Portfolio Workshop Portfolio Development Workshop Hosted by OCAD University Facilitated by Mary Ann Garcia Build a strong portfolio for opportunities in media arts and arts education. Learn what to include, how to present your work and how to tailor your portfolio for the ArtWorksTO: Newcomer Program.
Migration Celebration Migration Celebration uses theatre arts to honor the vital role of birds, butterflies, and animals in our ecosystems and daily lives. Shadowland artists will be in residence at Dentonia Park for three days, culminating in a community parade. Join Shadowland’s arts programming for all ages, where you can create costumes and puppets, learn music and songs, share stories, experience Indigenous teachings and go on nature walks. Cameroonian musician Njacko Backo will collaborate with Shadowland’s Chris Wilson and Jim Bish to lead music workshops and provide parade tunes. Alan Colley will offer Medicine Wheel teachings and guide walks to explore the creatures and natural medicines found in the park. All these activities will culminate in a spectacular parade, where everyone is invited to tour the park in a joyous and colorful celebration of birds, butterflies, and animals.
Migration Celebration Migration Celebration uses theatre arts to honor the vital role of birds, butterflies, and animals in our ecosystems and daily lives. Shadowland artists will be in residence at Dentonia Park for three days, culminating in a community parade. Join Shadowland’s arts programming for all ages, where you can create costumes and puppets, learn music and songs, share stories, experience Indigenous teachings and go on nature walks. Cameroonian musician Njacko Backo will collaborate with Shadowland’s Chris Wilson and Jim Bish to lead music workshops and provide parade tunes. Alan Colley will offer Medicine Wheel teachings and guide walks to explore the creatures and natural medicines found in the park. All these activities will culminate in a spectacular parade, where everyone is invited to tour the park in a joyous and colorful celebration of birds, butterflies, and animals.
Migration Celebration Migration Celebration uses theatre arts to honor the vital role of birds, butterflies, and animals in our ecosystems and daily lives. Shadowland artists will be in residence at Dentonia Park for three days, culminating in a community parade. Join Shadowland’s arts programming for all ages, where you can create costumes and puppets, learn music and songs, share stories, experience Indigenous teachings and go on nature walks. Cameroonian musician Njacko Backo will collaborate with Shadowland’s Chris Wilson and Jim Bish to lead music workshops and provide parade tunes. Alan Colley will offer Medicine Wheel teachings and guide walks to explore the creatures and natural medicines found in the park. All these activities will culminate in a spectacular parade, where everyone is invited to tour the park in a joyous and colorful celebration of birds, butterflies, and animals.
Ties To Nature Hands on native plant based activities in the park for all ages: Handmade recycled paper workshop with native flower seeds, take home the paper you make or add to a long community scroll. Play with seeds, pinecones, and other materials. Learn to make string and rope all while learning about the importance of native pollinators to the complex biodiversity right here in the city. Offered by artists who are butterfly rangers with the David Suzuki Foundation, members of Pollinator Partnership and trained nature stewards. Rain date: September 21
Ties To Nature Hands on native plant based activities in the park for all ages: Handmade recycled paper workshop with native flower seeds, take home the paper you make or add to a long community scroll. Play with seeds, pinecones, and other materials. Learn to make string and rope all while learning about the importance of native pollinators to the complex biodiversity right here in the city. Offered by artists who are butterfly rangers with the David Suzuki Foundation, members of Pollinator Partnership and trained nature stewards. Rain date: June 22
Shadowlands: Drawing, Darkness, & The City Mikiki will be hosting and facilitating a series of landscape drawing sessions for up to twenty participants, every alternating Sunday from June through July. These sessions will start an hour before dusk and will conclude after dark. They will incorporate external lighting and projection to talk about our relationship to lighting and illumination in regard to social marginalization. This project will draw connections to the relationships to illumination and marginalization in regard to queerness, homelessness and substance use. During each workshop an unseen local solo vocalist will perform an interpretation of a simple text score describing our changing city. Rain date: In case of inclement weather, there will be a makeup session on the following Sunday
Shadowlands: Drawing, Darkness, & The City Mikiki will be hosting and facilitating a series of landscape drawing sessions for up to twenty participants, every alternating Sunday from June through July. These sessions will start an hour before dusk and will conclude after dark. They will incorporate external lighting and projection to talk about our relationship to lighting and illumination in regard to social marginalization. This project will draw connections to the relationships to illumination and marginalization in regard to queerness, homelessness and substance use. During each workshop an unseen local solo vocalist will perform an interpretation of a simple text score describing our changing city. Rain date: In case of inclement weather, there will be a makeup session on the following Sunday
Shadowlands: Drawing, Darkness, & The City Mikiki will be hosting and facilitating a series of landscape drawing sessions for up to twenty participants, every alternating Sunday from June through July. These sessions will start an hour before dusk and will conclude after dark. They will incorporate external lighting and projection to talk about our relationship to lighting and illumination in regard to social marginalization. This project will draw connections to the relationships to illumination and marginalization in regard to queerness, homelessness and substance use. During each workshop an unseen local solo vocalist will perform an interpretation of a simple text score describing our changing city. Rain date: In case of inclement weather, there will be a makeup session on the following Sunday
Shadowlands: Drawing, Darkness, & The City Mikiki will be hosting and facilitating a series of landscape drawing sessions for up to twenty participants, every alternating Sunday from June through July. These sessions will start an hour before dusk and will conclude after dark. They will incorporate external lighting and projection to talk about our relationship to lighting and illumination in regard to social marginalization. This project will draw connections to the relationships to illumination and marginalization in regard to queerness, homelessness and substance use. During each workshop an unseen local solo vocalist will perform an interpretation of a simple text score describing our changing city. Rain date: In case of inclement weather, there will be a makeup session on the following Sunday