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What’s happening at December’s First Friday Peterborough art crawl

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kawarthaNOW - December 2, 2021

After more than 600 days, live music returns to the Gordon Best in downtown Peterborough on Friday, December 3 with punk rockers Cross Dog performing in a show with Garbageface and Shahrazi. (Photo: Bryan Reid Photography)

nightlifeNOW – December 2 to 8

Legendary Canadian comedic musician and performance artist BA Johnston returns to the Red Dog Tavern in downtown Peterborough on Friday, November 26 in a show with The Mickies and Poor Pelly. (kawarthaNOW screenshot from video by BA Johnston)

nightlifeNOW – November 25 to December 1

In the satirical black comedy "Don't Look Up", Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence star as two low-level astronomers who attempt to convince a disinterested world of pending doom as a planet-killing comet hurtles towards Earth. The film premieres on Netflix on December 24, 2021 after a limited theatrical release. (Photo: Netflix)

What’s new on Netflix Canada in December 2021

Solo bassoonist Nadine Mackie Jackson, the most widely recorded Canadian bassoonist in history, will be the special musical guest for "Wings of Sound" on February 5, 2022, the Peterborough Symphony Orchestra's first in-person concert at Showplace Performance Centre since the pandemic began. Season subscriptions are now on sale, with single tickets on sale in December. (Photo: Bo Huang)

Peterborough Symphony Orchestra brings live orchestral music back to Showplace in 2022

November 22, 2021

The Climenhage Project celebrates 20 years of Peterborough artist John Climenhage painting Peterborough's urban and rural landscapes. The retrospective exhibition opens to the public at the newly renovated Sadleir House in downtown Peterborough on November 26, 2021. (Photos: The Climenhage Project and Sadleir House)

New retrospective exhibition celebrates 20 years of paintings by Peterborough artist John Climenhage

November 21, 2021

The historic Capitol Theatre in Port Hope has announced its 2022 season, the first under the leadership of the non-profit organization's new artistic producer Rob Kempson. (Photo: Capitol Theatre)

Port Hope’s Capitol Theatre announces its 2022 season

November 19, 2021

Niagara rockers Revive The Rose perform at the Red Dog Tavern in downtown Peterborough on Saturday, November 20 with Sons of Butcher and The Mickies. (Photo: G3 Designs Photo + Video)

nightlifeNOW – November 18 to 24

November 18, 2021

Peterborough's 18th annual ReFrame Film Festival, running from January 27 to February 4, 2022, will take place priamrily in a virtual format and will be available to audiences across Canada. Early bird virtual passes go on sale as of November 18, 2021. (Illustration: Casandra Lee / Design: SJ Graphics)

Peterborough’s ReFrame Film Festival returns virtually in 2022 and expands across Canada

November 17, 2021

Millbrook's outdoor theatre company 4th Line Theatre has launched a new interdisciplinary residency program that will provide grants to four artists in the greater Kawarthas region to create original works or develop existing works in the disciplines of theatre, music, dance, and film. Pictured is Peterborough filmmaker and storyteller Megan Murphy at the Winslow Farm, the home of 4th Line Theatre. (Photo: Jess McDougall)

4th Line Theatre in Millbrook to support four regional artists with new interdisciplinary residency program

November 17, 2021

Megan Murphy and Kate Suhr enjoying the newly installed seats in the Erica Cherney Theatre at Showplace Performance Centre in downtown Peterborough. The duo will be welcoming audiences back to Showplace with their new show "Back Home for the Holidays", featuring music and stories to celebrate the season, on December 11 and 12, 2021. (Photo via The Verandah Society on Facebook)

Peterborough’s Showplace welcomes audiences back to live performances with new state-of-the-art seating

November 13, 2021

Contemporary delta blues and roots musician Doc MacLean performs two shows at The Garnet in downtown Peterborough on Thursday, November 11 as part of his National Steel "Streamline" Blues Tour. (Photo: Stefan Hunter)

nightlifeNOW – November 11 to 17

November 11, 2021

Sarah Lewis, Nogojiwanong-Peterborough's first poet laurete, performing her piece "Warrior Cry" in a video for the CBC Arts series Poetic License. (kawarthaNOW screenshot)

Nogojiwanong-Peterborough’s first poet laureate Sarah Lewis speaks up and speaks her truth

November 10, 2021

Jose Miguel Hernandez is the second of six Nogojiwanong-Peterborough artists who are each participating in a five-week residency in Trent Radio's innovative "Your Radio is Their Stage" project, where artists receive mentorship, equipment, training, and support to reimagine their art as a work for broadcast radio. (Photo courtesy of Jose Miguel Hernandez)

Artist Jose Miguel Hernandez merges his immigration story and art into sound during his Trent Radio artist residency

November 9, 2021

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