Summer In the Park
July - August, 2024
Little Avenue Memorial Park
22 Little Avenue, York, ON M9N 1K6
Crossroads Theatre has provided theatrical programming in Little Avenue Memorial Park every summer since 2019. This year’s offering is a two-month-long variety of shows! Crossroads will present two plays, in collaboration with Animacy Collective, Theatre Direct, and Clay And Paper Theatre. We will also have performances by our local Weston Silver Band!
Finding Home
A Salmon Journey Upstream
Created and performed by Alexandra Simpson and Morgan Brie Johnson
Produced by Theatre Direct, Created by Animacy Theatre Collective
July 13 and 14
12pm and 2pm
Finding Home is the story of two best friends who also happen to be salmon from Lake Ontario. Beagle and Sojo do everything together, as true best friends always do. Until one day Beagle starts to change and gets the urge to set off on an adventure upstream–whether Sojo wants to come or not.
It’s tough to swim against the current of the Humber River and the two face all kinds of challenges together: fishermen, pollution, rocks, rapids and more. But along the way they learn what it means to be a real friend, how beautiful it is to complete your life cycle, and why salmon really are the rockstars of the fish world!
Weston Silver Band
Music Director Larry Shields
July 25 and August 1
7pm
Weston Silver Band’s offering for Summer In the Park will focus on the history of Weston and celebrate more than 100 years of Weston Silver Band performing in Weston. The performance is guided by a Storyteller who shares the history of Weston and the Weston Silver Band, and provides context of the music performed and its unique instrumentation. The Weston Silver Band’s instrumentation allows the band to program an extensive repertoire including Big Band, swing and jazz, ballads, favourites from Broadway and Hollywood, familiar folk tunes, traditional marches, and contemporary Brass Band repertoire, as well as solos featuring its own virtuoso members.
Art Ambulance
Directed by David Anderson
Produced by Clay And Paper Theatre
August 23 and 24, 7pm
August 25, 2pm
Art Ambulance is an all ages, mini variety show – a pop up theatre to the rescue, or, “good medicine for hard times.” Art Ambulance is a street theatre and commedia dell’arte inspired show, made up of a series of short, sharp sketches that include table-top bunraku style puppetry, backpack and giant puppet images, mask, spectacle and live music. Abounding with plenty of satirical twists, Art Ambulance challenges the hoaxes, quackery and bad medicine (socially and politically) that abound in our modern lives.