Residents, organizations and community stakeholders are welcome to attend this event.
National AccessAbility Week
National AccessAbility Week (NAAW) is May 31-June 6. The City of Burlington and the Burlington Accessibility Advisory Committee are hosting several events.
National AccessAbility Week Events
May 22, 9:30-10 a.m. NAAW Flag Raising at Veteran Square, City Hall. 426 Brant St.
May 27 and May 30, Free to be me Family Storytime, in partnership with Burlington Public Library
Brant Hills Branch, Burlington Public Library
- Wednesday, May 27, 10:30-11 a.m.
New Appleby, Burlington Public Library
- Saturday, May 30, 10:30-11 a.m.
Similar to a scavenger hunt, MapMission brings people together to rate how accessible places are in real-time on the AccessNow app.
To participate, download the AccessNow app on your smartphone
May 30, 31, Brant Street Pier Light
In recognition of National AccessAbility Week, the beacon on the Brant Street Pier will be lit in blue on May 30 and May 31.
May 31 - June 6, What Does Accessibility Mean to You? – Pop-Up Engagements
These pop-up engagements will help identify common themes, lived experiences, and insights that will support ongoing efforts to enhance accessibility across City facilities, programs, and services.
Residents are encouraged to drop in, participate, and share their perspectives as we work together to build a more accessible and inclusive community.
Pop-up activities will be available at the following locations and times:
- Burlington Public Library - Central Branch
- May 31 – June 6, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily
- Alton Community Centre
- Sunday, May 31, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
- Monday, June 1, 9 a.m.- 3 p.m.
- Tuesday, June 2, 9 a.m. - 8 p.m.
- Wednesday, June 3, Noon – 8 p.m.
- Thursday, June 4, 9 a.m. - 8 p.m.
- Burlington Seniors’ Centre
- Monday, June 1 – Friday, June 5, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
- Tansley Woods Community Centre
- Monday, June 1 – Friday, June 5, 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
- Saturday, June 6, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
- Saturday, June 13, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Residents are encouraged to drop in, participate, and share their perspectives as we work together to build a more accessible and inclusive community.
May 31, Green Lanyard Project in partnership with Burlington Public Library
The Green Lanyard Project is a community initiative that helps make invisible, atypical disabilities more visible. This program provides green lanyards to patrons and visitors in the downtown to help signal when someone may have an invisible disability or neurodivergent condition and may benefit from additional time, patience, or understanding while navigating public spaces.
Starting May 31, green lanyards are available for free at Burlington Public Library - Central Branch welcome desk, while supplies last.
Wednesday, June 3, Red Shirt Day
Red Shirt Day® is an annual event in celebration of National AccessAbility Week. Accessibility and inclusion does not end with just a one-day annual event. In order to make Canada a truly accessible and inclusive society, it requires the constant, year-round commitment and efforts of all Canadians to put it into practice in order to make it real, and to also advocate and take action to increase accessibility and inclusion.
As such, by wearing red on Red Shirt Day®, participants are also encouraged to make a commitment – a pledge – to educate and inform themselves on issues related to disability, and do what they can – individually and collectively – to remove physical, attitudinal and systemic barriers in their schools, workplaces and communities in order to make Canada a truly accessible and inclusive place for people of all abilities.
Saturday, June 13, Accessible Sport and Art Fair
Residents are invited to attend Burlington’s Accessible Sport and Art Fair, a free resource fair focused on accessible sport, recreation, and arts programs in Burlington, on Saturday, June 13 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Tansley Woods Community Centre.
It brings together recreation programs, along with an inclusive recruitment for City of Burlington volunteer positions, offering inclusive, accessible and adaptive opportunities for people of all ages and abilities. Enabled Talent will be hosting an information booth focusing on connecting individuals of all abilities with inclusive employers.
Attendees can explore information tables, ask questions, make connections, and discover programs and ways to get involved. Members of the Burlington Accessibility Advisory Committee will be on site with an information table and engage with the community on accessibility initiatives.
Tansley Woods Community Centre
Saturday, June 13, 2026
10 a.m. – 1 p.m.