39th Annual Wards Island Fire Parade

Each summer Shadowland Theatre holds a free community arts residency week and performance on the beautiful Ward’s Island, situated in the Toronto Island Park. Shadowland presents a fun-filled week of art-making workshops, music and performance activities for all-ages. On Friday, July 31 at 8:30pm participants, artists and community come together for 39th Annual Ward’s Island Fire Parade . Join us for an evening of spectacle and lights with puppets, stilt-walkers and live music. As dark falls, join in a lantern-lit parade which will wind along through the community to the beach. Bring friends and family (and lanterns)! Shadowland welcomes visual artists, theatre artists and community members to join together over the residency week, July 26 to 31, to create lanterns, puppets costumes and short puppet and theatre works. For more information and to register, visit our website: shadowlandtheatre.ca/fireparade2026