Events

Introducing new artist Terry Ananny and new works by  John Kinsella, Kathy Haycock, Elizabeth Johnson and Chris Keene.

Introducing Terry Ananny. Terry’s bright and colourful acrylic paintings of hockey, children at play and seasonal village scenes cheerfully capture the spirit of Canadian life.

Winter scenes by Dorset artist Elizabeth Johnson and Chris Keene. Elizabeth depicts Dorset and surroundings in her oil paintings sometimes using a palette knife.

Chris Keene has a realistic style of painting. He starts off with a composition done on his computer ( He is a retired Walt Disney artist!), he then uses this composition to paint his acrylic paintings on canvas

Toronto artist John Kinsella, is one of our artists who displays his work throughout the year. His interpretations of Algonquin Park and surroundings are created in oils.

Kathy Haycock. Kathy resides most of the year in Eganville. She lives and breathes Algonquin Park, often painting en Plein air. Kathy’s work is greatly influenced by her dad, painter Maurice Haycock who was A.Y. Jackson’s painting partner for over 30 years.

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Come and enjoy the fun at the Port Sydney Winter Carnival

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JOIN US FOR OUR 21st  ANNUAL KELLY SHIRES BREAST CANCER SNOW RUN!
January 31 – February 2, 2020 Hidden Valley Resort, Huntsville, Ontario

Join us for the 21st annual Kelly Shires Breast Cancer Snow Run, an all-women snowmobile event to raise funds for women with breast cancer. As always, we will have some extra special surprises for everyone who participates!

The  Winter  TimeOut,  Ontario’s  most  luxurious  girlfriends’  retreat  is  back  and  will  be hosted  once  again  at  the  spectacular  JW  Marriott  The  Rosseau  Muskoka  Resort  &  Spa  on January  31st –2nd,  2020.

The  all-inclusive  weekend  includes:

• Daily yoga/meditation classes
• Health, beauty &  wellness-focused  workshops,  including  new  entrepreneurial-focused  topics
• Pop-up shopping experiences
• Gourmet meals & wine
• Swag bag filled with luxury  items

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From the minds of improv and comedy legend Colin Mochrie, and master hypnotist, Asad Mecci, comes a brand new, mind-blowing, side-splitting show combining hypnotism and improvisation. Twenty members of the audience will be put under hypnosis, and the five best will join Mochrie into a hypnotic improve extravaganza! This will be an entirely original and completely unforgettable show, for who knows where the unconscious mind will go.

Presented by Huntsville Festival of the Arts

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Muskoka grown singer, songwriter Grant Tingey says his love of music came from within his family and at the age of 15, he really started taking singing seriously and later tried his hand at songwriting.

In 1992 he was named Top Male Open Vocalist at the Canadian Open Country Singing Contest and returned in 2000 and won first prize in the songwriting category. He ventured off to Europe where he performed at various festivals and plays in Muskoka on a regular basis. Grant has a new song that he will be performing for the first time. He hopes that this new song will be embraced by both his dedicated fans and will be discovered by new ones as well. This show at the Gravenhurst Opera House is a fundraiser for the Alzheimer’s Society in memory of Grant’s father Sheldon Tingey.

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Save the date! The OSOR is having a Vintage Snowmobile Show at their scheduled Snowmobile Race. Events start at 10am. Free entry to the races if you bring a show sled. All sleds from 1990 and older are welcome. A display sled can also do parade laps,(with helmet and waiver singed). Come on out to Bayview Wildwood Resort for great racing and some beautiful displays!

Photo credit: Bill Murphy-OSOR-2017

An exhibition by the art students of Bracebridge and Muskoka Lakes Secondary School and Saint Dominic Catholic Secondary School. Sometimes it is easy to forget what it was like to be a teenager. This exhibition not only showcases the local emerging talent, but also allows viewers much insight into the thinking, attitude and struggles of today’s young citizens.

Public Reception: Saturday, February 1, 1pm-4pm.

The Chapel Gallery, is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10am-1pm and 2pm-5pm. It is located at 15 King Street in Bracebridge

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In the course of an afternoon’s reunion between the long-estranged friends, a buried memory and a wild secret crash into the present. Based on a true story, Perfect Pie is an intimate and emotional drama by acclaimed Canadian playwright Judith Thompson.

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The North American Cup is a three-day round robin tournament that takes hockey back to where it was born…..”on the pond”. Teams will take to the ice in beautiful Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada, located in the heart of the Muskoka’s!!! It is always an amazing weekend with a 4 on 4 format and 4 different divisions. Teams will be competing to hoist the North American Cup!

Our 13th Annual is going to be a jam-packed weekend of festivities and rockin good times! There will be a HUGE kickoff celebration, a MASSIVE indoor beer tent all weekend in the Boston Pizza with live entertainment and a pub crawl bus! This is going to be an unreal experience that you won’t want to miss out on!

Register your team now!

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The 2020 Port Carling Winterfest is just around the corner. We hope you will join us on February 7th, 8th & 9th for our traditional family-oriented Winter Carnival. A souvenir wooden medallion will be your winter fun passport. $5 per Adult and FREE for Kids 12 and under. Why be miserable indoors? Embrace all that winter in Muskoka has to offer and make some family memories along the way.

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Lake of Bays Brewery Presents a New Season of Saturday Sessions – inside the Lake of Bays Brewery, Baysville.

Petra – Baysville’s own father daughter duo, Peter and Laura Harbocian, host 11 sessions this winter.

With acoustic music with guitars, djembe, washboard and just the right harmonies, Petra perform acoustic music from every decade of the last half century and play at every session.

Pertra will also present three new acoustic acts at every session.

Please contact Peter Harbocian at 705 331 6897 for further information.

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Come join us at the McArthur House Cafe at the Muskoka Lakes farm & winery for a delicious  Cranberry Dinner.

Enjoy the 3 course dinner and one glass of wine, only $60 per person. There are two seating times 5:00pm -7:00pm or 7:30-9:30pm.

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Join us at the 2020 Port Carling Winterfest, taking place from February 7th to 9th. We’ll be holding our annual snow snake throwing contest on the morning of the 9th at 11:00am, at Hanna Park. Open to all.

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It’s easy to enjoy a beautiful landscape of Muskoka, but a big challenge to capture it in a single image! In this basic workshop and discussion, Fred Schulz will instruct how to master exposure and composition to make the most out of available light in any location.

Gain extra tips on how to properly prep a landscape shoot as well as what equipment is best to keep you light weight and mobile.

Do you want to make your landscape photos more dynamic, artistic and unique and visually pleasing? Well, come out to this talk and workshop.

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This longstanding Gravenhurst tradition celebrates all that our community has to offer, and features super-fun events including Puddle Jumps, Kids Events, Skokie’s Pizza and Birthday Parties, Polar Bear Dip, Donut Eating on a String, Demolition Derby, Live Entertainment and so much more!

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For almost three decades now HOTEL CALIFORNIA have been recreating the legendary sound of THE EAGLES, and thrilling audiences all over the world. The band set the bar in 1986, and they’ve remained the industry leading substitute for The Eagles ever since. Playing to huge outdoor and arena audiences, sharing bills with some of rock’s legends, and going places no tribute band has gone before. A long run by any measure, but it begs the question – what makes HOTEL CALIFORNIA so special? Well, incredible lead vocal similarity, intensely accurate instrumental work, soaring harmonies, and top flight live performances, just for starters. These are the band’s hallmarks, and the foundation on which their reputation has been built. With over a century of collective professional experience in the band today, they’re still going stronger than ever!

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This Family Day Weekend, join us for a party at the brewery with beers, bites, and artisans! Dance among the fermenters, shop alongside the canning line, and sip by the bright tanks as we open up the production floor for a truly unique winter get together. It’s time to get out of the cold and into some samples at our fifth annual Muskoka Hullabaloo.

Sample over 20 different beers and cocktails.
· Sample local treats.
· Shop the local artisan market.
· Dance to live music.
· Challenge your friends to indoor games and activities.
· Try our next Kawartha Dairy Collab!
· $10 covers admission and 3 beer tokens.

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Enjoy a night of gourmet food, awesome games, door prize, live entertainment & a fabulous silent auction. Games include: Black Jack, Texas Holdem & Roulette. Silent auction proceeds to Children’s Miracle Network. This event is for ticketholders only.

Tickets – $60 per person & include: admission for one, buffet dinner, $5000 of fun play money.

Buy online

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Celebrate FAMILY DAY Monday February 17 at the Muskoka Discovery Centre  9:00 – 4:00 p.m. Our Kidzone Play Specialist will have special crafts and experiments ready for you.  Participate in the Family Scavenger Hunt and try out the games in Watershed Wonders.

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2020 Baysville WinterFest – Monday February 17th, free family fun from 8:30am to 4:00pm at the Community Centre.

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Benkade is a special presentation for Black History Month that explores the vibrant cultural heritage of Guinea’s Malinke people. This promises to be an incredible evening of music, dance and celebration of cultures!

Ballet Creole’s dance presentations are guaranteed to engage and educate audiences everywhere. Ballet Creole is committed to creating opportunities for African and Caribbean traditions to interact with European dance traditions, whether it be in the Company repertoire, Ballet Creole School’s Professional Training Program (PTP) or community classes. Consistently, what emerges are unique and diverse dance interpretations.

For many of the dance works it is the strong presence of the drums that provides a rhythmic structure within which dance socialization takes place. Dancers, musicians and listeners are drawn together in the experience.

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SnowFest is a free, family friendly, two-day Festival that features a weekend full of outdoor winter activities on a snow-covered Main Street in Downtown Huntsville!

The event kicks off on Friday February 21 with a Downtown Pub Crawl/

SnowFest starts back up with a full day of events including Nordic & alpine skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, fatbiking, skating, axe throwing, and even snoga – yoga on snow! At 4pm be sure to check out the first annual Muskoka Fatbike Race – An exciting 850 m lap race on Main Street!

So mark February 21 & 22 on your calendars and join us in Downtown Huntsville for an incredible weekend of outdoor winter fun!

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Lake of Bays Brewery Presents a New Season of Saturday Sessions – inside the Lake of Bays Brewery, Baysville.

Petra – Baysville’s own father daughter duo, Peter and Laura Harbocian, host 11 sessions this winter.

With acoustic music with guitars, djembe, washboard and just the right harmonies, Petra perform acoustic music from every decade of the last half century and play at every session.

Pertra will also present three new acoustic acts at every session.

Please contact Peter Harbocian at 705 331 6897 for further information.

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Award-winning comedian RON JAMES has been selling out theatres for over 20 years with his marathon, side-splitting, kinetically charged performances. Marshaling a comedian’s eye for satire and a writer’s ear for language, Ron takes his audience on a breath-taking, non-stop roller coaster ride, cutting a wide swath through contemporary culture with his razor-sharp ribald wit, uncompromising standards and unique, poetically honed delivery. A stand-out amongst ‘stand-ups’…

Two shows February 26 & 27, 2020

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Come join the winter fun in Dwight!

Dwight Lion’s Club Pancake Breakfast, Axe Throwing, Fatbiking, Skating, Snowshoeing, Archery, Horse Drawn Sleigh Rides, Cookie Decorating, Carnival Games, Speaking of Wildlife Exhibits & Show, H.O.L.D. Chili Cook Off, and so much more!

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– 4 v 4 play, 4 divisions, 8 teams per division, 8 players per team.

– Teams are guaranteed 3 games during pool play and top 4 teams will make playoffs.

– Four skill levels: A, B, C & D (all are co-ed)

– We have awesome custom jerseys being made (team captains will need to submit their teammates jersey size and numbers)

– Teams will also have the option of submitting a short video of why their team should be selected. Try to capture how electric you and your team would be if selected. (video does not increase chances)

– Registration is first come, first served.

– We will have live music.

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Born in Glasgow, Scotland, and raised in the Tropic of Canada, Lawrence Gowan enjoyed a lengthy and successful solo career with four Platinum and three Gold albums and one Gold single to his credit, prior to joining Styx in 1999 as keyboardist and one of their three lead vocalists.

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