Season: 2017-2018
Between The Water and The Sky
PSO String Quartet, Unity Vocal Ensemble
& Jade Willoughby
June 29, 2017, 12:00 pm, The Venue: 286 George St N, Peterborough
June 29, 2017, 3:00 pm, Venture North: 270 George St N, Peterborough
June 29, 2017, 5:00 pm, Venture North: 270 George St N, Peterborough
Between the Water and the Sky is a live performance featuring the Peterborough Symphony Orchestra String Quartet, Unity Indigenous vocal ensemble and performer Jade Willoughby, and is presented by t...
Alternating Currents
Market Hall Performing Arts Centre: 140 Charlotte St, Peterborough
August 12, 2017, 2:00 pm
Alternating Currents invites audiences to view short excerpts of performance works in the early stages of development. The Alternating Currents program gives Peterborough-area artists an opportunity to workshop new works of theatre and performance with the aid of a dramatur...
Hong Kong Exile
Market Hall Performing Arts Centre: 140 Charlotte St, Peterborough
September 21, 2017, 12:00 am
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Attention: NINEEIGHT and Room 2048 will feature rapidly flashing lights, performance fog/haze, and feature loud audio.
Through a haze of high tech multimedia projection, light, sound and dance, Va...
Brian Solomon
Nogojiwanong Rite of Spring
Millennium Park, enter from Charlotte Street
October 19, 2017, 6:00 pm
October 20, 2017, 6:00 pm
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Nogojiwanong Rite of Spring is a site-specific dance performance created by Brian Solomon and members of the community. The performance is a re-envisioning of the 1913 early modern ballet, Rite of Spring, via a contemporary Anishin...
Precarious Festival
Presented by Fleshy Thud in Partnership with Public Energy
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Precarious workers are those who fill permanent job needs but are denied permanent employee rights. Why is so much creative labour precarious? What are the consequences of increasing precariousness for work of all kinds across the board? Precarious: Peterborough ArtsWORK Festival approaches the...
Wearable Art Challenge Cabaret
Max’s Cabaret presents the Runway Challenge Wearable Art Musical Revue
FEATURING THE MUSIC OF CHICK ‘N POT PI
LICENCED UNDER AGCO
The Mount Community Centre: 1545 Monaghan Rd, Peterborough
November 4, 2017, 8:00 pm
It’s Max’s Cabaret, it’s The Runway Challenge, it’s a super-fun evening bringing together some of Peterborough’s finest musical, visual and performing artists together in a fundraiser for Public Energy’s Emergency #22, Public Energy’s festival of new dance &a...
Writing as Resistance: a public talk by Chris Hedges
Market Hall Performing Arts Centre: 140 Charlotte St, Peterborough
November 20, 2017, 12:30 am
The outspoken American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges will speak on his life and work as a writer, engaging head on with some of the most contentious issues of our time. The talk is held in conjunction with Precarious: Peterborough ArtsWORK Festival. Chris will engage in a Q&am...
Mouthpiece
Market Hall Performing Arts Centre: 140 Charlotte St, Peterborough
February 23, 2018, 1:00 am
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Media Release, February 13, 2018: Veteran director Patricia Rozema directing film adaptation of the hit Canadian play Mouthpiece (read in a new tab)
Media Release, January 15, 2018: Women speak out and speak up i...
Phantom, stills & vibrations by Lara Kramer
Exhibition, Public Artist Talk & Workshop
Presented by Trent University & Artspace
Fuelled by Public Energy
March 9, 2018
40th Annual Ashley Fellow Lara Kramer (Oji-Cree), artistic director of Lara Kramer Danse will discuss her new work Phantom, stills & vibrations, that will be on exhibit at Artspace March 3-9, 2018. In the workshop component, L...
Jeneen Frei Njootli
I can’t make you those mitts because there is a hole in my heart and my hands hurt
Presented by Artspace
Fuelled by Public Energy
Photograph by Emmanuel Etti for Discorder Magazine
March 15, 2018, 1:00 am, Artspace: 378 Aylmer St N, Peterborough
PLEASE NOTE:
Performance Date has been changed to Thursday March 15, 8pm.
Please join Artspace on Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 8pm for a special performance by Jeneen Frei Njootli. Frei Njootli’s performance will mark the opening of the artist’s solo work I can’t make you those ...
Emergency Performance Festival #22
Program A at The Theatre on King
March 22 at 8pm, March 23 at 9:30pm, March 24 at 2pm and 6:30pm.
With works by Hermione Rivison, Sarah Rudnicki, Robyn Smith & Bennett Bedoukian, Anne White.
Program B at The Market Hall Performing Arts Centre
March 23 at 6:30pm, March 24 at 8pm.
With works by Opal (Jen) Elchuk & Kayla Stanistreet, Mandy Livings, Becca Partington & Wes Ryan, Thomas Vaccaro & Ethan Hinsehlwood.
Program C at The Market Hall Performing Arts Centre
March 23 at 8pm, March 24 at 6:30pm.
With works by Nicole Malbeuf & Nicole Kelly, Leslie Menagh, Old Men Dancing, Charlie Petch, Kate Story. Please note that Program C contains mature content
March 22, 2018
March 23, 2018
March 24, 2018
From experimental theatre to contemporary dance, aerial circus arts and belly dance, the Emergency festival – now in its 22nd year – has something for everyone! Feed your adventurous side by checking out one or more of this year’s programs, featuring both newcomers and veter...
Snowangels & The Lion’s Roar
By Deepti Gupta
Arzoo Dance Theatre (Ottawa)
Market Hall Performing Arts Centre: 140 Charlotte St, Peterborough
April 6, 2018, 8:00 pm
April 7, 2018, 8:00 pm
Public Energy is pleased to welcome Deepti Gupta back to Peterborough for the premiere of her newest work, Snowangels; the longstanding relationship between Gupta and Public Energy has included a number of new works, most notably her iconoclastic work, Rubies, in 2003.
Snowangels explores ...