The Kawarthas Tourism

Guided Exhibit Talk at Christ Church Museum
2025-07-24 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Toronto) | Christ Church Community Museum, 62 Queen Street, Lakefield, K0L2H0
Christ Church Community Museum is pleased to offer guided exhibit talks with Barry Mutter and Joe Latour on Thursday, July 10, Thursday, July 24, Thursday, August 7, and Thursday, August 21, starting at 2:00 p.m.
The talks are free and no reservations are required.
Catharine Parr and Thomas Traill had nine children, seven of whom lived into adulthood. This special exhibit delves into each of their lives, uncovering intriguing stories such as: Who killed Harry Traill? and What contributions did Willie and Walter Traill make as “Company Men” with the Hudson’s Bay Company?
The museum is open daily from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. until September 1.
This year’s exhibit is Sons and Daughters: The Traills — The Second Generation.

Harmony in Havelock - Music by the Pond
2025-07-22 15:00 - 18:00, 2025-07-20 15:00 - 18:00, 2025-07-15 15:00 - 18:00, 2025-07-13 15:00 - 18:00, 2025-07-08 15:00 - 18:00, 2025-07-06 15:00 - 18:00 | Havelock Rotary Park, 25 Industrial Drive, Havelock, K0L 1Z0, Canada
🎶🌞 Harmony in Havelock — Music by the Pond 🌞🎶
Mark your calendars! Every Sunday in July & August from 3–6 PM, join us at the beautiful Rotary Park for Harmony in Havelock — a celebration of local talent and community spirit you won’t want to miss! 🎸❤️
Hosted by the Havelock Lions Club and proudly supported by the Township of Havelock-Belmont-Methuen, this FREE, family-friendly event features amazing live Music on the Pond — a picturesque setting!✨
🎤 Celebrate local musicians
🪑 Bring your lawn chairs
🚗 Overflow parking available at the soccer field parking lot
Let’s come together to support our artists, enjoy the summer sun, and make unforgettable Sunday memories 🌿🎶

4th Line Theatre's "The Housekeeper"
2025-07-19 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-07-18 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-07-17 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-07-16 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-07-15 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-07-14 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-07-12 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-07-11 18:00 - 20:30 and 5 more dates | Winslow Farm, 779 Zion Line, Millbrook, L0A1G0
“The Housekeeper”
World Premiere
Written by Ian McLachlan & Robert Winslow
Directed by Robert Winslow
July 1 – 19
Previews: July 1, 2
Opening Night: Thursday, July 3
Tuesday to Saturday at 6 pm
With an added Monday performance on July 14th
Mature Content. Recommended 16+
It is 1955 and a mysterious woman arrives in Millbrook. Eleanor Gwyn is looking for a job and being the housekeeper for widower Walter White might be the perfect fit. Eleanor is hoping to put down roots, find a place to call home and make a fresh start in her life. But is Millbrook ready for Eleanor and her progressive world views? This compelling mystery romance is the fourth in Robert Winslow & Ian McLachlan’s series of plays about Barnardo children and their impact on Canadian culture and history. The Housekeeper ponders the duality of the welcoming and easy nature of small towns with how small towns can be suspicious of outsiders.

Ennismore Shamrock Festival
2025-07-19 - 2025-07-20 | Robert E. Young Recreation Complex, 553 Ennis Road, Ennismore, Ontario, K0L 1T0, Canada
The Ennismore Shamrock Festival is a long standing tradition in the heart of Ennismore that began in 1967 as a Centennial year celebration.

Lakefield Literary Festival
2025-07-18 19:00 - 2025-07-19 20:30 | Bryan Jones Theatre at Lakefield College School, 4391 County Rd 29, Lakefield, Ontario, K0L 2H0, Canada
After a successful 2024 season, the Lakefield Literary Festival is extremely excited to announce that our 2025 festival will be held on July 18 and 19 at Lakefield College School, with our Children’s Tent in our downtown core.
This year, we will be presenting an impressive and animating line-up, along with a festival favorite: Meet the Author Reception!
Our program will feature:
• Friday July 18 @ 7:00 p.m. — Imagining History with Jennifer Robson and Helen Humphreys
• Saturday July 19 @ 10:00 a.m. — Children’s Tent: Lana Button and Nadia Hohn
• Saturday July 19 @ 11:30 a.m. — Family Matters with Martha Baillie and Adelle Purdham
• Saturday July 19 @ 3:30 p.m. — New Dimensions with Sheung-King and Canisia Lubrin
• Saturday July 19 @ 5:00 p.m. — Meet the Author Reception
• Saturday July 19 @ 7:00 p.m. — Jane Urquhart
To get your tickets, or more details about the authors and their books, please visit LakefieldLiteraryFestival.com. Tickets will also be available at Happenstance Books and Yarns in Lakefield later this month.
New this year is a shuttle service sponsored by Selwyn Township. The Shuttle will run from Trent University, stop in Lakefield, and head to each event at Lakefield College School throughout the day on Saturday July 19. We hope the shuttle will encourage even more Trent students and Peterborough residents to take part in this year’s festival.
Our 2025 Festival:
Imagining History
Nothing is more contemporary than historical fiction! Two leading practitioners highlight the diversity to be found in this always popular genre.
Jennifer Robson, born and raised in Peterborough, and boasting a doctorate from Oxford University in British economic and social history, she is the author of seven historical novels set during and after the two world wars. Her latest, Coronation Year, brings a diverse cast of characters together in London’s Blue Lion hotel on the eve of Queen Elizabeth’s coronation, where they encounter an unexpected menace that threatens to destroy the celebration. Calling herself “an academic by background, a former editor by profession, and a lifelong history nerd,” Ms Robson currently lives in Toronto
Helen Humphreys is one of Canada’s most prolific and well-loved writers, having published 10 novels, including several award-winners, and as many works of fiction and non-fiction, Her latest work, Followed by a Lark, explores the upheaval of 19th century life through the eyes of the great writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau, author of Walden, imagining his experiences in a world transformed by rushing industrial change. Born in Kingston-on-Thames, England, Ms. Humphreys currently lives in Kingston, Ontario, where she teaches creative writing at Queen’s University.
Family Matters
Two frank and revealing new memoirs focus on the challenges of family life, including mental illness and disability, while finding solace in the most intimate bonds.
Martha Baillie is a Toronto writer who delves deep into the bosom of her own dysfunctional family with There Is No Blue, a trilogy of essays on love and loss that won the 2024 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-Fiction. Described by The Guardian as “tough, tender and compelling,” There Is No Blue is “an elegy to the beautiful fight to keep a family together, and an ode to the devastating loss when things fall apart,” according to the prize jury. Martha Baillie is the author of several novels and works of non-fiction. Her previous Giller-nominated novel, The Incident Report, based on her part-time work as a librarian in Toronto, was recently adapted into a feature film, Darkest Miriam.
Adelle Purdham, in the series of essays that comprise I Dont Do Disability and Other Lies I’ve Told Myself, Adelle Purdham offers “a raw and intimate portrait of family, love, life andrelationships,” with a special focus on the challenges of raising a daughter with Down syndrome. A native of Peterborough who currently teaches creative writing at Trent University’s Traill College, Purdham is an educator and disability activist whose prose and poetry has been widely published in literary journals, anthologies, magazines and newspapers. I Don’t Do Disability is her first book.
New Dimensions
Contemporary Canadian literature is international, weaving together widely disparate stories and themes to reflect the shifting identities of the new global reality. Sheung-King and Canisia Lubrin are two of the country’s leading voices in this new literature.
Sheung-King is the pen name of Aaron Tang, a Vancouver-born writer who was raised in Hong Kong and currently divides his time between Toronto and China. His second novel, Batshit Seven, explores the transnational experience of a displaced millenial languishing in Hong Kong and dreaming of Canada. Described by fellow writer Kai Thomas as “a novel of dazzling scope: global and deeply personal, all at once,” Batshit Seven won the 2024 Atwood-Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.
Canisia Lubrin, St. Lucia-born Canisia Lubrin made her name as a poet, winning several prestigious awards, before turning to fiction with her first novel, Code Noir. Rooted in the real-life Code Noir, an infamous set of historical decrees governing slavery in the French colonial empire, Lubrin’s novel expands into a dizzying kaleidoscope of stories revolving around black life in the Americas throughout history. Described by The Globe and Mail as “a brilliant, challenging and ecstatic new work,” Code Noir was shortlisted for every major literary award in Canada. Lubrin currently coordinates the Creative Writing MFA at the University of Guelph and is also poetry editor at publisher McClelland and Stewart.
Jane Urquhart
A seminal figure in the modern history of Canadian literature reflects on a lifetime of artistic success.
In Winter I Get Up at Night is the 10th novel Jane Urquhart has published over a storied career that began almost 40 years ago with The Whirlpool, the only Canadian novel ever to win France’s Prix du Meilleur livre etranger (Best Foreign Book Award). Countless awards, citations and honours followed as Urquhart emerged as one of the leading, best-loved literary figures in Canada. Her latest novel, almost a decade in the making, transforms the everyday reality of a Saskatchewan teacher into a sweeping tale of love and loss in mid-century Canada, mixing historical reality with the imaginative intensity so characteristic of her work. Ms. Urquhart lives in Colborne, Ontario

Sunday Afternoon Tea at the Vineyard
2025-07-13 13:00 - 15:30 | Rolling Grape Vineyard, 260 County Rd 2, Bailieboro, Ontario, K0L 1B0, Canada
It’s our favourite time of the year — warm & sunny afternoons that are perfect for sipping on loose-leaf tea.
Join us in our charming event tent on Sunday, July 13! Choose from your seating time of 1PM, 1:30PM, or 2PM.
Afternoon tea will include a selection of both hot and iced premium loose-leaf teas (or coffee if you prefer!) and a tea stand full of delectable summertime treats.
Our full bar featuring all of our Rolling Grape wines and cocktails will also be available for purchase.

28th Annual Transportation Day Car & Motorcycle Show
2025-07-13 10:00 - 16:00 | Lang Pioneer Village Museum, 104 Lang Road, Keene, K0L1C0
Car enthusiasts from across Ontario showcase their antique & classic cars and vintage motorcycles in the historic village with over 25 awards to be won. Enjoy historic demonstrations, live music, wagon rides, and much more.
For more information, please visit Lang Pioneer Village Museum’s website.

Ontario Soccer / Cavan FC Circle K 2v2 Grassroots Festival
2025-07-12 10:00 - 14:00 | Maple Leaf Park, 1461 County Road 10, Cavan, Ontario, L0A 1C0, Canada
Ontario Soccer has chosen Cavan FC to host it’s special Circle K 2v2 Festival this July 12 at Maple Leaf Park in Cavan, ON. This FREE event is for ALL Girls and Boys in the dual-banded U8/U9, as well as U10/11 age. Participants can be from within or outside the Ontario Soccer community – they do not need to be a member to take part!
What: Teams of two will enjoy about 40 minutes of playing time, rotating in a ladder style play every 5 minutes, as well as 3 minute recovery transitions, icebreakers, dance parties, sideline contests, swag, prizes and refreshments.
When: Saturday, July 12, 2025 – Maple Leaf Park, Cavan (Co-Hosted by Maple Leaf Cavan FC) 10AM-2PM
There will be food trucks, refreshments and a BBQ on site along with fun swag from our local Circle K sponsors.
This event is designed for those who’ve never kicked a ball but have wanted to try or players currently active in our community – this event is about removing the pressure of scores and standings and helps players develop their skills and love for the game, all while having fun with friends. Come one come all – registration is required and can be found on our website at: www.mlcfcsoccer.com/community-events/circlek

Lakefield Jazz, Art & Craft Festival
2025-07-12 | Isabel Morris Park, 20 Concession St., Lakefield, ON, K0L2H0
The Lakefield Jazz Art Craft Festival invites you, your friends and family to come to a breezy day of outdoor summer living beside Lakefield’s scenic Otonabee River, to enjoy a wide variety of Jazz music, colourful works for sale by artisans and crafters, local food and beverage vendors!

East Coast Harvest Dinner, Kitchen Party Style at Rolling Grape Vineyard
2025-07-09 18:00 - 21:00 | Rolling Grape Vineyard, 260 County Rd 2, Bailieboro, Ontario, K0L 1B0, Canada
Join us on the patio on Wednesday, July 9th for a special East Coast-inspired themed Harvest Dinner — Kitchen Party style! This was our most popular Harvest Dinner last year and we’re so excited to do it again! We’ll kick the night off with a cocktail hour from 5:00 to 6:00 pm, featuring passed canapés before settling in for a 3-course plated meal with a wine tasting for each dish. Guests are free to arrive anytime during cocktail hour.

Kawartha Wellness Summit
2025-07-06 11:00 - 17:00 | Kawartha Downs, 1328 County Road 28, Fraserville, ON, K0L 1V0
A unique, community-driven event at the Kawartha Downs this summer. The Kawartha Wellness Summit will take place Sunday, July 6, 2025, from 11 AM to 5 PM. The Kawartha Downs will be transformed into a vibrant hub for connection, creativity, and community empowerment that redefines what self-care and wellness can look like. This is not your average wellness event. Think home and cottage show, but reimagined through the lens of whole-person care.
This full-day summit will feature over local vendors, workshops, and speakers that explore the range of health, wellness, self-care, and fitness. Whether you’re into skincare and float spas, coaching and reiki, tattoos and travel, or golf and group exercise, there’s something here for you.
We’re building something that reflects the real lives of people in our community. Wellness looks different for everyone. This event creates space for locals to explore new tools, ideas, and services to feel better in their own way. This is more than a one-day event. It’s a movement. A chance to explore, connect, and discover what wellness means to you – right here in The Kawarthas.
The venue’s newly renovated event space will be divided into two key areas:
● The Vendor Hall with demos (General Admission – $10)
● The Loft with VIP workshops and speaker series (VIP All Access – $25)
We have created a unique pathway for the community to support two local charitable organizations, the YWCA Peterborough Haliburton and Right to Heal. Interested parties can purchase donations tickets directly on Eventbrite.
Interested in contributing to this event reach out via @kawarthawellnesssummit or email kawarthawellnesssummit@gmail.com
🎟️ Tickets: Available now via Eventbrite search Kawartha Wellness Summit
💌 Contact: kawarthawellnesssummit@gmail.com or @kawarthawellnesssummit on Instagram
Event Co-Ordinated by:
Kat McCartie Coaching & No. 9 North

Farmhill Weddings Presents: Beer Barn x McThirsty's Pint
2025-07-05 12:00 - 17:00 | Farmhill Weddings, 2709 Dillon Road, Peterborough, K9J 6X8
Welcome to Beer Barn 2025! Join us for a fun-filled day at Farmhill Weddings. Get ready to enjoy a variety of craft beers from our amazing local Ontario brewmakers including 100 Acre, Old Flame, Fine Balance, Third Moon, Town, Blood Brothers, Bobcaygeon, Willibald, Dominion City, Slake, Bellwoods, Badlands & All My Friends! Delicious food, live music, and great company. Live music featuring Kevin Foster for the afternoon and Alyssa Morrissey & Kyler Tapscott for the evening! Gluten free food and drink options available. Whether you’re a beer enthusiast or just looking for a good time, this event is perfect for everyone. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to unwind and have a blast with friends and fellow beer lovers. Mark your calendars and get ready for an unforgettable experience at Beer Barn 2025!
Ticket Includes:
1 Beer Barn commemorative glass
Admission
Welcome Beer
Hourly Shuttle service from Farmhill to King Street Parking Garage
Ride service availble with Y-Drive Peterborugh, including a $10 discount code
* Overnight parking available until 10am July 6th, 2025.

Salsa Parties at Rolling Grape Vineyard
2025-07-04 17:00 - 22:00 | Rolling Grape Vineyard, 260 County Rd 2, Bailieboro, Ontario, K0L 1B0, Canada
A NIGHT OF DANCING & TACOS!

Salsa Night is back!
Join us anytime from 5:00 – 10:00pm on the patio for a night of salsa music and dancing, artisan-style tacos, and frozen white wine margaritas.
All experience levels are welcome. Each Salsa Night, we’ll be joined by Gabia from Dance With Me. She’ll provide tips throughout the night and guide group dances!
Reservations are now open! To reserve, please contact Rolling Grape Vineyard.
