Curbside Giveaway Days take place twice per year in Barrie, in the spring and in the fall. The event is a chance to give gently used or unwanted items a second life, and/or find new-to-you items others are giving away. It’s like a garage sale but without the money exchange. Everything you place at the end of your driveway or lawn on the specified day is free for others to pick up.

Starting at 8am on Curbside Giveaway Day, place your items at the curb and clearly mark them as “FREE”. Anything that does not find a new home must be taken back in by 9pm the same day, as there is no special municipal collection.

📅 Saturday September 19th - 8 a.m.

📍 Barrie-wide

Each year, the City of Barrie is proud to celebrate Culture Days, a Canada-wide celebration designed to catalyze and inspire public participation in arts and culture. 

Culture Days programs invite the public to show appreciation for arts and culture in their own communities and nationwide. The Culture Days organization supports a Canada-wide network of arts, culture, and heritage organizers to facilitate free public events in their communities every year.

Running September 18 until October 4, 2026, Culture Days is Canada's largest cross-country celebration of arts, culture, and creativity.

📆 See events calendar here.

📍City Hall, Barrie

Join Carolyn for a creative afternoon where children and families can explore Canadian wildlife through painting, sculpture, colour, and imagination.

Carolyn M. Boyd is an award-winning Canadian landscape artist whose work is inspired by the beauty of Ontario’s natural world. From the shores of Kempenfelt Bay and Georgian Bay to the forests and lakes of Muskoka and beyond, her colourful paintings celebrate Canada’s landscapes, wildlife, water, changing seasons, and the stories found within the places around us.

In Wild Canada in 3D, participants will create their own small three-dimensional Canadian wildlife sculpture to take home.

Children can choose from a selection of iconic Canadian animals, including the moose, black bear, red fox, grey wolf, great horned owl, white tailed deer, beaver, Canada goose, common loon, and polar bear. 

The workshop is designed primarily for children ages 5–12, but youth, teens, adults, seniors, parents, grandparents, and caregivers are all welcome to participate.

📆 Sunday September 20th - 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.

📍The Barrie Library Downtown Branch

Superheroes of all shapes and capes are returning to the Downtown Library. Join the Library for a free, family-friendly event that showcases comic and pop culture in Barrie with local vendors, cosplayers, artists and more.

Visit the BPL Comic Fest webpage for a schedule of featured presenters, workshops, cosplayer character visits, vendors and more.

📆 Saturday September 19th - 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

📍The Barrie Library Downtown Branch

Tender Yukon Gold potatoes are tossed with toasted mustard seeds, cumin, garlic, turmeric, and lime juice in this fast, deeply flavorful side dish inspired by homestyle Indian cooking.

🎸 Tim Hicks closes our Troubadour’s summer season. Read more.

🧶 Guilds to showcase handmade crafts at quilt, rug and artisan fair. Read more.

🏌 Free Ontario Electrical League roadshow aims to connect businesses, trades. Read more.

👩‍🎨 Painting donation aims to soften setting for patients at Barrie clinic. Read more.

🌳 Step into history: Doors set to open at Fort Willow Conservation Area. Read more.

💥 BPL Comic Fest marks 10 years with ‘biggest event yet’. Read more.

👦 Big Brothers school-based mentoring to reach 150 local students. Read more.

🏒 OHL partners with Ontario Virtual School to support student-athletes. Read more.

🧑‍🦽 Innisfil ready to cut ribbon on its first fully accessible park. Read more.

🚶‍♀ Barrie walk raises more than $26K for kidney disease programs. Read more.

✅ Barrie council gets passing grade from integrity commissioner this term. Read more.

Friday

🧶 Rug & Artisan Fair @ The Simcoe County Museum - 9:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Learn more.

🖌 Messy! @ Barrie Library - Painswick Branch - 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Learn more.

✂ Craft & Connect @ Barrie Library - Downtown Branch - 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Learn more.

🎈 Parachute Play @ Barrie Library - Holly Branch - 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Learn more.

🎥 Friday Flicks @ the Barrie Library - Painswick Branch - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Learn more.

🎸 Take It To The Limit - The Music & Legacy of the Eagles @ Georgian Theatre - 7:30 p.m. Get tickets.

Saturday

🧑‍🌾 Barrie Farmer’s Market @ City Hall - 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Learn more.

🧶 Rug & Artisan Fair @ The Simcoe County Museum - 9:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Learn more.

💥 Comic Fest @ Barrie Library Downtown - 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Learn more.

✂ Creative Tales @ Barrie Library Painswick Branch - 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Learn more.

🤖 Robots, Robots, Robots @ the Barrie Library Holly Branch - 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Learn more.

🧺 The Market: Autumn Edition @ Friday Harbour - 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. Learn more.

🍻 Harbourfest @ Friday Harbour - 12 p.m. to 11 p.m. Learn more.

🧩 Board Games & Puzzles @ the Barrie Library Holly Branch - 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Learn more.

Sunday

🧶 Rug & Artisan Fair @ The Simcoe County Museum - 9:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Learn more.

📕 Creative Tales @ Barrie Library Downtown Branch - 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Learn more.

🧸 Rise & Shine Playtime @ the Barrie Library - Painswick Branch - 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Learn more.

📕 Creative Tales @ Barrie Library Holly Branch - 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Learn more.

🧺 The Market: Autumn Edition @ Friday Harbour - 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Learn more.

🕐 Family Fun: Minute to Win It @ Friday Harbour Beach - 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Learn more.

🐉 Dungeons & Dragons Meetup @ Barrie Library Downtown Branch - 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Learn more.

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