In late September, at a series of gatherings spread across four counties in southern Ontario, families of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities took the first steps towards a new way of connecting and finding solutions for their loved ones. The gatherings were the results of months of planning and organization by the Resonance Centre […]
Here is your complete listings of arts and culture events happening in Peterborough in November 2018. For a complete list of music events, see our events calendar. Visual Art // Theatre and Performance // Film // Orchestra and Choir // Literary Arts Visual Art Nature’s Splendor // Ongoing to November 11 // Kawartha […]
It’s Halloween in Peterborough, and somewhere a Trickster is playing with fire in the woods. Ursula rises from the river, her crown glinting in the setting sun as people gather around her trying to capture her beauty. Forest creatures, Mother Earth, mermaids, and even the Moon were seen haunting Peterborough this month, and yes, they […]
Here is your complete listings of arts and culture events happening in Peterborough in October 2018. For a complete list of music events, see our events calendar. Visual Art // Theatre and Performance // Film // Literary Arts // Workshops Visual Art Rod Mireau: Signs of Life // Ongoing to October 8 // […]
“What commitment do you hold that compelled you to be here today?” This is the provocative question that’s frequently posed to attendees at the start of community conversations. It helps to jumpstart the discussion, and to centre the people who have chosen to come out. Most of the time, the answers are, unsurprisingly, as varied […]
I met up with writer/performer Em Glasspool and director Linda Kash at Black Honey to talk about Glasspool’s first one-person, autobiographical play, Wreck Wee Em. Amidst the din of midday conversations and clinking of plates, they shared their thoughts about the joys and perils of creating theatre that evokes the harrowing experiences of psychosis and […]
In three, 26-foot voyageur canoes, they paddled around the Kawartha Lakes region for a week. Strangers to one another, the youth came from the Micmac First Nation in Nova Scotia, the Mohawk First Nation from Akwesasne, and the Curve Lake and Alderville First Nations. Youth from New Zealand, Australia and Mexico and nine non-Indigenous youth […]
There is something unconventional coming to Peterborough this month. On September 8, gamers of all stripes will descend on the Evinrude Centre for UnCon: The Unconventional Convention, a full day of tabletop gaming, board gaming, card gaming, war gaming, and live-action roleplay gaming. The image of dozens of people getting together to imagine throwing fireballs […]
One passionate and down-to-earth Peterborough woman is quickly making it hard to shrink behind excuses when it comes to crushing climate change. As someone who’s made some pretty huge life decisions herself in support of what’s best for the environment, Jessica Correa is putting out a message that is thawing the stiffening effects of the […]
At the very end of McDonnel is a gateway to a different way of life, past and future. For years, Mount St. Joseph was home to a religious life. From there emanated many community works. Women who chose a life in the world but not of the world served community daily as teachers and nurses. […]
