Events Calendar

Returning by popular demand: explore the world of Anne of Green Gables in a behind-the-camera tour of the Pickering Museum Village, the set of various 'Anne' productions for almost forty years. Enjoy a picnic lunch, taste a scone as you blend your own tea, and listen to an audio tour with Anne recounting some of her favourite memories. Visit the historic houses and learn about Lucy Maud Montgomery and historic fashions from Anne's time. Take part in a painting workshop as you bring the past to life in this fun experience.

Durham College student workers host a weekly farmers market and garden tours at Durham College Whitby Campus under the outdoor classroom, Fridays 2pm-5pm and Saturdays 9am-12pm. Join us for garden tours and browse our selection of fresh produce, baked goods, and more! 

In the exhibition Sutures, Eve Tagny and Emii Alrai have stitched together duelling notions of a wound across explosive times and physical space. After injury, a suture weaves broken pieces back into a whole. Its bands pull together, forcing two lacerations to meet as the body recovers from incision. Though rough and imperfect, these markings imply a severing that at once imprint signifiers of new life and healing.

July 27^th – September 2^nd

Available to view 10am-4pm Wednesday to Sunday with general admission.

Best known for his Toronto Star series Birdseye Centre, Jimmie Frise was born and raised on Scugog Island before rising to cartoon fame from the 1920’s – 1940’s. View a selection of works by famous cartoonist, Jimmie Frise, featuring the newly restored painting The Last Muskie. “The Lake Scugog Historical Society is pleased to have sponsored the recent restoration of this very large watercolour & ink painting by our own renowned cartoonist Jimmie Frise. Scugog Shores Museum has one of the largest collections of Frise paintings and artwork in Ontario and we look forward to seeing this piece displayed for all to see”, states LSHS president Marilyn Pearce.

🎶 10 Saturdays, 10 Artists — Saturdays from July 16th to September 17th enjoy Songs of the Summer across Downtown Port Perry.

🎤 The Port Perry BIA has put together an incredible lineup of local musicians to provide ambiance while you shop and stroll Queen Street. Stroll, shop, sightsee, selfie, sing along if you know the words — it's the Songs of the Summer!

🎵 Live music brought to you in partnership with Central Counties Tourism.

🤘 Learn more and see the full lineup, here: https://discoverportperry.ca/songs-of-the-summer/

We need to speak in spores is a collective exercise in attunement, empathy and collaboration where the public is invited to think like fungi. Taking place outside the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (VAC), participants will be presented with an “event score” — a set of simple instructions that will prompt a series of group actions, meditations, and thought experiments to explore the emergent effects of encounter. Taking cues from fungi’s integral role in a forest’s health, such as facilitating interspecies communication and resource distribution, the participatory event will repurpose a selection of research papers, essay selections, news stories, poems, mythologies and will “compost” previous artistic elements from Sahar Te’s curatorial program Incubator, originally installed in the VAC Loft Gallery in fall 2021. Through a process of exchanged “assembled contaminations,” participants will discover and co-produce their own collective, attuned language.

* To participate in this event, no previous performance experience is required.

Saprotrophs is a hybrid screening and lecture event to be presented at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, focused on historicizing ideas of growth and decay, as they’ve evolved from the earth’s ancient ecologies to landscapes of industrialized capitalism. The event will open with a screening of artist Miles Rufelds’ 2019 essay film, Two or Three Saprophytes. Tonally pitched between Marxist ecological criticism and European Gothic horror, the film tells a hallucinatory narrative of mushrooms, chemicals, machines, and ghosts, contrasting a speculative history of the Industrial Revolution with a broader analysis of the earth’s patterns of growth, decomposition, and fossilization.

Following the screening, Rufelds will present a new piece of writing, expanding on themes brought up in the film, focusing specifically on contemporary questions surrounding the limits of capitalist growth, contested notions of “degrowth,” ecological activism, and labour agitation. The screening will be followed by a Q&A and open discussion with the audience.

Immerse yourself in an evening of love!

In this new outdoor adaptation of the classic tale, Cyrano tells the story of the original swashbuckling, swooning adventure-poet.

Come celebrate a story of love, sacrifice, and wit that’s as potent now as it ever was.

Intermission. General seating (bring your own chairs).  

Ever played Laser Tag Outdoors under the Moonlight ?

Battle City in Oshawa will be offering Laser Tag Manhunt every Friday & Saturday night in July and August from 9:30pm-11-30pm.

Unlimited Play for $29.99 + Tax Per Player. 

Terms & Conditions Apply.