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…

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…

By Laurie Carmount Curator Agnes Jamieson Gallery An odd combination of words for a title I will grant you but consider the following. As you are probably aware during the 1930s the world ground to…

By Darren Lum A couple weeks ago Haliburton Highlands Secondary School student Colleen Petric put one foot toward a post-secondary education in visual artswith an effective photo re-creation of Picasso’s Old Guitarist 1903. The art…

By Zachary Roman The Minden Hills Cultural Centre has been using an artificial intelligenceprogram called DeOldify to restore old photographs with colour thenposting them to Facebook for the community to view from the comfort andsafety…

By Sue Tiffin Days into staying at home to stay safe and help prevent the spread ofcoronavirus Brent Coltman a guitar player and musician who regularlyjammed when community could gather had the idea of sharing…

Need to take a break from COVID-19 stories? Check out some of these features about people in our community. Shannon Quigley has always loved history but she said it wasn’t until her first job as…

By Sue Tiffin Shannon Quigley has always loved history but she said it wasn’t until her first job as a summer student at a Parks Canada national historic site that she realized it could be…

By Jenn Watt When he thinks of the Zion United Church David Chambers is filled with memories of youth and family. The building on East Road in Carnarvon was where he went to Sunday school…

By Sue Tiffin Tiffany Howe won’t be at her exhibition Salvaged Remnants at the Agnes Jamieson Gallery for the duration of the show but withdidactics on the wall showcasing her work the multidisciplinary artisttold the…

By Sue Tiffin The first thing Beth McWatters does after sitting back down in the armchair next to the window in her living room from which she gathers inspiration as life outside happens is show…

Despite an ocean separating the two countries Canadians and Australians have more in common than we think said Adriane Boag learning and access co-ordinator with the National Gallery of Australia. “A group of people who…

“I had no idea what to expect when this five-foot-nothing lady tookthe stage all smiles and twinkling eyes and guitar. Then she openedher mouth and out flew a voice that came straight from the Heavens…”That…

By Darren Lum Nick Sutcliffe said The Kanta Chronicles represents the greatest accomplishment in his life.   The Carnarvon resident’s epic debut novel is set in the fictional world of Bolfodier and spans two generations,…

Carloads of people driving along scenic routes alongside trees bright and full with colourful leaves slowed as they approached Studio Tour signs dotted along the landscape throughout the county last weekend. The signs each marked…

By Chad Ingram An installment at the Minden Hills Cultural Centre explores the aspirations and inner turmoils of participants and asks community members to share pieces of themselves. Hopes Fears and Dreams is a project…

Watching Wayne and Sylvia Rose work is an unforgettable experience. They stand outside their home and studio in the clearing of a peaceful wooded area covering their skin with long-sleeved shirts before opening a kiln…

Have you ever felt compelled to support and aid something in nature? Set up a protection screen create a small roof put it in a box or wrap it with support? For example on the…

By Chad Ingram It is partially the element of the unknown that keeps Joyce Pruysers-Emmink and Peter Emmink of Ivy Cottage Fusion Arts drawn to the art of fused glass. “There’s a lot of aha!”…

By Jenn Watt Journalist Andrew Clark first started looking into the execution of Canadian soldier Harold Pringle following the Second World War because of a story told to him by his own grandfather who had…

Organizers of Minden Pride Week’s Burlesque Ball are promising an inclusive end-of-summer dance party with “fantastic costuming fantastic performance art world class music world class DJing” – and some of Toronto’s top drag queen performers.…