Here is your complete listings of arts and culture events happening in Peterborough in July 2018. For a complete list of music events, see our events calendar. Visual Art // Theatre and Performance // Film // Literary Arts // Workshops Visual Art Tsēmā Igharas: future generations // Ongoing to July 14 // Artspace […]
Cameron Anstee lives and writes in Ottawa, where he runs Apt. 9 Press and holds a PhD in Canadian Literature from the University of Ottawa. Anstee’s latest poetry release is a minimalist collection called Book of Annotations, published this spring by the fine folks at Invisible Publishing out of Picton, Ontario. Anstee is also the […]
A summer camp and youth mentorship program based out of Trent University is encouraging youth to engage with Indigenous knowledge and modern science holistically rather than separately. The initiative is called TRACKS (Trent Aboriginal Cultural Knowledge and Science) and the team behind it is preparing for another season of camp sessions and workshops, which will […]
For almost ten years, By the Bushel has been connecting people in Peterborough to the food produced by local farmers. At that same time, they’ve been cultivating relationships between people who eat food and people who grow it, something that executive director Paula Anderson says is one of the keys to a healthy local food […]
Here is your complete listings of arts and culture events happening in Peterborough in June 2018. For a complete list of music events, see our events calendar. Visual Art // Theatre and Performance // Film // Workshops Visual Art These things I have seen // Ongoing to June 24 // Art Gallery of […]
A few years I go, I became weirdly obsessed with a short-lived Bravo TV show called Work of Art. The show took the tried-and-true reality competition show formula of Top Chef and Project Runway, and applied it to the world of fine art. It was a bizarre show, and rightly canceled after one season, but […]
{Pop/Rant] It’s been brought to my attention that a recent column of mine (“Anywhere But Here: A Modest Proposal”) has ruffled a few feathers in the downtown core among a certain element who feel like calling for the wholesale murder of vulnerable drug users is in some way “heartless,” “cruel,” or “complete and total madness.” […]
As a founding director of the Endeavour Centre, a local sustainable building school, Jen Feigin has spent almost a decade teaching the skills of ecologically friendly construction to students in Peterborough. In addition, Feigin has worked to make the construction trades more accessible and supportive for women. She regularly leads two-day carpentry workshops for women, […]
She walked by the large-windowed, tiny room on George Street several times before “working up the nerve,” as she put it, to step inside. Since then, she’s been back to the space two to three times a week, often with a family member. She always comes eager to make art, to encourage other newcomers in […]
You’ve likely seen him marching purposefully downtown in bare feet until the first snowfall, with thick glasses and long hair, bearded and braided, in a big army overcoat brightly embellished with red fabric swatches. Hartley Stephenson is his own man, a proud man, opinionated, and wildly creative, a free spirit if there ever was one. […]