It is Horizons of Friendship’s 24th annual Writers & Friends event and some remarkable authors are coming to town!  You are invited to join us at our fundraising event, A Killer Afternoon with Four Canadian Mystery Writers, featuring book readings, a Q & A session, and book signing. Doors open at 1:30, event begins at 2:00. Come for a truly great celebration on November 11th at Trinity College School in Port Hope where you will meet authors Beverley McLachlin, Donna Morrissey, Jack Batten, and Robert Rotenberg.

September is Big Brothers Big Sisters Month!  September 18th is Big Brothers Big Sisters Day!

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Wednesday, September 19th, 6pm. Stomping Grounds Bistro & Cafe, 110-705 Cotton Mill Street. Tickets for November 2nd fundraiser in support of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation will officially go on sale! 

Abandon Eden and Healy & Orr combine for a Halloween Concert and Dance in the auditorium at the Brockville Legion on Oct 27 from 7-12. tickets are $15 each and available at the legion or from band members. $1000.00 worth of prizes so dress up in your favorite costume.

Friday, September 21st from 11:00am to 1:00pm at Stop By Food Services, Algonquin College. $5.00 a plate. Everyone Welcome !!!

COGNITIVELY NUANCED: NEURO-DIVERGENT PERSPECTIVES ON A BURGEONING URBAN LANDSCAPE

Artists: Melissa Addison-Webster, Kay’la Fraser, Fraser McDonald, Wes Ryan, and members of the Brain Injury Association Peterborough Region

These are Horizon Days and The Brain Injury Association of Peterborough Region (BIAPR) have partnered to present Cognitively Nuanced, a multidisciplinary exploration of lives lived with traumatic brain injury (TBI). A workshop series delivered prior to Artsweek invited members of the BIAPR to navigate Peterborough through verse, comedy, and sculpture and to create works that reflect their experiences. Through poetry, dance, visual art, and photography, members share what it is like to move within and access Peterborough’s urban spaces.

Exhibition Opening – painting, sculpture, photography, and performance

1 p.m.–3 p.m.

Saturday, September 22

Brain Injury Association Peterborough Region (BIAPR)

158 Charlotte St.

On Saturday, September 22, the Brain Injury Association Peterborough Region opens its doors to exhibit works of painting, sculpture, and photography. A soundscape of members’ voices and abstract sounds will form the backdrop in the gallery space while audiences engage with a brain-map of Peterborough. The event will also feature short performances that share what it is like to live with TBI. Artworks from the exhibition will be displayed in the street-facing windows of BIAPR for the duration of Artsweek.

Appendages in Relation to the Body (Revisited) – dance performance

Tuesday, September 25, 2 p.m.–2:30 p.m.

Thursday, September 27, 2 p.m.–2:30 p.m.

Peterborough Square Courtyard

360 George St. N

What props us up as we move along? This performance highlights the grace within pedestrian movement and challenges perceptions of how bodies are ‘supposed’ to move. Featuring Wes Ryan’s comic celebration of TBI, The Helmet Duet, and an original piece choreographed by Melissa Addison-Webster and members of the BIAPR, Appendages reveals that it’s impossible to remain static on a planet in motion.

Brainstorm (cliché title subject to change) – poetry reading and chapbook launch

1 p.m.–1:30 p.m.

Wednesday, September 26

Peterborough Downtown Farmers’ Market

Charlotte St.

BIAPR members perform pieces of spoken word, individually and as a group, outside the BIAPR on Charlotte St. during the Peterborough Downtown Farmers’ Market. Created over a series of workshops lead by award-winning artists Fraser McDonald and Kay’la Fraser, the poems explore a number of themes related to life with TBI. A chapbook of the poems will also be available for purchase.

Artsweek in partnership with These are Horizon Days and the Brain Injury Association Peterborough Region.

Dress up for Halloween and win a prize. Dance to music provided by "Mel Hunt" in the lower lounge of the Brockville Legion from 7-11pm. Free admission. Open to the public. 19+.

Artists: Carolyn Code, Daniel Crawford, and Anne White

Curator: Hannah Keating

An outdoor exhibition of sculpture, animated film projection, and performance, Between the Lines is a group show that asks three local artists to respond to the questions posed and opportunities presented by "in-between" spaces. Tangle is an outdoor installation by Carolyn Code. Using thread to sculpt geometric shapes, Carolyn’s piece draws on forms she has explored in previous work, while representing for the artist a bold new foray into public art. The Door That You Walk Through is a film by Daniel Crawford. Projected onto the side of an abandoned brick building, the film weaves itself into the fabric of a magical, ramshackle setting behind The Only Café. Audiences are invited to journey through the café to the see the film. Lookout is a performance by theatre artist Anne White. Anne positions herself with a critical eye in relationship to a space often overlooked, but heavy with personal, public, and historic meaning and asks audiences to do the same.

Tangle, Carolyn Code

All day

Friday, September 21 to Sunday, September 30

Behind Engage Engineering

171 King St. Suite 120

The Door That You Walk Through, Daniel Crawford

7 p.m.–9:30 p.m.

Monday, September 24 to Saturday, September 29

Behind The Only Café

216 Hunter St. W

Lookout, Anne White

Monday, September 24, 12:30 p.m.–1 p.m.

Wednesday, September 26, 6:30 p.m.–7 p.m.

Friday, September 28, 10 a.m.–10:30 a.m.

Confederation Square

499 George St. N

Curator’s Tour

6:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, September 26

Meet at Confederation Square, 499 George St. N

Tour ends at The Only Café, 216 Hunter St. W

Artsweek in partnership with Engage Engineering, Cherney Properties, and The Only Café.