New Stages Theatre Company has maintained its reputation of bringing high-quality professional theatre to Peterborough by staging Toronto playwright Jordi Mand’s critically acclaimed drama Between the Sheets at the Market Hall.
Directed by Randy Read and starring Linda Kash and Megan Murphy, Between the Sheets made its debut in 2012 at the Nightwood Theatre in Toronto.
I’m hesitant to proclaim it, given the recent wintry blasts we’ve experienced here in the Kawarthas, but I think we may have finally turned the corner into spring.
Over the weekend, when temperatures rose to near 10 degrees, it was evident the snow was rapidly disappearing and the brown landscape was finally revealing itself.
With the return of warmer days, we’re all starting to spend more and more time outside. Getting an early start on cleaning up garden beds or raking the yard are popular spring chores for many.
Even with ample snow still left to melt and mud quickly taking its place, I saw at least one neighbour out with a rake, already. Garden clean-up aside, a task that needs to be completed in the coming weeks is setting up composters for the year ahead.
PARN executive director Kim Dolan imagines a world without margins, one in which “welcome” is more than a word and much closer to a state of mind and a way of being.
On Wednesday, April 23, 2014, if you dine out at one of 16 participating restaurants in the Kawarthas, 25% of your bill will be donated to make life better for people in our community affected by HIV/AIDS.
April has finally brought the first signs of Spring and many chances to see excellent music in a variety of venues.
Here is just a taste of what’s heading our way this month.
The near-defunct genre known as the religious epic gets the aggressive 21st-century facelift that no one asked for in Noah. director Darren Aronofsky’s long-awaited followup to his delirious Black Swan.
It’s easy to be dismissive of a film like this. Taken at face value (and a terrible marketing campaign), it has the strained box of a History Channel original production. But there is much to savour.
Evolutionary creationism has never been presented like this before. The frenetic montage technique that so memorably burned through every kind of narcotic abuse imaginable in Aronofsky’s breakthrough Requiem for a Dream now guides us through countless millennia of celestial evolution that includes gigantic obsidian angels.
Aronofsky’s growing body of work may seem intensely disparate, but beneath the veneer of much kinetic editing beats the common heart of overwhelming internal burden.
If you’ve been in Peterborough for any amount of time, chances are you’ve caught a glimpse of something from the Balsillie Collection of Roy Studio Images. These historic photographs of Peterborough and the surrounding area adorn the walls of institutions, businesses, and restaurants all over the city.
A group of dedicated local photographers have banded together to carry on the legacy of the darkroom that produced them.
Nobody likes getting bills in the mail. One bill that could easily contend for the most hated is the electric bill. A top complaint is the price of electricity and how much we pay each month.
Bill Templeman is a writer, instructor, speaker, program designer, and coach with 20 years of experience working with corporate, public sector and nonprofit clients.
He has a strong background in experiential education (action learning), training program design, and process facilitation. He holds a B.A. in psychology from Concordia University in Montreal and an M.A. in English from the University of Toronto.
Bill has worked with clients across Canada and the United States. He has written, designed, and delivered a wide range of training programs to employee and management groups, including team effectiveness, leadership development, managing change, career transition, sales/client service, and coaching.
When Robert Boudreau, Micky Renders, and Bill Lockington first imagined a photo festival for Peterborough, they never dreamed the first “frame” would be as successful as it was.
Even the highly successful Contact Photography Festival in Toronto drew just 50 exhibitors in its first year; the SPARK Photo Festival boasted 47 in its first year in 2013.
kawarthaNOW.com offers two enews options to help readers stay in the know. Our VIP enews is delivered weekly every Wednesday morning and includes exclusive giveaways, and our news digest is delivered daily every morning. You can subscribe to one or both.
