Upcoming Events
August Walking Tours
This month, on Saturdays from 11am to 12:30pm, you will find us at Kensington Avenue and Dundas Street West (corner by Super Serve Ice Cream), leading the following tours:
August 16 - Food Futures: Taste the Market’s Resistance
This walking tour honours the immigrant-owned food businesses that have defined Kensington’s flavour and spirit across generations. Each stop is an invitation to hear the histories of migration, entrepreneurship, and cultural care embedded in these storefronts.Alongside the KMCLT’s efforts to protect these essential spaces, you’ll hear directly from owners about their personal and community histories—what it took to establish a foothold in the Market, and what it takes to stay.
20 spots only!
Register here to attend.
Register here to attend.
August 23 - Counterculture Cartographies: Mapping Rebellion in the Market
This walking tour uncovers the rebellious roots of the Market—exploring how queer venues, underground spaces, activist storefronts, and DIY art scenes have made Kensington a haven for creative rebellion.This tour is part celebration, part documentation, and part strategy session for keeping rebellion alive in the face of encroaching commercialism. Alongside KMCLT’s anti-speculation mission, you’ll explore how the Market’s spirit of resistance has not only shaped the vibe but the politics of urban space.
Register here to attend.
August 30 - Grocery Store of Toronto: How to Shop the Market
Kensington Market functions as a grocery store without walls: a dense hub of produce vendors, spice shops, butcheries, and specialty dry goods.This tour will highlight how to navigate the Market for quality ingredients - offering real-time tips and tricks for affordable, sustainable, and community-minded shopping.
You’ll meet local vendors, explore seasonal selections, and learn how these small businesses help keep food accessible while resisting the dominance of big-box retailers. See how you can make connections between local food systems, economic resilience, and cultural preservation - and how KMCLT is working to protect these critical spaces.
20 spots only!
Register here to attend.
You’ll meet local vendors, explore seasonal selections, and learn how these small businesses help keep food accessible while resisting the dominance of big-box retailers. See how you can make connections between local food systems, economic resilience, and cultural preservation - and how KMCLT is working to protect these critical spaces.
20 spots only!
Register here to attend.
Land AcknowledgementWe, as members of the Kensington Market Community Land Trust, are aware that we are a settler organization. Kensington Market sits in the traditional territory of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit (an Anishnaabe people), the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Wendat and Petun Nations, land which is now home to many First Nations, Inuit and Métis.
This land is covered by the Dish With One Spoon wampum belt covenant, an agreement by the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee to share resources equally and peaceably. It is also covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit. As a settler organization concerned with land ownership, we acknowledge that we have broken the treaties. Our work for the well-being of this land must include accountability to our relatives.
More Community Groups
Kensington-Bellwoods Legal Clinic
https://www.kbcls.org/
Toronto Chinatown Land Trust
https://chinatownlandtrust.ca/
Friends of Chinatown Toronto
www.instagram.com/friendsofchinatownto
Our Contact
Mailing Address:
103 Bellevue Avenue,
Toronto, ON, Canada
Email:
info@kmclt.ca
Mailing Address:
103 Bellevue Avenue,
Toronto, ON, Canada
Email:
info@kmclt.ca