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Valerie Scarisbrick
22 Jun 2023

Soaring Spirit Powwow Festival is happening in Hamilton soon

A very important and exciting event is returning to Hamilton this month: the traditional Soaring Spirit Powwow Festival! On June 24th and 25th, the festival will be held in Battlefield Park from 11:30...

Michael Kras
04 May 2023

Hamilton’s Lucky Lion Night Market celebrates the best in Asian cuisine and culture

For three days in May and four in August, a massive celebration of the best in Asian cuisine and culture will be taking over Hamilton’s Bayfront Park. This unmissable event is called the Lucky...

Michael Kras
13 Jan 2022

Hamilton Artists Inc seeks submissions for public art display

One of the most prominent public art showcases in Hamilton has to be the wall at Cannon Street and James North attached to indie art gallery Hamilton Artists Inc. The extended landscape billboard has ...

Craig Clark
03 Mar 2021

Canada and Ontario to invest in culture and recreation infrastructure in Hamilton

It was announced last week that Canada and Ontario will be providing joint funding to support three culture and recreation infrastructure improvement projects in Hamilton. The three facilities that ...

Michael Kras
22 Dec 2020

Nominations are now open for the 2021 City of Hamilton Arts Awards

The City of Hamilton Arts Awards, which have annually honoured some of the city’s most accomplished figures in the arts & culture scene since 1976, have just opened nominations for the 2021 awar...

Michael Kras
04 Aug 2020

Hamilton performance venue The Staircase has closed

In unbelievably sad news for arts & culture lovers of Hamilton, longstanding performance venue and arts incubator The Staircase has announced that it will likely stay shuttered even at the other s...

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...

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 ...

Craig Clark
10 Dec 2019

Book about Chedoke Creek wins big at this year’s Hamilton Literary Awards

A prescient book about Chedoke Creek, the location of #sewergate that has been making the new in a big way recently, won big at the annual Hamilton Literary Awards last night. Congratulations to Jo...

Michael Kras
22 Oct 2019

Decadent Downtown Food Tours let you taste your way through Hamilton

If Hamilton’s food scene makes you swoony, Hamilton Food Tours might just become your new favourite thing. Hamilton Food Tours is a new local institution aiming to be a foodie’s dream, with struct...