Monday, April 15, 2024
Arts & Entertainment

Arts & Entertainment

The City of Peterborough has awarded celebrated First Nations artist Vanessa Dion Fletcher a commission to create an artwork for the city's new $62-million community complex currently under construction at Lansdowne and Park streets. (Photo via Vanessa Dion Fletcher website)

Indigenous artist Vanessa Dion Fletcher chosen to create artwork for Peterborough’s new community complex

Debuting in Hillsborough, North Carolina in 2023, "The Mail Art Stories Project: Mail Art in the Time of Covid-19" is an exhibit displaying mail art submissions from people across the world sharing their pandemic experiences. Developed by Peterborough writer Erica Richmond and North Carolina artist and author Shannon Fitzgerald, the exhibit will be on display at Peterborough's Watson & Lou between March 1 and 23, 2024, beginning with a launch during the First Friday Art Crawl on March 1. (Photo courtesy of Shannon Fitzgerald)

Exhibit of mail art documenting life through the pandemic comes to Peterborough

Launching during the First Friday Peterborough Art Crawl on March 1, 2024, "Life Studies and Other Works by Ann Cossar" features life drawings and watercolours from the late Peterborough artist and educator, with sale proceeds going to the Peterborough Art School. The exhibit will be available at Studio 12 in the Commerce Building during First Friday and then until March 31 by appointment only. (Photo courtesy of Cydnee Hosker)

March fundraising exhibit features discovered works from late Peterborough artist and educator Ann Cossar

The Peterborough Theatre Guild is presenting "Willow Quartet" by Joan Burrows for nine performances from March 8 to 23, 2024. The drama tells the story of a woman who, after a tragedy ends her marriage, moves back to her childhood home where she invites a charming visiting musician to stay, much to the chagrin of her mother and her estranged husband. (Original artwork: Colton DeKnock)

Peterborough Theatre Guild presents award-winning Canadian drama about grief, healing, and forgiveness

Pictured at a media event on February 22, 2024, Peterborough musician Dan Hick will take the stage at Peterborough Performs for the first time on Thursday, March 7th. The fourth annual fundraiser for the United Way of Peterborough & District features 16 local acts on two stages, with performers donating their time and talents in support of people experiencing homelessness in Peterborough. (Photo: Paul Rellinger / Peterborough Performs)

March 7th Peterborough Performs benefit concert is final event of United Way’s 2023-24 campaign

Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School students Jonah Heuchert and Ella Doris play the lead roles in the Peterborough high school's production of the play "Shakespeare in Love", based on the award-winning film of the same name starring Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow that was released in 1993, when Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School was founded. (Photo courtesy of Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School)

Peterborough high school students mount stage version of award-winning film released before they were born

Released in select theatres in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver on February 23, 2024, "Suze" is the second feature film by married Toronto filmmakers Linsey Stewart and Dane Clark, who hails from Peterborough. When her only daughter leaves for college, single mom Suze (Michaela Watkins) loses her purpose and then gets stuck taking care of her daughter's heartbroken ex-boyfriend Gage (Charlie Gillespie) who she can't stand. (Photo courtesy of Wilding Pictures)

Feature film ‘Suze’ by Peterborough native Dane Clark and Linsey Stewart now playing in theatres

Peterborough grunge rockers The Pangea Project, who recently released their first single "You Don't Know Me", are performing at Jethro's Bar + Stage in downtown Peterborough on Friday night. (Photo courtesy of Liam Boucher)

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The Netflix science fiction film "Spaceman" stars Adam Sandler as an astronaut who, six months into a solitary research mission to the edge of the solar system, realizes that the marriage he left behind might not be waiting for him when he returns to Earth. Desperate to fix things with his wife, he is helped by a mysterious creature from the beginning of time he finds hiding in the bowels of his ship. cheduled for a limited theatrical release on February 23, the film debuts on Netflix on Friday, March 1st. (Photo: Netflix)

What’s new on Netflix Canada in March 2024

Peterborough guitarist and singer Nicholas Campbell is embarking on a tour across Ontario in March and early April 2024, including a show at the Market Hall on April 13, to promote his second album "Gonna Have A Ball Tonight." Unlike his first album which featured western swing and classic country songs, the new album is more influenced by the sound of 1950s rock 'n' roll. (Photo courtesy of Nicholas Campbell)

Peterborough guitarist and singer Nicholas Campbell is hitting the road to promote his second album

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