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See the full Artsweek 2025 Schedule and Program: artsweekpeterborough.ca
The Electric City Culture Council (EC3), and the 2025 Artsweek Team are pleased to announce a stellar line up of 15 signature programs, and over 75 artists in 50 events across the City from September 28 – October 5, 2025, at this year’s Artsweek Festival.
The Launch on September 28th @ 3:00pm in Millennium Park near the Silver Bean features: Samantha Banton, Sahira, Janet McCue, Hank Fisher, Destiny, the Poetry Cart, Elizabeth Jenkins, Victoria Yeh, Caylie Staples, Blues in the Bottle, Josh Morley and more. There will be cake and facepainting and proclamations. The Festival is a colourful and dizzyingly wonderful cornucopia of dance, theatre, poetry, audio and sound art, painting, sculpture, and music of all kinds, featuring woodland flora and fauna, pyrotechnics, dazzling dancers, aerial arts performance, poetry a la carte, front porch concerts, art in the trees, concerts by consorts, storytelling and more – and it’s all FREE!
This year’s Festival brings audiences the best in new work by talented local artists with the theme “Art in Unexpected Places”. So be sure to catch Artsweek events outside the Silver Bean and inside too, in Millennium Park, Peterborough Square, the Downtown Farmers’ Market, on Armour Hill, in Rotary Park, at the Liftlocks, at Trent and more. The jug band Blues in a Bottle is all over town, the Poetry Cart roams the downtown, and Porchapalooza is in the Teacher’s College neighbourhood, Hot Spots (Peterborough Square Courtyard) livens up your lunch-hour and A Broader View (Armour Hill) lights your night.
Artsweek brings new work to new audiences in unexpected places, supports original creation by local artists, and celebrates Peterborough as the extraordinary creative, innovative, city it truly is, one with an arts community that “punches way above its weight”. Artsweek is produced and presented by the Electric Culture Council (EC3) every other year. A legacy project of the City of Peterborough’s Centennial Celebrations in 2005, Artsweek is funded by: the City of Peterborough, Peterborough DBIA, Canadian Heritage, and the Ontario Arts Council. Follow Artsweek on Facebook, Bluesky and Instagram!
All events are FREE. See you there.
See the full Artsweek 2025 Schedule and Program at: artsweekpeterborough.ca
For More Information Contact:
Su Ditta:
Executive Producer:
(705) 749-9101
su.ditta@sympatico.ca
Bill Kimball:
Producer:
(705) 875-7466
billartsweek@gmail.com
For Photos Contact: Alexandra Box:
Program Coordinator
ec3programming@protonmail.com
Making your plans to attend this year’s Artsweek? Stay tuned to our communication channels! For LIVE Artsweek updates, stay tuned to EC3’s Bluesky.
The Electric City Culture Council (EC3)
Founded in 2012, EC3 is an arm’s length, not-for-profit arts service organization supporting the development of individual artists and arts and culture 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. EC3 designs and delivers grant programs, residencies, professional development workshops, research and advocacy initiatives, arts programming and more. Follow EC3 on Facebook, Bluesky, and Instagram.
| For Further Information Contact: Su Ditta Executive Director, EC3 705 749 9101 electriccitycc@gmail.com www.ecthree.org |
TERRITORIAL LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We respectfully acknowledge that the land on which we work and gather is in the traditional territory of the Michi Saagiig Anishnaabe, home to the Williams Treaties First Nations, who have been the stewards and caretakers of these lands and waters for countless generations.
We are grateful to be here, and pledge to listen and learn from their traditional knowledge and ways, and support them in this work, which they continue to this day. EC3 is committed to doing all we can to further efforts at real Truth and Reconciliation, which includes providing support to the artistic work of Indigenous artists, examining the ways we do this, and providing a space and a platform for their voices to be heard and respected.