Returning is a joint collaborative exhibition at the Agnes Jamieson Gallery which deals with mortality. The exhibition speaks to what many people are thinking of today - death. A global pandemic and mass extinction from…
Cultural Centre celebration invites trick-or-treaters to get into…
By Sue Tiffin While the Minden Hills Halloween event has always been a popular family outing, for the second year in a row the celebration will be held outdoors during the day at the Minden…
Razzamataz at a crossroads: help needed for the…
By Sue Tiffin For 35 years now, a few times throughout the year, a crowd of kids has entered through the doors of venues throughout the county prepared to form the audience taking in a…
Rich Hevesi carves wood into art
By Sue Tiffin Seven years ago, Rich Hevesi decided to get away from his desk job as a web developer and instead, picked up a chainsaw. Now, the full-time chainsaw carver and founder of Breakthru…
Hike Haliburton Festival was hike down memory lane
By Fred Groves With a distance of about 600 meters, the ‘River Runs Through It’, hike of this year’s Hike Haliburton Festival may have been one of the shortest, but it did not disappoint when…
Reflecting on what was and what will be
Cody Hodgson humbled by Hall of Fame induction By Grace OborneFormer NHL centreman, Cody Hodgson, still has a profound passion for the sport of hockey. Though he retired from the game early in his career,…
Tentrees returns to Minden in August
By Grace Oborne Gordie Tentrees is set out to perform at the Dominion Hotel, in Minden, on August 5.Tentrees has been a musician for about 15 years. He grew up in a family of writers…
Cultural centre waits for green light to reopen
By Grace Oborne Although the provincial Stage 3 reopening plan was official as of July 16, the Minden Hills Cultural Centre is still awaiting council approval to reopen. The staff at the cultural centre are…
Paths of creativity forged in Barnum Creek logo…
By Darren Lum Leaving an impression on the world is what many artists look to achieve.When Colleen Petric, a Grade 10 Haliburton Highlands Secondary School student from the Carnarvon area, was chosen by her teacher…
Meet Your Neighbours: Larry O’Connor connects with his…
By Sue Tiffin After becoming introduced to Indigenous beadwork, the first piece that Larry O'Connor beaded himself was a poppy, which he gave to his next door neighbour, a Legion member. “They say you should…
Band reflecting on latest album, eyeing next project
By Darren Lum Like the rugged terrain of the Highlands, the album The Mess We Made is a raw expression of local experimental punk band, The Bones of Jim Jones.Drawing on a period of life…
Wildcats will embrace Earth Day through songwriting workshop
By Darren Lum Archie Stouffer Elementary School students are being gifted an opportunity by local environment group Environment Haliburton (EH) to have their environmental consciousness raised with an artistic experience this coming Earth Day on…
Cultural centre reopens with quilt exhibit
By Laurie Carmount Presently exhibiting at the Agnes Jamieson Gallery, in Minden, is Colour with a U Too. This is a touring, national exhibition from the Studio Art Quilt Associates. A nonprofit organization, SAQA’s mission…
Operatic artists form Racial Equity Advisory Council
By Sue Tiffin, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter As the pandemic progressed, so too did more public discussion of systemic racism alongside a rise in xenophobia, in which Asian people faced verbal and physical attacks and…
AH pens letter of support for arts centre…
By Chad Ingram The Township of Algonquin Highlands is supporting a grant application by the Haliburton Highlands Arts Centre Foundation for money for a feasibility study for a would-be state-of-the-art performing arts centre in the…
New Nick Russell album to be released next…
By Chad Ingram Virtuosic Haliburton Highlands guitarist Nick Russell is dropping a new album March 1.Entitled ARCHTOP, the album takes its name from the 1949 Gibson L-7 guitar Russell used throughout its recording. Archtop guitars…
Lineup of storytellers revealed for upcoming YouTube event
By Staff A journalist, a director, an instructor, and multiple authors will be presenting their travel videos for the upcoming Six-Minute Escape event organized by the Arts Council Haliburton Highlands and the Haliburton Reads and…
Potter combines carving and raku
By Chad Ingram Renée Woltz says the beautiful natural environment and thriving arts community of the Haliburton Highlands feed her creative spirit.Woltz will be displaying and selling her unique pottery at the studio of painter…
Highlands Cinemas misses first summer in 40 years
By Sue Tiffin Highlands Cinemas in Kinmount will remain closed this season citing multiple factors in not being able to open for the 2020 season. “Well it was a long winter now it looks like…
Travel back in time with The Great Historic…
By Darren Lum Connect with history have fun and win prizes with Minden Hills Cultural Centre and Heritage Village’s Great Historic Bake Off. The bake off includes a weekly video baking lesson set in the…
Barkhouse named Indigenous Arts Award laureate
By Jenn Watt For the past 30 years artist Mary Anne Barkhouse has been examining issues crucial to our survival as a species – our stewardship of the land andwater the legacy of colonialism on…