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Rotary Clubs of Peterborough and Peterborough Kawartha

Media Release

Date: June 10, 2022

Authority: Rotary Clubs of Peterborough and Peterborough Kawartha

Release: At Will

Rotary Canada Day Fireworks

The Rotary Clubs of Peterborough and Peterborough Kawartha are pleased to announce that after a two year absence they will once again be hosting the Canada Day fireworks at Crary Park on Friday July 1, 2022, with financial support from the City of Peterborough. The fireworks display will take place immediately following the Peterborough Musicfest performance at approximately 9:30 pm.  

“Thank you to the Rotary Clubs of Peterborough and Peterborough Kawartha for hosting the

Rotary Canada Day fireworks display as part of our community’s Canada Day celebrations. Our local Rotary Clubs contribute to so many causes in our communities such as emergency shelters, local health care organizations, food security through Kawartha Food Share, housing initiatives such as Habitat for Humanity, recreation programs such as the Rotary Greenway Trail, and more recently support for the miniature train at the Riverview Park & Zoo.

Volunteers like Rotarians help make Canada a better place,” says Diane Therrien, Mayor of the City of Peterborough. 

“Covid has greatly impacted our community over the last two years. We’ve been unable to gather together; isolation and loneliness have affected many. As we head into summer however, there is a feeling of optimism that the worst may be behind us. The Rotary Clubs of Peterborough and Peterborough Kawartha wish to celebrate this new optimism as well as honouring the greatness of our country by once again hosting a fireworks display on Canada Day,” says Stephen Kylie, Rotary Canada Day Fireworks Chair. 

The Rotary Clubs of Peterborough and Peterborough Kawartha look forward to joining Peterborough Musicfest on the Fred Anderson stage for the fireworks countdown and would also like to thank the City of Peterborough for providing financial support for this event.

For further information, please contact Stephen Kylie, Rotary Canada Day Fireworks Chair, at skylie@kylielawoffice.ca or (705) 748-6521, Ext 14.  

Art at the Pumphouse, our annual juried, original art show and sale will take place on Saturday, July 30 and Sunday, July 31, 2022, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. New this year: An online show will run from July 9 to August 7, 2022.

The event attracts locals and visitors to Niagara-on-the-Lake and features professional artists from across Ontario, exhibiting a wide range of original works including paintings, photography, sculpture, woodwork, glass, pottery, textiles, jewellery and more.

We welcome returning artists and look forward to showcasing new artists. We will have live music and refreshments for sale at the event. An entry fee of $5.00 for event visitors will be charged to guarantee interested buyers. (Kids enter at no charge)

The Niagara-on-the-Lake Arts Collective invites you to join the fun on July 1st and get to know the local visual arts community!

It’s easy to participate:

(1) On July 1st from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., visit the NOTL Arts Collective galleries and a mystery venue found in one of the clues to find the answers to the questions (reverse side of entry form)

(2) Fill up the entry form completely

(3) Submit the entry form before midnight of July 1st by:

•scanning or taking a photo of the entry form and sending the image electronically to  notlartscollective@gmail.com

•dropping it off in the mailslot by the door at Niagara Pumphouse Arts Centre, 247 Ricardo St., Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON

(4)  All correct entries will be entered into a draw for a chance to win:

•1st Prize: $100 gift certificate to Sandtrap Pub & Grill + a box of arts collective cards

•2nd Prize: $50 gift certificate to Sandtrap Pub & Grill

•3rd Prize: $25 gift certificate to Sandtrap Pub & Grill

Click here to download form: https://bit.ly/3aLo87A

The paintings of Robert Crosby will be on display in the Joyner Gallery of Niagara Pumphouse Arts Centre this July for his solo exhibit titled, Old & New.  The collection features hyper-realistic, acrylic paintings of what he sees around him.

Join us for the artist meet and greet on Sunday, July 3rd from 2:00-4:00 p.m. Hear the artist speak and enjoy light refreshments.

Click here for more information: https://niagarapumphouse.ca/exhibitions/old-new-robert-crosby-jul-01-2022

2nd annual Paddle with a Purpose event in support of Grey’s Haven Farm Sanctuary. If you want to support but can’t be with us in person, a virtual even option is available. Don’t miss out on the fun!

Gather your friends, register, get pledges, and join us on the water.

All non-motorized watercraft welcome.

Summer Art Camps in Gairloch Gardens

Register now—space is limited!

Multiple Sessions All Summer: 4 July – 19 August

Cost: $238 ($280 for non-members)

LONG WEEKEND 4 DAY WEEK: $204 ($240 for non-members)

Oakville Galleries' day camps offer instruction in key art-making techniques such as drawing, painting and sculpture, and then build on these fundamentals with fun-filled projects. No two campers' outputs look alike, as every activity is adapted to suit our participants' individual ideas, interests and abilities. For ages 6-12.

This year’s camps will focus on getting outside as much as possible, adding additional health and safety as well as using nature as inspiration. Classes will include instruction in creating artworks influenced by the beautiful surroundings of Gairloch Gardens and Lake Ontario. Each session will introduce new techniques as we bring them to life with our imaginations. Materials such as chalk pastel, watercolour, canvas and clay will be used to create beautiful masterpieces.

Sessions offered for English and French learners! Full details of our Summer Art Camps, including session schedule and registration info can be found here:   https://www.oakvillegalleries.com/programs/details/3/Summer-Art-Camps

Tree Sessions:

Outdoor Writing Workshop

with Whitney French

9 July 2022

10:30 AM – 1:30 PM

Register here:  https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/tree-sessions-outdoor-writing-workshop-with-whitney-french-registration-360811556077

Tree Sessions is an outdoor workshop series that invites aspiring and seasoned writers alike to seek inspiration under a tree for an afternoon. Facilitated by storyteller and multi-disciplinary artist Whitney French, this creative writing workshop embraces the changing seasons, allowing writers to shift their observation to the flux in the natural world. Tree Sessions encourages writers to connect with nature’s teachings to understand their own writing rhythms. 

This iteration of Tree Sessions will take inspiration from the current exhibition at Oakville Galleries, Paul P.: Friendly in the Knife-edged Moment and from works in the Oakville Galleries sculpture garden. In this free, one-day workshop, participants will explore writing in nature, receive feedback on individual writing, and engage in playful collaboration with other writers. Complimentary lunch is provided for all participants.

NOTE:

This workshop will take place on the grounds of Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens.

In the event of inclement weather, the workshop will take place inside the Oakville Galleries Studio in Gairloch Gardens. Masking is required indoors. 

Whitney French is a storyteller and a multi-disciplinary artist. She is a self-described Black futurist and aspiring farmer, who is committed to building radical new worlds by centering stories of Black women and queer BIPOC communities around memory, loss, technology and nature. Language is her favourite collaborator. Whitney French is the co-founder of the Black queer feminist press Hush Harbour. Currently, she lives in Toronto. 

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Paul P.
Friendly in the Knife-edged Moment

5 June – 28 August 2022

Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens

The work of Toronto-based artist Paul P. employs the visual aesthetics of the late nineteenth century to consider and commemorate queer social histories, particularly the period of gay liberation that occurred just before the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. The artist is known for portraits appropriated from source material found in the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives.

Less well known are his numerous delicate watercolours of gardens, flowers and statuary, as well as seascapes and shorelines, drawn from life over the past 15 years. Friendly in the Knife-edged Moment brings together a number of these works — most of them never before exhibited — in a haunting reflection on the aesthetics of longing.

P.’s work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Whitney Museum, among others. P. lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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