Welcome to the
Freeman Patterson Centre
Learning. Creativity. Gardens.
The Freeman Patterson Centre combines extensive gardens with thoughtful programs that embrace the interconnection of beauty, well-being, and nature as a path to creativity and self-exploration. The Freeman Patterson Centre is its garden, the largest of its kind in Canada, but it is also its vast programming as well as its mission to recognize and perpetuate beauty in all its forms.
“When we awaken to the call of beauty, we become aware of new ways of being in the world.
We were created to be creators. At its deepest heart, creativity is meant to serve and evoke beauty. When this desire and capacity comes alive … difficulty becomes invitation and rather than striving against the grain of our nature, we fall into rhythm with its deepest urgency and passion. The time is now for beauty to surprise us and liberate us.”
John O’Donohue
