Weekly Highlights in Ontario

Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

World Singing Day at Kawartha

Peterborough's Kawartha Music Company hosts a free, all-ages World Singing Day sing-along at The Village on Argyle on Saturday, October 17, 2026, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Nuisance Bear at Forest City Film

The Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary Nuisance Bear, expanded from an Oscar-shortlisted short, screens October 16, 2026 at Imagine Cinemas in London's Citi Plaza as part of the Forest City Film Festival.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Return to the Abandoned Village

ByronScaryHouse turns Fanshawe Pioneer Village into a haunted walking route through five transformed buildings, October 16-31, 2026, in London, Ontario.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Clan Animals in the Garden

Kyle Joedicke's one-night show at the Royal Botanical Gardens turns the Rock Garden into a Haudenosaunee family tree, with a new mural, a DJ set, and proceeds for the Native Women's Centre of Hamilton.

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Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

A Fire That Asks You to Keep

Each September 30, a sacred fire burns on Agnes Benidickson Field at Queen's University — a public act of remembrance on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and a reminder that the work outlasts the flames.

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Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

The Invisible Made Visible

Four of Queen's University's flagship research institutes are joining forces for a free, hands-on Science Literacy Week workshop that asks high-schoolers and first-year students to get comfortable with the radiation all around us.

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Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

Where the River Meets the Makers

Every Saturday from June through September, a small-town Ontario market brings together artisans, musicians, and a century of railroad history in Gananoque's Town Hall Park.

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Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

The Dark Heart of Everything

One of the world's leading particle physicists, Marcela Carena, brings the unseen architecture of reality to a free public lecture at Queen's University's Isabel Bader Centre.

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Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

A Homecoming for Asian

Simu Liu and Jeremy Lin bring their celebrity basketball game and a full festival of food, music, and talks back to the Toronto suburb where the Asian Roots Collective began three decades ago.

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Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

A Quarter Century on Ice

Ten days of hockey, history and community celebration mark 25 years of the Western Fair Sports Centre.

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Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

A Copper Town's Harvest: 146

Since 1880, the tiny Algoma town that grew up around copper mining has gathered every September to celebrate its fields, its animals, and its stubborn sense of community.

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Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Dark Skies, Deep Time: A Night Under the Stars at Elbow Lake

Queen's University's Elbow Lake Environmental Education Centre closes its summer Family Nights series with a free stargazing evening.

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Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Dark Skies, Deep Time: A Night

Queen's University's Elbow Lake Environmental Education Centre closes its summer Family Nights series with a free stargazing evening.

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Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

The Drum Calls Home: Batchewana's

For two days at the end of August, the Rankin Pow Wow Grounds will come alive with dance, drum, and Anishinabek tradition as Batchewana First Nation opens its annual celebration to the world.

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