White Cane Week activities
In the first full week of February each year, the CCB celebrates White Cane Week, a public awareness campaign which broadens the understanding of vision loss and its impact on all Canadians. Visit the CCB national website for a list of events, information forums, and celebrations across the country.
In 2024, White Cane Week is celebrated Sunday, February 5, through Saturday, February 10, 2024.
White Cane Week 2024 in Toronto
This year, May is Vision Health Month in Canada. To celebrate, we'll be hosting the WCW Experience Expo, the Visionaries Forum, and a celebratory dinner at the Visionaries Community Social!
WCW Experience Expo
White Cane Week Experience Expo, the only major exposition and consumer show for people with vision loss in Canada, is back in 2024!
This day-long celebration includes the Expo, the Visionaries forum, and a Community Social Dinner, all held on Saturday, May 25, 2024, in the Miles Nadal JCC.
The Experience Expo is an interactive, hands-on exhibition featuring dozens of exhibitors, products and services, covering every aspect of the experience of living with vision loss. Get connected with information on new assistive technologies, recreation and leisure, tactile art and accessible entertainment, sport & fitness, transportation, education, employment, government supports, advocacy issues, and more.
Come to the Expo and experience passion, creativity, and the wide range of activities, tools and tips for people living with vision loss.
Admission is free!
- Date: Saturday, May 25, 2024
- Time: 11:00 AM until 3:00 PM
- Location: The main gym at the Miles Nadal JCC,
750 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5S 2J2
Contact us by email for more information, or register as an exhibitor.
More information on how to register to attend in-person or online is coming in the new year.
2024 Visionaries Community Social dinner
Join us at our Community Social Dinner, a chance for the CCB Toronto Visionaries and all our friends in the vision-loss and sighted communities to come together for an evening of fun, some great food, a cash bar, door prizes, and much more!
Reserve your spot to join us in person.
- Date: Saturday, May 25, 2024
- Time: 3:30 PM until 6:30 PM
- Location: Main gym of the Miles Nadal JCC,
750 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5S 2J2 - Contact us by email to register for the community social dinner.
CCB Participating Gold Sponsors
We are grateful to the following for their generous support:
Past exhibitors
Here's a list of just some of the exhibitors who have exhibited at the Experience Expo in the past:
- Accessible Media Inc.
- Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians
- Amazing BPS Racing Cane Challenge
- BALANCE for Blind Adults
- Bausch + Lomb
- BELL Mobility Inc.
- Blind Sailing Association of Canada
- Braille Literacy Canada
- CCB Adventures Chapter
- CCB Dragon Boat Toronto/CCB Rocks Chapter
- CCB Mississauga VIP Chapter
- CCB Mysteries Chapter/CCB Blind Tennis
- CCB Road Runners chapter
- CCB Toronto Visionaries chapter
- CCB Toronto Visionaries & Lions bingo
- CELA (Centre for equitable Library Access) and the Toronto Public Library
- CNIB Foundation
- Discover Your Dance Flow (Michael Haltrecht)/Vivian Chong's Graphic memoir & show
- Fighting Blindness Canada
- Get Together with Technology program
- Hands of Fire Blind Sculpture Group
- HT Consulting
- Humanware Technologies
- Inclusive Design Research Centre, Vision Technology Service
- JobStart
- Dr. Ana M. Juricic, Low-vision optometrist
- Magnet, Ryerson University
- Med-Fit
- Metrolinx
- Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre & ReelAbilities Film Festival Toronto
- Ontario Blind Sports Association
- Ontario Chamber of Commerce, Discover Ability Program
- Ontario Ministry for Seniors and Accessibility
- Ontario Visually-Impaired Golfers (OVIG)
- PAL Reading Services Inc.
- Say Hello 2 Blindness
- Shop CNIB/Frontier Accessibility
- Special Needs Computers Inc.
- Spinal Cord Injury Ontario
- Toronto Blind Curling Club
- Toronto Ice Owls Blind Hockey Club
- Trailblazers Tandem Cycling
- VIA Rail
- Vision Aids Inc.
- Vision Loss Rehab Ontario (a CNIB organization)