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August 26, 2024 - Last weekend, the City of Pickering proudly celebrated the significant community and economic benefits of being a host gaming site through a cheque presentation at the PARA Marine Search and Rescue Waterfront Festival.

Since the opening of the Pickering Casino Resort in July 2021, the City of Pickering has received non-tax gaming revenue payments totaling $47,974,125 from Ontario Lottery Gaming Corporation (as of June 30, 2024). These funds are part of the Municipal Contribution Agreement with OLG and represent a significant investment in the city's future.

Water is Medicine is a public artwork created by the art collective Dbaajmowin (story/narrative, Ojibwe Eastern and Odawa dialect) and supported by SpruceLab Inc. The work is located at Rotary Frenchman's Bay West.

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In memory of Tom Thompson

Tom Thomson (1877-1917) is considered one of the most important and influential early Canadian artists, and a significant influencer of the Group of Seven. 

The Way Gone Made Clear is a temporary public art installation by Artist, Georgia Fullerton.

The wagon is intended to be an interactive and educational component of an upcoming permanent exhibition, “Roots to Rebellion: Pickering in the 1830s”.

Image of the “The Primrose's Cutter Head” by K. S. Oliver located at Progress Frenchman’s Bay East Park, Pickering

Rotary Frenchman's Bay West Park has as a new pop of colour! The work is located at Rotary Frenchman’s Bay West Park, at the south end of the path, and hung to bring creativity to the space, giving ordinary objects new purpose with colour and artistic expression.

Art Junction is a pilot project on utility/traffic boxes throughout the City of Pickering. 

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A temporary mural painted on a Bell box by the artist Meaghan Claire Kehoe.

Same Material/Different Time is a temporary light-based public art installation by artist Jordan Shaw.

About the Artwork

ROOTS is a community-engaged public art sculpture conceived by multidisciplinary creator and artist Mary Pan. Participating in the creative process at public forums and workshops, residents of the Pickering community worked in collaboration with the artist by contributing and assembling the objects, while the artist distilled the objects into sculptural form.