Artsweek 2023
May 5 to 14
ARTSWEEK 2023 LAUNCH
OPENING CEREMONIES
Friday, May 5 at 6:30 pm
The Electric City Culture Council (EC3) invites you to attend the launch of Artsweek 2023, kicking off 10 days of performance, poetry, and visual arts projects, featuring dozens of events and nearly 100 artists.
Join us at the Commerce Building Courtyard, 2 Bankers Common
(access via the alley next to Watson & Lou, 383 Water Street).
All Events Are Free!
Join us at the epicenter of the First Friday Art Crawl for the official proclamation of Artsweek by Mayor Jeff Leal, remarks from Councillor Alex Bierk, and guest artists Jeremy Pastic, the Unity Singers, Hank Fisher, Justin Million, and Laurin Isiekwena – followed by Jennifer (Opal) Elchuk’s participatory performance Woodland & The Wilds Promenade.
The full roster of Artsweek events during First Friday on May 5 include:
Woodland & The Wilds Promenade
Join Jennifer Elchuk and a magical gaggle of woodland creatures, musicians, and stilt-walkers on a promenade around the downtown, starting in the Commerce Building Courtyard. Don one of the animal masks, fly a banner, and join the parade! Beginning at 7:30 pm.
Take-Out Poetry Cart
Step up to the Poetry Cart and put in your order for a ready-to-go poem written just for you, while you wait. Look for the Cart on the sidewalks outside the Commerce Building. 6:00 pm. – 9:00 pm.
Interactive Musical Animations
Multi-media music and projections from singer-songwriter Benj Rowland in the courtyard behind Black Honey Café, 217 Hunter Street West. Access via the alley next to Karma’s Café. This 20-minute performance repeats at 8:00 pm, 8:45 pm. (Please note that the print program incorrectly lists a show at 9:00 pm.)
3C84
Musician Charlie Glasspool and company perform a concert under the stars of songs inspired by the discovery of a distant black hole (3C84) in an outer galaxy emitting a steady B flat note, albeit 57 octaves below middle C. 9:00 pm. – 10:00 pm. at the Heritage Pavilion on Armour Hill, 300 Hunter Street East. Stargazing to follow.
ARTSWEEK 2023 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Click the program titles below for further information
or see the full page of program descriptions here.
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE
But please consider making a donation
Friday
MAY 5
6:30 – 7:30pm
Commerce Building Courtyard
6:00 – 9:00pm
Sidewalk outside
the Commerce
Building
Woodland & The Wilds Promenade
7:30 – 9:30pm
Commerce Building Courtyard
Interactive Musical Animations
8:00 & 8:45pm
Courtyard behind Black Honey Café
9:00 – 10:00pm
Heritage Pavilion on Armour Hill
Saturday
MAY 6
1:00 – 5:30pm
Gilmour St
Neighbourhood
3:00 – 6:00pm
Jackson Park,
by the Pagoda Bridge, Fairbairn Street Entrance
Sunday
MAY 7
1:00 – 5:30pm
Waterford St.
Neighbourhood
Woodland & The Wilds Promenade
2:00 – 3:00pm
Riverview Park
& Zoo, Main
Entrance
Monday
MAY 8
Click event title above
for artists, times
and locations.
12:30 & 5:30pm
Peterborough
Square Courtyard
Tuesday
MAY 9
Click event title above
for artists, times
and locations.
12:30 & 5:30pm
Peterborough
Square Courtyard
Wednesday
MAY 10
Click event title above
for artists, times
and locations.
12:30 & 5:30pm
Peterborough
Square Courtyard
6:00 – 9:00pm
Peterborough
Public Library
Thursday
MAY 11
Click event title above
for artists, times
and locations.
12:30 & 5:30pm
Peterborough
Square Courtyard
Artsweek Invitational Peterborough Poetry Slam
7:00 – 9:30pm
Peterborough
Square Courtyard
Friday
MAY 12
Click event title above
for artists, times
and locations.
12:30 & 5:30pm
Peterborough
Square Courtyard
11:00am – 2:00pm
Lansdowne Place
8:30 & 9:30pm
The parking
lot behind the
Theatre On King
Saturday
MAY 13
10:00am – 1:00pm
Regional Farmers’
Market, 215
Charlotte St.
Noon Regional
Farmers’ Market,
215 Charlotte St
3:00pm
Millennium Park by the Fountain
Woodland & The Wilds Promenade
2:00 – 3:00pm
Ecology Park
3:30 – 5:30pm
Millennium Park and Silver Bean Café
Sunday
MAY 14
1:00 – 2:00pm
Traill College, Kerr
House Veranda
Artsweek is produced and presented by the Electric City Culture Council (EC3)
EC3 is a not-for-profit arts service organization supporting the development of individual artists and arts organizations in Peterborough and Peterborough County. Our programs provide opportunities for artists to create, produce, and present work, and for audiences to experience and appreciate the arts. We champion the arts, delivering grants, awards, research, strategic leadership and advocacy, professional devolvement, residencies and arts programming.