Put together a dozen or more passionate parents — who long for their children with special needs to have a community — and a group of equally passionate volunteers who catch the spirit, and you have what is becoming known as the greatest new inspiration on ice in Peterborough.
Building Community in Unlikely Places
The Danger of the Reference
At what point does homage become theft?
We are all students of Godard and Truffaut: masters who tore open the very fabric of film and reassembled the stale American state of affairs into their own visceral and subversive vocabularies.
Yes, the French New Wave is indisputably one of the crowning glories in film, and one whose shadow looms heavily over the catalogue of supposed auteur Wes Anderson.
Gripping real-life drama
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.
Get ready to spring into composting
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.
Sex, Drugs, and No Fringes
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.
A Taste for Life: Hope Made Delicious
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.
musicNOW – April 2014
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.
Biblical Mirage
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.
Art in the Street – April 2014
The Peterborough Darkroom Project “On Film” for SPARK
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.
Switch off and save energy for Earth Hour
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.
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