Community Event - Peterborough/Lindsay - Peterborough Folk Fest Presents Bahamas
The Peterborough Folk Festival Is excited to present as part of the festivals 30th anniversary year long celebration!
Mutiple Juno Award Winner and 2019 Grammy & Juno Nominee Bahamas with special guest Ben Rogers
Bahamas released "Earthtones" in 2018 and it has been nominated for a Grammy for “Best Engineered Album” and Juno award "Songwriter Of The Year" "Adult Alternative Album Of The Year" and "Video Of The Year"
Showplace Performance Centre
Monday March 25th
All-Ages/ Licensed
Tickets
Online : www.showplace.org
By Phone: (705) 742-SHOW (7469) or in person at showplace box office
Public Notices/Announcements - Niagara - WHAT'S GROWING ON??
FREE WI Community Outreach seminar: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 1:30-3:30, The Fleming Centre, Room B, 5020 Serena Dr., Beamsville. Drs. Amy Bowen and Valerio Primomo, researchers at Vineland Research and Innovation Centre, will talk about significant achievements in the Centre's floral and vegetable research. Q&A session to follow. Refreshments.
Public Notices/Announcements - Peterborough/Lindsay - 4th Line Theatre Box Office opens February 11th
4th Line Theatre is pleased to announce that its box office will open to the public to purchase tickets and for gift certificate redemptions for the 2019 Summer Season as of Monday, February 11th. Tickets, gift certificates and picnics for 4th Line Theatre’s 2019 summer season can be purchased by phone 705-932-4445, online at 4thlinetheatre.on.ca, at 4th Line Theatre’s Box Office located at 4 Tupper Street, Millbrook or at the ticket outlet at the Peterborough Museum & Archives on Armour Hill, in Peterborough 705-743-5180.
Group Bookings*:
Book tickets for a group of 12 or more and save! Come to 4th Line with your family, friends and co-workers and experience an unforgettable evening of unique outdoor entertainment. Book 12–24 tickets and save $1 off each ticket. Book 25 or more tickets and save $2 off each ticket. And…your group gets reserved seating!
*Reserved seating for group bookings is based on availability. Book early to secure tickets and seating for your preferred performance date.
Bloom: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Fable World Premiere
By Beau Dixon
Directed by Kim Blackwell
July 2 – July 27, 2019
Previews: July 2, 3
Opening Night: Thursday, July 4
Tuesday to Saturday at 6 pm
Additional performance Monday, July 22, 2019
Bloom: A Rock ’n’ Roll Fable follows the lives of two small town best friends from Assumption, Ontario, who share a lifelong love affair with rock ’n’ roll music. From their childhood in the 1950s, to the heady music days of the 1970s, Bloom is based on stories collected from some of Peterborough’s most renowned rock and roll personalities. The play will feature original music written by Beau Dixon and others. The barnyard will be rocking for the entire month of July!
Carmel World Premiere
By Ian McLachlan and Robert Winslow
Directed by Robert Winslow
August 6 - August 31, 2019
Previews: August 6, 7
Opening Night: Thursday, August 8
Tuesday to Saturday at 6 pm
Additional performance Monday, August 26, 2019
Carmel is the third in the Barnardo children series of plays (Doctor Barnardo’s Children, 2005, 2006 & 2014; Wounded Soldiers, 2014) and will feature characters you already met and fell in love with. This play is filled with music, dancing and farm families trying to get on with the job of living their lives. Set on the Carmel Line in Cavan Township in 1937, the play follows the struggles of a family to hold on to the farm during the Great Depression. This bittersweet work also explores Peterborough labour history and features original music inspired by country and folk music traditions of the 1930s.
Community Event - Chatham - Family Day Free Crafts and Cartoons
Looking for something to do with the kids without breaking the bank? Come along to the Wallaceburg Museum where we will have cartoons and crafts for the children. Free entry throughout the museum as well as a hunt for the symbols in each part of the museum.
All welcome
Free
Donations accepted
505 King Street Wallaceburg
Community Event - Niagara - Niagara Foundation for Catholic Education Gala
The Niagara Foundation for Catholic Education's Annual Benefit Gala with honourary guest Most Reverend Gerard Bergie, D.D., Bishop of St. Catharines Diocese This is an annual fundraiser that offers opportunities for the foundation to directly support students in need, specifically through the foundation's involvement in such outreach programs as providing warm boots and coats, supporting nutrition programs in schools (one in five students goes to school hungry every day) funding for the purchasing of school uniforms, personal care items, and financial assistance in achieving a higher level of education.The evening commences at 5:30 p.m. with a remarkable mouth-watering Anti Pasto bar, cocktail reception, complimentary wine tasting, and cash bar followed by dinner at 7:00 p.m.
This year's gala will feature a special after dinner speaker, National Hockey Legend and Team Canada '72 member Pat Stapleton. Pat's warm personality and sense of humour is well known to many citizens of the Niagara Region, and his presence will be a welcome addition to what is already an enjoyable evening with excellent cuisine that features a popular pre-dinner Antipasto Bar.
Tickets are $80.00 each. Price includes one complimentary drink per person, 2 bottles of wine placed on each table during dinner. Tickets can be purchased on line, individually or group tables at www.niagaracatholic.ca or by cheque payable to Niagara Foundation for Catholic Education and sent to Niagara Catholic District School Board, 427 Rice Road, Welland, Ontario L3C 7C1 attention Sherry Morena. $30.00 tax receipt per ticket upon request. Further information call Sherry 905-735-0240 ext. 213 or email foundationgala@nfce.com
Community Event - Chatham - Classic Friday Family Film Back to the Future
This classic fun movie starring Michael J Fox is about Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.
Entry is free
Snacks for sale
PG rated
Showing on our big screen in the Jeanne Gordon Hall
505 King Street Wallaceburg
Wheelchair accessible.
Donations welcom