A Tale of Two Parks takes participants and audiences of all ages on a fun and artful exploration of wildlife, ecology and community in Crescent Town’s neighbouring parks, Dentonia and Taylor Creek. Join Shadowland Theatre’s artists for guided nature walks, Indigenous teachings, visual arts workshops, stilt-walking, music-making and processional performances. Over the course of three days in Dentonia Park creative activities will focus on themes of animal and plant life. Then we’ll move over to Taylor Creek Park for two days, where programs will focus on the creek, water life and the meandering side of nature. Each park residency will culminate in interactive theatrical walks where Nature’s characters come to life and tell their stories. Join us at Dentonia Park on Friday August 21 and Taylor Creek on Sunday August 23.

Some of the artistic treats in store include:

Indigenous nature expert, Alan Colley, will be your guide on nature walks to uncover hidden park creatures and plant medicines, and to share Medicine Wheel teachings.

Shadowland’s team of visual and performance artists will run daily arts workshops that explore and celebrate the flora and fauna of each park. Create costumed and puppet characters based on local wildlife, create visual art installations to celebrate the plants and trees, learn some performance skills and join in the shows.

The inimitable Njacko Backo will bring his love of community and rhythm and will invite participants of all ages to create music with him to accompany the final processions with Shadowland’s musicians.

Drop in any day or join us for all 5 days, we’ll have lots going on. Bring your family and friends. All ages welcome!

A Tale of Two Parks takes participants and audiences of all ages on a fun and artful exploration of wildlife, ecology and community in Crescent Town’s neighbouring parks, Dentonia and Taylor Creek. Join Shadowland Theatre’s artists for guided nature walks, Indigenous teachings, visual arts workshops, stilt-walking, music-making and processional performances. Over the course of three days in Dentonia Park creative activities will focus on themes of animal and plant life. Then we’ll move over to Taylor Creek Park for two days, where programs will focus on the creek, water life and the meandering side of nature. Each park residency will culminate in interactive theatrical walks where Nature’s characters come to life and tell their stories. Join us at Dentonia Park on Friday August 21 and Taylor Creek on Sunday August 23.

Some of the artistic treats in store include:

Indigenous nature expert, Alan Colley, will be your guide on nature walks to uncover hidden park creatures and plant medicines, and to share Medicine Wheel teachings.

Shadowland’s team of visual and performance artists will run daily arts workshops that explore and celebrate the flora and fauna of each park. Create costumed and puppet characters based on local wildlife, create visual art installations to celebrate the plants and trees, learn some performance skills and join in the shows.

The inimitable Njacko Backo will bring his love of community and rhythm and will invite participants of all ages to create music with him to accompany the final processions with Shadowland’s musicians.

Drop in any day or join us for all 5 days, we’ll have lots going on. Bring your family and friends. All ages welcome!

A Tale of Two Parks takes participants and audiences of all ages on a fun and artful exploration of wildlife, ecology and community in Crescent Town’s neighbouring parks, Dentonia and Taylor Creek. Join Shadowland Theatre’s artists for guided nature walks, Indigenous teachings, visual arts workshops, stilt-walking, music-making and processional performances. Over the course of three days in Dentonia Park creative activities will focus on themes of animal and plant life. Then we’ll move over to Taylor Creek Park for two days, where programs will focus on the creek, water life and the meandering side of nature. Each park residency will culminate in interactive theatrical walks where Nature’s characters come to life and tell their stories. Join us at Dentonia Park on Friday August 21 and Taylor Creek on Sunday August 23.

Some of the artistic treats in store include:

Indigenous nature expert, Alan Colley, will be your guide on nature walks to uncover hidden park creatures and plant medicines, and to share Medicine Wheel teachings.

Shadowland’s team of visual and performance artists will run daily arts workshops that explore and celebrate the flora and fauna of each park. Create costumed and puppet characters based on local wildlife, create visual art installations to celebrate the plants and trees, learn some performance skills and join in the shows.

The inimitable Njacko Backo will bring his love of community and rhythm and will invite participants of all ages to create music with him to accompany the final processions with Shadowland’s musicians.

Drop in any day or join us for all 5 days, we’ll have lots going on. Bring your family and friends. All ages welcome!

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.