Poetry Readings at Guild Park - Session 2 Soul Rhythms
Sun, Jun 29
|Guild Park's Sculptor's Cabin
Join visiting poet, Lilian Allen, for this interactive session. Featuring poetry grounded in oral traditions and emerging as a powerful force in society. Organized by Tender Possibilities, part of Toronto’s Arts in the Parks program. Click RSVP for free registration.
Time & Location
Jun 29, 2025, 1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Guild Park's Sculptor's Cabin, 201 Guildwood Pkwy, Scarborough, ON M1E, Canada, Canada
About the event
This program by Tender Possibilities encourages young adults explore the power of poetry and creative placemaking in inspiring cultural spaces. This initiative is designed to bring people together face-to-face to share ideas and experiences.
Each event starts at Guild Park's Scuptor's Cabin. There, participants get acquainted and meet the guest poet. The group then walks to an inspiring, quiet site in the park for readings, discussion and reflection.
This is the first program in the 2025 summer series of poetry readings at Guild Park. The program is back with a new group of poets and participants after its popular launch at Guild Park last year.
The June 29 featured poet is Lillian Allen, Toronto's 7th Poet Laureate. Lilian loves poetry like stars love the sky, like moonlight lights the night, and like how morning greets sunlight. She is an acclaimed foremother of Canadian poetry and has been working for decades exploring poetic languages of the soul, with word, before words, and beyond words.
Tender Possibilities' next poetry events at Guild Park are scheduled for the following Sunday afternoons starting at 1:30 pm: July 20; Aug. 10 & 24 (dates subject to change). Tender Possibilities will be serving food from 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm. at the park's Sculptor's Cabin (look for the tent). Then at 2:00 pm, the group walks deeper into the park to begin the session in an inspiring setting!
Part of Toronto’s Arts in the Parks program. Friends of Guild Park is pleased to be the community partner for this year's series of Arts In the Parks programs.