Warm up to Winter Continues: Frost Fest & Winter Pop ups!

Thanks to volunteers Gerald, Sarah, Cheryl, Daniel, Mike, Jane, Kevin, Bill, Heather, Lorna, Tom, Ellen for igniting our neighbourhood spirit!

Hillhurst Sunnyside Community Association was grateful to receive a Warm Up to Winter grant from Parks Foundation Calgary and the City of Calgary.  We have two groups of residents working to create winter events as part of this project. In Sunnyside, neighbours are co-designing some improvements to New Edinborough Park – adding some more seating, shareable firepits and lighting along with the ongoing skating amenities.  In Hillhurst, neighbours are working on a pop up pilot at Gladstone West Park – with a red theme, inspired by Le Grande Terrasse Rouge in Montreal! We hope these enhanced spaces encourage you to get outside this winter!  Additionally, we will continue to host a series of events as part of “Frost Fest” (so far, we’ve hosted Boxing Day light parade, a storytelling/ carolling pop up event, an ice art drop-off event). We look forward to our upcoming events this winter, including:

• The HSCA Campfire Gathering at the West Gladstone Pop up Park (Saturday, Feb 12th from 4-7pm)

• The Family Day Park Pop up

• HSCA’s Spring Fling: Warm up to Winter Pop up

Keep connected and follow along on our HSCA social media feeds (Instagram and Facebook) and keep a lookout for signage in the parks about upcoming events.

If you would like to join our co-design groups or help out with pop up events  – please email ali.m@hsca.ca!  Together we can continue to add vibrancy to our community!