Celebrate soccer, music, and community on the Danforth with The World Within Our Neighbourhood — a free summer event bringing people together through the joy of the beautiful game. Join the Broadview Danforth BIA on June 12 and 13 for outdoor match-day fun, live music, family-friendly activities, local performances, and a special viewing party for Canada’s opening match against Bosnia and Herzegovina. The celebration continues through July 2 with musicians performing in CafeTO parkettes across the neighbourhood, representing cultures and countries from around the world. Come cheer, explore, dance, eat, shop, and experience the incredible mix of global sounds, local businesses, and community spirit that make Broadview Danforth feel like the world in one neighbourhood.

BD Beats Event Listings

Venues

Parkette 1 and Parkette 2 are CafeTO outdoor spaces, designated on Toronto Soccer Match Days only.

VenueAddress
Zed-80 185 Danforth Ave.
Papyrus 337 Danforth Ave.
Carrot Common 348 Danforth Ave.
Parkette 1 185 Danforth Ave.
Parkette 2 337 Danforth Ave.

June

Thu Jun 4

Fri Jun 5

Sun Jun 7

Thu Jun 11

Fri Jun 12 — Toronto Soccer Match Day · Canada · 6–9pm

Sat Jun 13 — Toronto Soccer Match Day · Canada / Bosnia · noon–2pm

Sun Jun 14

Wed Jun 17 — Toronto Soccer Match Day · Panama / Ghana · 6–8pm

Thu Jun 18

Fri Jun 19

Sat Jun 20 — Toronto Soccer Match Day · Germany / Côte d'Ivoire · 3–5pm

Sun Jun 21

Tue Jun 23 — Toronto Soccer Match Day · Croatia / Panama · 6–8pm

Thu Jun 25

Fri Jun 26 — Toronto Soccer Match Day · Senegal / Iraq · 6–9pm

Sun Jun 28

  • Carrot Common: TBA

July

Thu Jul 2 — Toronto Soccer Match Day · 2nd Round (teams TBD) · 6–9pm

Fri Jul 3

Sun Jul 5

Thu Jul 9

Fri Jul 10

  • Zed-80: TBA
  • Papyrus: Peter Atto

Sun Jul 12

July cont'd

Thu Jul 16

Fri Jul 17

Sun Jul 19

Thu Jul 23

Fri Jul 24

Sun Jul 26

Thu Jul 30

Fri Jul 31

August

Sun Aug 2

  • Carrot Common: TBA

Thu Aug 6

Fri Aug 7

Sun Aug 9

Thu Aug 13

Fri Aug 14

Sun Aug 16

Thu Aug 20

Fri Aug 21

Sun Aug 23

  • Carrot Common: TBA

Thu Aug 27

Fri Aug 28

Sun Aug 30

Wednesday, 23 June 2021 07:58
Good Afternoon All, The City of Toronto has partnered with the Toronto Region Board of Trade to provide free COVID-19 rapid screening kits to small and medium-sized businesses across Toronto. Businesses with 150 or fewer employees are welcome to participate in this voluntary initiative and can visit www.bot.com/rapidscreening to order your initial four-week supply of testing kits from the Toronto Region Board of Trade and book a time slot for pickup. These kits are handy to have in your businesses…
Monday, 21 June 2021 15:41
Good Afternoon All, Today is day 11 of being in the Province's Step 1 reopening. There is some chatter and pushing to see if the Province might consider accelerating the timeframe for moving into Step 2 given that case counts are quite low right now. We will have to see how this progresses - I will let you all know when and if there is any concrete information on this. In the meantime, I want to make sure that you're…
Thursday, 10 June 2021 00:00
Good Afternoon All, I know that this week has been a scramble for many of you trying to prepare for reopening tomorrow (Friday). For our restaurant members it's been a bit of a hot mess trying to get confirmation on last call times. We finally got that sorted yesterday - 2am is last call. Contact Tracing: I need to make sure that everyone who is reopening tomorrow knows that you have to do contact tracing for every person who enters…
Monday, 07 June 2021 16:38
Good Afternoon All, The Premier has just announced that we will be moving into Step 1 of the reopening plan as of 12:01am this coming Friday, June 11. Below is the full release from the Province and it includes what is allowed in this first reopening stage (see bold copy) so please take a few minutes to read through it. As a quick overview: Non-essential retail can open with 15% capacity Essential retail can increase capacity to 25% Outdoor restaurant…
Monday, 31 May 2021 13:47
To All Broadview Danforth BIA Members, East Toronto Health Partners will be operating a pop-up vaccine clinic on Thursday, June 3 at Frankland Community School (816 Logan Ave) that will give priority access to individuals 12+ who work/live on or around Danforth Avenue. The clinic opens at 3 p.m. until vaccine supply runs out. It will offer first doses only. Individuals 12+ who live/work/attend school in any “M” postal code will also be welcome at the clinic. This includes students…
Monday, 31 May 2021 11:46
Good Morning All, Some of you have reached out asking for clarification on what you can and can't do between June 2nd and June 14th. This Wednesday, June 2nd the Stay At Home order will be lifted - basically that means that people can leave their home for non-essential reasons HOWEVER all other rules remain in place - no in-store shopping at non-essential stores, no outdoor dining etc. On June 14th certain things will be allowed including limited outdoor dining…

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