Great Event and Team Building Venues in Toronto

Looking for venues for your company outing or team building doesn't have to be far, and doesn't have to be the same each year. Lure your employees in joining your company event by holding them in these wonderful spots in Toronto that you might have not heard before, and this is just the venue. We haven't talked about the things we could do on these places!

Sunnyside Pavilion
Water, Beach, fantastic scenery, and more water. Everybody loves holding events near a body of water. Grill and barbecue anytime of the year, hold parties and Picnic, and the atmosphere: Perfect! Any kind of outdoor event works great here, but of course, "Party in the Park" is always top of the list.

Polson Pier
Turn your team building into a concert or a mini-show here and make it a never-to-forget event. It has a big stage with great sound and AV hook ups, great for dancing or singing events. It has great breakout rooms where your group could split into teams and work with "Boat Building Regatta" and see if those boats you've made could float on the Lake Ontario or sink become one of the artifacts underwater.

Mariposa Cruises
It's in everyone's bucket list to join a cruise at least once in their lifetime, and Mariposa Cruise lines is here to make that dream come true. They are very accommodating with the options on what entertainment you can do on board. You can do a "Vegas Casino Night" like what every luxury cruise liners have or turn the evening ball room dance into a challenging "So You Think You Can Dance" event.

Berkeley Church
This is an old church built in the year 1871 turned into a beautiful and versatile event venue. The best thing about this place aside from the spacious courtyard, is that they have an in-house catering service - making it a full service event venue. You can do a wide variety of activities here like "The Aprentice" or "Cake Creators" events inside or do Barbecue "Iron Chef Challenge" and "Party in the Park" outdoors.

Westin Harbour Castle
Very accessible and centrally located with lots of downtown attractions nearby, The Westin Harbour Castle hotel is the best for a starting and ending point when making an adventure race event for your group like "Wild Goose Chase", "Amazing Chase", or even the now popular "CI: Crime Investigators".

The Carlu
This is a very elegant place to do your events, with 4 distinct rooms, you will never run out of possible activities you could hold here. The Sky and Round Room is absolutely wonderful for Christmas Parties and the Clipper Room looks good for small group karaoke.

Event Venues in Toronto offers endless possibilities of activities, all you have to do is try one out.

Watch this video to know more about the best venues to hold events in Toronto or visit http://www.canadianoutback.com for more information:

This is the transcript from our YouTube video featuring the Corporate Event Venues in Toronto that can be found at http://youtu.be/zEd1qsqh1Po.

Shannen: Canadian Outback Group of companies and today I’m talking with Natania , our Operations Manager, and we’ve got a core operation center located in Toronto, and I know that we’ve established some really great relationship with a lot of venues out there. These venues are really great to provide unique location for a lot of our corporate team building event. Tell me about some of our favourites?

Natania: Thanks Shannen! Toronto has great unique opportunity for us to do a lot of different indoor/outdoor, off season activities for corporate clients. So to start off, Sunnyside Pavilion is one of our favourites for our summer Party in the Park event. We’ve run into a bit of a challenge with the city of Toronto when clients want alcohol at their events, and so, the Sunnyside Pavilion is a great private venue that allows us to have beachfront, water access as well as some great green park space for us to be able to do our Party in the Park event. We do a big barbecue and we can get their catering team to setup a bar, and we can setup some of our interactive summer picnic games. So the Pavilion is a really good location with beach access and it’s kind of got this rustic pavilion feel to it, and they do a really tasty barbecue menu, we even have an ice cream cart setup there so it’s a great venue for kind of indoor - outdoor location with alcohol, so that’s a bonus.

Shannen: You know, Party in the Parks are really great for social – corporate environment, aren’t they?

Natania: Yeah, it’s kind of taking the standard corporate barbecue and stepping it up a level where we get our host to really interact with the participants and get some competition going, we’ll setup beach volleyball and have bocce going and crocket, and we try really encourage “team competitive nature” with some of the games and interaction that our team brings to the event.

Shannen: Awesome! Alright, what’s another venue that we have out there?

Natania: Another venue where we’ve done some fun event is the Polson Pier. The Polson Pier is in a bit of a unique location so it’s unfortunately not transit accessible, butut they’ve got a very large parking lot right in front of the building. So for groups who are arranging their own transportation or carpooling and such, it’s really a neat location to get to. We’ve actually had a really fun experience there doing our “So You Think You Can Dance” event, the Polson Pier holds concert and private entertainment venue, so they got a big stage with great sound, an AV hooked up there and they’ve got lots of different breakout rooms where we can have our choreographers come and have the teams break up and practice their routines and then perform on the stage. They also have an upstairs space that has its own big private patio and bar as well, so it’s a versatile location for us to do large scale, more entertainment focused events as well as taking advantage of more summer time focused activities, especially our Iron Chef. They’ve got great big patio there where overlooks their playground. They also got a beach flared feeling to it in the summer time, so it’s a good winter and summer location for us to do all types of different interactive events. We’ve offered them The Apprentice there which is our Philanthropic bike build event, so clients who wanted again just an indoor activity with a lot of place, it poses to be a good location for that.

Shannen: Yeah, sounds like a great venue, definitely a really versatile for a lot of the different events that we can run there. What’s the next one on your list?

Natania: The next one is a little bit more unique, it’s actually is on the water, so we’ve talked about some of these venues that overlook the water but the next one would be Mariposa Cruises. They have a fleet of private charter boats where we can do events on board. We’ve hosted Casino Party nights there, James Bond Theme 007 nights there and they are really good partners to work with. They take off right from Queens Quey right downtown, and they work with us on menu selection, bar selection, they’re open to all sorts of different entertainment that we can bring onboard whether it be bands, magicians, casino like I said, so it’s kind of a fun, unique, different version of a venue for an event. We could definitely be really creative and do our other teambuilding focus interactive activities. We could do a crime investigator on board as well and setup our crime scene around the vessel so it’s just a bit of unique option, if clients are looking to get away from the city, and of you have fantastic views, looking back on the city from the boat itself.

Shannen: That sounds awesome! Now I know last we ran a couple of familiarization events and we used the Berkeley church, is that one on your list as well?

Natania: Oh yes, the Berkeley church, we have done a few really successful familiarization events. Our Cake Decoration Competition at the Berkeley Church and they’ve been wonderful partners. The Berkeley church is, I think prior, hidden gem in Toronto that a lot of people don’t know about. It’s a old church converted into a venue, so it’s got this real, rustic feel to it and there’s two main areas: their main old setting and then they have a courtyard area that has a covered patio and some greenery which is really pretty. The venue itself can accommodate closer to about 200 people and their courtyard lower level area is about a hundred people. They have their own in-house catering team as well and they produce tasty culinary treats for us and can customize any type of menu for the group and have two versatile spaces. So if it’s a group who is a little bit smaller we can use their downstairs room with their courtyard. They also have access to the outdoor space so if we want to setup a barbecue or do our Iron Chef competition there, we could do so. But is just a unique beautiful brick building right on Queen street, so again very accessible to the city and just a versatile space for any of our indoor program and they’re very flexible and easy to work with.

Shannen: Yeah, I like the idea that a lot of these venues that you mentioned really provide multiple options so that they can usually provide something that would work with one of our indoor events or one of our outdoor events. That make them great partners to have, sounds good! Alright, what’s next up on your list?

Natania: So also on our top venue list is the Westin Harbour Castle. The Westin is a really popular chain of hotel and we’ve worked very closely with them across Canada but specifically in Toronto, they are always really open to having our groups on site. They started and finished a lot of our different events in the lobby or in the restaurant of the hotel, and they’ve got some great meeting room spaces as well. Your typical ballroom setting style hotel but they are very accommodating, and again, really great access to transit or just within walking distance to some major attractions downtown as well as being close to the waterfront, and having those great view of the city. This is a really great hotel partner we have with, lots of versatile space to view and many activities to do, whether we’re doing strictly indoor entertainment focus activity or wanting to do one of our amazing chase activities where the teams are meeting a start and a finish wrap up location.

Shannen: Yeah, hotels are always really so versatile for being able to provide either those starting or stopping points / finishing points or the great meeting place they offer there. Okay, what else we have on our list?

Natania: And last on our top list here is the Carlu. The Carlu is the unique venue with having multiple different spaces within it, so again, another one of those very versatile venue where we can partner with to accommodate lots of different groups sizes. Great again, downtown location, direct access to the subway. It’s a really beautiful multi-functional space, it has 4 distinct rooms, there’s a concert hall, and the round room, the sky room, and those rooms open up into the grand foyer. So the unique, sexy kind of romantic space they have access to different types of décor as well so if we wanted to create more of a theme for a type of activity that we are doing, we have access to all of that. It can accommodate smaller groups  but then also be a great location for the larger five hundred, eight hundred person activities, and where sometimes corporate clients need space accommodating those big, big groups.

Shannen: and of course. We always love working with great venues and hotel partners throughout all of our regions. So, thanks very much Natania and we will talk to you again.

Natania: Thanks for your time Shannen! Bye bye!