, a representative from the EnviroCentre on retrofitting homes to be more energy efficient, Friends of Carlington/Hampton promoting the old growth forest and a lemonade stand.
All proceeds benefit our community, particularly those in need. A special call out to Trish Stolte and her Dovercourt team and all participants for making this year’s event a sellout success.
Sincerely,
Your Westboro Community Association Volunteers!
Inclusion Dances
Dovercourt hosts regular Inclusion dances for our special needs community.
The next dance is Sat. September 13, 2025, 7-9pm.
Ages 16+
Entry: $5; Pizza: $4; Drinks $2
New! Bundle option: 1 entry + 1 pizza + drink = $10
Cash at the door. Masks & vaccinations are recommended.
See the schedule below. If you have questions, please email: inclusion@dovercourt.org
2025 dates:
- Sept 13
- Oct 18
- Nov 15
- Dec 13
2026 dates:
- Feb 14
- March 28
- April 18
- May 23
- June 13
You can’t fix what you don’t understand.
As humanity is faced with unprecedented challenges, “Climate Fresk” is a citizens’ workshop that aims to raise awareness and understanding about climate change, and therefore to encourage positive actions at the personal and collective level.
Conceived in France and based on the science of the IPCC 6th Assessment Report, it explains the cause and consequences of climate change. It gives the opportunity to learn a lot in a short period of time and is meant for both novices and experts. More than 1.9 million people worldwide have participated in the workshop, and 85,000 have gone on to become facilitators.
In just 3-hours, the workshop calls on participants’ collective and creative intelligence to identify the cause-effect relationships between different components of climate change. As a team, you will be handed five sets of cards. When each new set is handed out you are asked to (re)arrange the cards on the table according to cause and consequence. The Fresk is revealed once all 42 cards are on the table. Team cooperation is very important and will get you from one set of cards to the next. A facilitator will guide and support you through the workshop.
For more info, visit the Climate Fresk website: https://climatefresk.org/
THE STEPS of the WORKSHOP
- the introduction to learn a bit about “Climate Fresk” history and to do some icebreaker exercises
- the construction of the Fresk, guided by your facilitator
- the creative phase, to relax and get to grips with your Fresk, then a debrief on what you’ve learned, and
- finally to share your feelings and express your thoughts and ideas for individual and collective actions
COMMENTS FROM PAST PARTICIPANTS:
- “the Fresk gave us a higher, more comprehensive view of the complex interconnections between the causes and consequences of climate change”
- “I haven’t stopped thinking about the time we spent at the workshop. The power of those cards! It DID NOT feel like 3 hours!! The time flew!
- “Even two weeks after the workshop, we were still talking about the Fresk!”
The workshops are facilitated by Westboro resident Don Sproule and Knoxdale-Merivale resident Don Ball.
Fee by donation: $5, $10 or $15 (Suggested donation: $15).
Ages 17+; maximum 14 people
