Kind Space

Join us at the Pride Parade this year! Participants, volunteers, family members (including pets), and community members are welcome to walk with us ❤️. We'll have a small vehicle for anyone that needs to take breaks from walking/heat.

Make sure to RSVP with the link in our bio (linktr.ee/kindspaceca) for more details leading up to and on the day of the march!

Hi friends,

We have a new platform to collect anonymous feedback about your experience with Kind Space - with general services and programs and mental wellness/counselling-specific programming. The 2nd slide is a QR code and bitly link for the general survey and the 3rd slide is a QR code and bitly link for the counselling survey.

You can also get both links from our Linktree in our bio!
Linktr.ee/kindspaceca

Registration Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfiptKx_LOT2hX_5AK3RE0-M4foiqgRzx3ADC04V1wAckAOlQ/viewform

Grow With The Flow (A Plant Social)
Plant Identification
Thursday Aug 22, 5-8pm

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Women on Wheels for Car Maintenance and Safety coming up in August! See poster!

🌟ANNOUNCEMENT🌟

"Hi everyone! My name is Amber and I'm a Transitional and Housing Support Worker with . Folks are welcome to see me for all sorts of reasons! I can help with safety planning, I can help with housing applications to the Social Housing Registry, I can support with referrals to other community resources and offer system navigation or I can just be a safe space to chat."

Starting today Amber will be present at Kind Space to offer support and service navigation. You can come by and chat with her on Wednesdays between 1-4pm!

Open Stage Night: Sounds of Summer
Sunday, July 28
5-9pm

REGISTRATION LINK: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc3Ge0an8MUmy5k9cfE-HR4r10roFoQYXbW-97RiCnjczcH4A/viewform

Grow With The Flow: Iphamba/Spider Plant

Thursday July 25
5-8pm
This is a Plant Social where we hang out and learn about plants. We may also go to a garden or park!

REGISTRATION LINK: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSccgg2WL8p1tkrG85o4b8uqvIZFw-eSJ7UaNKAAEMd7vwWWFQ/viewform

Karaoke Alt Night
Wednesday July 17th
5-9pm

REGISTRATION LINK: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeJKwufkv1FfjEHLzw4-9RLtFbc6jQn5T1CQ3yKdmX_DRwxLA/viewform

Charcuterie + Board + Games Night
Thursday, July 11, 5-8pm

REGISTRATION LINK: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZap2wVSMnBuG35weGsH4_uctvB1QlQmS69qlScWzFVyN_8A/viewform

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Big News! This year marks the 40th anniversary! Share your memories, stories, pictures, or videos by emailing [email protected] with the subject line “Re: Forty Years of Kindness.” Submit your memory (up to 500 words) along with the approximate year. Please indicate if you prefer your first name and last initial or wish to remain anonymous. Stay tuned for updates on how we're celebrating our 40 years in future newsletters!

Hope to see you soon! - https://mailchi.mp/kindspace/happyjune-17220430

Welcome to some new folks joining in this farm journey!
We have officially started our 12 months of meat with every monthly drop off with have 20 half chickens! This first month we dropped off 35 pounds of organic pastured chicken. To be able to make our goal of over 600 pounds of mutual aid meat we need your help!
Support this goal of feeding community and growing the farm so next year we can have even bigger goals of mutual aid https://tr.ee/Mmfkqj0-Mr
Please keep sharing, talking about us and donating!! Thank you for the support 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Kind Space will be taking a Mental Wellness Week from July 1 - 7. The drop-in will be closed. Evening programming schedule for next week will continue as planned.

See you at the drop-in on the 8th!

Grow With The Flow: Plant Social
Thursday, June 27th (rescheduled from May 30th)
5-8pm
Spend time with Kind Space plants or come with us to a park or community garden to socialize and learn more about plants!

Registration link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNSfPZaPsnglhAwLUz0NkCj-e4e9iJZUcNK3IG6-okHuHBbA/viewform

Image description: Graphics of a potted plant in shades of green; a Black person with blue hair, pink clothes, and gardening gloves holding a potted plant that has a trans flag in it; two yellow-orange tulips entwined with a zig-zagging rainbow; a potted plant with one stick that has a picture of a cat head and another sticker that says "trans rights" with a flower.

Karaoke Night: Pop Time!
Thursday June 20, 5-9pm

Registration Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScTGj99QN2P-1w-1eqrD6vFCbmL3O46E410N4x-mLIjmKgn0w/viewform

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Hello friends,

If you're signed up for our newsletter, you may have already seen our astrology survey. 6 years ago we did a little survey of the Kind Space community and the 💫astrological signs most present around the centre were Virgo and Aquarius (tied- 12.7%) followed by Gemini (11.3%). Just for fun we decided to check in again and see if anything has changed!

Link is in our bio! We'll announce the results in the July newsletter.

Boardgames & Lemonade! Night
Thursday June 13, 5-8pm

REGISTRATION LINK: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfqA5gy6-qlNCNbpyAizKNR0iHPx_ISPTrhjsjjaEdlmKkyyA/viewform

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Apologies, the Plant Social is cancelled today due to staff illness. We'll try to host it again on Thursday June 27th. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Grow With The Flow: Plant Social
Thursday, May 30
5-8pm

Spend time with Kind Space plants or come with us to a park or community garden to socialize and learn more about plants!

Registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVMGqjo7Cs-W2QevCSNumDbT77vtEIr6sO3n8N3jGit0pZDw/viewform

Image description: Graphics of a potted plant in shades of green; a Black person with blue hair, pink clothes, and gardening gloves holding a potted plant that has a trans flag in it; two yellow-orange tulips entwined with a zig-zagging rainbow; a potted plant with one stick that has a picture of a cat head and another sticker that says "trans rights" with a flower.

Join us TODAY at 6:30pm at City Hall in Marion Dewar Plaza for the Defend the Right to Dissent Rally ✊🏾

The people will NOT be silenced by coercive financial tactics!

Grow With The Flow: Plant Social
Thursday, May 30
5-8pm

Spend time with Kind Space plants or come with us to a park or community garden to socialize and learn more about plants!

Registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVMGqjo7Cs-W2QevCSNumDbT77vtEIr6sO3n8N3jGit0pZDw/viewform

Image description: Graphics of a potted plant in shades of green; a Black person with blue hair, pink clothes, and gardening gloves holding a potted plant that has a trans flag in it; two yellow-orange tulips entwined with a zig-zagging rainbow; a potted plant with one stick that has a picture of a cat head and another sticker that says "trans rights" with a flower.

Kind Karaoke Night: Soundtracks & Showtunes
Thur May 23, 5-9pm

Registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSejP4WodtRO_Qp-PoH7e2G3j3sCpt5B6AMcFFu773OWoehffQ/viewform

Image description: A photo of a microphone in front of a hanging metal star and a wall of lightbulbs.

Boardgames & Tea Party Night
Thursday, May 9th, 5-8pm

Registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbuhz4-BVo0IDggvjp0yyCRzDlq69LEfoKZB4XcvzJmLlUPA/viewform

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Hi friends,

Next week one of our incredible volunteers is being highlighted and we're looking for extras!

This is a paid opportunity and you'll be asked to do activities like playing a board game or eating food. If you're interested email [email protected] and if you have questions email [email protected].

Have you heard of Undercuts? Undercuts is currently once a month hair cutting drop-in* at Kind Space. 💇🏽

We have been very lucky to have Kyle () joining us the past couple months to offer free hair cuts for our community. Thanks Kyle!❤️💕

*At this time the drop-in is first come first serve. Keep an eye on announcements, as we will let you know when the drop in day is. Registration may be required in the future based on demand.

March 2024 Drop-In: March 14, 12-4PM

Sorry, we are closed at 4pm today due to staff illness.
We re-open noon tomorrow.

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Hey Friends! We are pausing the 30-ish Group until April! But this is not a full hiatus! We have had a great surge in interest for this peer-group; but in order to accommedate will be taking a couple months to make some adjustments. We will keep you updated!

TTRPG One-Shot Event
Sat March 2
1-9pm

For more information and/or to register, go here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUQLwAalntmADp7otBV5DzEJ3cBSX5lX2ywQrhXN7dTyGpBg/viewform

Image Description: A stylized depiction of three people around a table that is covered in a battle map with miniatures, dice, and drinks. One of the people is in a power chair holding a book that says "Game Master". Another is holding a drink with their prosthetic arm. In the background is a castle, dragon, cloud, and the moon.

Karaoke Night
Rock'n'Roll
Thur Feb 22,
5-9pm

The theme is classic and modern rock songs, but feel free to come sing whatever you like!

Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfaNZRa7_zY7GUjDyy1Ob7NBqoZn3bWZ8MrxH7FWbevOwnItQ/viewform

Image Description: A black-and-white photo of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of rock and roll, singing into a microphone. In front of her is a stylized illustration of a hand doing the "rock and roll" gesture, in colours of purple, red, yellow, and white, with black nail polish.