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• Saturday
• Saturday, Sunday
• Sunday

Saturday

African and Caribbean Cultural Heritage Day
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen’s Park
http://www.rom.on.ca/programs/rom_kids/family/
10am-4pm
Free w/admission, $15/adult, $/4-14yrs
Celebrate African and Caribbean culture and heritage with a full day of live music performances, hands-on activities for kids, storytelling and film screenings.

Elgin & Winter  Garden Tour
Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre
189 Yonge St
416-314-2874
http://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/News-and-Events/2012/Feb/EWG-Tour---Free-during-Heritage-Week!-en.aspx
11am-12:30pm, meet in lobby 10min prior to start time
Free
Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre is the last operating double-decker theatre in the world and  a National Historic Site.  Enjoy a family-oriented tour as part of Heritage Week celebrations.

Family Band: Handmade Musical Instruments
Harbourfront Centre
235 Queens Quay W
416-973-4000
http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/learn/courses/family.cfm#familyband
10am-3pm
$50/1 parent + 1 child, $15/addl child, registration required
In this workshop, participants will learn about music, then, using everyday materials and a variety of techniques they will make their own musical instruments to create a family band. Instruments may include shakers, rattles, transverse flutes, ocarinas, drums, rain sticks and xylophones.

Owl Prowl
The Kortright Centre
9550 Pine Valley Dr
416-667-6295
http://www.kortright.org/whats-on/weekend-programming.dot
7-9pm
Call to register
Come and experience an evening with live owls. Take a walk through the Owl habitat and learn some owl calls.

Young People’s Concerts: Orchestra Olympics (5-12yrs)
Roy Thomson Hall
60 Simcoe St
416-593-4828
http://www.tso.ca/Concerts-And-Tickets/Events/2011-2012-Season/Orchestra...
1:30pm, 3:30pm
$20-$32
As Canadian athletes prepare for the Summer Olympics in London, the instruments of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra are also in training. They will be competing at the prestigious Orchestra Games 2012.

Saturday, Sunday

IceFest
Yorkville Park
Bellair & Cumberland
www.bloor-yorkville.com
12-5pm, skating show: 1pm, 2:30pm, 4pm
Donate $5 to the Heart and Stroke Foundation and get a keepsake photo with a fifteen foot sled hauled by huskies-all made of ice
Enjoy some frosty fun and marvel at the ice sculpting Winter Wilderness Exhibit crafted from 35,000 pounds of ice. Ice carving demonstrations and on street skating performances by “Glisse on Ice.” Hot soups and mac ‘n cheese fir sale and complimentary Ice Kiddie Cubes with a GoGo’s Crazy Bones toy inside.

Visions for a Green Community: Neighbourhood Greening Workshops
Various Locations, Scarborough
416-661-6600 x5280
www.trca.on.ca/highlandevents
awood@trca.on.ca
Free, light refreshments provided
TRCA is joining forces with community partners to work on neighbourhood greening improvement projects in 3 areas of Scarborough and we want your input. Contribute to a green vision for your neighbourhood, learn about resources to get projects off the ground, and connect with neighbours. Enviro-themed kids activities included.
• Cedarbrook Junior Public School
56 Nelson St, Scarborough
Sat 25 Feb: 10am-12pm
• Morningside Park: St Mark’s United Church
115 Orton Park Rd, Scarborough
Sat 25 Feb: 2-4pm
• Milliken Park Area: Milliken Community Recreation Centre
4325 McCowan Rd, Scarborough
Sun 26 Feb:  2-4pm: Free
Light refreshments provided

Weekend Family Fun (3-9yrs)
Bata Shoe Museum
327 Bloor St W
416-979-7799
www.batashoemuseum.ca
Sat: 11am-4pm, Sun: 12-4pm
Free,w/admission: $14/adult, $5/5-17yrs, Free/5yrs-, plus $2/mini-clog
Weekend fun at the Bata. Paint a mini-clog, try on shoes, and go on a treasure hunt in the galleries.

Sunday

Model Railroad Show
Model Railroad Club of Toronto
171 East Liberty St, Suite B1
416-536-8927
www.modelrailroadclub.com
12-4:30pm
$8/adults, $4/children
Take a trip back in time to the late 1950’s where steam is still king  and enjoy the fun of model railroading as the Club opens its’ doors for their annual show.

Power Kids: Portraits (8-12yrs)
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
Harbourfront Centre, 231 Queen’s Quay W
416-973-4949
http://www.thepowerplant.org/ProgramsEvents/Programs/Power-Kids.aspx
3-5pm
$6, call to reserve, parents are expected to join their children in all activities.
Inspired by Stan Douglas’s Malabar People portrait series, this workshop explores creative drawing and collage approaches to portraiture. Participants learn about the fundamentals of portraiture and create a portrait, which will be transformed through a mosaic magazine collage technique. Kids receive their portraits at the end of the workshop

Toronto Summer Camp Expo
Roy Thomson Hall
60 Simcoe St
http://www.ourkids.net/campexpo/
12-4pm
Free (fill out registration form online)
Plan your summer! The Toronto Summer Camp Expo combines parent information seminars with a large selection of day and overnight camp displays so parents can make an informed decision on the best camp experiences for their child.

Totsapalooza: Mouse-City Calling
Revival
783 College St
http://smallprinttoronto.org/events.html#01
2-4:30pm
$12/adult, $8/kids
Kids are Urban planners for the day, working to create a city for storybook mice out of recycled materials. Centre for Art  & Soul will be there, Indie bands will cover tunes from The Clash’s,  “London Calling,” and there will be a tribute to well-loved children’s author of mouse books, Leo Lionni.