Walking for Tomorrow Beach Clean-Up at Centennial Beach (Barrie)

Walking for Tomorrow Community Beach Clean-Up at Centennial Beach (Barrie)

Once referred to as "shining waters," there is a deep cultural and spiritual history of Lake Simcoe pre-British colonial settlement and naming. Once a gathering place for trade and leisure, this ecologically rich region—home to 68 wetlands, vast forests, and hundreds of species—now faces increasing pressures from development, tourism, and resource extraction.

Working to help protect, care for, and repair what should be considered the commons, join Ontario artist Jill Price on Sunday evening as she embraces the long history of maintenance art and walking as an artform to help protect shorelines and their respective living bodies of Land and Water.

Supplying reusable buckets, gloves, protective UN/making Network t-shirts, and garbage pickers, participants are encouraged to wear protective footwear. Participants are also invited to visit Price's current exhibition From There to Here: Walking for Tomorrow at the MacLaren Art Centre that opened on July 10 and runs until October 26, 2025.

A rain-or-shine event, participants will be notified by email of cancellation one hour before start times upon the occurrence of hazardous weather events or warnings.

Upcoming Beach-cleans Include:

Sunday, September 28: 1 - 3 pm- Bayview Memorial Park (Hawkestown)

Sunday, September 28: 4 - 6 pm Centennial Beach (Barrie)

Sunday, October 5: 4 - 6 pm Minet's Point (Barrie)

Sunday, October 12: 4 - 6 pm Tollendale / Tyndale Beach (Barrie)

Jill Price of the UN/making Network respectfully acknowledges that they sit on , and territories, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe peoples, including the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Pottawatomi nations, collectively known as the Three Fires Confederacy.

Info: After introducing one another, participants will be provided context to the project as well as given a few suggestions on how to go about cleaning the beach in a way that is respectful to those still on the beach.

Info: Towards the end of the event participants will reconvene at Lifeguard Chair #3 to help sort, recycle, and dispose of materials gathered. All registered participants will receive and UN/making Network T-shirt Iron-on as a thank-you for their participation.

Also check out other Arts events in Barrie, Exhibitions in Barrie.