The Kawarthas Tourism

seams and strata
2024-02-28 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-02-29 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-01 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-02 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-03 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-06 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-07 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-08 11:00 - 17:00 (America/Toronto) and 6 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.

Life Without
2024-02-29 19:00 | Market Hall Performing Arts, 140 Charlotte St Third Floor, Peterborough, K9J 2T8
In the last week of February, New Stages presents a brand new festival of exciting new work:
LIFE WITHOUT
New Stages Theatre presents Life Without by Steve Ross.
A staged reading at Market Hall.
What do you do when your child turns out completely differently from the person you hoped they would be? LIFE WITHOUT is a riveting drama about family, children, grandchildren, the dream of happiness, and the prospect of a life without.
Recommended audience: 14+

8th Annual Artspace Book + Zine Fest
2024-03-01 18:00 - 22:00, 2024-03-02 12:00 - 16:00 | Artspace, 3-378 Aylmer Street N, Peterborough, ON, K9H 3V8, Canada
Join Artspace for their 8th Annual Book + Zine Fest, a celebration of regional press, zine, comic, and paper arts!

This beloved event is a wonderful opportunity to come peruse and support the work of talented comics artists, graphic novelists, letterpress printers, zine makers, and MORE!

29th Annual Gem, Fossil & Mineral Show
2024-03-02 10:00 - 14:00, 2024-03-03 10:00 - 14:00 | The Healthy Planet Arena, 911 Monaghan Rd, Peterborough, Ontario, K9J 5K5, Canada
Minerals, Fossils, Rocks, Crystals, Meteorites, Gemstones, Equipment, Books, Faceted stones, Gemstone Jewelry, Beads and much more. A large display area is featured with mineral and fossil displays from members of the Kawartha Club and prominent Ontario collectors. Also a large display of mining memorabilia and the Kawartha Club’s Annual Best Collected Specimen Competition.
Each day there will be silent auctions.

Family Sunday at the Art Gallery of Peterborough
2024-03-03 13:00 - 16:00 | Art Gallery of Peterborough, 250 Crescent Street, Peterborough, ON, K9J 2G1, Canada
Get creative with the Art Gallery of Peterborough. Family Sunday runs on the first Sunday of each month and offers fun, free, and seasonally themed art making activities, suitable for all ages. Explore the gallery’s current exhibitions and then drop in to the studio for a seasonally themed art activity.
Drop in from 1 pm to 4 pm.
No fee or registration is required. Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

Vástádus Eana (The Answer is Land)
2024-03-03 14:00 - 15:30 | Market Hall Performing Arts, 140 Charlotte St Third Floor, Peterborough, K9J 2T8
Seven black-clad women, fists raised, brandish megaphones above their heads, in front of the Market Hall Performing Arts Centre. They start dancing to ask the land for permission to gather on it. Then, walking with heads held high, they lead the audience into the theatre for Vástádus eana: a galvanizing choreographed concert that amplifies the long-repressed voices of the Sámi people.
Through their polyphonic chants and movements, the performers draw us into an a cappella story of resistance and healing. Their voices are rooted in joik, the captivating Sámi music sung while travelling across the land. Embodying memory, they celebrate the alliances between all living creatures and the land, between nature and the community. Inspired by socio-ecological movements and Sámi spirituality, this hymn pays tribute to all those who fight injustice.

Peterborough Performs lV: Musicians United To End Homelessness﻿
2024-03-07 19:00 - 22:00 | Showplace Performance Centre, 290 George St N, Peterborough, ON, K9J 3H2
You are going to want to grab your ticket for this incredible event – this year, more than ever we need you to help build and support the vital services that people experiencing homelessness in our community rely on.
Peterborough Performs provides the perfect opportunity to enjoy sixteen local music acts who perform simultaneously across two stages with all proceeds funding United Way Peterborough & District Partner Agencies who work to provide housing, shelter and counseling supports to people who are housing insecure in the City and County of Peterborough.
Featured acts are The Weber Brothers Band, Emily Burgess, SJ Riley, The Austin Carson Band, The Peterborough All-Star Band (featuring Rick and Gailie Young), The Cheryl Casselman Trio, Irish Millie, Tom Eastland, Chris Collins, Wylie Harold, Phil Stephenson/Glen Cardus/Ron Kervin, Jacques Graveline The Hippie chicks, Michaela Hetherington, Dan Hick and stand up comedian Tim Burnie.

Izzie M: The Alchemy of Enfreakment
2024-03-08 19:00 | Nozhem: First Peoples’ Performance Space, 1 Gzowski Way, Peterborough, ON, K9J 7B8
Step right up to witness a performance that transmutes time: a barbaric banquet boasting aberrant bodies and dusky denizens from exotic cultures — ALIVE!! Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!
Behold the wonders of Injun rarities Monique Mojica (Guna and Rappahannock) and Barry Bilinsky (Metis/Cree), for a limited performance run. This Ten-in-One odditorium will highlight Izzie The Invisible Woman- an Alchemist, FlimFlam Sam – The Outside Talker, The Authentic Cockboy, Vibora de los Veinte Venenos and a full Cabinet of Curiosities for your viewing pleasure.
Hurry, hurry, claim your seats and observe these exotic stories in Nogojiwanong’s very own sideshow before their next jump. With freakish alchemy and chaos, there is only one way to find out if Izzie M. will be able to pull-off her own disenfreakment! It will leave you gasping in delight, aweing in amusement, defying your wildest dreams — and nightmares!
Following the blowoff, visit the concessionaire to purchase your souvenir parlour card of Izzie M. (Monique Mojica) & FlimFlam Sam (Barry Balinski). These rare collectors items shall never be reproduced.
Tickets are pay-what-you can at the door and Nozhem is a cash ONLY venue.

Willow Quartet
2024-03-08 19:30 | Peterborough Theatre Guild, 364 Rogers St, Peterborough, K9H 1W7
Much to the chagrin of her mother and her estranged husband, Kim has invited Jim, a visiting classical musician, to stay in a spare room in her family’s old farmhouse. This is so out of character – she knows almost nothing about Jim, or classical music, for that matter. In the aftermath of a family tragedy, Kim has sought solace at the farm, a quiet place away from the city. But with the addition of this enticing stranger, so much more than peace and solace drifts in on the country air. A story of connection, healing, love and forgiveness.

Fierce & Fancy: A Women's Day Market
2024-03-09 10:00 - 14:30 | Peterborough Lions Banquet Hall and Meeting Centre, 347 Burnham St, Peterborough, ON, K9H 1T5
In commemoration of International Women’s Day, local female vendors and artisans are gathering to offer their goods and services to the public. Come shop in support of women and girls in business! Admission is free or PWYC, with 100% of the proceeds going towards the Lions Club’s kitchen upgrade, which will help them serve Peterborough better.

Make It Handmade Peterborough Crafters Event
2024-03-10 10:00 - 15:00 | Peterborough Legion, 1550 Lansdowne St, Peterborough, K9J 2A2
💥 COME OUT AND SUPPORT THESE AMAZING ARTISTS💥
This event is FREE to attend!
You will not be disappointed!!

bienes importados / imported goods by Anahí González
2024-03-15 12:00 - 2024-05-11 16:00 | Artspace, 3-378 Aylmer Street N, Peterborough, ON, K9H 3V8, Canada
Anahí González’ artistic practice and research explore migration, Mexican labour for/within Canada, Canadian imperialism, and identity with questions relating to commerce, systems of power and the event of photography through installation, photography, and moving images.

Peterborough Psychic & Crystal Fair
2024-03-15 14:00 - 22:00, 2024-03-16 11:00 - 22:00 | Waterfront Holiday Inn, 150 George St N, Peterborough, Ontario, K9J 3G5, Canada
18 Vendors including some of Ontario’s Top Mediums, Psychics, Aura Photography, Tealeaf Reading, Astrology, Clairvoyants, Healers, Rune and Palmistry.
Lots of beautiful crystals and handmade jewelry.

Ennismore Everlasting Spring Craft & Vendor Show
2024-03-16 11:00 - 16:00 | Ennismore Community Centre, 553 Ennis Rd, Ennismore, ON, K0L 1T0
Craft & Vendor Show
