Joyful Mix Festival At Any Age will present the “Joyful Mix Festival — A Celebration of the Art of DJing”. This family friendly community event will take place on Friday evenings in July and August 2026 and will feature a diverse group of performers. This includes performances from DJ At Any Age program participants as well as Q&A sessions and performances by professional DJs. The Joyful Mix festival also encourages community participation. Learn djing techniques at our Interactive DJing Demo Stations or have fun raising your voice during the Community Sing-Along. Vendors will also be onsite.
Joyful Mix Festival At Any Age will present the “Joyful Mix Festival — A Celebration of the Art of DJing”. This family friendly community event will take place on Friday evenings in July and August 2026 and will feature a diverse group of performers. This includes performances from DJ At Any Age program participants as well as Q&A sessions and performances by professional DJs. The Joyful Mix festival also encourages community participation. Learn djing techniques at our Interactive DJing Demo Stations or have fun raising your voice during the Community Sing-Along. Vendors will also be onsite.
Joyful Mix Festival At Any Age will present the “Joyful Mix Festival — A Celebration of the Art of DJing”. This family friendly community event will take place on Friday evenings in July and August 2026 and will feature a diverse group of performers. This includes performances from DJ At Any Age program participants as well as Q&A sessions and performances by professional DJs. The Joyful Mix festival also encourages community participation. Learn djing techniques at our Interactive DJing Demo Stations or have fun raising your voice during the Community Sing-Along. Vendors will also be onsite.
Dance Together Festival The Dance Together Festival offers free dance workshops and events that celebrate positive and accessible dance experiences in Amos Waites Park. The neighbourhood is invited to help paint a new dance floor and participate in open dance workshops featuring diverse styles including Afrofusion, Samba, Bollywood, Salsa, Soca, Ukrainian Village Dance, Swing and Line Dance. Join us June 8-14, 2026 for the dance floor mural painting and come dance together July 9-12, 2026! This year will also feature live bands, social dancing and performances on the dance floor mural! Open to all levels, ages and abilities.
Shopner Mela (Festival of Dreams) Bangladeshi Queer Liberation (BQL) is hosting a one-day multidisciplinary arts mela at Dentonia Park where we will gather to celebrate queer and trans Bangladeshi resistance, joy, and cultural expression through storytelling, performance, visual arts, and film. Since 2023, our collective was founded and began hosting annual picnics at Dentonia Park celebrating the Bengali New Year. In 2025, our celebration involved organizing a grassroots Pohela Boishakh (Bengali New Year) Festival that invited caterers, artists, vendors and the wider community to host a landmark event unprecedented in our diaspora here. Our 2026 mela is an extension of our beloved cultural tradition of attending festive gatherings back home with fun activities, theatre performances, and vibrant cultural heritage of our Bengali people since independence and pre-partition periods. BQL invites community members and allies to come out and celebrate a beautiful summer day filled with live performances, music, art, dance, interactive storytelling, collaborative art-making, delicious cultural food, short film screenings and a feature length Bengali film to close the night.
From Weeds We Grow Exploring the intersections of nature, community arts and wellness, From Weeds We Grow is an interdisciplinary and community public art program that deepens our relationships with the public park space through crafting and movement sessions in Rowntree Mills Park. Led by STEPS Public Art alongside local and Indigenous creators, we will offer a series of land-based crafting, reflection, and movement sessions to reconnect with the land and the Humber River. Join us in Rowntree Mills Park from July to August 2026 to create in celebration of the abundance of nature! Tobacco Teaching – June 20, 2026, 1-4 pm (Rain date: June 27) Chalk Mural Workshop – June 21, 1-4 pm (Rain date: June 28 Craft workshop – July 25, 2026, 1 to 4 pm Rain Date: August 1, 2026 End of season celebration – August 23, 2026, 1-4 pm Rain Dates: August 22 and August 29, 2026
From Weeds We Grow Exploring the intersections of nature, community arts and wellness, From Weeds We Grow is an interdisciplinary and community public art program that deepens our relationships with the public park space through crafting and movement sessions in Rowntree Mills Park. Led by STEPS Public Art alongside local and Indigenous creators, we will offer a series of land-based crafting, reflection, and movement sessions to reconnect with the land and the Humber River. Join us in Rowntree Mills Park from July to August 2026 to create in celebration of the abundance of nature! Tobacco Teaching – June 20, 2026, 1-4 pm (Rain date: June 27) Chalk Mural Workshop – June 21, 1-4 pm (Rain date: June 28) Craft workshop – July 25, 2026, 1 to 4 pm (Rain Date: August 1, 2026) End of season celebration – August 23, 2026, 1-4 pm (Rain Dates: August 22 and August 29, 2026)
From Weeds We Grow Exploring the intersections of nature, community arts and wellness, From Weeds We Grow is an interdisciplinary and community public art program that deepens our relationships with the public park space through crafting and movement sessions in Rowntree Mills Park. Led by STEPS Public Art alongside local and Indigenous creators, we will offer a series of land-based crafting, reflection, and movement sessions to reconnect with the land and the Humber River. Join us in Rowntree Mills Park from July to August 2026 to create in celebration of the abundance of nature! Tobacco Teaching – June 20, 2026, 1-4 pm (Rain date: June 27) Chalk Mural Workshop – June 21, 1-4 pm (Rain date: June 28) Craft workshop – July 25, 2026, 1 to 4 pm (Rain Date: August 1, 2026) End of season celebration – August 23, 2026, 1-4 pm (Rain Dates: August 22 and August 29, 2026)
From Weeds We Grow Exploring the intersections of nature, community arts and wellness, From Weeds We Grow is an interdisciplinary and community public art program that deepens our relationships with the public park space through crafting and movement sessions in Rowntree Mills Park. Led by STEPS Public Art alongside local and Indigenous creators, we will offer a series of land-based crafting, reflection, and movement sessions to reconnect with the land and the Humber River. Join us in Rowntree Mills Park from July to August 2026 to create in celebration of the abundance of nature! Tobacco Teaching – June 20, 2026, 1-4 pm (Rain date: June 27) Chalk Mural Workshop – June 21, 1-4 pm (Rain date: June 28) Craft workshop – July 25, 2026, 1 to 4 pm (Rain Date: August 1, 2026) End of season celebration – August 23, 2026, 1-4 pm (Rain Dates: August 22 and August 29, 2026)
Through The Bamboo Thursday, July 9 – 7pm (preview) Friday, July 10 – 7pm (opening) Saturday, July 11 – 2pm & 7pm Tuesday, July 14 – 7pm Wednesday, July 15 – 7pm Thursday, July 16 – 7pm Friday, July 17 – 7pm Saturday, July 18 – 2pm & 7pm Sunday, July 19 – 2pm Lost in a storybook world, can Philly rescue her lola, save the magical land of Uwi, and find her way home? In Through the Bamboo, twelve-year-old Philly is pulled into an action-packed adventure while mourning the loss of her lola (“grandmother” in Tagalog) when she opens an old book and finds herself tossed into the fantastical land of Uwi. Similar to The Wizard of Oz, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Alice in Wonderland, this imaginative Filipinx-Canadian folktale adventure invites audiences into a magical world brought to life through inventive object puppetry, immersive storytelling, and audience participation. Inspired by Philippine mythology, the production weaves together themes of grief, love, and legacy, offering a rich theatrical experience rooted in intergenerational wisdom and a vibrant celebration of culture. Accessibility is one of Crossroads’ main priorities. Little Avenue Memorial Park is physically accessible, and the production will include on-site access coordination. For more information, check out the Through the Bamboo Access Guide, found on the Crossroads Theatre website: www.crossroadstheatre.org. Through the Bamboo is written by Byron Abalos and Andrea Mapili, Directed by Chantelle Han Starring Olivia Sgambelluri AP Bautista Jainee Fernandez Jude Baris Neil-Erine Palmaria Production Manager: Carlos Varela Technical Director: Nathan Greogory Set and Puppet Designer: Olivia Wheeler Lighting Designer: Echo Zhou Sound Designer: Miquelon Rodriguez Costume Designer: Jung A Im Cultural Consultant: Motzie Dapul Puppetry Director: Michelle Urbano Access Coordinator: Mandy E. MacLean Marketing & Outreach: Lili Robinson Publicity: Amira de Vera Photo credit: otîhêw by PJ Prudat at Arts in the Parks 2023, photography by Matt Hertendy. Performers from left to right: Jonathon LeRose, Spencer Bennett, Nicole Joy-Fraser, Jewell Bowry, Raymond J. Johnson-Brown, and Brefny Caribou