Culture Days Open-Air Discovery
Join us on the lawn during the opening weekend of Culture Days and get hands-on with objects from our teaching collection. Weather dependent.
Join us on the lawn during the opening weekend of Culture Days and get hands-on with objects from our teaching collection. Weather dependent.
Featuring 30 photographers from across Canada, Home & Heritage explores the many meanings of home. Through powerful images the exhibition reflects diverse cultural perspectives shaped by food, tradition, community, family and friends, and the spaces we inhabit. Together these stories reveal how deeply personal — yet universally shared — the idea of home can be.…
Join us for the Opening Night Soiree of the Show and Sale on Sep 16, an all-inclusive ticketed evening celebrating art, artists and creativity in the Headwaters Arts Gallery/Alton Mill Galleries. The exhibit showcases 75 original works of art by 65+ ultra-talented Ontario artists in a variety of subject matter and mediums. The Show and…
Alton Mill Dam (2025) is a large-scale outdoor installation of a direct-positive pinhole photograph by artist Risa Horowitz. Made with a handmade camera at Alton Mill Arts Centre, the image centres on the concrete dam where Shaw’s Creek was engineered to drive what became the longest-running water-powered mill on the Upper Credit River system. The…
Local Girl Guides are invited to submit artwork exploring the theme "What Guiding Means to Me." Selected works will be exhibited alongside historic Girl Guide artifacts and photos from the MoD's collection. Submission deadline: Oct 1
This is a long-standing community tradition bringing together families from across the region to celebrate agriculture, local food, entertainment and rural heritage through exhibits, livestock and family-friendly attractions. It features Homecraft competitions, a midway, marketplace and loads of food choices, along with a Friday night Taylor Swift tribute concert, Saturday Demolition Derby and Power Wheels…
Tour the sugarbush, taste our award-winning syrups, try maple taffy over ice, visit the Maple Syrup Museum of Ontario, and enjoy our signature waffle and ice cream sandwich while learning about the history of maple syrup in Canada. What to Expect: Your Maple Sugarbush Tour & Tasting is a relaxed, guided 90-minute experience. Maple Syrup…
Tokens of Love is an art show that reclaims the flower as a serious and personal subject. Historically dismissed as feminine and decorative, floral painting was one of the few genres women were "allowed" to pursue. In this series each bloom is based on real flowers gifted to the artist by loved ones, portraits of…
Discover the art of Kolam with Tam Fam Lit Jam. Learn its cultural significance, create designs together and share stories in a welcoming, intergenerational, queer-positive space celebrating Tamil traditions and…