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This September the Intercultural Arts Festival will return to the limestone city, and the City of Kingston is looking for local performers, restaurants, and volunteers to help make this event a success. The Intercultural Arts Festival, previously run by the Kingston Immigration Partnership (known then as the Multicultural Arts Festival),
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On Jun. 12, 2022, The Shoe Project will visit Kingston with a performance by immigrant women called ‘Our Shoes, Our Lives.’ The event will take place at the Tett Centre at 2:00 p.m., followed by a Q&A session with the performers. Shoes accompany us on all our journeys. They say
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The Watershed Festival is presented by the DAN School of Drama and Music at Queen’s University, in partnership with the City of Kingston, with support from the DAN Foundation. The 2022 Festival will take place in Katarokwi/Kingston from Tuesday, May 24 to Sunday, May 29, at the Isabel Bader Centre
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The Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston is partnering with H’art Centre to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (Apr. 15, 1972) between Canada and the US. According to a release from the museum, this partnership is an opportunity for the museum to
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Every Thursday evening, Kingston youth and adults can find Indigenous programming at both One Roof Youth Services Hub and Home Base Housing Warming Centre. For those looking to cleanse with a smudge, listen and share in a safe circle, or learn a new craft, these two organizations hold space for
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Black History Month is a time to recognize Black existence and strength of the past — and it is also a time to find inspiration not just in the past but from today’s Black voices and change-makers, too. Kingston Frontenac Public Library (KFPL) and the Limestone District School Board (LDSB)
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Blue Canoe’s Juvenis Festival is back for 2022 and is currently recruiting those ages 13 to 30 to participate in youth-led projects by young local artists. The Juvenis Festival is an 11-day long spring festival that gives young people the opportunity to act, sing, dance, perform and showcase their artistic
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Kingston Frontenac Public Library (KFPL), in partnership with Compassionate Communities Kingston, is offering online seminars to introduce Kingston and area residents to Advance Care Planning. “Have you thought about what will be most important to you if you become seriously ill or injured, or near the end of life? Who
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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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A week-long virtual symposium is organized from August 16 to 22 by The Witch Institute, a one-time symposium hosted by the Department of Film and Media at Queen’s University in Katarokwi/Kingston. The Witch Institute is a collaborative meeting space for people who want to share diverse understandings of witches and
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The Kingston Frontenac Public Library (KFPL), along with Minotaur Games and Gift and Kingston Nexus are excited to announce the return of King Con in a virtual format for 2021. King Con 2021, Kingston’s preeminent festival of sci-fi, fantasy, comics, gaming, cosplay, and other pop culture fandoms, is happening June
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