Events
Monday February 25, 2008
Start: 9:00 pm
End: 11:59 pm
Open Mic With Kevin Busby @ The Rusty Snail every Monday.
Tuesday February 26, 2008
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 11:59 pm
Do It In The Ear with your lively hosts Jean-Marc, Nick, Jordan & Jill every Tuesday from 10pm - 1am at the Pig's Ear Open Mic. Sign up is on a first come first served basis. There's always a guitar you can use. This open mic is not restricted to music - we love spoken word artists, comedians, audible performances of any kind...so come out and get your noise on stage.
Thursday February 28, 2008
Start: 10:00 am
Start: Feb 28 2008 - 10:00am
End: Feb 29 2008 - 5:00pm
All PAU members in good standing are invited to submit up to three artworks to the jury for the March 7, 2008 Members' Show. All artwork must be recent (completed within the last year) and ready to hang. Please drop off your submissions during office hours (10am - 5pm) and complete a gallery submission form available at the front desk.
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
Trent University’s English Department presents the "Joy of Texts” 2007/2008 Rooke Lecture Series, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. at the Peterborough Public Library (345 Aylmer St., Peterborough). Christian Bök will present on When Cyborgs Versify. Admission is free. For more information call (705) 748-1011
Start: 8:00 pm
Showplace hosts Aengus Finnan at 8 p.m. in the Showplace Lounge (290 George St. N., Peterborough). Canadian Folk Music singer/songwriter Aengus Finnan describes his songs as "completely nostalgic, sentimental and romantic;" and is as naturally talented as he earnest. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door. For tickets or more information call (705) 742-SHOW (7469).
Friday February 29, 2008
End: 5:00 pm
Start: Feb 28 2008 - 10:00am
End: Feb 29 2008 - 5:00pm
All PAU members in good standing are invited to submit up to three artworks to the jury for the March 7, 2008 Members' Show. All artwork must be recent (completed within the last year) and ready to hang. Please drop off your submissions during office hours (10am - 5pm) and complete a gallery submission form available at the front desk.
Start: 5:00 pm
Love Letters to a Dinosaur closes.
Start: 7:00 pm
Motus O Dance Theatre Presents: East of the Sun, West of the Moon at 7 p.m. at Showplace (290 George St. N., Peterborough). Weaving movement and spoken word, this latest MOTUS O creation inspires and empowers both the young and the young at heart. Tickets are $18 and $15. For tickets or more information call (705) 742-SHOW (7469).
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 10:00 pm
The YDK* Project presents a staged reading of "You Don't Know the Half of It," 7:30 - 10 p.m. at St. John's Anglican Church Guild Hall (99 Brock St., enter from Hunter St., Peterborough).
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 11:00 pm
Take poetry public with a weekend of workshops and performances; all free and open to the public. Trent University is pleased to host Doing It In Public, a conference in performance, poetry, and publics, from Friday, February 29th to Saturday, March 1st 2008.
Saturday March 1, 2008
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
The Peterborough Public Library presents a card-making workshop from 1 - 3 p.m. at the Library (345 Aylmer St., Peterborough). This will be an afternoon of simple card-making using printed paper, stamps, ribbons, stickers and more, for all those looking to add a personal touch to their greeting cards. No previous experience necessary. Tickets are $10.
Start: 7:00 pm
Come to the Spill and enjoy the Staveley Project's Album release, as well as an exhibition of new works by Nicole Conboy: Cut and Paste Skies. The exhibition begins at 7pm, and the music starts at 9:30.
Start: 7:30 pm
Gala film screenings and awards night.
The King Street Center for the Arts
40 King Street West
Millbrook, Ontario
Tickets: $5
Start: 9:00 pm
End: 11:59 pm
The Tom Eastland Band is playing at the Rusty Snail Pub, 231 Hunter Street West. Music between 9pm and midnight, all ages and licenced, no cover charge, pass the hat.
Sunday March 2, 2008
Start: 1:30 pm
End: 5:00 pm
G.R.E.A.T. (Classics Student Group at Trent University) presents Celtic Knotwork & Design from 1:30 - 5 p.m. at the LEC Lecture Hall, Trent University (West Bank of main campus, Peterborough). This is a hands-on opportunity to create fantastic Celtic designs under the tutelage of one of the leading artists in the field, David Rankine. Tickets are $20 for Trent students, $30 all others.
Start: 4:00 pm
The MUSE Fine Film Series presents “Caramel” at 4 p.m. at Galaxy Cinemas (320 Water St., Peterborough). This enchanting story, set in and around a Beirut beauty parlour, features a charismatic cast with a story that looks past the war and politics in Beirut to the eternal truths of love and passion. Tickets will be available at the cinema one hour prior to show time for $10.
Start: 5:30 pm
The Trent Film Society Presents: Filmic Feast. Join us for an amazing double bill (Delicatessen, Tampopo)and an orgiastic feast of epic proportions! Food provided by Hoshi Sushi. Sunday, March 2 in the Sadlier House Lecture Hall. The feast begins at 5:30pm. Tickets are $5.
Monday March 3, 2008
Start: 12:00 am
The Blue Tomato Art Shop is pleased to present a new window installation by visual artist/painter Patricia Fenwick. The work will be displayed from March 3rd - April 3th, 2008. Located at 190 Charlotte St., the Blue Tomato Art Shop features work by local emerging and established artists in a variety of media. The shop also sells art supplies and provides object repair and conservation services.
Start: 10:00 am
Start: Mar 3 2008 - 10:00am
End: Mar 4 2008 - 5:00pm
All PAU members in good standing are invited to submit up to three artworks to the jury for the March 7, 2008 Members' Show. All artwork must be recent (completed within the last year) and ready to hang (if applicable). Please drop off your submissions during office hours (10am - 5pm) and complete a gallery submission form available at the front desk.
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Trent University's Bata Library and Champlain College host a Meet and Greet with writer, editor, literary critic John Metcalf, 2 - 4 p.m. at Alumni House, Champlain College (West Bank Dr., Peterborough). Metcalf is the author of numerous short stories and novels, as well as a recipient of the Order of Canada. Tickets are free. For information contact Carol Bennett @ (705) 748-1011 ext. 6259.
Start: 7:00 pm
The MUSE Fine Film Series presents “Caramel” at 7 p.m. at Galaxy Cinemas (320 Water St., Peterborough). This enchanting story, set in and around a Beirut beauty parlour, features a charismatic cast with a story that looks past the war and politics in Beirut to the eternal truths of love and passion. Tickets will be available at the cinema one hour prior to show time for $10.
Start: 8:00 pm
Featuring Jill Battson, Joe Davies, John Hobson and Cornelia Hoogland at the Gordon Best Theatre. The Cooked and Eaten is a reading series based in Peterborough, Ontario that promotes new and adventurous authors to an engaged and informal audience.
Start: 9:00 pm
End: 11:59 pm
Open Mic With Kevin Busby @ The Rusty Snail every Monday.
Tuesday March 4, 2008
End: 5:00 pm
Start: Mar 3 2008 - 10:00am
End: Mar 4 2008 - 5:00pm
All PAU members in good standing are invited to submit up to three artworks to the jury for the March 7, 2008 Members' Show. All artwork must be recent (completed within the last year) and ready to hang (if applicable). Please drop off your submissions during office hours (10am - 5pm) and complete a gallery submission form available at the front desk.
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 11:59 pm
Do It In The Ear with your lively hosts Jean-Marc, Nick, Jordan & Jill every Tuesday from 10pm - 1am at the Pig's Ear Open Mic. Sign up is on a first come first served basis. There's always a guitar you can use. This open mic is not restricted to music - we love spoken word artists, comedians, audible performances of any kind...so come out and get your noise on stage.
Wednesday March 5, 2008
Start: 6:00 pm
The Fleming College Foundation hosts a Gala beginning at 6 p.m. at the Sutherland Campus (Fleming College, Peterborough). This year’s theme will be "Feast of Dreams: Travel the World".
Thursday March 6, 2008
Start: 10:00 am
Young Person's Concerts, "The Symphony Goes Green: Music in Nature," March 6 at Selwyn Outreach Centre, 2 km north of Trent University (beside Giant Tiger). Concerts at 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Tickets going fast: $8.00 per student and $2.00 per adult. Call PSO office at 742-1992 or email pso@trytel.net.
Friday March 7, 2008
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
An exhibition of recent work by PAU members in the Gallery.
Start: 7:00 pm
Artspace hosts an opening reception for the exhibition Sky Vessels by Jennifer Dorner (Montreal) at 7 p.m. at Artspace (378 Aylmer St. N., Peterborough). This is an exhibition of paintings, an artificial sky built panel-by-panel with miniscule elements that highlight the bizarre attributes of leisure activities emblematic of western culture. Key concepts include artifice and display.
Start: 8:00 pm
Choreography by Tedd Robinson, Dominique Dumais, Robert Glumbec, and Yvonne Ng. A program of duets and solos created for veteran Toronto dancers Yvonne Ng and Robert Glumbek. The dancers lift and drop, bow and prance, meet and part in movement that has a timeless, court-dance-meets-woodland-elves feel, revealing in each their strengths and weaknesses, both physical and archetypal.
Start: 8:30 pm
The Shrimps perform at 8:30 p.m. at Splice (379 George St., Peterborough). Doors open at 8 p.m. The show will feature new and classic sketch comedy followed by a bout of Improv based on audience suggestions. As well, the house band the Gizzards will perform. This is an age of majority event. Admission is $5; $3 for students. The Shrimps will be returning to Splice fortnightly.
Saturday March 8, 2008
Start: 9:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
The Peterborough Local Economic Trading System Exchange Association (L.E.T.S.) invites everyone to their Market and Networking Meeting Saturday, March 8th, 2008 at Knox Church, Wolfe and Park - 9 am to 1 pm. Come buy your Easter and Spring gifts locally. Everyone is welcome admission is free. Our LETS Cafe will be open. Door prizes. Local Crafts People and Artisans. Small Business networking.
Start: 8:00 pm
Choreography by Tedd Robinson, Dominique Dumais, Robert Glumbec, and Yvonne Ng. A program of duets and solos created for veteran Toronto dancers Yvonne Ng and Robert Glumbek. The dancers lift and drop, bow and prance, meet and part in movement that has a timeless, court-dance-meets-woodland-elves feel, revealing in each their strengths and weaknesses, both physical and archetypal.
Start: 9:00 pm
Start: Mar 8 2008 - 9:00pm
End: Mar 9 2008 - 12:00am
The Code Name Laurentians with Hot Buttered Charlie and the Oils at the Pig's Ear Tavern. Saturday, March 8 from 9pm to midnight.
Sunday March 9, 2008
End: 12:00 am
Start: Mar 8 2008 - 9:00pm
End: Mar 9 2008 - 12:00am
The Code Name Laurentians with Hot Buttered Charlie and the Oils at the Pig's Ear Tavern. Saturday, March 8 from 9pm to midnight.
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
The Whetung Ojibwa Arts and Crafts Centre hosts a Storytellers' Festival from 1 - 4 p.m. at the Centre (Curve Lake Reserve). The only way to truly understand the importance of storytelling in native culture and how it might also appeal to our non-native friends is to actually take part in it.
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
KAWARTHA ARTISTS' GALLERY & STUDIO NEW SHOW: "Art Through The Lens" Annual Invitational Photography Show exhibiting fine photos created by Peterborough area photographers. Opening reception: Sunday, March 9th, 2008, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Start: 7:00 pm
The Trent Film Society presents Chan-Wook Park's 23 film "Old Boy" at 7 p.m. at Sadleir House (751 George St. N., Peterborough). Old Boy (23) is the second installment of Park's incredible "Vengeance Trilogy." An average man, Oh Dae-su, is kidnapped and imprisoned in a cell for 15 years without any explanation. He then is released, equipped with money, a cell phone and expensive clothes.
Monday March 10, 2008
Start: 9:00 pm
End: 11:59 pm
Open Mic With Kevin Busby @ The Rusty Snail every Monday.
Tuesday March 11, 2008
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 11:59 pm
Do It In The Ear with your lively hosts Jean-Marc, Nick, Jordan & Jill every Tuesday from 10pm - 1am at the Pig's Ear Open Mic. Sign up is on a first come first served basis. There's always a guitar you can use. This open mic is not restricted to music - we love spoken word artists, comedians, audible performances of any kind...so come out and get your noise on stage.
Thursday March 13, 2008
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
Trent University’s English Department presents the "Joy of Texts” 2007/2008 Rooke Lecture Series from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. at the Peterborough Public Library (345 Aylmer St., Peterborough). Lorrie Clark will present on The Pleasures of Soliloquy in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. Admission is free. For more information call (705) 748-1011.
Friday March 14, 2008
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Dance Your Bones/Public Energy presents Dance Your Bones from 7 - 9 p.m. at St John's Anglican Church (99 Brock St., Peterborough). This is an ecstatic dance event with world music and pop. All are invited to come and dance like no-one's watching -- no steps to learn, no age limit, no partners. Tickets are $5-$10 on a sliding scale. For more information call (705) 295-5558.
Start: 7:00 pm
Artspace and Public Energy present a one time only performance by Les Fermières Obsédées (Quebec City) at 7 p.m. at Artspace (378 Aylmer St. N., Peterborough). Three women from Quebec will be in residence from Monday, March 10 - Saturday, March 15 at Artspace, developing their own take on the Peterborough community and readying a final performance to illustrate their impressions.
Start: 7:30 pm
Bob Cajun and the Echo Hunters play at a screening of “River Dumoine: A Traveler’s Journey,” beginning at 7:30 p.m. at Market Hall (336 George St. N., Peterborough). Bob Cajun’s (the trio, sans accordion) will be performing a few tunes that night along with the Echo Hunters, a blues band from Montreal.
Saturday March 15, 2008
Start: 8:00 pm
Jack de Keyzer plays at 8 p.m. at Market Hall (336 George St., Peterborough). De Keyzer will be performing songs from his 2008 Juno Nominated CD, Blues Thing, along with tunes from his previous 5 releases. Advance tickets are available for $20 at Moondance Records (425 George St.) and Titles Bookstore (379 George St.) in Peterborough, or on-line.
Start: 8:00 pm
Fun with Friends presents a Gala Benefit for Friends of Honduran Children at 8 p.m. with pre-show reception at 7 p.m. at Showplace (290 George St., Peterborough). Jessica Holmes of CBC’s Royal Canadian Airfarce and Peterborough’s own Sean Cullen perform. There will also be a live auction with Rob Rusland and MC Ryan Snodden. Tickets are $75.
Monday March 17, 2008
Start: 9:00 pm
End: 11:59 pm
Open Mic With Kevin Busby @ The Rusty Snail every Monday.
Tuesday March 18, 2008
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 11:59 pm
Do It In The Ear with your lively hosts Jean-Marc, Nick, Jordan & Jill every Tuesday from 10pm - 1am at the Pig's Ear Open Mic. Sign up is on a first come first served basis. There's always a guitar you can use. This open mic is not restricted to music - we love spoken word artists, comedians, audible performances of any kind...so come out and get your noise on stage.
Saturday March 22, 2008
Start: 12:00 am
The Canadian Canoe Museum hosts a One Day Ceinture Fléchée Weaving Workshop at the Museum (910 Monaghan Rd, Peterborough). Participants will learn an age-old technique called finger weaving - a traditional form of off-loom weaving, a relaxing, rewarding and versatile craft. No experience necessary. The cost is $65 ($60 for members), and includes taxes, patterns, instruction and all materials.
Monday March 24, 2008
Start: 9:00 pm
End: 11:59 pm
Open Mic With Kevin Busby @ The Rusty Snail every Monday.
Tuesday March 25, 2008
Start: 10:00 pm
End: 11:59 pm
Do It In The Ear with your lively hosts Jean-Marc, Nick, Jordan & Jill every Tuesday from 10pm - 1am at the Pig's Ear Open Mic. Sign up is on a first come first served basis. There's always a guitar you can use. This open mic is not restricted to music - we love spoken word artists, comedians, audible performances of any kind...so come out and get your noise on stage.
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