Art Spin bike tour: back to the Port Lands!
Saturday, 19 September 2026, 18:00
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- Art Spin bike tour: back to the Port Lands!, 61 Dockside Dr, Toronto, ON M5A 0R6, Canada, Toronto
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- Concerts
On September 19, Art Spin returns to the Port Lands for a bicycle-led adventure through one of Toronto's most dramatically transformed landscapes.
Art Spin is excited to return with one of our beloved bike tours and this time, we're heading back to the Port Lands!
We last visited in 2017, and the area has since undergone an extraordinary transformation. With the re-naturalization of the Don River and the creation of the new Biidaasige Park and surrounding wetlands, this new waterfront destination has become one of Toronto's great success stories and one worth celebrating together.
Join us on Saturday, September 19 for a one-time art experience featuring newly commissioned projects by Toronto-based writers and performers Fan Wu and Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, as well as a dance piece choreographed by Montreal-based artist Marie Lambin-Gagnon, presented in partnership with The Lassonde Art Trail. Stay tuned for more programming to be announced, you know how we like to surprise you!
Inspired by themes of re-naturalization and the relationship between the human and natural worlds, the tour will move through a landscape where industry, infrastructure and ecology meet, before culminating in a unique industrial space for a group exhibition, along with food vendors, bar service and music by DJ General Eclectic so we can all celebrate together!
We're not giving too much away just yet, but trust us, you'll want to come along for the ride.
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Date: Saturday September 19th, 2026
Rain Date: Sunday September 20th, 2026
Time: 2pm - 5pm (Meet at 2pm, tour leaves by 2:30 sharp)
Meeting Point Address: Sherbourne Common Park 61 Dockside Dr, Toronto (tour ends at 6 Leslie St.)
Tickets: $30
To Bring: Your bicycle, helmet & lock are essential, a water bottle and snack for the bike ride are always recommended.
Bike Ride Conditions: Although most of the tour route will be on designated bike trails and city streets there will be some portions that will see us take gravel paths that might prove a bit more challenging to ride on.
Accessibility: Unfortunately this event is not physically accessible. Participants are required to ride a bicycle to participate.
Rain Date: For the safety and enjoyment of our audience, Art Spin is a fair weather event. Our official rain date for this tour is Sunday September 20th. Ticket Holders will be notified day-of in case of any rescheduling due to weather. Given the limited resources we are working with, we are unable to issue a refund for your ticket if the event is postponed to the rain date and a ticket holder can no longer attend. Audience members should plan to be available either day.
WAIVER - PLEASE READ CAREFULLY:
As an Art Spin participant I understand and am aware that the act of cycling involved in this event holds the possibility of personal harm or injury. I accept these risks and hereby release and forever discharge Art Spin, its organizers, participating artists, bike marshals, volunteers, Board Members and partners, including Waterfront Toronto, Create TO, AJ Self Storage, Outer Harbour Marina Toronto, and Toronto Port Authority from any and all claims, demands, damages, costs, expenses, actions and causes of action in respect of death, injury, loss or damage to my person. I undertake and agree to remove myself from participation if I sense or observe any unusual hazard or unsafe condition, or if, at any time, I feel unable or unfit to safely continue for any reason.
By purchasing this ticket I agree to having read, understood and agree to the above release and indemnity. I warrant that I am physically fit to participate in this activity and that my cycling equipment is mechanically fit and suitable for its intended use.
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Never been on an Art Spin bike tour?
Art Spin bike tours are a roving curatorial project that situates commissioned, site-specific works in unique public spaces throughout the city. Each Art Spin tour gathers a large audience on bicycles to visit the multidisciplinary installations and performances in a one-of-a-kind event. With few details released beforehand, Art Spin tours ask you to trust the curators and allow yourselves to be surprised by both the creative programming and the unusual spaces to which they lead you.
About Art Spin:
Art Spin is a nomadic arts organization that has been bringing contemporary art out of traditional gallery spaces and into the city since 2009. Through bicycle tours, exhibitions and public art projects, Art Spin creates unique opportunities to experience art, discover new places and see Toronto differently.
FOLLOW US:
www.artspin.ca
info@artspin.ca
Instagram: @artspintoronto
Facebook: Art Spin
Sign up to our mailing list here: http://eepurl.com/cPpOBn
Thank you to all of our volunteers, partners, collaborators and supporters who make Art Spin possible.
We would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council and the Government of Ontario.
We are grateful to the project partners who make these events possible, this bike tour & the Renaturalize exhibition are only possible through support from Waterfront Toronto, CreateTO, Lassonde Art Trail, Outer Harbour Marina and Toronto Port Authority, and AJ Self Storage.
Art Spin is excited to return with one of our beloved bike tours and this time, we're heading back to the Port Lands!
We last visited in 2017, and the area has since undergone an extraordinary transformation. With the re-naturalization of the Don River and the creation of the new Biidaasige Park and surrounding wetlands, this new waterfront destination has become one of Toronto's great success stories and one worth celebrating together.
Join us on Saturday, September 19 for a one-time art experience featuring newly commissioned projects by Toronto-based writers and performers Fan Wu and Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, as well as a dance piece choreographed by Montreal-based artist Marie Lambin-Gagnon, presented in partnership with The Lassonde Art Trail. Stay tuned for more programming to be announced, you know how we like to surprise you!
Inspired by themes of re-naturalization and the relationship between the human and natural worlds, the tour will move through a landscape where industry, infrastructure and ecology meet, before culminating in a unique industrial space for a group exhibition, along with food vendors, bar service and music by DJ General Eclectic so we can all celebrate together!
We're not giving too much away just yet, but trust us, you'll want to come along for the ride.
-------
Date: Saturday September 19th, 2026
Rain Date: Sunday September 20th, 2026
Time: 2pm - 5pm (Meet at 2pm, tour leaves by 2:30 sharp)
Meeting Point Address: Sherbourne Common Park 61 Dockside Dr, Toronto (tour ends at 6 Leslie St.)
Tickets: $30
To Bring: Your bicycle, helmet & lock are essential, a water bottle and snack for the bike ride are always recommended.
Bike Ride Conditions: Although most of the tour route will be on designated bike trails and city streets there will be some portions that will see us take gravel paths that might prove a bit more challenging to ride on.
Accessibility: Unfortunately this event is not physically accessible. Participants are required to ride a bicycle to participate.
Rain Date: For the safety and enjoyment of our audience, Art Spin is a fair weather event. Our official rain date for this tour is Sunday September 20th. Ticket Holders will be notified day-of in case of any rescheduling due to weather. Given the limited resources we are working with, we are unable to issue a refund for your ticket if the event is postponed to the rain date and a ticket holder can no longer attend. Audience members should plan to be available either day.
WAIVER - PLEASE READ CAREFULLY:
As an Art Spin participant I understand and am aware that the act of cycling involved in this event holds the possibility of personal harm or injury. I accept these risks and hereby release and forever discharge Art Spin, its organizers, participating artists, bike marshals, volunteers, Board Members and partners, including Waterfront Toronto, Create TO, AJ Self Storage, Outer Harbour Marina Toronto, and Toronto Port Authority from any and all claims, demands, damages, costs, expenses, actions and causes of action in respect of death, injury, loss or damage to my person. I undertake and agree to remove myself from participation if I sense or observe any unusual hazard or unsafe condition, or if, at any time, I feel unable or unfit to safely continue for any reason.
By purchasing this ticket I agree to having read, understood and agree to the above release and indemnity. I warrant that I am physically fit to participate in this activity and that my cycling equipment is mechanically fit and suitable for its intended use.
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Never been on an Art Spin bike tour?
Art Spin bike tours are a roving curatorial project that situates commissioned, site-specific works in unique public spaces throughout the city. Each Art Spin tour gathers a large audience on bicycles to visit the multidisciplinary installations and performances in a one-of-a-kind event. With few details released beforehand, Art Spin tours ask you to trust the curators and allow yourselves to be surprised by both the creative programming and the unusual spaces to which they lead you.
About Art Spin:
Art Spin is a nomadic arts organization that has been bringing contemporary art out of traditional gallery spaces and into the city since 2009. Through bicycle tours, exhibitions and public art projects, Art Spin creates unique opportunities to experience art, discover new places and see Toronto differently.
FOLLOW US:
www.artspin.ca
info@artspin.ca
Instagram: @artspintoronto
Facebook: Art Spin
Sign up to our mailing list here: http://eepurl.com/cPpOBn
Thank you to all of our volunteers, partners, collaborators and supporters who make Art Spin possible.
We would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council and the Government of Ontario.
We are grateful to the project partners who make these events possible, this bike tour & the Renaturalize exhibition are only possible through support from Waterfront Toronto, CreateTO, Lassonde Art Trail, Outer Harbour Marina and Toronto Port Authority, and AJ Self Storage.
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