{"id":364084,"date":"2026-10-04T11:21:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T11:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364084\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:21:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T11:21:30","slug":"queens-park-fall-festival-free-toronto-event-on-oct-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364084\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen\u2019s Park Fall Festival: Free Toronto event on Oct. 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Autumn has officially arrived, and to celebrate the season Ontario\u2019s Legislative Building in Toronto is hosting a free <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ola.org\/en\/office-assembly\/whats-happening\/2026-fall-festival-queens-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fall Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 17, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario transforms its grounds for a celebration at Queen\u2019s Park with a parliamentary pumpkin patch, live performances, crafts, activities and tours of the historic legislative building.<\/p>\n<p>The festival runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and the first 500 visitors to take a tour will receive a ticket to take home a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/fall-festival-at-queens-park-tickets-2002240225413\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">free mini pumpkin.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year, the celebration will include photo ops, fun zones, and lawn games. There will also be an outdoor market with fresh seasonal produce, locally made and handcrafted goods.<\/p>\n<p>Among the legislature\u2019s colourful grounds, there will be an \u201cAlmost A Farm Petting Zoo\u201d where visitors can interact with gentle farm animals.<\/p>\n<p>The live entertainment takes place at the Parliamentary Plaza, and visitors can learn and take part in Urban Cowboy Line Dancing, or experience M\u00e2mawin\u2019towin: A M\u00e9tis Kitchen Party with Alyssa Delbaere-Sawchuk and Amanda Rheaume.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, inside the legislative building, there will be live performances by the West End Riverboat Band and Natasha Meister. The Quorum Caf\u00e9 will also be open with a variety of food and refreshments.<\/p>\n<p>The Fall Festival\u2019s full schedule is available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ola.org\/en\/office-assembly\/whats-happening\/2026-fall-festival-queens-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Legislative Assembly of Ontario\u2019s building.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Autumn has officially arrived, and to celebrate the season Ontario\u2019s Legislative Building in Toronto is hosting a free&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-364084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}