Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Arts & Entertainment

Arts & Entertainment

The 19th annual ReFrame Film Festival kicks off on Thursday, January 26 with an exclusive in-person screening at Showplace Performance Centre in Peterborough of the acclaimed and Oscar-nominated documentary "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed", which follows Nan Goldin, an artist and photographer who became addicted to OxyContin and took on the Sackler family, owners of the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma. (Photo: TW Collins)

Oscar-nominated documentary kicks off 19th annual ReFrame Film Festival on Thursday night

The 2023 ReFrame Film Festival, running from January 26 to February 3, includes the world premiere of "Rewilding the Classroom", a short documentary by educator Cam Douglas and filmmaker Rodney Fuentes about aligning educational practices with the reality of environmental crises through the Youth Leadership in Sustainability program in Peterborough. (Photo courtesy ReFrame Film Festival)

ReFrame documentary highlights program that prepares Peterborough students for environmental leadership

In the Netflix romantic comedy film "Your Place or Mine", Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon star as two polar-opposite best friends living in different cities who swap houses for a week and get a peek into each other's lives. It premieres on Netflix on Friday, February 10th. (Photo: Netflix)

What’s new on Netflix Canada in February 2023

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)

Beautiful Canoe Collective’s ‘Journey the Canoe’ reclaims traditional Indigenous birthing practices

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)

Peterborough spoken word artist Jon Hedderwick explores a world out of balance in his new play ‘Enkidu’

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)

Kawartha Potters Guild seeking students for pilot online learning course

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, 2023. 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)

Juno-nominated Terra Lightfoot’s first concert in her new Haliburton hometown is a sell-out

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 announces live events and talks

DreamTeam Concerts, in partnership with Kawartha Food Share and the United Way Peterborough & District with support from Peterborough police deputy chief Tim Farquharson, is presenting "A Hand Up" fundraising concert at The Junction in downtown Peterborough on Sunday, January 22 from 1 to 8 p.m. with performances by Bowie Lives Unplugged, High Waters Band, Baz Littlerock & Tyson Briden, Jessie Slack, SJ Riley, and Ty Wilson. The free-admission concert features a silent auction and $1 from every drink sold will be donated to Kawartha Food Share and the United Way. (Photo: DreamTeam Concerts)

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Peterborough GreenUP shares 10 must-see environmentally themed films to watch during the virtual 2023 ReFrame Film Festival, which runs from January 26 to February 3. (Collage: kawarthaNOW)

Must-see environmentally themed films at the 2023 ReFrame Film Festival

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