Arts and Culture

Community Recognition: Kraft honoured as a cultural leader

January 3, 2019   ·   0 Comments

If you have both a Grammy and Juno Award on your mantle, your contributions to music are hard to deny – but multi-award winning musician Bonnie Kraft received a hometown honour this past year, the Arts & Culture Award, part of the Town of Aurora’s Community Recognition Awards program

The Genie’s Out of the Bottle: Journalist, author talks what it means to be “Brown” in Canada and impact of social media

The worst thing you can do is check your Twitter feed before turning off the lights at night, according to award-winning journalist Kamal Al-Solaylee.

Local playwright challenges perceptions of “invisible disability” with comedy

Frey hopes to spark important conversation at the 2019 Toronto Fringe Festival

Story of struggle and home selected for One Book One Aurora 2019

The world will soon know more about Lilly when actress Dakota Fanning brings her to life on the big screen in the upcoming adaptation of Sweetness in the Belly, but this year Aurorans will have...

Acclaimed artist Helen Lucas finds beauty in nature

Growing up in Saskatoon in the 1930s and 40s, first generation Canadian Helen Lucas grew up in very strict Greek family. Her friends in school were a little bit too fast for her conservative parents’ liking – after all, they wore lipstick, and some of them even dated! By her own admission, Ms. Lucas grew up as a “loner” who often took solace outdoors, helping her mother tend the beautiful garden at The Ritz, the unlikely name of a 25-room hotel in the Saskatchewan city her father happened to win in an all-night poker game.

Youth display innovative ideas for accessibility, literacy and the environment at Fair

By Brock Weir Despite being in just Grade 7, Thomas Bianco is fast growing a reputation for out-of-the-box thinking. The Pickering College student once again ...

Polaris-nominated Georgian Bay brings “Songs for a Winter’s Night” to Aurora

Evocative original music will blend with traditional favourites of the season next Thursday at the Aurora Cultural Centre as the Polaris Prize-nominated duo Georgian Bay takes the stage with “Songs for a Winter’s Night.”

Festive Season continues with lighting of Aurora’s official Christmas Tree

Hundreds of people – the young and the young-at-heart – bundled up Friday night for the twelfth annual Aurora Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony.

Businesses “Paint the Town Red” for Rogers Hometown Hockey

Shane Goudreau has experienced an iconic Canadian moment. The Kingston-based artist was tasked with ...

“Man in Chair” hits close to home for Drowsy Chaperone director

By Brock Weir When the curtain rises on the Drowsy Chaperone, the first thing you see is a man sitting in a simple chair. He ...

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