Arts

Here are the highlights from this year’s local music scene. Listen up!

Jim crafts his pieces from fallen branches and other found wood, including remnants of docks, flooring and window frames.

The producers were stunned. “I told them I’m buying a farm. I didn’t realize at 28 I was just supposed to be having fun.”

Learn about the four historic buildings at the corner of Main and Wellington in Brampton’s old downtown.

Headwaters Arts Festival Show & Sale featuring more than 50 local artists.

The long driveway winds through fields and trees, a small flock of birds – blue jays, cardinals & finches – flies up into the bright afternoon sky.

Once upon a time the public library was like a cathedral, where patrons came and went in reverent silence. Not anymore. Today’s library is action central.

Check out Kim’s work this fall on the North of 89 Studio Tour and at Holiday Treasures, Dufferin Country Museum.

Quarry opposition has produced an explosion of creativity as artists, in groups and individually, have joined ranks in protest, brandishing paintbrushes, cameras and musical instruments.

Julia’s giddy and gorgeous paintings are both gracious and whimsical – the kind of images that make you want to smile, even laugh, with delight.

Frustrated by the disappearance of Mono’s farm community, playwright Dan Needles created Walt Wingfield, a feckless ex-urbanite who champions the spirit of rural life and keeps the audience rolling ruefully in theatre aisles.

“I can’t deny the thrill of knowing that I may be the first person ever to paint this view.”