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throughlines: 2024 Juried Members’ Exhibition
2024-01-10 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-11 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-12 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-13 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-17 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-18 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-19 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-20 10:00 - 16:00 (America/Toronto) and 2 more dates | Artspace, 3-378 Aylmer Street N, Peterborough, ON, K9H 3V8, Canada
Artspace is kicking off its 50th anniversary year is an exhibition dedicated to their valued membership!
Throughlines: 2024 Juried Members’ Exhibition proudly presents the work of 20 of Artspace Members, including a media arts installation in Gallery 2 co-presented with ReFrame Film Festival. On the commencement of this milestone year, we asked artists to submit work imbued with a look back and a look forward, while asking ourselves, what are the most consistent traits of our membership? What are those characteristics that draw artists to artist-run culture. What are the throughlines?
The threads that characterize the last five decades of artist-run culture at Artspace, however tangled or pristinely woven, heart-achingly water-damaged or painstakingly archived, are the relationships that built and continually reinvent Artspace. These relationships, whether captured and retold as linear and well-documented narratives or as an ever-evolving patchwork of memories and vision, will unfold well into the future.
In contemplating this milestone year, it is natural – a default – to retell the familiar stories of our beginnings. And, we will tell those compelling and valuable stories. But there are and there will be others.
Every Artspace membership represents an influence into what Artspace can become. How can we ensure that the insights and wisdom of voices previously unheard are woven into the fabric of our story? This is a line of thought we’re giving lots of energy these days.
Participating Artists:
Alexandra Box, Samantha Chiusolo, Marta Chudolinska, Brad Copping, Garrett Gilbart, Lesley Givens, Theresa Godin, Christopher Green, Laura Honsberger, Ann Jaeger, Tim Laurin, Jane Lowbeer, Jeff Macklin, Joseph Muscat, Rob Niezen, Kelly O’Neill, Laura Paluck, Lynda Todd, Jane Wild, and Nikoiya Wile

seams and strata
2024-01-10 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-01-11 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-01-12 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-01-13 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-01-14 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-01-17 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-01-18 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-01-19 11:00 - 17:00 and 4 more dates | Art Gallery of Peterborough, 250 Crescent Street, Peterborough, ON, K9J 2G1, Canada
As the Art Gallery of Peterborough enters its 50th anniversary year in 2024, we are digging into our archives and reconnecting with our founders to engage with our past. Looking through old photographs and archives offers us a chance to marvel at where we’ve been and where we’ve come from; at what has changed and what remains. Sifting through filing cabinets packed with layers of paperwork, notes, and images feels a bit like an archeological dig. We make careful work of it, pausing when we unearth something precious, like a handwritten letter on fine paper or a photograph with younger versions of familiar faces.
This juried exhibition invited artists to submit original works of art that resonate with themes of legacy, archives, nostalgia, ghosts, memory, survival, and growth.
Tree rings and stratified rock mark the passage of time and changing conditions, like layers of once fashionable wallpaper. The strata of our lives can be studied and excavated, unleashing seams of joy, curiosity, wonder, or grief. Throughout three ramps and the main gallery, works by fifty-five artists bring forward the findings of their own excavations.

Hanging Out with Marionettes: Vignettes from the Peterborough Puppet Guild
2024-01-11 09:00 - 2024-03-24 17:00 | Peterborough Museum and Archives, 300 Hunter Street East, Peterborough, Ontario, K9J 6Y5, Canada
For centuries, puppetry has been a practiced artform across the globe. Marionettes are a lively medium for sharing stories, animating myths and legends, and for entertaining audiences. The Peterborough Puppet Guild was founded in 1953 and operated for over a decade, performing as well as hosting marionette-building workshops.
On display at the Peterborough Museum & Archives are selections of marionettes from the Peterborough Puppet Guild’s vast collection, set within themed vignettes that include the Wizard of Oz, King Neptune, Liberace’s band, and more!
All strings considered, you’re knot going to find a collection of marionettes like this anywhere else!

Maker Space Open Studio
2024-01-11 18:00 - 20:00, 2024-01-18 18:00 - 20:00, 2024-01-25 18:00 - 20:00 | Artspace, 3-378 Aylmer Street N, Peterborough, ON, K9H 3V8, Canada
Join us on Thursday evenings at Artspace for our weekly Open Studio program! Participate in our weekly activity or bring your own project, and come make some art in a calm, creative, community space!

What is Open Studio?
Open Studio is a FREE weekly art program, where community members of all ages and skill levels can come out and make art together! Registration is required to participate.
What can I make?
Each week, we have a set artmaking activity, facilitated by a volunteer instructor. Community members can also bring their own project, OR utilize Maker Space materials such as collaging, zine making, mending, embroidery, colouring, knitting, or crochet.
January Activity Schedule:
Thursday, January 11th 2024: Intuitive Stitching
Thursday, January 18th 2024: Visible Mending
Thursday, January 25th 2024: Bring your own craft- Stitching Circle

Bubie's Tapes
2024-01-17 20:00 | The Theatre on King, 171 King St, Peterborough, ON, K9J 2R8
While preparing a pot of matzo ball soup for his daughter, Jon Hedderwick recounts personal and family experiences from the Russian Revolution, through the Holocaust and beyond, as told by his Bubie Sarah in cassette tape recordings she left behind. Through these stories, Bubie’s Tapes reveals much about the history and ongoing impacts of antisemitism in Canada and around the world.

PMA: Bringing TIFF To You
2024-01-22 16:00 - 18:00, 2024-01-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Galaxy Cinemas Peterborough, 320 Water St., Peterborough, Ontario, K9H 3L5, Canada
The Peterborough Museum & Archives are excited to offer our community the chance to experience Canadian & International film, in partnership with the Toronto International Film Festival Circuit Group and Galaxy Cinemas Peterborough.
Films are presented at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Monday, January 22 – Flora and Son
Monday, January 29 – Who’s Yer Father
Monday, February 12 – Dreamin’ Wild
Series passes for the Winter/Spring 2023 season are $133.60. Series passes will be available for purchase:

In person at the Peterborough Memorial Centre’s Grant Thornton Box Office located at 151 Lansdowne Street West;
Online through the Memorial Centre’s digital box office; or
By telephone at (705) 743-3561

Rush tickets are available for purchase 30 minutes before each film screening, in the Galaxy Cinemas lobby. Look for Museum staff in the area around the concession stand.

Rush tickets are $20 each
Payment for Rush tickets is exclusively by credit card.

Listen Much: Mack Ray
2024-01-24 20:00 | The Theatre on King, 171 King St, Peterborough, ON, K9J 2R8
How long does it take to find yourself?
If you ask Mack Ray he might say too damn long. Mack has already lived a few lives rolled into one. From screaming his lungs out fronting rock and roll bands, to moving to Nashville to write on music row, then coming home to Canada only to hop in the van and tour North America screaming his lungs out in rock n roll again. Mack Ray sounds like the 90’s in a way that only somebody that lived through the 90’s could do it. The 90’s may be the trend du jour but it’s not a trend if it’s what made you pick up a guitar in the first place. PJ Harvey. Nirvana. Mark Lanegan. Jeff Buckley. Chris Cornell. Songs born out of feeling. The journey to finding yourself isn’t straight or smooth. There are ugly moments along the way. How long does it take? Who cares. When it finally happens, it’s worth it.
Get tickets here!
or Pay-what-you-can
