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The Agnes Etherington Art Centre is ‘transforming’ into a more inclusive space by mobilizing arts, creativity, and museological practice in Canada, giving birth to a vision for a redesign called Agnes Reimagined. One of the most notable — and noticeable — projects recently completed in advance of this full reimagining
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Colour and culture will soon abound in downtown Gananoque. The Gananoque BIA has secured funding to create murals centred around youth, through the Canada Healthy Communities Initiative — an investment from the Government of Canada to transform public spaces in response to COVID-19. According to a release from the Gananoque
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This weekend, a popular event returns to Kingston for the first time since 2019, as the Lviv, Ukraine Folklore Festival takes place Saturday, Jun. 11, 2022, at Regiopolis-Notre Dame Catholic High School. This year’s edition promises many of the experiences festival-goers have come to enjoy over the years, such as
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Editorial note: The following is a submitted overview of the upcoming Before the Summer Fine Art Show, written by the show’s organizers. The views and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of Kingstonist. After two very disappointing cancellations because of COVID-19, the next ‘Before the Summer Fine Art Show’
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*Paid Business Feature* Spring is here, and that means it is nearly time to celebrate those who have supported us through the years: our mothers. Mothers are special – without them, we simply wouldn’t be here. What better way to show Mom you care than with a gift from a
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A new exhibit is coming to Studio22 in downtown Kingston, featuring decapitated heads, protruding eyeballs, dismembered corpses and boxes of teeth. While these are perhaps not the first images the mind conjures up when recalling children’s bedtime stories, the studio shared that it was the evocative writings of Edgar Allen
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Few cities in Canada can boast such a vibrant art scene that it becomes gilded with the nickname ‘Florence of the North,’ but then again, not all cities are Kingston, Ontario – where names like Joanne Gervais, Patricia Van Asperen, Heather Haynes, and Peter Hawke Hill fly off the tongues
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Artist David Dossett of Martello Alley in Kingston had a problem: how to showcase art encased in a 300-pound block of ice without encouraging people to come out and congregate, due to the pandemic. The solution presented itself after he looked at innovative kinds of store displays. “This year, I
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Two Kingston-area sisters—just seven and nine years of age—are proving that one can never be too young to make a difference in the world around them. Not content with the $80 they raised last Halloween as they asked for donations to the Kingston Humane Society (KHS) while trick-or-treating, Rowan Wicke,
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A new book, Healing Through Storytelling, provides a touchstone to recovery and restoration from the intergenerational trauma caused by the residential school system by recording survivors’ stories in words and art. The book, honouring local residential school survivors from the Bay of Quinte and their families, was made possible when
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As COVID-19 pandemic restrictions ease, H’art Centre has launched a new fundraising campaign, Mix It Up, with the goal of expanding its space offering a community art hub for artists with disabilities and those facing barriers. The Mix It Up campaign aims to raise $30,000 by early December 2021, which
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