High Park Nature Centre welcomes Indigenous Youth, ages 12-17, to join us in High Park for a FREE program called Indigenous Youth Wanderers.
Our upcoming program this spring will be an immersive, Indigenous-led experience of building community, learning, unlearning and ReIndigenizing and reconnecting to ancestral pathways that will take place every Saturday, April 15-May 20, from 10AM-1PM. Participants will meet at the High Park Nature Centre Forest School Building on 375 Colborne Lodge Drive, from where we will begin our sessions.
Note: We’re extending this experience to the Indigenous folks of Turtle Island (North America), South America, and the African Diaspora. We’re extending this experience to the Indigenous folks of Turtle Island (North America), South America, and the African Diaspora. You have the power to self-identify, you do not have to be status or non-status. We welcome all youth who have lived experience as an Indigenous Person. Our program is Indigenous-led and our instructors will be sharing teachings they have gathered from their own lived experiences while creating a space that is welcoming to all Indigenous knowledges. If you have any questions, please reach out to info@highparknaturecentre.com
As a Youth Wanderer participant, you will:
Wanderers activities:
We’re extending this experience to the Indigenous folks of Turtle Island (North America), South America, and the African Diaspora. You have the power to self-identify, you do not have to be status or non-status. We welcome all youth who have lived experience as an Indigenous Person. Our program is Indigenous-led and our instructors will be sharing teachings they have gathered from their own lived experiences while creating a space that is welcoming to all Indigenous knowledges. If you have any questions, please reach out to info@highparknaturecentre.com
The fall sessions of Indigenous Youth Wanderers will run from 10AM-1PM every Saturday from April 15-May 20. The drop off time is 10AM, and pick up time is 1PM.
Our Indigenous Youth Wanderers program is FREE of cost thanks to funding by the Ontario Trillium Foundation and the Kiwanis Club of Toronto.
Indigenous Youth Wanderers will meet at 10AM at the High Park Nature Centre Forest School Building on 375 Colborne Lodge Drive.
Lunch and light snacks will be provided. If you are packing your own lunch, please ensure the following:
Date and Time: Sunday, March 19, 1-3:30PM
Price: FREE
Join us and the Taiaiako’n Historical Preservation Society for a gathering to honor the life-giving wonder of Water as we invite a re-storying that acknowledges High Park as Indigenous Land, the long work that Indigenous peoples have done, and the work left yet to do.
Join us and the Taiaiako’n Historical Preservation Society for a gathering to honor the life-giving wonder of Water. Guided by Elder Frank Miller (Mohawk, Six Nations), Donna Powless (Cayuga, Six Nations), and Catherine Tammaro (Wyandot, Anderdon Nation) we invite a re-storying that acknowledges High Park as Indigenous Land, the long work that Indigenous peoples have done, and the work left yet to do.
Water is one of the four sacred elements of Creation alongside Air, Earth, and Fire. Join us in celebrating the gift of Water and the beginning of Spring through ceremony, Fire, feasting, and an acknowledgement of Water as an Ancestral thruway, as home, as Medicine, and more.
Through embodiment, we will re-story Tkaronto in relation to waterways that have shaped this place. To mark our journey, we will be creating together waterscapes using watercolour paint + paper, exploring our deep relationship with the Spirit of Water through creative activation.
Our Indigenous-led events are FREE of cost! Consider making a donation to help us keep our Indigenous-led programming free and accessible to everyone.
We will meet outside the High Park Nature Centre's Forest School building at 375 Colborne Lodge Drive.
Date and Time: Wednesday, March 22, 6PM
Price: FREE
Celebrate World Water Day with Turtle Protectors High Park by joining us for their Water Walk led by Vivian Recollet, Bigasohn Kwe, Turtle Clan from Wikwemikong Unceded First Nation, Ojibway Nation.
Note: Please bring a small cup for the Water Ceremony.
Celebrate World Water Day with the Turtle Protectors High Park by joining us for their Water Walk led by Vivian Recollet, Bigasohn Kwe, Turtle Clan from Wikwemikong Unceded First Nation, Ojibway Nation.
The water walk aims to raise awareness of the importance of our water and the need for its protection. It also means to awaken our responsibility and reciprocal relationship to our Mother earth’s life blood.
Note: Please bring a small cup for the Water Ceremony.
This Indigenous-led event is FREE of cost and is funded by both Turtle Protectors High Park and the High Park Nature Centre. Consider making a donation to help us keep our Indigenous-led programming free and accessible to everyone.
The walk will start in front of the main entrance of the Grenadier Cafe located in the heart of High Park.
Please ensure you’ve read and understood our registration policies:
We acknowledge that we are situated upon the traditional territories of the Wendat, Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe and the Mississaugas of the Credit. For over 10,000 years Indigenous peoples have lived in this area and we recognize the enduring presence of Indigenous peoples on this land.
High Park is located within “Dish With One Spoon” Territory. The “Dish with One Spoon” is a Wampum Belt Covenant between the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas to share and protect this land together by using only one spoon to eat from the Dish and ensuring the Dish is never empty. When we are in High Park, we are all part of this agreement and are also responsible for respectfully sharing and caring for this land and the animals who live here.
