The Pocket Change Project 2024 Eco Fun Fair

The Pocket Change Project presents the fifth edition of our Eco Fun Fair!

Date: Sunday, September 22 (Rain Date: Sept 28)

Activities: 1:00 to 5:00 pm (unless otherwise indicated) + Community Dinner afterwards @ 6 pm

Big Tent Speakers: 1:30 - 3:00 pm

Location: Phin Park, The Pocket, 115 Condor Ave.

It’s happening!  The annual Pocket Change Eco Fun Fair is popping up in Phin Park in September this year. It’s a community party and a great learning opportunities rolled into one, all to celebrate our earth and the ways we can protect it as individuals and a community.  Everyone welcome! Come and join your friends and neighbours for free, fun activities, absorbing speakers, a great array of exhibitors, and more for the whole family.

Children’s Tent and Activities:

• “Fun with Soil and Plants,” a nature activity for the whole family (incorporating Indigenous teachings!) led by Green Thumbelina, 2-4 pm
• Face painting 1-4 pm
• Solar-powered ham radio station
• Rochelle Strauss, bestselling children's author: bring a book of Rochelle's for her to sign. Or you can order and purchase one from her (which she will get for you, sign, and deliver within the Riverdale/Pocket area in a week or two). Or just come by to chat with her!  Rochelle's books are:
  The Global Ocean, One Well: The Story of Water on Earth (Kids Can Press, 2007), and Tree of Life: The Incredible Biodiversity of Life on Earth - all published by Kids Can Press, and available at Queen Books, Indigo, Book City, Ella Minnow, and many more!
  

Bikes, bikes, bikes!

• Test ride an e-bike with Zygg Bikes (location near the running track)
• Bike Exchange – come and sell/donate or pick up a new set of wheels!

Speakers under the Big Tent: 1:00-3pm

1:00 - 1:25, Rochelle Strauss, Pocket Resident and Bestselling Children's Eco Author!

Rochelle will talk about her books, the planet, nature, and her latest travel adventure with marine animals, and answer kids' questions. After that, she'll be in the Children's Tent until 2 pm.

1:30 - Adult Speaking Series Kick Off
1:35 - 2:00 Meet Our Local Representatives
• Julie Dabrusin, MP, Toronto-Danforth
• Peter Tabuns, MPP, Toronto-Danforth
• Paula Fletcher, City Councillor, Toronto-Danforth
2:00 - 2:30 Jake Miller, Executive Director, Toronto Home Retrofits
2:30 - 3:00 James Nolan, Executive Director, Environment and Climate, City of Toronto

BBQ/Concessions Stand. Delicious plant-based (Beyond Meat) burgers, sausages and more, and a refillable water bottle station

EVs on Display

Exhibitors:

• Live Green Toronto
• Project Neutral
• Toronto Hydro
• Toronto Nature Stewards
• Bike Share Toronto
• Toronto and Region Conservation Authority
• Don’t Mess with the Don
• TERRE (Toronto East Residents for Renewable Energy)
• Pocket Change Project
• Pocket Community Association

Home Retrofit Exhibit Zone:

• Collaborative Architecture & Sustanianable.to
• Master Group (Heat Pumps) 
• Goldfinch Energy (Energy and Retrofit Advisors)
• Switch Heat Pumps
• Energy Neighbour (Energy and Retrofit Advisors)
• Jouleia (Energy and Retrofit Advisors)
• Toronto Home Retrofits & Home Retrofit Forum

COMMUNITY DINNER to follow the Fair at approximately 6 pm, with a delicious biriyani (veg and non-veg) meal generously provided by members of the Madinah Masjid Mosque. Come and meet your neighbours and enjoy our beautiful park together! Thanks to our Community Dinner sponsor Park People. Please BYO reusable plates, cups/mugs, and cutlery.