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 // […]
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 […]
Here is your complete listings of arts and culture events happening in Peterborough in August 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 3 // […]
All throughout August, something unique will be happening at Evans Contemporary. The local art gallery normally closes its doors for the month, but instead, owner Paolo Fortin is giving the keys over to Karol Orzechowski, a.k.a. local doom rapper Garbageface, for a festival titled Quality of Life. “What I wanted to do,” says Karol, “was […]
Peterborough’s Riverside Riot Squad is about 15 minutes into their most recent bout against Kingston’s Skateful Dead at the Evinrude Centre. They assemble themselves into a new formation they’ve been perfecting this season. Three skaters link arms in a circle to form a defensive barricade while a fourth sets up in front them as a […]
You see a lot of people with canoes on their car roofs in this region. Peterborough is a great place to pedal and paddle—I’ve been saying that a lot. The paths and trails in and around the city and along the many creeks, rivers, and lakes are absolutely divine. In fact, the city recently won […]