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Event: Ceramics Course – Seize the Clay
Blurb: Whether you are a beginner or someone looking to develop more skills, fuel the passion of working with clay. Wheel techniques will be taught through demonstrations and will include: cylinders, bowls and mugs. Decoration and glaze techniques will be explored and encouraged. One bisque and one glaze fire will be accomplished during this course. Develop a new skill or advance an existing one.
Time/Date: Wednesdays, 6pm-9pm, Feb 4-March 11
Location: Haliburton School of Art + Design: 297 College Drive
Link: https://flemingcollege.ca/school/haliburton-school-of-art-and-design/course-calendar

Event: Singing Course – Finding Your Voice
Blurb: Build vocal confidence for singing in modern styles, including pop, rock, jazz, and R&B. Participants will engage in various exercises to improve vocal strength, clarity, and expressiveness. This course will cover the fundamentals of voice production, breathing techniques, resonance, articulation, and vocal health, focusing on modern singing techniques. By the end of the course, participants will have developed greater confdence in their singing abilities and practical skills for performing contemporary music.
Time/Date: Wednesdays, 6pm-9pm, March 11 – April 15
Location: Haliburton School of Art + Design: 297 College Drive
Link: https://flemingcollege.ca/school/haliburton-school-of-art-and-design/course-calendar

Event: March Break Kids Camp – Wild About Clay
Blurb: Kids ages 5-9. Have fun making your own hand-built, one-of-a-kind masterpieces with clay. Explore a variety of hand building techniques such as pinching, coiling, and slab work as you create a variety of projects. With the wilds as inspiration, find natural objects to press into clay and create a sculpture of your favourite animal. It’s all about the joy and discovery of creating!
Time/Date: March 16 – 20, 9:00am-4:30pm
Location: Haliburton School of Art + Design: 297 College Drive
Link: https://flemingcollege.ca/school/haliburton-school-of-art-and-design/course-calendar

Event: March Break Youth/Teen Camp – Young Comedians
Blurb: Youth/Teen ages 10-16. So you think you are funny? Get ready to dive into improv games, comedy writing, and performance activities that spark creativity and confidence in a fun and supportive environment. Prepare for a week of laughs.

Time/Date: March 16 – 20, 9:00am-4:30pm
Location: Haliburton School of Art + Design: 297 College Drive
Link: https://flemingcollege.ca/school/haliburton-school-of-art-and-design/course-calendar

Event: Art Course – Painting the Winter Landscape
Blurb: Painting the Canadian winter landscape in season gives immediate access to spectacular light, form and colour. Without leaves, deciduous trees provide visible structure and important composition, while iconic evergreens shape the local narrative. Cold weather elements include the chroma of shadows on snow, the chill in the sky, icy cloud formations and the colour palette of the Group of Seven. Historic and contemporary artists such as Tom Thomson, William Blair Bruce, Lawren Harris, Doris McCarthy, Emily Carr and Kim Dorland will be presented and discussed. Haliburton provides the perfect location to develop this unique landscape. Create in real-time or from existing photos. The Sculpture Forest and views from HSAD windows provide a great deal of inspiration.

Time/Date: March 16 – 20, 9:00am-4:30pm
Location: Haliburton School of Art + Design: 297 College Drive
Link: https://flemingcollege.ca/school/haliburton-school-of-art-and-design/course-calendar

Event: Pottery Throwing Camp
Blurb: Intermediate/Advanced course: This is an opportunity to really focus on increasing your throwing skills. If you’ve ‘hit the wall’ in terms of being able to throw – more efficiently, bigger pieces, more consistently, looser pots, tighter pots – you will be encouraged and challenged to learn new throwing techniques, increase throwing skills, and practice, practice, practice. Throwing is a physical skill. It requires proper technique, good tools, and proper care of your body. Through a series of demonstrations, specific exercises, class discussions, inspirational videos, and lots of wheel time, you will elevate throwing skill, as well as develop a personal practice of pot-making. A pug-mill will be available to make reclaiming clay as easy as possible. While one bisque fire may be done to ease transport of trophy pots, it is not the intent of this course to cover glazing and firing. Also included is a smoke firing and a primitive firing in a downdraft barrel kiln. Please bring 2 dry, unfired, narrow-mouthed pots. A limber sense of humour and a willingness to cut pots in half will make the course much more enjoyable.

Time/Date: March 23-27, 9:00am-4:30pm
Location: Haliburton School of Art + Design: 297 College Drive
Link: https://flemingcollege.ca/school/haliburton-school-of-art-and-design/course-calendar

Event: Art Course – Brushworks: A Weekly Painting Series
Blurb: Discover the joy of oil painting in this beginner workshop where no experience is needed. Bring your curiosity as you demystify this historic medium by exploring how oil paint behaves, how to handle it confidently, and key essentials like fat over lean, safe clean-up, and proper storage. Working from a still-life setup, you will learn the foundations of value, color mixing, composition, and expressive brushwork with oil Paint. By the end, you will feel comfortable with the materials, inspired by the process, and ready to keep painting.

Time/Date: Wednesdays, March 25 – April 29, 6pm – 9pm
Location: Haliburton School of Art + Design: 297 College Drive
Link: https://flemingcollege.ca/school/haliburton-school-of-art-and-design/course-calendar

Event: Ceramics Course – Soft Slap Cup Workshop
Blurb: This workshop is a fun introduction to working with soft slabs of clay to create a one-of-a-kind drinking vessel. Demonstrations will include hand-built construction techniques, impressed patterning, and a variety of surface possibilities. This workshop is open to all skill levels and offers a variety of cup forms to explore. All work will be fired, glazed with a clear glaze and ready for pick up within 3 weeks of the workshop. Open to all levels.

Time/Date: Saturday March 28, 9:00am – 5:00pm
Location: Haliburton School of Art + Design: 297 College Drive
Link: https://flemingcollege.ca/school/haliburton-school-of-art-and-design/course-calendar

Event: March Break Youth/Teen Camp ½ Day – Photoshop Warhol Portrait
Blurb: Youth/Teen ages 10-16. Create your own Andy Warhol style portrait as you learn the basics of photoshop. Discover how to use effects, layers, colour modes, and blending options to make artwork in an iconic portrait style that you will print off and take home.
Time/Date: March 17 – 20, 9:00am-12:00pm
Location: Haliburton School of Art + Design: 297 College Drive
Link: https://flemingcollege.ca/school/haliburton-school-of-art-and-design/course-calendar

Event: March Break Youth/Teen Camp ½ Day – Intaglio Printing
Blurb: Youth/Teen ages 10-16. Explore a modern take on a traditional printing technique as you engrave and etch into a plexiglass plate. Learn a variety of print making shading techniques and use a printing press to transfer your favourite artwork into multiple prints.
Time/Date: March 18 – 20, 9:00am-12:00pm
Location: Haliburton School of Art + Design: 297 College Drive
Link: https://flemingcollege.ca/school/haliburton-school-of-art-and-design/course-calendar

Event: March Break Youth/Teen Camp ½ Day – Virtual Reality Sculpting
Blurb: Youth/Teen ages 10-16. Explore the world of sculpting in virtual reality. Using the Meta Quest 3 VR headset, experience first person sculpting and building in a digital environment by hand. Finished sculptures and models can optionally be 3D printed and picked up at a later date.
Time/Date: March 19 – 20, 9:00am-12:00pm
Location: Haliburton School of Art + Design: 297 College Drive
Link: https://flemingcollege.ca/school/haliburton-school-of-art-and-design/course-calendar

Rails End Gallery’s annual members exhibition, is called Arts and Science. This group show brings together new work by over 50 Gallery members who approach art-making through curiosity, experimentation, observation, and thoughtful process.
Rather than illustrating science directly, “Arts & Science” looks at how artists and scientists often work in similar ways: asking questions, testing ideas, paying close attention, and learning through making. Visitors will find work that feels investigative, playful, precise, intuitive, and sometimes unexpected. Together, the exhibition offers a snapshot of how artists in this region are thinking about the world — how ideas take shape, how materials behave, and how knowledge can be built through creative practice.
Arts and Science continues Rails End Gallery’s long-standing tradition of presenting exhibitions that highlight local talent while inviting broader reflection and conversation.
The exhibition is open during regular gallery hours at Rails End Gallery in Haliburton

Admission: Free | Donations welcome

The Accidental Canadian

Who: Dr. James Raffan

Tickets: $15/person

This year, 2025, marks the 50^th year in a row that writer and explorer James Raffan will have spent at least part of the year travelling, researching and learning in the Arctic.To celebrate this career milestone, James has written a one-man musical show he’s calling The Accidental Canadian, referring to the fact that his British parents flipped a coin after WWII to decide whether to emigrate to South Africa or Canada.That coin toss made James and his three sisters “accidental Canadians” and, since he was old enough to venture out on his own, James has been travelling to the most remote corners of the Arctic by every conceivable means—canoe, dogsled, icebreaker, floatplane, snowmobile and on foot—returning with stories that have found their way into books, films, radio documentaries, magazine articles, and countless presentations including his popular Storyfest series that, since 2010, has raised tens of thousands of dollars for community development through the Seeley’s Bay and Area Residents Association.

With overtones of the growing Elbows Up initiative, The Accidental Canadian is a light-hearted yet thought-provoking show for all ages with stories, images and songs animated with James’ trademark mix of humour and erudition.Adding to his usual mix of sounds and images, this presentation will feature several stories written into original songs that will be sprinkled throughout the show and performed live. .As with all of JR’s presentations, this show will take you to places you’ll likely never see and introduce audiences to people and voices they would likely never hear—all part of the incredible country that The Accidental Canadian has discovered in half a century of rambling and writing in the Great White North. James will charm you, inform you, make you laugh and cry, and perhaps help you get a new appreciation of Canada through his reflections on a lifetime of Arctic experience.

Dr. James Raffan is a cultural geographer and writer who has produced more than twenty books, including bestsellers like Fire in the Bones, Circling the Midnight Sun, Deep Waters, Bark, Skin & Cedar, Emperor of the North and Ice Walker. He has created documentaries on a variety of northern subjects and has written for film, radio and media outlets including National Geographic, Canadian Geographic, Up Here, The Walrus, The Globe and Mail as well as for CBC and The Discovery Channel. This work has been recognized with nominations and awards including the Queen’s Golden and Diamond Jubilee medals and Canada’s Meritorious Service Medal for his foundational work in bringing the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough, Ontario onto the national stage. James and his wife, Gail Simmons, live in the Rideau Lakes District of Eastern Ontario where they raised two daughters and continue to be active in as community volunteers.

Trailer    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMUTCdsXD5A

A life-affirming story about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz.

From childhood to adulthood, Charles “Chuck” Krantz experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us.  Starring  Tom Hiddleson, Mark Hamill and Mia Sara.

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https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/those-other-movies-the-life-of-chuck

7:15

https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/those-other-movies-the-life-of-chuck-715pm