Activities Calendar
Type of Activities
Public Conversations
A series of fun and accessible discussions about issues impacting Parc-Extension residents.
Freedom Workshops
Skill-sharing workshops to connect inward, outward, and together.
Legend
Dark purple : BxB activities on-site
Light purple: BxB activities off-site
Green : Partners activities on-site
Community Activities
Intergenerational activities to build connections and bridges between diverse individuals, communities, and organizations.
Building Bridges
A support space for LGBTQ+ youth and families of South Asian origin, to develop intergenerational dialogue, connection, and community harmony. Join us for heartfelt conversations, laughter, and free chai! ✨
Bollywood Dance class with Veils of Bollywood
Join us at Brique par Brique for an exciting Bollywood dance class with Rameez Karim! 🌟
Discover Bollywood: Dance Workshop & Party
Join us for an exciting Dance Party at Brique par Brique on October 11th from 6-9pm to celebrate the launch of our Bollywood dance classes! 💃✨
Food Stories #2
Join us for round two of our vibrant food and design experience with Jugaar Popups featuring Chef Deepali from Parc Ex Curry Collective! 🍽️✨
Food Stories #1
Get ready for a vibrant food and design experience with Jugaar Popups featuring Chef Deepali from Parc Ex Curry Collective! 🍽️✨
Queer Community Housing Workshop
Using a vacant building in Parc-Extension as a vessel for visioning, join us in a co-design workshop to imagine and model affordable queer living spaces!
In collaboration with AGIR Montréal
Through drawing, modeling, and conversations, we’ll explore what it takes to create safer and joyful community housing for queer folks in PX.
This workshop is part of a series of consultative activities organized by BxB to generate ideas for the rehabilitation of the Plaza Hutchison building into affordable housing and community spaces for PX residents. The goal is to unearth and explore different perspectives regarding collective living while fostering a playful and empowering relationship with community planning.
This event is limited to PX residents. There is limited capacity please register here:
Freedom Workshops: Learn to Write Songs with Emotion
Come to this workshop to learn how to write your best song and find mindfulness, beauty, and connection.
PX Bikes & Cars
A public town hall for residents to discuss bike lanes and cars in our community.
Freedom Workshops: Write2Heal
The workshop aims to create an accessible writing practice for participants, awareness of our daily lives under capitalism, and our connection to the land as South Asian migrants/settlers.
Services in Parc-Extension
An introduction to all of the major community organizations in Parc-Extension and a forum about our needs and desires to make it a even better place!
Freedom Workshops: Sound Meditation and Mindfulness
Sound Meditation and Mindfulness ♬♫♪ presented by Pascale Petitclerc
Freedom Workshops: Write2Heal
The workshop aims to create an accessible writing practice for participants, awareness of our daily lives under capitalism, and our connection to the land as South Asian migrants/settlers.
Freedom Workshops: Finding Peace in Precarity
This workshop is meant to confront feelings of shame associated with precarity.It is an invitation for you to be vulnerable and have a change of perspective. Let’s escape the rat race for a little while and take care of each other.
Freedom Workshops: The World of Poetry: an introduction
In this workshop, we will explore connecting with our inner energy through movement following a Shivathandavam routine. We will learn together how our energy works and how to channel it.
Park-Extension Walking Tour
Before leaving the neighborhood that he's loved for 15 years, Sasha will give us a guided tour of the people's history of Park-Extension. Come practice your French and learn more about the struggles and forces that have shaped our neighborhood.
*Cancelled if raining
Art & Immigration
A Thoughtful Conversation on the Intersection of Art, Music, and the Immigration Experience
Mapping Parc-Ex- Short Films Screening
Mapping Parc-Ex: a screening of short films by Judy Wong and Meryem Ouadban 🎥, followed by a discussion on community, solidarity, and the neighborhood.
BIZARRE BAZAAR
Join us for our swap event! Good music, snacks, refreshments, and lovely people!
Freedom Workshops: Dance and movement with Naveen
In this workshop, we will explore connecting with our inner energy through movement following a Shivathandavam routine. We will learn together how our energy works and how to channel it.
Unconditional Love - South Asian LGBTQ+ Families
A conversation about coming out as immigrant parents that love their LGBTQ+ kids, and learning from youth who are creating chosen families and reinventing their traditional culture.
Freedom Workshops: Dance and movement with Naveen
The Freedom Workshops at Brique par brique is a series of workshops that focus on a holistic approach to self-development and community building. Participants will be guided through various activities to help them connect inward with themselves, outward with others, and with the community.
For this first workshop, we will explore connecting with our inner energy through movement following a
Shivathandavam routine. We will learn together how our energy works and how to channel to it.
Music and Memory
Music touches us all! Our guests will sing their favorite song and explain why it means so much to them, then invite you to sing along. Then you can come up on stage and play a song that you love from your phone, sharing your story of what it means to you. Participate or just watch and talk! Snacks, drinks, and the power of music for all.
Childcare is available. In English, French, Punjabi, and Hindi.
Dancing in Community
Dancing for everyone! Come and learn our dance and show us your dance. Free dance lessons for the whole family. Participate or just watch and talk! Tea, biscuits, music, and the power of movement!
Everyone is welcome. Childcare is available.
FREE! ALL AGES. IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH WITH TRANSLATION IN PUNJABI, HINDI, AND TAMIL.
Happy Birthday with Nitu Sharma
Parc-Ex residents, you are all invited next Saturday afternoon to our first- ever Public Conversation
We are kicking it off with a performance of the play « Happy Birthday » by Nitu Sharma in Punjabi this Saturday at 2PM at Brique par Brique, 633 Beaumont Ave. The play is free, tea and snacks are available as is childcare. We will have a conversation together following the play Translation will be available in Hindi and English for the discussion afterward Come join us!