Ghost Landing

Caterwaul Theatre

People looking at a shadow puppet display of condos behind a glass window.
Photo by Mila Bright

A large-scale windowfront installation by Toronto artist duo Caterwaul Theatre will haunt The Bentway Studio this Halloween. Encounter the urban legends and myths of the CityPlace neighbourhood and its inhabitants through innovative shadow puppetry, storytelling, and a series of commissioned Jack-O-Lanterns created by local artists.

The ghosts of CityPlace past are stirring! What do these (imagined) spirits look like and what stories do they want to tell us now? 

Ghost Landing is a large-scale windowfront installation by Toronto artist duo Caterwaul Theatre that will haunt The Bentway Studio for one week this Halloween. Encounter urban legends and myths of the CityPlace neighbourhood and its inhabitants (both real and spectral) through innovative shadow puppetry, storytelling, and a series of Jack-O-Lanterns created by local artists. Stop by Canoe Landing Park from October 24th to 31st to view this spooktacular display, beginning each evening at dusk. 

On Thursday, October 26, Caterwaul Theatre will lead a Ghost Walk through Canoe Landing Park featuring (totally factual and absolutely not improvised) scary stories of CityPlace. There will also be an opportunity to tell your own stories at a shadow puppet workshop on The Bentway Studio terrace. 

If you are still left hankering for more Halloween, be sure to stop by during the annual CityPlace Halloween Crawl between 6:00pm-9:00pm on October 31 for an extra trick and or treat. 

What to Expect:

  • A windowfront installation at The Bentway Studio (55 Fort York Blvd.). 
  • The artwork can be viewed from The Bentway Studio’s terrace starting at dusk. 
  • The Bentway Studio’s terrace at Canoe Landing Park is a ground-level, physically accessible space. 
  • There will be no washrooms open on site after 5pm. Note: The Canoe Landing CRC next door is open until 10pm. 
Shadow puppet display of condos behind a glass window.
Jack-o-lanterns display behind a glass window at night.
Shadow puppet display of condos behind a glass window.
People looking at a shadow puppet display of condos behind a glass window.
Photos by Mila Bright.

Read the stories behind each Jack-o-Lantern:

  • Who Are The Ghosts of Condoland?

    Welcome to the pumpkin patch of Ghost Landing! Caterwaul Theatre invited a group of local artists to imagine more ghosts of CityPlace (and their own spooky stories) through a series of Jack-o’-lanterns. HINFOS Despite our close proximity, living stacked above others, we move amongst one another as ghosts. The building crane is our ghost of…

  • All’s Whale That Ends Whale

    Did you know: Much of the area that is now CityPlace was once the Canadian National Railway Lands, a busy track switching yard moving goods and people in and out of the city by train. In 1881 Henry Piper, an enterprising Torontonian, had a dead whale shipped by rail from Nova Scotia for display at…

  • The Ghost Hotel

    Did you know: From 1916 until 1927 the Ontario Temperance Act prohibited the sale of alcohol in Toronto. Bootleggers ensured a steady flow of alcohol from the United States by travelling across Lake Ontario and delivering their wares to Toronto harbour under the cover of darkness.  Some of the buildings in Condoland have an infamous…

  • Miles to Go Before I Sleep

    Did you know: Terry Fox and his courageous Marathon of Hope are memorialised in Canoe Landing Park by an artwork designed by Douglas Coupland. Every year the community hosts a Terry Fox Run around the park to raise money for cancer research.    Terry ran for 143 days, at about 42 kilometres a day, through the…

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