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throughlines: 2024 Juried Members’ Exhibition
2024-01-24 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-25 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-26 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-27 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-31 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-02-01 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-02-02 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-02-03 10:00 - 16:00 (America/Toronto) | 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
2024-01-24 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-01-25 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-01-26 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-01-27 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-01-28 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-01-31 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-02-01 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-02-02 11:00 - 17:00 and 1 more date | 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.

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

Maker Space Open Studio
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

ReFrame Film Festival Opening Night
2024-01-25 19:00 - 22:00 | Showplace Performance Centre, 290 George St N, Peterborough, ON, K9J 3H2
In addition to the screening of opening night film Boil Alert, this event will feature live performance and special guest speakers. This evening sets the tone and celebrates what’s to come. Don’t miss this inaugural gathering and jam packed event featuring an incredibly impactful film that examines water issues of vital importance to our community.
In Boil Alert, an Indigenous woman goes on a journey through First Nations reservations to shine a light on the devastating struggle for clean water and discovers herself in the process. This poignant exploration illuminates the human dimension of the water crisis in Indigenous communities, as well as the impact it is having upon Native identity.

ReFrame Film Festival
2024-01-26 10:00 - 22:00, 2024-01-27 10:00 - 22:00, 2024-01-28 10:00 - 19:00 | Market Hall Performing Arts, 140 Charlotte St Third Floor, Peterborough, K9J 2T8
The ReFrame Film Festival is a community celebration of documentary film and media art, with a lens on social and environmental justice. They are committed to supporting and showcasing the work of documentary filmmakers and media artists, as well as fostering dialogue around issues of social justice, human rights, and environmental responsibility.
The in-person component of the festival will be hosted at Showplace Performance Centre, Market Hall Performing Arts Centre, and the Peterborough Public Library from Thursday, January 25th to Sunday, January 28th and will feature a curated film program, live performances, filmmaker question-and-answer sessions, panel discussions, media arts exhibits, and more.
There are three festival pass options on sale at reframefilmfestival.ca. They include a $125 all-access hybrid pass for both the in-person and virtual components of the festival, a $100 all-access in-person pass, and a $50 all-access virtual pass (offering a reduced online selection of the same films screened during the in-person component).
Pay-what-you-can tickets for individual virtual films will be available online and at the door at festival venues for in-person screenings.
View the 2024 Reframe Film Guide

Ball Pit Improv
2024-01-26 20:00 | The Theatre on King, 171 King St, Peterborough, ON, K9J 2R8
They’re back! Two talented teams of hilarious improvisers return to the Ball Pit Friday January 26th!
The Ball Pit is a thunderdome of improv games and competition with five rounds of back-to-back made-up-on-the-spot hilarity. The audience will vote for the team who brought the most laughs at the end of each round. Only one team can reign supreme as champions of The Ball Pit.
Bring your friends, bring your work buds, bring your comedy-loving lover, have a drink, have a work drink, have a comedy-loving drink and watch Peterborough’s only competitive improv show that is THE BALL PIT.
Get tickets here!
or pay-what-you-can at the door

Saturday Art Club
2024-01-27 13:00 - 16:00 | Art Gallery of Peterborough, 250 Crescent Street, Peterborough, ON, K9J 2G1, Canada
Join us on the last Saturday of the month for Saturday Art Club
Does your child have an interest in art? Are they looking to explore new materials and techniques? Then join us each month for this exploration-based studio program. Gallery instructors will lead activities designed to support and develop your child’s artistic interests and talents, while taking inspiration from our current exhibitions.

PMA: Bringing TIFF To You
2024-01-29 16:00 - 18:00, 2024-01-29 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.

Award-Winning Artists, Kasador Comes To ERBEN
2024-02-01 19:00 - 22:00 | Erben, 379 George St N, Peterborough, ON, K9H 3R2
Kasador has accomplished great things in a short span of 7 years – their debut record Brood & Bloom (was produced by Rob Baker of The Tragically Hip) brought them their first radio success, and they joined forces with Brett Emmons of The Glorious Sons to co-write and produce our sophomore record “Youth”, which has since led them to a number of support slots with Canadian greats The Tea Party, Tom Cochrane, The Glorious Sons and recently, Finger Eleven.
Kasador is excited to share their newly released single “Come Over” which was released on Nov 10 just as they embarked on an international tour, as of November 4th performing their own shows as well, shows in direct support of Gold and Platinum-selling, Juno and SOCAN Award-winning Canadian icons, Finger Eleven.
On the heels of their sophomore LP “Youth” (June 2, 2023), just as Kasador were hitting full sprint, they’ve released their follow-up single “Come Over” on November 10th.
“Come Over” tells the story of a complex and emotionally turbulent relationship in which both parties are torn between wanting and not wanting the other’s presence. The song offers a raw and introspective exploration of the intricacies of human connection – how desire and fear are ever-present complications to finding deep and genuine connection. The band have continued their partnership with The Glorious Sons’ frontman Brett Emmons, co-writing and producing the ethereal pop-rock anthem with the enigmatic singer.
Kasador is a Kingston, Ontario band who have never been scared of change and the three friends at Kasador’s core—Cam Wyatt (vocals/guitar), Boris Baker (bass), and Stephen Adubofuor (drums)—have been through a lot of it. They’ve woven years of tumult through their mid-20s into something powerful and real: a tight-knit, sincere, and caring rock and roll band.
In June 2023 they released “Youth”, their sophomore LP about youth, memory, relationships, and how the relentless passage of time shapes and constantly reshapes all of those things. It’s a bright, punkish, emotional guitar-rock record that ultimately tracks the process of learning to be okay with not being okay. Since the release, the band have been drawing lots of attention for their raw and honest sound, captivating high energy live performances, and stunning visuals – the music video for single Lock On won Best Music Video at the 2023 Kingston Canadian Film Festival.

Winter Theatre: Love Letters
2024-02-02 18:00 | Buckhorn Community Centre, 1782 Lakehurst Road, Buckhorn, ON, K0L 1J0, Canada
LOVE LETTERS by A. R, Gurney, an American playwright, novelist and academic, is a play about a 55 year relationship developed and maintained by letter writing. Andy and Melissa, born between WW 1 and WW 2, begin writing to each other as early as grade 2 and continue all their lives into their 60’s, highlighting their joys, passions, disappointments and struggles.
Because the dialogue of this poignant, intimate and nostalgic play is reflective of time through the ages, the language is not always appropriate for our current times.

Popcorn, Please
2024-02-03 19:30 | Showplace Performance Centre, 290 George St N, Peterborough, ON, K9J 3H2
The wait is over! The ultimate “surround sound” movie event makes its debut with the PSO with scores from Star Wars, E.T., James Bond, Lord of the Rings and many more! Close your eyes and relive the unforgettable rush of emotions from a century of cinema favourites!
