Recent Projects
SHADOWLAND
IN THE EAST END
The 4th iteration of Light it Up! in collaboration with East End Arts and the Crescent Town Club filled our hearts with light and hopes for Spring at the Equinox Parade 2024. We developed a series of lantern making workshops and culminated with a parade at Dentonia Park where the participants were able to showcase their beautiful lanterns and spend an evening in community spreading light.
We also kicked off Pride Month by participating in a beautiful project by the East End Kids Pride in collaboration with East End Arts. We developed a flag making and flag choreography workshop with the kids and rainbow families. The flags we created made it to the Kids Pride Parade at Dentonia Park, where the young participants showed their newly acquired skills and a colourful set of new flags.
Both these parades included Shadowland's spectacle techniques and visuals with our wonderful stilt walkers, lanterns and costumes.
Photos by Mafer Rodriguez, Chris Owyoung and Cass Rudolph.
light and shadow
workshop
Inspired by our video game, we're working with Access Point on Jane bringing arts and wellness activities to their Newcomer Youth group.
We even developed a unique version of the game Snakes and Ladders, identifying SNAKES: moments of shadows and LADDERS: moments of light in our lives. Each participant created game pieces and together we played on our giant community built board game! Special thanks to the youth for engaging so positively with this activity and Access Alliance facilitators for all their support.
ward's island fire parade parktopia
Welcoming the island community and city visitors, we shared PARKTOPIA as part of our annual Fire Parade, August 4, 2023.
PARKTOPIA was a theatrical exploration and shadow puppet show that celebrated parks as essential community spaces offering tranquil respite from urban intensity.
Chris Wilson, Jim Bish and the A'Rhythmics provided live music, Shadowland's interns and community participants performed the show, and hundreds joined us with hand-made lanterns for the parade.
PARKTOPIA was performed again on Ward's Island and at R.V. Burgess Park, in collaboration with the Thorncliffe Park Women's Committee.
Thank you to our many volunteers and participants!
Photos by Hannah Mittelstaedt.
