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Halifax-born singer-songwriter Leanne Hoffman from Exeter performs with Kenora singer-songwriter Brooklyn Doran at The Garnet in downtown Peterborough on Wednesday, October 24th. (Publicity photo)

nightlifeNOW – October 18 to 24

Live music listings at pubs and clubs in Peterborough and The Kawarthas for the week of Thursday, October 18 to Wednesday, October 24

kawarthaNOW - October 18, 2018

Award-winning Canadian pianist Michael Kim will perform Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto no. 2 with the Peterborough Symphony Orchestra at "Romantik", the premiere concert of the 2018-19 season at Showplace Performance Centre in Peterborough on November 3, 2018. (Photo: Ken Frazier)

Peterborough Symphony Orchestra launches big, bold season with Romantik on November 3

Canadian musical couple Chantal Kreviazuk and Raine Maida are bringing their musical collaboration "Moon vs. Sun" to Showplace Performance Centre in Peterborough on October 23, 2018. (Publicity photo)

Husband-and-wife duo Raine Maida and Chantal Kreviazuk are making sweet music together

Toronto fingerstyle guitarist and singer-songwriter Po' Boy Jeffreys (aka Jeffrey Dodman) returns to Peterborough to perform his country blues, folk, and ragtime with Dayna Pirso at a special Sunday evening show at the Black Horse in downtown Peterborough on Sunday, October 14th. (Photo: Les Dodman)

nightlifeNOW – October 11 to 17

The cast of "Evil Dead The Musical" during a preview performance. The gory musical comedy returns to the Market Hall in downtown Peterborough for four performances from October 11 to 13. (Photo: Sam Tweedle / kawarthaNOW.com)

Music and comedy … and demons and blood .. return to the Market Hall in Peterborough

Anwen O'Driscoll as Catherine Llewellyn, Anthony Jackson as Robert Llewellyn, and David Draper as Harold Dobbs in Lindsay Little Theatre's production of David Auburn's award-winning drama "Proof". Directed by Altaire Gural, the play also starts Ellen Giddings as Claire Llewellyn. It runs October 12, 13, 19 and 20 at Lindsay Little Theatre in Lindsay. (Photo: Sam Tweedle / kawarthaNOW.com)

Fantastic cast and experienced director a winning formula in ‘Proof’

October 10, 2018

An early make-up test of Rowan Lamoureux as Shrek and Lindsay Barr as Donkey in the St. James Players' production of "Shrek: The Musical", which runs from November 9 to 17 at Showplace Performance Centre in Peterborough. (Photo: St. James Players)

The world’s most famous mean green ogre comes to Peterborough in...

October 9, 2018

The Weber Brothers (Ryan and Sam Weber) are back from a tour of eastern Canada and will perform with their band (Ryan Browne, Emily Burgess, and Marcus Browne) at the Arlington Pub in Maynooth on Saturday, October 6. (Photo: Randall Cook Photography & Music / randallcook.ca)

nightlifeNOW – October 4 to 10

October 4, 2018

Folk Under the Clock opens its 32nd season with a concert by The Young'uns (Sean Cooney, Michael Hughes, and David Eagle), one of Britain's best loved folk trio, at the Market Hall in Peterborough on October 14, 2018. (Publicity photo)

musicNOW – October 2018

October 2, 2018

A detail from Jordan Dunlop's painting 'On a Thread to Connect All Others'. This piece will be on display alongside a selection of Jordan's recent work at the Star X Gallery, opening on Friday, October 5th at 6 p.m. (Photo courtesy of Star X)

artNOW – October 2018

October 2, 2018

Choir! Choir! Choir! co-founders Nobu Adilman and Daveed Goldman on stage at Massey Hall in Toronto. Adilman and Goldman will lead an audience at Market Hall in Peterborough in a performance of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" (and more) on October 5, 2018. (Photo: Joseph Fuda)

Acclaimed Choir! Choir! Choir! interactive musical experience comes to Peterborough for...

October 1, 2018

Toronto-based roots singer-songwriter and guitar virtuoso Noah Zacharin performs at The Arlington in Maynooth on Saturday, September 29th. (Publicity photo)

nightlifeNOW – September 27 to October 3

September 27, 2018

Em Glasspool performing in their new work "Wreck Wee Em", which explores the artist's personal experiences with mental illness, trauma, and addiction. The show runs for four performances from September 27 to 30, 2018 at Evans Contemporary in downtown Peterborough. (Photo: Andy Carroll)

‘Wreck Wee Em’ explores Em Glasspool’s personal experience with addiction, abuse,...

September 27, 2018

October is fright month on Netflix Canada with a slew of scary movies including the Netflix original remake of "The Haunting of Hill House" based on the 1959 novel by Shirley Jackson. (Photo courtesy of Netflix)

What’s new on Netflix Canada in October 2018

September 26, 2018

Planet 12 Productions is recreating the first four episodes of the obscure 1977 Saturday morning live-action kids' television series "Space Academy" at The Theatre On King in downtown Peterborough this fall. The original cast of the series, pictured here, included Jonathan Harris (best known for playing Dr. Zachary Smith in the original "Lost in Space") as Commander Gampu, a role that will be performed by Adam Martignetti. (Photo: Filmation / CBS)

Planet 12 Productions pays homage to 1970s-era Saturday morning TV with...

September 25, 2018

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Canadian Canoe Museum

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Roger Neilson Public School principal Denise Humphries (right) cuts the ribbon on the Rotary Buddy Bench as Nate Loch, Rotarian Donna Geary, and Rotary Club of Peterborough president Brian Prentice look on. Geary and her son Nate initiated the Rotary Buddy Bench program in Peterborough last year, donating a bench to St. Catherine's Catholic Elementary School in Peterborough. (Photo: Rotary Club of Peterborough Kawartha)

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