Join us as the Oakville Chamber Orchestra celebrates its first show of 2023. Enjoy Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons performed by Joelle Crigger, the 2022 senior category 1st place winner! English favourites by Edward Elgar and Benjamin Britten round out the program.

Date: February 25, 2023 at 7:30pm

Venue: Oakville Centre, AEG Liebherr Auditorium

For tickets, visit oakvillecentre.ca

Celebrate the uniqueness of Oakville through photography! The Oakville Camera Club invites you to submit your photos to the 17th Annual Capture Oakville Photography Competition.

Categories include Street Photography, People and Portraits, Black and White, Landscapes, Nature & Wildlife, and Exploration. 

Deadline: Feb 6, 2023 at 11:59pm EST.

For more information and electronic submissions go to www.captureoakville.com

Join us as the Oakville Symphony celebrates a new season under the leadership of a new music director. Enjoy the Canadian premiere of Pivot, a lively short piece by English composer Anna Clyne.

In true celebratory fashion, we revel in the majestic strains of the last symphony ever written by Franz Joseph Haydn, No. 104 — the noble London Symphony. We welcome brilliant Anglo-Canadian cellist Paul Marleyn back to the stage to perform Elgar’s beautifully elegiac Cello Concerto in E minor. 

Date: Saturday November 5th, 7:30 - 9:30pm

Venue: Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts, 130 Navy Street, Oakville Ontario L6J 2Z4

For tickets, visit www.oakvillecentre.ca/tickets

Enjoy the many benefits of creating soothing natural salves from botanicals and herbs in a half-day retreat, Soothing the Senses, presented by Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre. You will be immersed in a community circle, learn about abhyanga massage and make your own massage oil.

This massage oil is encouraged to be used every morning before you shower. It is a beautiful daily ritual to soothe you during the wintertime. Surrender into a restorative yoga practice, followed by deep meditation. You will create and take home a salve and massage oil.

Date: Sunday November 20th, 1 - 5pm

Venue: Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre, 1086 Burnhamthorpe Rd E, Oakville, ON L6H7B2 

For registration, visit www.joshuacreekarts.com

Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre presents Felting Spirit Guides with Steven Botelho. Join needle felting artist Steven Botelho for this 6-week workshop as you work step by step with him on this immersive and heartfelt course.

You will be guided in the delicate process of working with various wools and materials to create your own Spirit Buck which embodies leadership, virility, grace and regeneration.

Date: September 30th - November 4th, 2022 from 9:30am - 12pm

Venue: Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre, 1086 Burnhamthorpe Rd E, Oakville, ON L6H7B2

For registration, visit www.joshuacreekarts.com

The Eden Mills Writers’ Festival showcases the very best of Canadian writing in the beautiful village of Eden Mills. The main event will be held on September 11th, 2022 from 12 - 6pm. Come discover your new favourite author in an idyllic outdoor setting!

This Festival has something for everyone. Enjoy fiction writers, poets, young adult authors and a special children’s area with children’s authors and entertainers. 

Festival dates: September 9 - 11, 2022

Main event: September 11, 2022. 12 - 6pm

For tickets visit edenmillswritersfestival.ca

The 9th annual Oakville Film Festival will kick off on June 22nd with over 100 films over 7 days! The Festival will premiere the best independent features, documentaries, and short films. This year will be a hybrid event including live screenings, hybrid screenings and some virtual-only events that are available internationally. 

Make sure you stay for the live or virtual Q&A after each film screening to hear from the filmmakers and other guests.

Festival Dates: June 22 - 29, 2022

For passes and tickets, visit offa.ca 

Oakville Galleries is delighted to present two special solo art exhibitions with work from artists Paul P. and Tanya Lukin Linklater.

In Friendly in the Knife-edged Moment the work of Toronto-based artist Paul P. considers and commemorates queer social histories, particularly the period of gay liberation that occurred just before the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. On display you will see his lesser known delicate watercolours of gardens, flowers and statuary, as well as seascapes and shorelines, drawn from life over the past 15 years. This exhibition brings together a number of these works— which are almost entirely exhibited for the first time—in a haunting reflection on the aesthetics of longing. 

Exhibition Dates: June 5 to August 28 2022

Venue: Gairloch Gardens | Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 12 - 7pm

In My mind is with the weather, interdisciplinary artist Tanya Lukin Linklater considers the troubled colonial histories of Turtle Island (North America) and the structural violences Indigenous communities continue to withstand. In this exhibition, new and recent works consider how these violences are registered and processed in the body and highlight moments of resistance. 

My mind is with the weather is presented in partnership with the Toronto Biennial of Art, a free city-wide art event taking place across the city and GTA from 26 March – 5 June, 2022. 

Exhibition Dates: 5 June – 28 August 2022 

Venue: Centennial Square | Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 12 - 7pm 

For more information visit https://www.oakvillegalleries.com/exhibitions

Image: Monica Tap, One-second Hudson no. 11, 2007. Oil on linen. Collection of Oakville Galleries, purchased with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance Program, the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation and the Corporation of the Town of Oakville, 2008.

In this special off-site exhibition, Oakville Galleries is delighted to showcase artworks from its permanent collection at the Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre. Reflecting on the QEPCCC’s site as a public, community-focused space, The Image of the Environment brings Oakville Galleries to the QEPCCC and features works that speak to the development of communities in urban and suburban spaces alike. Artists in this exhibition are interested in places of gathering, mobility and migration, as well as the impact of urban development on the natural world.

With works by: Kim Adams, Stephen Andrews, Shuvinai Ashoona, Edward Burtynsky, Eric Glavin, Angela Grauerholz, Geoffrey James, Paul Kipps, Medrie Macphee, Ed Pien, Leslie Sampson, Monica Tap, Jeannie Thib, Jeff Thomas.

Exhibition on view: 29 April to 18 May, 2022 | Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 12 – 6 PM

Presented in partnership with the Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre.

To register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-image-of-the-environment-tickets-320691074637

St. Jude's Celebration of the Arts presents, A Jazzy Little Kitchen Party with Heather Bambrick.

JUNO-nominee Heather Bambrick's shows have been described as "what happens when Carol Burnett meets Ella Fitzgerald at a Newfoundland Kitchen Party."

Heather, along with her band (Chase Sanborn--trumpet, Ross MacIntyre--bass, Ben Wittman--drums, and Stu Harrison--piano), will perform an intimate evening of songs ranging from jazz standards and Canadian pop hits to Newfoundland folk music, sitcom theme songs and more at St. Jude's Anglican Church in Oakville on Saturday, May 14, 2022 at 8PM.

For more information or to buy tickets visit https://www.oakvilleconcerts.com/