The Kawarthas Tourism

Fierce & Fancy: A Women's Day Market
2024-03-09 10:00 - 14:30 (America/Toronto) | 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.

seams and strata
2024-03-09 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-10 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-13 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-14 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-15 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-16 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-17 11:00 - 17:00 | 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.

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, 2024-03-17 11:00 - 18:00 | 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

Mystical Witches Night Market
2024-03-22 08:00 - 17:00 | Personal Touch Banquet Hall, 1135 Lansdowne St. West, Peterborough
Dive into everything witchy – our most anticipated market of the year!
Join us for a mystical night! Meet with over 40 gifted vendors!
FREE ADMISSION – because magic shouldn’t come with a price tag!
ALL are welcome!
Explore and shop:
Tarot/Oracle Readings
Explore our Crystal Haven
Embrace Healing Therapies
Discover Witchy Products
Illuminate your space with enchanting Candles and more!
Be one of the first 30 guests and receive a mystical swag bag!

A Conversation with Steve Paikin
2024-03-22 19:30 | Bryan Jones Theatre at Lakefield College School, 4391 County Rd 29, Lakefield, Ontario, K0L 2H0, Canada
In connection with his critically acclaimed biography of the late Prime Minister John Turner, Steve Paikin will be discussing the current state of political leadership in our country. Selwyn Township councilor and Lakefield Literary Festival Board Chair John Boyko will moderate the discussion; followed by a Q & A session and book signing opportunities

Easter Spring Fling - Hobby and Craft Sale
2024-03-23 10:00 - 15:00 | Kawartha Downs, 1328 County Road 28, Fraserville, ON, K0L 1V0
Join 30 plus local vendors as we welcome in SPRING……
OPEN FOR ALL AGES
Entry fee is only $2 per person or any food/toy donation for the Peterborough Humane Society.
FREE PARKING / CONCESSIONS
Raffle table

Opening Reception: Antoine Mountain
2024-03-23 13:00 - 16:00 | Art Gallery of Peterborough, 250 Crescent Street, Peterborough, ON, K9J 2G1, Canada
Join the Art Gallery of Peterborough for an opening reception to celebrate Antoine Mountain’s, “Ets’ehch’I; Traditional Dene Burial Practices.” This exhibition is comprised of twenty-one paintings that share depictions taken from stories, beliefs, and traditions as an epistemological tool of Dene resurgence.
For this special event, these works will be installed in the Main Gallery. “Ets’ehch’I; Traditional Dene Burial Practices” will remain on view in the upper ramps from Wednesday, March 30 to June 30, 2024.
This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome.
The AGP strives to be a scent-free facility: help us keep the air we share fragrance free.

Words & Beyond: How Communication Brings Us Together
2024-03-25 08:00 - 2024-06-16 17:00 | Peterborough Museum and Archives, 300 Hunter Street East, Peterborough, Ontario, K9J 6Y5, Canada
The Peterborough Museum & Archives (PMA) Heideman Gallery was transformed by up-and-coming museum professionals from Fleming College’s Museum Management and Curatorship program! The students’ exhibition explores how communication has shaped Peterborough and the surrounding area. Come discover all the different ways we connect to one another and the wider world. There’s so much to say, so come talk about it!

Snowed in Comedy Tour
2024-03-26 19:30 | Showplace Performance Centre, 290 George St N, Peterborough, ON, K9J 3H2
The Snowed In Comedy Tour has turned into a Canadian success story, celebrating its fifteenth year. It has now grown to become the biggest comedy tour in Canada. The tour has now performed in Australia, The US, France, and Switzerland.
Four international comedians come together to create one amazing show with each bringing a unique and hilarious take providing something for everyone. Just for Laughs winner Dan Quinn is joined by the Great Canadian Laugh Off winner, Paul Myrehaug and 6 time Canadian Comedian of the year nominee, Pete Zedlacher. We are proud to announce that Erica Sigurdson with over 70 appearances on the Debaters, will be joining us. Don’t miss out on the comedy show called “Better than the Just for Laughs Tour” and “Delivers a Flurry of Laughs”.

Skydiggers With Paul Langlois Band
2024-03-27 20:00 | Market Hall Performing Arts, 140 Charlotte St Third Floor, Peterborough, K9J 2T8
To tell the story of Skydiggers is to tell the story of a thriving musical collaboration that was born in friendship and has abided with trust. Over the course of 15 studio albums and countless miles on the road, Skydiggers have grown from enthusiastic youngsters into husbands, fathers, and mentors. And while band members have changed over the decades, Josh Finlayson and Andy Maize remain its beating heart. With new collaborators bringing their unique musical histories into the circle, the sound of Skydiggers continues to evolve
Their newest work, Hide Your Light, Bide Your Time, was recorded over a three-month span in 2022 at Baker Studios in Saanich, British Columbia. To be released as two six song collections on Latent Recordings, Hide Your Light will launch on June 9, 2023 and Bide Your Time is slated for October 13, 2023.
When Paul Langlois was asked to play the closing ceremonies of the Canada Summer Games in Niagara Falls in August of 2022, the last thing on his mind was making a new record. A few months later, however, Guess What, The Paul Langlois Band’s debut on Pheromone Recordings was in the can, and Langlois began a new and exciting phase of his musical journey.
Across the ten songs on Guess What, Langlois finds himself ruminating on time – not just on how it passes, but the moments that stand still and stand out, from the highs of finding the ‘Will To Fight’ and just rocking out on ‘Peels Is Sleep Backwards’ to the lows of finding yourself on the receiving end of ‘Desperation Calling.’ And perhaps nowhere more poignantly on the plaintive and raw ‘Don’t Leave Me, Brother’ a revealing take on loss that, while rooted in Gord Downie’s untimely passing, is sure to be a comfort to anyone suffering grief of any kind.

Annual Celebration of Community-Based Research
2024-03-28 12:00 - 16:00 | Market Hall Performing Arts, 140 Charlotte St Third Floor, Peterborough, K9J 2T8
Join us for the Trent Community Research Centre’s Annual Celebration of Community-Based Research! This dynamic event showcases the results of this year’s student research, including a research poster showcase, student presentations, an insightful research panel, and an awards presentation recognizing student, community, and faculty leaders in community-based research.
Explore innovative research projects that advance the social, cultural, economic, and environmental well-being of our local communities as we celebrate this year’s collaborations! This celebration promises a day filled with knowledge exchange, collaboration, and recognition of outstanding contributions.
Whether you live, work, learn, or play in the Peterborough region, this event is an opportunity to connect, learn, and celebrate partnerships and the pursuit of knowledge.

My Son The Hurricane
2024-03-29 20:00 | Market Hall Performing Arts, 140 Charlotte St Third Floor, Peterborough, K9J 2T8
***19+ EVENT***
My Son The Hurricane is a multi-horn, multi-drummer, multi-singer brass funk beast from Niagara, On. The 12-piece brass-dance crew has toured over multiple countries and played some of Canada, USA and Europe’s biggest festivals. Over 45 sold out shows in 2022 proves that there is no live show like My Son The Hurricane. The band features trumpets, saxophones, trombones, drums, guitar, keys, percussion and a wild front woman…We dare you not to dance! In 2023, the band will take on an over 70 date Canada, United States and Europe-wide tour and share the stage with acts like Foo Fighters, Jason Isbell and Colin James.

Ets’ehch’I; Traditional Dene Burial Practices | Antoine Mountain
2024-03-30 11:00 - 2024-06-30 17:00 | Art Gallery of Peterborough, 250 Crescent Street, Peterborough, ON, K9J 2G1, Canada
“We call it Feeding the Fire,” Uncle quietly offers…
The Mountain Dene are naturally of a world apart, in its way separate from our usual worldly cares and woes.
To keep it alive is an education in itself. – Antoine Mountain
“Ets’ehch’I; Traditional Dene Burial Practices” is comprised of twenty-one paintings by Dene artist, Antoine Mountain, that share depictions taken from stories, beliefs, and traditions as an epistemological tool of Dene resurgence.
Antoine Mountain is Dene, North American First Nations, originally from Radelie Koe/Fort Good Hope, of the Dene Nation, in northern Canada. His hometown is just a few miles from the Arctic Circle. In addition to his writing and scholarship, Mountain is a painter primarily working in acrylics across a number of styles with Impressionist influence. The colours of the North and deep-rooted spiritualism inform his approach to depicting landscape, portraits, and figurative scenes.

Saturday Art Club
2024-03-30 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.

The Game of Life Figure Skating Show
2024-03-30 18:00 | North Kawartha Community Centre, 340 McFadden Rd, Apsley, K0L 1A0
Get ready to be dazzled by the North Kawartha Figure Skating Club’s annual show: “The Game of Life”! Join them at 6:00 pm on March 30, 2024, at the North Kawartha Community Centre for a spectacular community event where our talented skaters will showcase the incredible skills they’ve honed all season long.
Prepare to be swept off your feet by captivating choreography, enchanting musical themes, delightful costumes, and mesmerizing backdrops. The infectious enthusiasm of our participants will leave you smiling from ear to ear! Don’t forget to visit the NKCC concession stand, which will be open throughout the show.
Admission is $5.00 per adult, $3.00 per senior/student, with children 5 and under free.

Derek Seguin: Nap. Laugh. Repeat.
2024-03-30 19:30 | Showplace Performance Centre, 290 George St N, Peterborough, ON, K9J 3H2
Comedy super star Derek Seguin is touring Canada with his hysterical new show to celebrate his 20th year as a professional joke teller. Derek’s Juno nominated stand-up is always a pure reflection of his dysfunctional life, but naturally seen through his “slightly” twisted looking glass. This show will feature more of his hilarious stories on the challenges of relationships with his girlfriend, his three nearly grown-up children and every-day life in a mixed-up world that he finds peculiar at best. With barely a moment to catch your breath between laughs there is never a dull moment in Derek’s shows and for 20 years audiences have loved him for it, but he loves you more!
One of CBC’s The Debaters’ fan-favorites; people are often surprised at the raw nature of Derek’s stand-up… and how short he is. If you haven’t seen him live before; come out and discover the many hilarious surprises that his in-person shows are renowned for. No subject is off limits and no rabbit hole too deep.

Toddler Tuesdays at Peterborough Museum and Archives
2024-04-02 09:30 - 12:00 | Peterborough Museum and Archives, 300 Hunter Street East, Peterborough, Ontario, K9J 6Y5, Canada
Bring your little ones into the Museum on Tuesdays from 9:30-12:00 pm for self guided fun in the galleries, themed crafts in our programming space, and all kinds of new and old friends to play with!

Maker Space Open Studio
2024-04-04 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 a 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.
February Activity Schedule:
Thursday, April 4th 2024: Monoprinting
Thursday, April 11th 2024: Painting with Acrylics
Thursday, April 18th 2024: Painting with Acrylics
Thursday, April 25th 2024: Bring Your Own Craft

Nomada
2024-04-05 19:30 | Market Hall Performing Arts, 140 Charlotte St Third Floor, Peterborough, K9J 2T8
Nomada brings together contemporary indigenous dance, aerial dance and installation art. It is a journey inspired by personal stories of displacement, rituals of water, cycles of sustainability and the connections of our bodies to land. Nomada is supported by the CanDance Network commissioning program, with five presenters across Canada taking part.
