Coming to the Lakeshore Grounds on May 6, 2024, the Interpretive Centre is excited to announce "Patterns and Parallels: The Great Imperative to Survive", on loan from the Roberta Bondar Foundation.

"Patterns and Parallels" features photography from Dr. Roberta Bondar, the first female Canadian astronaut, to tell the story of the migratory patterns of three bird species: the Whooping Crane, Lesser Flamingo and Piping Plover. The exhibition is a key part of the Roberta Bondar Foundation’s Space For Birds project, which uses photography to create a visual story that will help us understand the biodiversity of nature and the impact of human actions and climate change on bird migration and habitat loss.

"Patterns & Parallels: The Great Imperative to Survive" will be on display from May 6 to July 26, 2024 at The Fashion Institute at 3166 Lake Shore Blvd W. in Etobicoke.

Pictured is "Colt & Parent," a photograph of an endangered Whooping Crane adult stretching its wing as it stands with its young colt on the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge along the edge of the Texas shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico in the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.