Brendan, Lorrie, and Lou Neskovski, who own and operate The Lokal Hub and Eatery and The Lokal Market in Woodville, as well as The LunchBox seasonal food truck business, have acquired Kawartha Lakes Winery in Fenelon Falls. (Photo: Vicky Champagne / Champagne Photography Studio Inc.)
The Lokal, a family-owned and operated local vendors’ market and eatery in Woodville, is expanding into Fenelon Falls.
The Neskovski family — Lorrie, Lou, and Brendan — have acquired Kawartha Lakes Winery, which offers 230 different artisan wines as well as supplies for the home vintner.
The Neskovskis also own and operates The LunchBox, a seasonal food truck business, and opened The Lokal Hub and Eatery and The Lokal Market in Woodville last year.
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Brendan, who owned the restaurant Silver Spurs in Woodville over a decade ago, began working with his mom Lorrie in 2019.
“A lot of people don’t like the idea of mixing family with business,” he told kawarthaNOW when The Lokal opened in 2022. “I totally get it. However, mom and I are so similar and we’re both brutally honest with each other, which works out really well.”
Kawartha Lakes Winery will be rebranded as The Lokal Winery and is expected to open in a few weeks.
For more information about The Lokal, visit thelokal.ca.
Beautiful Canoe Collective members Mapu Graner, Kerry Bebee, and Urpi Pine will perform their play "Journey the Canoe" at Nozhem First Peoples Performance Space at Trent University on January 27 and 28, 2003. The 45-minute play reclaims traditional Indigenous birthing practices and explores the performers' own birth stories. (Photo courtesy of the Beautiful Canoe Collective)
Three Indigenous women have joined together to create and perform Journey the Canoe, a play that reclaims traditional birthing practices and explores the performers’ own birth stories. It premieres at Nozhem First Peoples Performance Space at Trent University at 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday (January 27 and 28).
Urpi Pine (Mi’kmaq/Quechua), Kerry Bebee (Michi-Sagiig Anishinaabe), and Mapu Graner (Mapuche/Quechua) are performers, artists, mothers, aunts, midwives, or maternal/child health workers. They are members of the Beautiful Canoe Collective.
“The Beautiful Canoe Collective’s name is inspired by Mohawk midwife, Elder, and community activist Katsi Cook who speaks about how, in the Mohawk culture, there is a way of talking about the vulva as the ‘nice canoe’,” reads a media release. “The Collective explores this metaphorical ‘canoe’ as carrying seeds of creation (physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental) and as a ‘vessel’ that allows for the journey of a new life (birth).
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In Journey the Canoe, the Beautiful Canoe Collective uses Indigenous storytelling methods to reclaim birthing narratives, rediscover traditional birthing stories, practices, and ceremonies, and to educate Indigenous peoples and communities about reconnecting to traditional birthing practices. The 45-minute play includes themes of loss, colonization, trauma, adoption, medicalization, personal and spiritual power, motherhood, and radical love and healing.
Completed in 2021, Journey the Canoe was co-authored by Lena Recollet (Anishinaabe) with professional guidance from Ange Loft (Mohawk). For the Nozhem First Peoples Performance Space production, Jenn Cole (mixed ancestry Algonquin Anishinaabe) is artistic director and producer and William Kingfisher (Anishinaabe) is associate artistic producer.
The Beautiful Canoe Collective will perform Journey the Canoe at 7 p.m. on January 27 and 28 at Nozhem First Peoples Performance Space (Room 101, Enwayaang Building, 1 Gzowski Way, Peterborough). Admission is pay what you can (cash only) at the door.
To reserve a seat, visit eventbrite.ca/e/510879041967. Note that audience members are required to wear masks for each performance.
Trent University alumni Steve Robertson and Ashley Holmes, along with two other investor friends, are reopening The Pig's Ear Tavern in summer 2023. The historic pub closed in 2017 after former owners John and Lylie Punter retired and sold the building. (Photo: Trent University Alumni Association)
It only seems appropriate two Trent University alumni are going to reopen Peterborough’s iconic Pig’s Ear Tavern. Until it closed almost six year ago, the pub was a favourite hangout for Trent students among many others in the community.
According to a story published by the Trent University Alumni Association, Steve Robertson and Ashley Holmes — along with two other investor friends — purchased the vacant building and took possession on Friday (January 20).
On April 22, 2017, the Pig’s Ear Tavern at 144 Brock Street in downtown Peterborough — affectionately known to many as “The Piggy” — closed after 152 years. It opened in 1865 as the St. Maurice Saloon and subsequently saw 13 owners, the last being John and Lylie Punter, who had purchased the property in 2000. In 2017, they decided to retire and sold the three-storey building, which includes the pub and its two upper-floor apartments.
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The building, which does not have a heritage designation, was originally purchased by Peterborough-based developer Parkview Homes for a residential development. However, the property went back on the market in 2020.
“The loss of The Pig’s Ear was more than losing a bar,” Robertson told the Trent University Alumni Association. “To so many people, it was a part of their fondest memories. Dating back over 150 years, the city also lost a piece of history. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to bring back this long-cherished establishment, where people can once again meet to talk, laugh, sing, and form new memories over a tray of beer.”
Holmes said the timing of reopening The Pig’s Ear “feels right” now that some normalcy is returning after the pandemic.
The front of the Pig’s Ear Tavern in downtown Peterborough in 2009. The pub closed on April 22, 2017 after 152 years. (Photo: Esther Vincent, evmustang.ca)
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“Who knows if the bar would have been able to survive the last three years,” she said. “Taking trays to-go might not have worked out. It’s really exciting that we get to be a part of its history.”
According to the Trent University Alumni Association, former owners John and Lylie Punter issued a statement supporting the reopening.
“Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes,” they said. “Piggy 2.0: Better than ever!”
According to The Pig’s Ear Tavern website at www.pigseartavern.com, the reopening is expected in summer 2023.
Anne Overhoff, chief nursing executive and vice president clinical of Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay, is retiring on February 24, 2023. (Photo courtesy of Ross Memorial Hospital)
Anne Overhoff of Lindsay’s Ross Memorial Hospital, who served as chief nursing executive during the COVID-19 pandemic, is retiring after 14 years at the hospital.
Also the hospital’s vice president clinical, Overhoff implemented a COVID-19 ward on the surgical unit and oversaw the COVID-19 assessment centre and more than 60,000 vaccinations in the community.
Overhoff joined Ross Memorial Hospital in 2009, with 25 years of nursing experience, as director of clinical care and medical. She became the hospital’s vice president clinical and chief nursing executive in 2017.
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“I have always viewed my role as a privilege and an honour to serve the clinical staff,” Overhoff says in a media release. “One of my greatest achievements is helping develop a strong clinical leadership team that will continue the great work being done here at Ross Memorial. I am thankful for getting to work with so many wonderful, dedicated people.”
Overhoff’s other achievements during her time at Ross Memorial Hospital included overseeing the implementation of the Epic electronic health records system for the clinical care team, the largest digital clinical information system upgrade in the hospital’s history.
“Anne has had an exceptional career in healthcare that deserves to be celebrated,” says Ross Memorial Hospital president and CEO Kelly Isfan. “She holds a wealth of knowledge and is a dedicated healthcare professional, which has been displayed through her leadership and advocacy on behalf of Ross Memorial’s clinical care team. It has been a true pleasure working with Anne, both professionally and personally. I wish her the very best in her retirement.”
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During her time at the hospital, Overhoff also oversaw improved nurse-to-patient ratios, a reduction in the number of alternate level of care patients resulting in improved patient flow, and the introduction of nurse practitioners to work closely with hospitalists on acute and post-acute care.
“Anne’s leadership of our clinical care team over the years has been commendable,” says Wanda Percival, chair of the hospital’s board of governors. “She has helped continually improve the quality of care for all who visit Ross Memorial. Our entire Ross Memorial family and community are grateful for her significant contributions to the hospital.”
Overhoff, who will retire on February 24, says she is looking forward to being able to spend more time with her family, enjoy the outdoors, and travel.
Ross Memorial Hospital has already hired an interim vice president clinical and chief nursing executive, who will be announced in the near future.
A young reader explores a book during a previous Peterborough Family Literacy Day event at Peterborough Square. After a two-year absence because of the pandemic, the annual event returns for the morning of Saturday, January 28, 2023. (Photo courtesy of Peter Rellinger)
For the first time since January 2020, the Peterborough Family Literacy Day flagship event returns to Peterborough Square in downtown Peterborough from 9 a.m. until noon on Saturday, January 28th.
As you read this article, celebrate the simple fact that you can. There are many of all ages who can’t make rhyme or reason of these words, and all those that follow.
How many? According to ABC Life Literacy Canada, the literacy skills of 48 per cent of adult Canadians fall below high school level, with 17 per cent functioning at the lowest level literacy — not able, for example, to read the dosage instructions on a medicine bottle.
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While a number of local organizations such as the Trent Valley Literacy Association work toward putting a dent in these sobering numbers, the nine organizations that have again come together to present Peterborough Family Literacy Day actively advocate a get-to-them-while-they’re-young approach, doing so while celebrating the act of reading and all its inherent benefits.
First presented close to 25 years ago, the gathering has consistently seen hundreds of kids, and their parents or guardians, gather for a morning of reading-themed entertainment and activities.
Along with the always-popular Readers’ Theatre that sees local dignitaries read a children’s story from the stage, this year’s event — with the theme ‘Exploring Your Heritage’ — will feature the talents of longtime Durham Storytellers member Heather Whaley, Glen Caradus (Paddling Puppeteers founder, storyteller, and musician), and Anisinaabemowin language speaker Jonathan Taylor, who will read, in both Ojibwe and English, Robert Munsch’s book I Have To Go!.
Heather Whaley, Glen Caradus, and Jonathan Taylor are featured storytellers at the Peterborough Family Literacy Day on the morning of January 28, 2023 at Peterborough Square. (Collage: kawarthaNOW)
In addition, as has always been the case, every child in attendance will leave with a free book — something made possible via donated books and continued financial support from the Kinsmen Club of Peterborough.
The tie that binds the event’s nine organizing groups is a commitment not only to encourage parents reading to and with their children, but also to help ensure more of those same kids develop into adults with better-than-average literacy skills and associated benefits.
Among the organizing groups is the Peterborough Public Library, a natural fit considering the number of reading programs it offers for families with kids up to age 12. Karen Clysdale, the library’s community development librarian for children, says the Family Literacy Day event is “a celebration of reading, and learning to read, and enjoying reading.”
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“So much of our society celebrates and focuses on exceptional things,” says Clysdale. “We celebrate great athletes. We celebrate really talented singers and performers — people who are head and shoulders above the rest of us in terms of their skill sets. But it’s also important to celebrate wonderful things we all share and we can all do, such as reading.”
“I know there are some families that will come because it’s a free thing to do on a Saturday morning. That’s okay, that’s absolutely what we want. But some of those families don’t have books on their shelves. They might have toys, they might have all kinds of electronics, but they don’t have books. Children can go home (from the event) and have that (free book) and own it. It’s theirs.”
Clysdale adds the annual event “reminds us there’s value in reading. It reminds us that reading is something special and we all have the right to be able to do it. It’s something that we all deserve.”
One of the most popular draws of the annual Peterborough Family Literacy Day event is the free book giveaway. That will be the case again on Saturday, January 28, 2023 from 9 a.m. to noon at Peterborough Square. (Photo courtesy of Peter Rellinger)
kawarthaNOW writer Paul Rellinger, who has served as the honorary chair for Peterborough Family Literacy Day for a number of years, says he remains grateful for the opportunity. A voracious lifelong reader, he recalls reading his first non-school assigned book at age 8: a worn copy of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island gifted him by his father.
“I can’t recall my parents reading to me as a child, but I remember like it was yesterday walking to the library about a mile from our home and applying for my first library card after reading Treasure Island — I wanted more,” says Rellinger, noting his possession of his very own library card was a point of pride.
“The Family Literacy Day event rekindles that memory for me, also reminding me that the curiosity that reading stoked in me was no doubt key in doing what I ultimately did for a living. But more than that, seeing the smile on kids’ faces as they hear a riveting story from the stage or get hold of their free book, that’s the reward. Not only for myself but I’m sure for all the organizing committee members.”
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At the Peterborough Public Library, Clysdale gets to see that on a daily basis and she too says she is equally grateful and reminds parents that no child is too young to have a book shared with them. She notes putting aside 20 minutes a day to do a fun literacy-based activity helps families build better relationships, improves children’s academic performance, reduces stress, and increases happiness.
“I remind parents that by singing to your baby, by talking to your baby, by playing peek-a-boo, you’re telling your child that you love them and that you value them and that you’re building their knowledge of the world,” says Clysdale. “If you sit and cuddle with your baby or child when you’re reading a book, you’re giving them a sense of love for literature — that reading books and stories, and sharing them together, is a comforting and important thing.”
“Babies and young children learn by osmosis. If they’re hearing new words, if they’re hearing rhythms — there are some very lyrical picture books — they’re developing. They’re thinking. Studies have shown that babies that are read to tend to pick up a language much sooner, are more able to express themselves, and better understand themselves and the world around them.”
Hundreds of young readers came out to the 2017 Peterborough Family Literacy Day event at Peterborough Square. The event returns for the first time since the pandemic on Saturday, January 28, 2023 from 9 a.m. to noon at Peterborough Square. (Photo courtesy of Peter Rellinger)
Along with the library, the event organizing committee has representation from Trent Students For Literacy, the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board, the Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington School Board, the Nogojiwanong Friendship Centre, Peterborough Child and Family Centres, the Peterborough Native Learning Centre, New Canadians Centre Peterborough, and Literacy Ontario Central South (LOCS).
Besides the Kinsmen Club, event sponsors are Compass Early Learning and Care, Peterborough Kawartha Rotary, Frontier College, Teachers For Kids, Dairy Farmers of Ontario, the New Canadians Centre, Peterborough Square, and LOCS.
For those who can’t get to the event, Clysdale says a variety of interactive reading programs are available at the library all year round. For more information, visit the Peterborough Public Library’s website at www.ptbolibrary.ca.
Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for the southern Kawarthas region for possible significant snowfall late Wednesday (January 25) into Thursday.
The special weather statement is currently in effect for Peterborough County, southern Kawartha Lakes, and Northumberland County.
A Texas low is bringing snow to southern Ontario late Wednesday into Thursday.
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Snowfall accumulations of 10 to 15 cm are possible, with locally higher amounts of up to 20 cm.
There can be reduced visibility in heavy snow, and rapidly accumulating snow can make travel difficult.
Further details will be provided when Environment Canada updates its forecast closer to the weather event.
Peterborough spoken word poet and performance artist Jon Hedderwick performs in his new play "Enkidu", named after one of the central figures in the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem written in ancient Mesopotamia between 2100 and 1200 BC and regarded as the world's oldest surviving piece of literature. Hedderwick will perform "Enkidu", an allegory for toxic masculinity, environmental destruction, and human exceptionalism, at The Theatre On King from January 25 to 28, 2023. (Photo: Andy Carroll)
What happens when we set ourselves apart from nature? What happens when we can’t let go of the things that we know destroy us?
Drawing upon the world’s oldest surviving piece of literature, Peterborough spoken word poet and performance artist Jon Hedderwick will examine these questions in his new play Enkidu, which premieres at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, January 25th at Peterborough’s The Theatre On King and runs until Saturday.
Enkidu is one of the central figures in the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem written in ancient Mesopotamia between 2100 and 1200 BC and regarded as a foundational work in religion and the tradition of heroic sagas. Created by the gods to stop the Urak king Gilgamesh from oppressing his people, Enkidu embodies the wild or natural world and is depicted as being part man and part bull. After the sacred prostitute Shamhat tames Enkidu, he travels to Uruk to challenge Gilgamesh to a contest of strength. While Gilgamesh wins, the two become friends and later kill the Bull of Heaven, after which the gods sentence Enkidu to death and kill him.
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In Hedderwick’s work, the once mighty Enkidu is trapped in the subterranean afterlife of ancient Sumer. He lingers between worlds, tethered to the past by failing memories and unable or unwilling to let go. If he can remember — if he can assemble the dream house and complete the ritual — perhaps the gods will send him a good dream and show him the way back to his life with Gilgamesh.
In Enkidu, Hedderwick touches on classic themes of balance, fate, memory, love, and control while also exploring toxic masculinity, environmental destruction, and human exceptionalism.
“It’s amazed me how many people have heard of the Epic of Gilgamesh and at the same time are completely unfamiliar with it,” Hedderwick says in a media release. “This story proceeds all the stories of the Abrahamic religions. Judaism, and later Christianity and Islam, all spring from the mythic space of this story. While ancient, this story is incredibly timely. It explores a world out of balance and encourages us to ask what happens to the natural world and to our own lives when humanity exploits nature to the point of driving it to catastrophe.”
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Peterborough spoken word poet and performance artist Jon Hedderwick will perform his new play “Enkidu” at The Theatre On King from January 25 to 28, 2023. Tickets are $20 or pay what you can. (Photo: Andy Carroll)
Directed by Ryan Kerr and Kate Story, Enkidu features an original score composed and performed by Peterborough musician garbageface (a.k.a. Karol Orzechowski), with local poets Niambi Tree and Elizabeth Jenkins supporting the show as outside eyes.
Hedderwick will perform Enkidu beginning at 8 p.m. from Wednesday, January 25th to Saturday, January 28th at The Theatre on King at 171 King Street in downtown Peterborough. Tickets at $20, with a pay-what-you-can option. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Advance tickets are available at eventbrite.ca/e/503000998527.
Content warning: Enkidu includes descriptions of violence, murder, death, and non-graphic discussions of sexual violence. The performance uses a sound system with a full soundtrack and sudden shifts in theatre lighting.
The Kawartha Potters Guild is one of eight pottery guilds across Ontario participating in the e-Clay Learning and Teaching Project, which is exploring new ways to work virtually and create person-to-person interactive experiences while working with clay. The Guild is offering an eight-week pilot course beginning on February 10, 2023 at its 993 Talwood Drive studio that will including a remote instructor. (Graphic: e-Clay Learning and Teaching Project)
Can the art of pottery can be taught online?
The Kawartha Potters Guild hopes to help answer that intriguing question with a pilot online learning course running over eight weeks during February and March, and is seeking new and experienced students who would like to participate.
Along with seven other not-for-profit pottery guilds and studios across Ontario, the Kawartha Potters Guild is participating in the e-Clay Learning and Teaching Project, precipitated by the closure of community clay studios during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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With funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, the first phase of the e-Clay project researched new ways to work virtually and create person-to-person interactive experiences while working with clay. The second phase of the project includes pilot courses offered by the participating pottery guilds. Each course is being taught by an experienced teacher, who is part of the team developing the best ways to teach pottery online in an interactive and dynamic way.
The Kawartha Potters Guild pilot course takes place 11 a.m. to 1:30 pm. on Fridays from February 10 to March 31 at the Guild’s studio at 993 Talwood Drive in Peterborough. While students will learn and work in the studio, instruction will be delivered via Zoom by Aitak Sorahitalab.
Based in Toronto, Sorahitalab is a contemporary ceramic and mural artist, an art educator, and a public art researcher. Using background knowledge, she incorporates elements of Iranian and Mesopotamian epics, artifacts. and motifs as part of her practice through creating surrealist figurines and compositions.
The Kawartha Potters Guild’s eight-week nline learning pilot course will be instructed by Aitak Sorahitalab, a Toronto-based contemporary ceramic and mural artist who has more than two decades of experience in art education. (Photo courtesy of Kawartha Potters Guild)
Sorahitalab has a master’s degree in design and production in applied arts from The Art University of Tehran and is a doctoral candidate in environmental and urban change at York University. She has more than two decades of experience in art education, specifically ceramic, working with art organizations and institutes such as the Gardiner Museum, Good Sheppard Creative Studio, and ArtStarts.
The cost of the eight-week course is $406.80 (including HST) and includes all materials, tools, and glazing and firing. All students will be eligible for a $100 rebate after completing the course and the evaluation. A Guild member will be present during each class.
Juno-nominated singer-songwriter and guitarist Terra Lightfoot performing with Tom Wilson of Blackie and the Rodeo Kings at Peterborough's Market Hall on December 7, 2022. Originally from Hamilton, the roots-rocker is now living in Haliburton County and will peform for the first time in her new hometown on January 28, 2023. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW)
It’s not surprising that Juno-nominated musician Terra Lightfoot’s first concert in her new hometown of Haliburton is a sell-out.
Lightfoot will be performing at the Haliburton Legion at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, January 28th, with local musician Thom Lambert opening. Tickets for the concert, presented by the Haliburton County Folk Society, are sold out — but you can email haliburtonfolk@gmail.com to be put on a waiting list.
Originally from Hamilton, the roots-rock singer-songwriter and guitarist moved to the Haliburton Highlands with her fiancé in late 2020.
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“We both love the country life,” Lightfoot tells kawarthaNOW. “It’s incredibly peaceful and we spend a lot more time outdoors these days.”
It’s also an ideal setting for songwriting. Lightfoot recorded her latest single “Sleepyhead” in her living room with Peterborough engineer James McKenty, who also mastered the final mix.
Described as “a track for all those hard-working people who have put their own needs on the backburner so they can be there for their kids,” the song features a touch of strings added by Bailieboro native Jimmy Bowskill (The Sheepdogs, Brooks & Bowskill) at Ganaraska Recording Co., his Cobourg recording studio.
VIDEO: “Sleepyhead” – Terra Lightfoot
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Lightfoot recently finished a cross-country tour with Stephen Fearing, Tom Wilson, and Colin Linden of Blackie and the Rodeo Kings. In December, she performed with the band over two nights at Peterborough’s Market Hall. Her performance at the Haliburton Legion is her first concert of 2023.
“I’m looking forward to meeting folks from the local music community and having a rock ‘n roll party,” she says.
As for opener Thom Lambert, the Haliburton County musician and artist is thrilled to be sharing a hometown stage with Lightfoot.
“I am very excited to be in the same space as Terra,” he says. “She is a force of nature.”
Cover art for Terra Lightfoot’s latest single “Sleepyhead” featuring a photo of her taken at her grandparent’s cottage in 1990. (Artwork: Mat Dunlap)
Filmmaker Resita Cox's short documentary film "Freedom Hill" tells the story of the town of Princeville in North Carolina, known as the first founded by Black Americans who were formerly enslaved, which is gradually being washed away because of climate change. Cox, whose film is screening at the 2023 ReFrame Film Festival, will participate in a livestream panel discussion about environmental racism on Sunday, January 29. (Supplied photo)
Peterborough’s ReFrame Film Festival has announced a series of live and virtual events as part annual documentary film festival, running from January 26 to February 3.
Already announced is the exclusive, in-person opening night screening of Laura Poitras’s film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, which takes place at 7 p.m. on Thursday, January 26th at Showplace Performance Centre. Prior to the screening, Alice Williams will open the festival with a prayer, Cormac Culkeen will give a musical performance, and ReFrame creative director Amy Siegel will speak about the festival program. Opening night tickets, which are sold separately, are $20 or pay what you can.
ReFrame has also partnered with Artspace to present a series of in-person events at the non-profit artist-run centre at 378 Aylmer Street North in downtown Peterborough.
Running from January 25 to February 25, What Fools These Mortals Be is a three-channel video installation — created by The Circle Project and collaborator Adad Hannah and curated by ReFrame creative director Amy Siegel — that reimagines Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a series of living pictures performed by 14 formerly incarcerated women. The Dreaming, a companion piece to What Fools These Mortals Be, is an interactive audio documentary where formerly incarcerated women recount their dreams.
Running at Artspace during the afternoons of January 27 to 29 is Intravene, a 20-minute audio experience that immerses listeners in the intense audio environment of an overdose prevention site in Vancouver when a user has inadvertently injected a hit of “benzo-dope” (opiods laced with benzodiazepine).
Intravene was produced through a partnership between UK theatre company Darkfield Radio, Crackdown (a podcast produced by drug user activists in Vancouver), and Peterborough documentary filmmaker and artist Brenda Longfellow.
Running at Artspace from January 25 to February 25, “What Fools These Mortals Be” is a three-channel video installation that reimagines Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in a series of living pictures performed by 14 formerly incarcerated women. (Supplied photo)
Longfellow will also be participating in the in-person panel discussion “What Role Can Art Play in the Overdose Crisis?” Taking place at Artspace at 2 p.m. on Saturday, January 28th, the panel also includes Alex Bierk, Zoë Dodd, Mkwa Ghiizis (Crystal Hebert), and Jeff Bierk. Following the panel discussion, Peterborough Public Health will be offering one-on-one naloxone training.
Coinciding with the First Friday Peterborough art crawl on the evening of Friday, February 3th, Artspace will host Love Positive Women, a valentine-making pop-up where you can share love with women living with HIV. The community based Women’s HIV/AIDS Initiative (WHAI) will distribute the valentines made at the event to women in the community who are living with HIV (the WHAI coordinator for Peterborough is PARN’s Brooke Dewhurst).
On Sunday, January 29 at 2 p.m. two filmmakers whose documentaries are screening at ReFrame will participate in a livestream panel discussion. Resita Cox (Freedom Hill) and Luke Gleeson (The Scattering of Man) will talk about their powerful films that explore themes of environmental racism. Czarina Garcia from the Community Race Relations Committee and Patricia Wilson from Diverse Nature Collective will also join the discussion.
Peterborough’s Alex Bierk and Brenda Longfellow are two of the panelists who will be participating in the discussion “What Role Can Art Play in the Overdose Crisis?” at 2 p.m. on January 28, 2023 at Artspace. (Supplied photos)
A series of pre-recorded talks featuring some of the filmmakers whose films screening at ReFrame will also be available:
Marilyn James and Ali Kazimi (Beyond Extinction: A Sinixt Resurgence)
Bob Romerein, Colin MacAdam, Rob Steinman, and Jim Angel (Choices)
Natasha Luckhardt (Fault Lines) and subjects from the film
Chase Joynt (Framing Agnes)
Colin Askey (Love in the Time of Fentanyl)
Maia Kenworthy (Rebellion)
Karleen Pendleton Jiménez and Barb Taylor (The Butch and the Baby Daddy)
Barri Cohen (Unloved: Huronia’s Forgotten Children) and subjects from the film
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Each pre-recorded talk will be included with the film during the virtual festival.
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