Global warming and climate change are defining issues of our time.
Recently, the Ontario government released Ontario’s Five Year Climate Change Action Plan, which details the steps the province will take to confront climate change between 2016 and 2020. The plan explains both short and long-term goals for reducing carbon emissions, and could have significant implications for our community and our environment.
Artspace and the City of Peterborough have announced that Jill Stanton, an artist from Edmonton in Alberta, will complete the second mural for the Hunter Street Bridge Mural Project in Peterborough.
There’s been an almost continuous buzz about Megan Murphy’s documentary Murphy’s Law since she first launched her successful Indiegogo campaign in the summer of 2014. A story of family, legacy, and healing, much has been said and written about the film despite the fact that almost no one had actually seen it. But the long wait for the film’s debut is over.
Located just 15 minutes southwest of the City of Peterborough, Millbrook’s turn-of-the-century charm will serve as an ideal back drop to a mix of classical touring, roadster and muscle cars of the past on Saturday, July 2, 2016.
When the late Fred Anderson presented the first Peterborough Musicfest concert on July 1, 1987 — jazz great Moe Koffman headlined the inaugural Peterborough Festival of Lights show — the musical dreams of a four-year-old Millbrook girl were in their earliest stage of forming.
Tonya Kraan has just launched her new consulting company, Strexer, which stands for Strategy, Execution and Results.
The most any fundraising event organizer can ask of those involved is that they pull their weight to ensure success.
Once again, Susan Dunkley is taking that up a notch to the tune of 84,000 pounds.
As fund development and events co-ordinator for the Alzheimer Society of Peterborough, Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland and Haliburton, Susan is the lead organizer of the second annual Fire Truck Pull For Dementia event.
Have you ever received notice in the mail regarding the benefits of making burial arrangements for yourself? Have you subsequently done what many of us do: tucked that notice aside for consideration another day?
This week, director Sarah McNeilly brings One in a Million by Ronald MacKay to life on the stage at The Theatre on King (TTOK) in downtown Peterborough.
A brand new production featuring the talents of Wyatt Lamoureux, Di Latchford and Lindsay Unterlander, One in a Million was selected from TTOK’s 3rd Annual Playwright Festival.
Acclaimed Toronto-based musician Bahamas will kick off the 2016 Peterborough Folk Festival with a concert at Showplace Performance Centre on Friday, August 19th. Local musician Nick Procyshyn, who the festival has named as their 2016 Emerging Artist, will open the show.
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