Much loved in its lifetime and long remembered, Beit Zatoun is now part of Toronto’s activist community history.  Closed in December 2016, it hosted over 1,000 events since opening in January 2010.  Beit Zatoun was founded as an open, public meeting space bringing together Toronto’s diverse communities to speak and share histories and their struggles for liberation, human rights, and social justice. It can only be a miracle that home was a beautiful space in Mirvish Village across a subway station in the heart of activist Toronto.  Run by volunteers on a shoestring and receiving no funding, Beit Zatoun was driven to hold as many events as possible to maximize sharing the glorious space with the grassroots.

This legacy page is a much simplified representation of www.beitzatoun.org, the original website which provided a vibrant hub for Beit Zatoun’s events and the community around it.  Maintaining an inactive website is a bigger undertaking than we imagine – the site needs constant upkeep.  The march of technology upgrades is merciless and after a few years the site became a wreck.  Better to have a modest and simplified facsimile than a zombie site – the internet is already a graveyard of untold number of forgotten sites.  

If you were a guest or participant at Beit Zatoun, please enjoy this page for the memories of a great period in Toronto grassroots and civic history. If you did not have a chance to make it to Beit Zatoun, then please likewise enjoy knowing about times and events which marked a high point for Toronto’s activist and justice communities.

To access the archive of Beit Zatoun events, please visit.

To see media articles, photos, event posters, etc., please visit.

Beit Zatoun maintains a facebook page.