- Craig Clark
- 23 Jul 2020
Playhouse Cinema reopens Friday with a stacked list of screenings
“Goonies never say die!” Hamilton’s independent movie theatre Playhouse Cinema will reopen on Friday with the first screening for over four months being the re-release of the iconic 80s film...
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- Michael Kras
- 21 Jul 2020
Hamilton Fringe Festival’s reimagined ‘What the Fest’ kicks off today
Typically, around this time each year, multiple venues in Hamilton’s downtown core and beyond are taken over by an 11-day extravaganza of live theatre, sketch comedy, music, magic, dance, and more. ...
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- Craig Clark
- 17 Jul 2020
Hamilton area receives funding to support tourism sector during COVID-19
The Hamilton region will receive more than $700,000 from the Ontario government in order to bolster tourism in the area amid COVID-19. About $350,000 of the funding will go toward the regional tourism...
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- Michael Kras
- 26 Jun 2020
Hamilton Fringe Festival goes digital amid COVID-19
Proving that artists are some of the most resilient and adaptive people out there, one of Hamilton’s biggest arts festivals has completely reinvented itself to fit in with the current realities of t...
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- Michael Kras
- 30 May 2020
York Boulevard Parkade is being turned into a temporary open-air music venue
In exciting news for music lovers and concert-goers, the City of Hamilton has approved an initiative that will see the top level of the York Boulevard Parkade – across from the Hamilton Farmers’ M...
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- Michael Kras
- 10 Apr 2020
Hamilton Arts Council has launched an artist relief fund and live performance series
With concert venues, rehearsal halls, and theatre spaces shuttered amid COVID-19 and more questions than answers regarding when audiences will be permitted – or willing – to return to live perform...
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- Michael Kras
- 07 Apr 2020
The Hamilton Fringe Festival has been cancelled amid COVID-19
In a move that’s as sad as it is unsurprising, one of Hamilton’s largest annual arts festivals has just announced that it will be cancelling all of this year’s public events and activities amid ...
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- Craig Clark
- 31 Mar 2020
Burlington’s Sound of Music Festival and Live on the Lake are both cancelled
The famous Burlington music festival Sound of Music and its kick-off event Live on the Lake have both been cancelled due to the current risks and spread of the coronavirus. It was announced yesterday ...
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- Rose Hopkins
- 21 Mar 2020
Local artists livestreaming performances today amid Covid-19 outbreak
Hamilton artists are coming together for Hamilton Shows Up, a livestream event where audiences will be able to watch the performances of twenty local musicians, playwrights, actors, dub poets, and dan...
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- Michael Kras
- 18 Jan 2020
This acclaimed musical is coming to Hamilton
The arts and culture scene in Hamilton is coming in hot for 2020, as a local company is preparing to premiere an internationally-acclaimed musical at The Staircase Theatre. The Hamilton Theatre Projec...
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