Events
Scroll down for upcoming events including:
- Climate Fresk workshops,
- Dovercourt inclusion dances,
- dance to live music with the Wild Cards,
- and the annual WCA Wild Westboro Garage Sale.
Monthly recreation workshops
Sign up for our monthly one-session recreation workshops including crafts, sports and date nights! See the monthly flyers on our Recreation Workshop webpage
Climate Fresk Workshops
“Climate Fresk” is a citizens’ workshop that aims to raise awareness and understanding of climate change, and thereby encourage positive actions at both the personal and collective levels.
Winter 2026 dates:
Read more about Climate workshops
You can't fix what you don't understand.
Conceived in France and based on the science of the IPCC 6th Assessment Report, it explains the cause and consequences of climate change. It gives the opportunity to learn a lot in a short period of time and is meant for both novices and experts. More than 1.9 million people worldwide have participated in the workshop, and 85,000 have gone on to become facilitators.
In just 3-hours, the workshop calls on participants’ collective and creative intelligence to identify the cause-effect relationships between different components of climate change. As a team, you will be handed five sets of cards. When each new set is handed out you are asked to (re)arrange the cards on the table according to cause and consequence. The Fresk is revealed once all 42 cards are on the table. Team cooperation is very important and will get you from one set of cards to the next. A facilitator will guide and support you through the workshop.
For more info, visit the Climate Fresk website: https://climatefresk.org/
THE STEPS of the WORKSHOP
- the introduction to learn a bit about “Climate Fresk” history and to do some icebreaker exercises
- the construction of the Fresk, guided by your facilitator
- the creative phase, to relax and get to grips with your Fresk, then a debrief on what you’ve learned, and
- finally to share your feelings and express your thoughts and ideas for individual and collective actions
COMMENTS FROM PAST PARTICIPANTS:
- "the Fresk gave us a higher, more comprehensive view of the complex interconnections between the causes and consequences of climate change"
- “I haven’t stopped thinking about the time we spent at the workshop. The power of those cards! It DID NOT feel like 3 hours!! The time flew!
- “Even two weeks after the workshop, we were still talking about the Fresk!”
The workshops are facilitated by Westboro resident Don Sproule and Knoxdale-Merivale resident Don Ball.
Fee by donation: $5, $10 or $15 (Suggested donation: $15).
Ages 17+; maximum 14 people
Inclusion Dances
Dovercourt hosts regular Inclusion dances for our special needs community.
The next dance is Sat. February 14, 7-9pm.
Ages 16+
Entry: $5; Pizza: $4; Drinks $2
Bundle option: 1 entry + 1 pizza + drink = $10
Cash at the door. Masks & vaccinations are recommended.
See the schedule below. If you have questions, please email: inclusion@dovercourt.org
2026 Dance dates:
- February 14 – Valentine’s Dance
- March 28 – St. Patrick’s Dance
- April 18 – Sports Jersey Dance
- May 23 – Superhero Dance
- June 13 – Hawaiian Luau
Special live music and dance event
Live music with The Wild Cards!
Let the music move you! Listen and/ or dance to live music from the 1960s to the 1990s, performed by The Wild Cards
Sunday January 18, 2-4:30pm
at Dovercourt Recreation Centre, in the Assembly Hall, upstairs.
This is a special partnership featuring Bill & Donna, The Wild Cards Musical Group, and the Dovercourt Recreation Centre.
- Dress: Casual or semi-formal or formal. Your choice!
- Food and drink: No food or drink, but please bring your non-alcoholic drink in a spillproof bottle.
Location and general onsite information:
Dovercourt Recreation Centre, 411 Dovercourt Ave, Ottawa, ON K2A 0S9 and directions. *Free parking.
Cost:
NONE! However, we would greatly appreciate a generous donation (cash or e-transfer) that will help provide support for the Dovercourt Recreation Centre, a not-for-profit organization doing fantastic things for the community and the Knox Ottawa Presbyterian Church’s Out of the Cold.
Please note that Dovercourt Recreation Association is waiving its usual room rental fee, The Wild Cards Musical Group is waiving its performance fee, and Bill & Donna are waiving their instructors’ fee to help promote this amazing partner-dancing opportunity. For Bill & Donna’s students, this is an extra dance practice opportunity with a live band, free of charge, so please take advantage of it!
Other upcoming events:
- Sunday Feb 15, 2-4:30pm
- Sunday Mar 22, 2-4:30pm
Stay tuned for the 2026 Garage Sale date
Garage Sale 2025, Sat. June 7
What a great day! Thank you to all who came out to buy or sell!
A message from the Westboro Community Association:
The WCA counts on this garage sale as its major annual fundraiser. Our Association raised over $500, which included table rentals, raffle baskets and again this year, the popular two tickets to any Sen’s game for the upcoming season. We thank the TD Bank in Westboro, Royal LePage Team Realty and Equator Coffee Roasters for their financial and basket donations.
New this year were the Girl Guides selling cookies, a representative from the EnviroCentre on retrofitting homes to be more energy efficient, Friends of Carlington/Hampton promoting the old growth forest and a lemonade stand.
All proceeds benefit our community, particularly those in need. A special call out to Trish Stolte and her Dovercourt team and all participants for making this year’s event a sellout success.
Sincerely,
Your Westboro Community Association Volunteers!
Spooktacular Night at Dovercourt October 2025
Saturday, October 25, 6-9pm,
$25 (Breakfast & Afterschool members) or $30.
Ages 4-12
Course code 30054
Are your little household goblins and ghouls looking for a spellbinding adventure before Halloween? Well, have we conjured up the perfect event for them!
What to expect:
- Ghoulish Games – Creepy-crawl your way through spine-tingling challenges and fun!
- Trick-or-Treating – A head start on the candy mayhem with lots of sweet surprises!
- Haunted Gym Tour – Dare to enter our eerie haunted Gym… if you’re brave enough!
- Spooky Tunes & Monster Mash – Dance the night away with your fellow goblins!
Sign your little witches and warlocks up for a night of safe, supervised Halloween shenanigans, sure to cast a spell of fun and excitement! We will have Kinder-specific activities with some milder spooky fun. ;- )
