Season: 2026-2027
Public Energy Supporter Pass
New this season: Public Energy Supporter Passes
$120 + fees – 4 Shows
$90 + fees – 3 Shows
Grab a Public Energy Supporter Pass! Experience our 2026-27 season to the fullest and support live performance in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough at the same time.
Passes will be available beginning on Monday September 14th at this link
What you’ll get:
- First choice of reserved seating for Market Hall Performances
- Reserved parking for our performance of Braids and Heritage at the Mount (parking for this event is limited)
- A refreshment ticket for our performance of Bad Poetry at the Theatre on King
There are 4 exciting performances included in this program. Attend all 4 shows or, if there’s one you can’t make, choose 3:
Dance + Music
Blood, Water, Earth
Kaha:wi Dance Theatre (Tkaronto/Toronto & Six Nations)
Oct 14/2026, 7:30pm
Market Hall Performing Arts Centre
With musical guest opener Missy Knott
Blood, Water, Earth is a stunning elemental multi-medi...
Blood, Water, Earth
Santee Tekaronhiáhkhwa Smith
Kaha:wi Dance Theatre
Featuring a performance by musical guest artist Missy Knott
An embodied incantation Blood, Water, Earth traverses sacred alignment from cosmos to womb to earth, in a symbolic ritual renewal. Weaving performance, video and music, the performance channels the ancestral, elemental and the dream world. Highly cinematic, the imagery and energies span the wide range of what is woman: warrior, leader, mother, and huntress.
Venue: The Market Hall Performing Arts Centre (140 Charlotte St, Peterborough) Market Hall venue guide available here
Date: October 14, 2026 at 7:30 pm
Tickets: Available soon through the Market Hall Box Office. Purchase a Public Energy Supporter Pass to get first choice seat selection for this performance
Pricing*: $20-$50 + Fees
*Sliding scale tickets make our shows affordable for all.
Run time: Approximately 90 minutes including intermission.
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible seating available at the ground level, accessible washroom available. Please reach out to eva@publicenergy.ca with accessibility questions, requests, or to save a seat that’s accessible to you.
Market Hall Performing Arts Centre: 140 Charlotte St, Peterborough
Rough Cuts #3
Various Artists
A super low tech opportunity for local artists to showcase works in progress of any genre.
Venue: The Theatre on King
Date: October 24th at 7:30pm
Tickets: Available soon
Pricing*: $15-35 + Fees
*Sliding scale tickets make our shows affordable for all.
Run time: Approximately 75 minutes
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible seating available at the ground level, accessible washroom available. Please reach out to eva@publicenergy.ca with accessibility questions, requests, or to save a seat that’s accessible to you.
The Theatre on King: 171 King St, Peterborough
Bad Poetry
Sara Porter
DANCE / THEATRE
“Bad Poetry: Live in Peterborough!” is an upbeat, lo-tech ever-shifting performance with solo, duet and cabaret versions. With wordplay, rhetoric, clown, counting, dance & song, the work offers logistics of poetic feet, asserts that dance is not a language, and demonstrates how people can turn into poems.
Inspired by Tristanne Connolly’s article “Loving Bad Poetry”, the work is an ode to the absurdity of creative process and the tender steps toward self acceptance.
Venue: The Theatre on King
Date: October 30th at 7:30pm & October 31st at 4pm
Tickets: Available soon. Purchase a Public Energy Supporter Pass to reserve your tickets and get a complimentary refreshment at the show
Pricing*: $20-$50 + Fees
*Sliding scale tickets make our shows affordable for all.
Run time: Approximately 75 minutes
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible seating available at the ground level, accessible washroom available. Please reach out to eva@publicenergy.ca with accessibility questions, requests, or to save a seat that’s accessible to you.
The Theatre on King: 171 King St, Peterborough
An absurdist choreo-literary-logistics exercise in poetic form, Bad Poetry is part lecture-demo, part dance performance, part queer clown turn, and a testament to how loving your own bad poetry can lead to self-acceptance. Sara Porter is an adventurous writer, and educator, & captivating pe...
Bodies Under Siege: New works by Allison Cummings & Kate Story
Kate Story and Allison Cummings with Christy Stoeten
DANCE / THEATRE
A double bill of dynamic dance and storytelling inspired by shared experiences with cancer diagnoses
Venue: The Market Hall Performing Arts Centre (140 Charlotte St, Peterborough) Market Hall venue guide available here
Date: November 19, 2026 at 7:30 pm
Tickets: Available soon through the Market Hall Box Office. Purchase a Public Energy Supporter Pass to get first choice seat selection for this performance
Pricing*: $20-$50 + Fees
*Sliding scale tickets make our shows affordable for all.
Run time: Approximately 70 minutes
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible seating available at the ground level, accessible washroom available. Please reach out to eva@publicenergy.ca with accessibility questions, requests, or to save a seat that’s accessible to you.
Market Hall Performing Arts Centre: 140 Charlotte St, Peterborough
This double bill features two vastly different yet highly complementary new works dealing with reactions to cancer diagnoses. Renowned local multi-disciplinary artist and writer Kate Story’s humorous, erudite and poignant work Hysterical uses movement and storytelling to get to heart of their e...
Holy Guacamole
Brendan McLeod
MUSIC / POETRY
Venue: The Peterborough Public Library (Aylmer St. Branch) and in schools in partnership with KPRDSB
Public Showing: February 5th, 2025 @ 6:00 PM
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible seating available, accessible washroom available. Please reach out to eva@publicenergy.ca with accessibility questions, requests, or to save a seat that’s accessible to you.
“Brendan was an incredibly engaging and spirited performer with our students! They were simply hooked! Not only was his visit a huge boost in extending students’ background knowledge of key literacy concepts, but also Brendan was an inspiration for our students to write and perfo...
Braids and Heritage
Stacey Désilier and Jossua Satinée
with live accompaniment by Steven Doman
DANCE
Venue: The Austin Doran Hall at The Mount
Date: February 19th, 2027 @ 7:30 PM
Tickets: Available soon. Purchase a Public Energy Supporter Pass to reserve your tickets and get guaranteed onsite parking
Pricing*: $20-$50 + Fees
Suggested Price: $30 + Fees
*Sliding scale tickets make our general admission shows affordable for all.
Run time: Approximately 70 minutes including intermission.
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible seating available, parking will be prioritized for both supporter pass holders and those with accessibility needs. Please reach out to eva@publicenergy.ca with accessibility questions, requests, or to save a parking spot.
The Theatre on King: 171 King St, Peterborough
With explorations of iconic cowboy imagery inhabited by two magnificent Black performers, Braids & Heritage is full of unexpected juxtapositions of cultural themes that, in combination, act forcefully as jubilant celebration of diversity and creativity. Stacey Désilier and Jossua Satinée de...
Rough Cuts #4
Various Artists
A super low tech opportunity for local artists to showcase works in progress of any genre.
Venue: The Theatre on King
Date: May 1st, 2027 at 7:30pm
Tickets: Available soon
Pricing*: $15-35 + Fees
*Sliding scale tickets make our shows affordable for all.
Run time: Approximately 75 minutes
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible seating available at the ground level, accessible washroom available. Please reach out to eva@publicenergy.ca with accessibility questions, requests, or to save a seat that’s accessible to you.
The Theatre on King: 171 King St, Peterborough