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Canadian actor and playwright Jonathan Wilson performing in his one-man show "A Public Display of Affection" about his queer youth on the streets of Toronto in the late 1970s and beyond at its world premiere at Crow's Theatre in Toronto in April 2025. In partnership with Ptbo-Nogo Pride, New Stages Theatre is kicking off its 2025-26 season with a staged reading featuring Wilson on Saturday, September 20 at Market Hall Performing Arts Centre in downtown Peterborough. (Photo: Dahlia Katz)

New Stages Theatre celebrates 2025-26 season opening and Pride Week with ‘A Public Display of Affection’ on September 20

Toronto indie rock quartet Noise Hotel (Eric Montpool, Christian Strong, Matt Scharfe, and Brendon Vanderpol) performs at Jethro's Bar + Stage in downtown Peterborough on Saturday night. (Photo: Adel Manji)

nightlifeNOW – September 11 to 17

encoreNOW for September 8, 2025 features (from left to right, top and bottom) Taylor Abrahamse performing at Take Cover Books in Peterborough, the Peterborough Theatre Guild's season-opening production of Norm Foster's "Opening Night", New Stages Theatre's season-opening staged reading of Jonathan Wilson's "A Public Display of Affection", the Apsley Autumn Studio Tour, Classic Troubadours Live at Lindsay's Academy Theatre, and "The Beaver Club" at Bobcaygeon's Globus Theatre. (kawarthaNOW collage)

encoreNOW – September 8, 2025

Every Thursday evening in July and August, the Bobcaygeon Music Council presents free outdoor concerts at Lock 32 in Bobcaygeon, as well as a concert series beginning in the fall and running into the spring. (Photo courtesy of Bobcaygeon Music Council)

Best known for its free summer concerts, Bobcaygeon Music Council ups its live music presentation mission on October 2

Brooks and Bowskill (Cobourg-based wife-and-husband musicians Brittany Brooks and Jimmy Bowskill) will be performing their genre-bending mix of folk, country-rock, pop and rock and roll with Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon shows at the Ganaraska Hotel in Port Hope. (Photo: Lauren Garbutt Photography)

nightlifeNOW – September 4 to 10

The Peterborough Symphony Orchestra's 2025-26 season conducted by music director Michael Newnham features "Bright Lights" on Novemeber 1 with tabla player Shawn Mativetsky, "Quartom Sings Noël" on December 6 with vocal quartet Quartom, "Stars of the Silver Screen" on February 7 and 8 featuring music from James Bond and more, "Inspired" with flutist Gillian Derer on April 12, and "The Creation" with The Peterborough Singers on May 9 and 10. (kawarthaNOW collage)

Peterborough Symphony Orchestra invites listeners to ‘Look to the Stars’ during 2025-26 season

Former CHEX Television personality and current executive director of BGC Kawarthas Amy Terrill is now also a published author with the release of her debut historical fiction novel "No Secrets Among Sisters." Based on the writings and stories of her Great Aunt Frankie who worked in a Toronto munitions factory during World War I, the dual-timeline novel tells the story of a modern-day journalist contemplating pursuing her political ambitions while uncovering the secrets of her great aunt's involvement in the suffrage movement. (Photo courtesy of Amy Terrill)

Amy Terrill’s debut novel ‘No Secrets Among Sisters’ is based on her great aunt’s job in a WWI munitions factory

The Russell DeCarle Trio, featuring Prairie Oyster frontman Russell DeCarle with Steve Briggs on guitar and Russ Boswell on bass, is performing at the Dominion Hotel in Minden on Saturday night. (kawarthaNOW screenshot of YouTube video)

nightlifeNOW – August 28 to September 3

Peterborough poet Jon Hedderwick during a test shoot for the short film "Enkidu", adapted from his 2023 play of the same name. Hedderwick will also star in the title role of the film, which is based on a character from the ancient poem the Epic of Gilgamesh and will be set in a deep and lightless limestone cave in Ontario. (Supplied photo)

Peterborough poet Jon Hedderwick teaming up with indie filmmakers to turn his play ‘Enkidu’ into a short film

"Wild Wagi" by David Grieve, one of the 33 artists participating in the 32nd annual Apsley Autumn Studio Tour on September 20 and 21, 2025. With a summer studio on Jack Lake, Grieve has a distinct painting style using thick swatches of oil paint on canvas to create images inspired by Ontario landscapes. During the tour, he will be at Studio G, located at 17 Fire Route 52A in Apsley, with mosaicist Anja Hertle. (Photo: David Grieve / Instagram)

The Apsley Autumn Studio Tour is back for its 32nd year on September 20 and 21

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