The Little Paper

• Saturday
• Saturday, Sunday
• Sunday

Saturday

Chinatown Night Market

Chinatown, Spadina and Dundas
Market is on Huron St, closed to traffic S of D’arcy St
http://www.toronto-bia.com/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&...
5-11pm
Free
Inspired by Temple Street’s market in Hong King, Toronto’s downtown Chinatown takes to Huron St for a night time market filled with vendors and performers.

Sail-in Cinema: Finding Nemo

Sugar Beach
25 Dockside Dr
www.sailincinema.com
8:45-11pm
Free, tickets required
The Toronto Port Authority is celebrating its 100th Anniversary by hosting Canada's first-ever floating movie experience. Projected onto a two-sided screen in Toronto's harbour, movies can be watched from Sugar Beach on the one side or from boats in the harbour on the other. Saturday night features the G-rated family flick, Finding Nemo, a heart-warming tale of a clownfish searching for his son.

Summer Saturdays: Mediatheque Mysteries

National Film Board Mediatheque
150 John St
416-973-3012
http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/mediatheque/schedule.php?id=2456
12-12:30pm: Screening Program, 12:30-2:30pm: Animation Workshop (6-13yrs)
$5/child, registration recommended, adult at no extra charge must accompany children
Enjoy a mystery themed animation screening and join the pixilation animation workshop; The Case of the Magic Gates.

Wild Blueberry Festival

Evergreen Brickworks
550 Bayview Ave
http://ebw.evergreen.ca/whats-on/food/wildblueberryfestival/
8am-4pm
Free
It’s wild blueberry season and Evergreen is holding a festival in honour of the delicious berry. Stop by for music, wild blueberry tasting, tie-dying (bring a t-shirt), hands-on baking workshops and a blueberry pie bake-off.

Saturday, Sunday

Burlington Children’s Festival

Beachway Park & Spencer Smith Park
Burlington
http://cms.burlington.ca/Page512.aspx
Sat: 10am-4pm, Sun: 10am-4pm, 7-10pm
Free
Saturday is a gigantic sand castle competition at the beach and Sunday is the popular Children’s Festival with a theme of Pirates and Princesses this year.

Fairbank Village Summer Fest

Eglinton & Dufferin area
http://www.fairbankvillagebia.com/summer_fest_2011.html
Sat: 12-11pm, Sun: 12-9pm
Free
Here’s your chance to enjoy Eglinton Ave traffic-free from Dufferin St W to Chamberlain Ave. Games, rides, entertainment, music, a sidewalk sale and delicious food abound for the weekend.

Masala! Mehndi! Masti!

Harbourfront Centre
235 Queens Quay W
416-973-4000
http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/summer/mmm/
Free
Countries from across South Asia come together to blend and celebrate their rich, dynamic cultures through music, dance, film and kids activities.

Ontario Place: Bugs!

Ontario Place Cinesphere
955 Lakeshore Blvd W
http://www.ontarioplace.com/event/bugs#
11am, 1:30pm, 4pm
Free/w play-all-day-pass, $5/w free-grounds admission
If you haven’t taken advantage of the free grounds admission at Ontario Place this summer, time’s running out. Lots to do and see including the 3D movie, Bugs at the Cinesphere. Shot on location in the jungles of Borneo, the film shows the up-close and personal world of more than forty tropical insects including the Praying Mantis and the Butterfly as well as tropical animals such as tarantulas, scorpions and vipers- narrated by Dame Judi Dench.

Port Credit Busker Festival

Port Credit, Mississauga
http://www.portcredit.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=65&I...
Free
Run away with the circus for the weekend! Enjoy over 40 professional buskers in 6 staging areas and a huge grand finale fire show on Sunday in Port Credit Memorial Park.

Sunday

Movies in the Park: Riverdale

Riverdale Park East
550 Broadview Ave
www.moviesinthepark.wordpress.com
Free
Bring a picnic, roll out a blanket and enjoy a family-flick under the stars. Each movie night supports a local charity. Movies begin at sundown.

Power Kids (8-12yrs)

The Power Plant
231 Queen’s Quay W
416-973-4000
http://www.thepowerplant.org/ProgramsEvents/Programs/Power-Kids/Project-...
3-5pm
$4-6/child, register in advance
This workshop, inspired by sculptor Anna Kołodziejska, teaches kids to play with shape, space and scale, and to create everyday objects using common artistic and domestic materials. Parents are expected to join their children in all activities.

Voyageur Canoe Trip to Toronto Islands

Harbourfront Canoe & Kayak Centre
283A Queen’s Quay W
www.canoetoronto.com
11am
$25/adults, $20/children, reservation required
Paddle with your family and others in a 10 or 18 person voyageur canoe. The adventure begins at Harbourfront Centre, travels at a leisurely pace across the harbour, breaks for a picnic lunch (bring your own food) on Centre Island and continues through the islands lagoons and bird sanctuaries. The trip is 2.5 to 3hrs in total.