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In the third season of The Umbrella Academy, the dysfunctional adopted superhero family returns from the past to an altered timeline where their father has adopted a slightly different set of children and named them the Sparrow Academy. It premieres on Netflix on June 22, 2022. (Photo: Netflix)

What’s new on Netflix Canada in June 2022

Highlights include season 3 of The Umbrella Academy, God's Favorite Idiot, Man Vs Bee, Hustle, Spiderhead, Interceptor, The Man from Toronto, and more

kawarthaNOW - May 25, 2022

It's a new beginning for the Peterborough Pop Ensemble, following the 2019 passing of the group's founder and musical director Barb Monahan and an almost two-year absence from in-person performances due to the pandemic. Four original members of the ensemble will be performing at the 'And The Beat Goes On!' concert on June 4, 2022 at Market Hall Performing Arts Centre in downtown Peterborough. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough Pop Ensemble)

Peterborough Pop Ensemble starts a new chapter with renewed purpose and a June 4 concert at Market Hall

Toronto-based blues and R&B band Bad Luck Woman & Her Misfortunes (lead vocalist and bass player Raha Javanfar, lead guitarist Fraser Melvin, saxophonist Andrew Moljgun, and drummer Jonathan Hyde) perform at Jethro's Bar + Stage in downtown Peterborough on Saturday, May 21. (Publicity photo)

nightlifeNOW – May 19 to 25

klusterfork entertainment's "Impros vs Joes" at the Gorden Beat Theatre in Peterborough on May 27, 2022 will feature "Impros" Linda Kash, Jane Luk, Sarah McNeilly, Meg Murphy, Dave Pearce, Dan Smith, and Janet Van De Graaff, amd "Joes" Troy Farrell, Yvonne LaRose, Jillian Lipsett, Donnell MacKenzie, and more, with local musician Danny Bronson provide musical accompaniment. (Graphic: klusterfork entertainment)

Second coming of Impros vs Joes set for May 27 at Peterborough’s Gordon Best Theatre

One of the picnic tables painted by a local artist as part of the Town of Cobourg's Painted Picnic Table Program in 2021. (Photo: Town of Cobourg / Facebook)

Town of Cobourg seeking local artists to paint picnic tables

May 17, 2022

Since 1965, the Peterborough Theatre Guild at 364 Rogers Street has been staging award-winning ommunity theatre at the Guild Hall at 364 Rogers Street, with larger productions taking place at Showplace Performance Centre. (Photo courtesy of the Peterborough Theatre Guild)

Musical celebration on June 16 and 17 to raise funds for the Peterborough Theatre Guild

May 17, 2022

Anishinaabe playwright Josh Languedoc of Indigenized Indigenous Theatre Company will perform "Rocko and Nakota: Tales From the Land" during the Nogojiwanong Indigenous Fringe Festival, which runs June 21-26, 2022 at Trent University in Nogojiwanong-Peterborough. His is one of seven Indigenous-led shows that will be performed 34 times during the five days of the festival. (Photo courtesy of Nogojiwanong Indigenous Fringe Festival)

Tickets now on sale for Nogojiwanong Indigenous Fringe Festival at Trent University in June

May 16, 2022

Serena Ryder accepting the Juno award for contemporary album of the year for "The Art of Falling Apart" at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on May 14, 2022. (kawarthaNOW screenshot)

Millbrook’s Serena Ryder takes home her seventh Juno award for ‘The Art of Falling Apart’

May 15, 2022

nightlifeNOW – May 12 to 18

May 12, 2022

Ukrainian-Canadian comedy superstar Luba Goy is the special guest host of "A Concert of Surprises", the Peterborough Symphony Orchestra's final concert of its 2021-2022 season on May 28, 2022. She will bring her distinctive wit and comedy to a program of joyous music, including Czech composer Antonín Dvorak's Opus 46 No. 1 in C major. (Publicity photo)

Peterborough Symphony Orchestra’s season finale welcomes actress and comedian Luba Goy as guest host

May 9, 2022

The late David and Liz Bierk of Peterborough in an undated photo. Advocates for the arts, their legacy lives on through the Community Foundation of Greater Peterborough's Bierk Art Fund. The annual Bierk Art Fund Bursary Program offers $1,000 bursaries to two graduating high school students who are pursuing post-secondary education in the visual arts.

Applications now open for annual Bierk Art Fund Bursary Program

May 9, 2022

One of the many highlights of Public Energy Performing Arts' Erring at King George multi-arts festival is this spectacular sculpture of the head of English author and poet Edward Lear, which features in one of the four chapters of "The Lear Project" by actor-puppeteer Brad Brackenridge and dance-theatre artist Dreda Blow. The festival runs from May 6 to 8 and 13 to 15, 2022, at the former King George Public School in Peterborough's East City. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW)

A sneak peek at the Erring at King George multi-arts festival

May 6, 2022

Canadian alt-rockers Texas King will perform at The Red Dog in downtown Peterborough on Saturday, May 7 in support of their new EP "Changes", with special guests Motherfolk, Loviet, and Revive The Rose. (Publicity photo)

nightlifeNOW – May 5 to 11

May 5, 2022

A giant mask of English author and poet Edward Lear, casting its shadow on a wall at King George Public School in Peterborough's East City, is part of "The Lear Project" created and performed by actor-puppeteer Brad Brackenridge and dance-theatre artist Dreda Blow. The four-chapter ode to Lear's nonsense poems will be performed at Public Energy's Erring at King George" multi-arts festival from May 6 to 8 and May 13 to 15, 2022. (Photo courtesy of Brad Brackenridge)

Puppetry and dance unite at Erring at King George to pay homage to revered English author and poet Edward Lear

May 4, 2022

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