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Urban Planner: December 22, 2010
Urban Planner is Torontoist’s guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to [email protected].
One of the many festive light installations at Downsview Park’s Trail of Lights. Photo by Tsar Kasim from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
Today in Toronto: tour through a brightly lit winter wonderland, hobnob with the city’s journo crowd, or get drunk with jugglers.
LIGHTS: It’s going to be a bright night at Downview Park this evening as Canada’s largest holiday light show The Trail of Lights continues into the holiday season. The trail—which weaves through Downsview and the Canada Forest—features more than four hundred thousand LED lights formed into festive displays, more than half of which are animated. Tonight the path will be closed to vehicles for Walk-Through Wednesday, so be sure to bundle up against the cold for the merry trek. Downview Park (75 Carl Hall Road), 6–11 p.m., $8 adult, $4 child.
PARTY: Stop the presses! It’s time for the twelfth edition of Press Pass, the premier party night for the city’s journalist scene. Founded by former Torontoist editor Sarah Lazarovic and host of ArtStars* Nadja Sayej, the event has been offering respite for newshounds for two years now. Attendees will be given a press pass personalized with a caricature portrait by an in-house comic artist, and invited to consume stiff libations concocted by a resident ink slinger. So step away from that typewriter, grab your fedora, and head on down to find your scoop. Press Club (850 Dundas Street West), 8 p.m., FREE.
PARTY: Never ones to miss the opportunity for a party, the Toronto Juggling Club are hosting a Holiday Juggling Party tonight at Centre of Gravity. Open to pros, amateurs, and the just plain curious, the event promises party games, a special guest DJ, poker, and probably at least a little bit of juggling. Bring something to drink and something to juggle, and preferably avoid them being the same thing. Save the chainsaws for an event sans alcohol. Centre of Gravity (1300 Gerrard Street East), 8 p.m., FREE.