Hamilton, ON Archives

Recurring event: Image featuring text and illustration against a mustard yellow background. Top, in black font: Pages, Pens, and Pints. Bottom, white font in a black rectangle: Silent reading and writing event. To the left, a line drawing of a pint of beer with a head. To the right: A swirly line topped with a tiny circle.

Hamilton, ON

gritLIT presents: Pages, Pens, and Pints

The second Sunday of every month: gritLIT hosts Pages, Pens, and Pints, a silent reading and writing event, at Mosaic Neighbourhood Bar. For participants 19+.

Recurring event: Photo of people entering the you me gallery, a storefront art gallery, at night. There's a hair salon to the left.

Hamilton, ON

Art Crawl on James North

The second Friday of every month: Celebrate Hamilton’s art, music & food scenes in a unique monthly art crawl event through one of its most iconic neighbourhoods! Discover & explore street performers & food vendors, artists & artisans, galleries, shopping, restaurants & bars as you experience the welcoming, eclectic vibe of James St. North. For all ages.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring blue text, aligned vertically on the left, and a photo on the right agains a black background. Frost Bites, the words surrounded by blue and yellow circles of various sizes. Three people of various ethnicities gaze at us as they stand side by side at a large corner window, houses visible in the background outside.

Hamilton, ON

Hamilton Festival Theatre Company presents: Frost Bites

PAST EVENT: Fri, Feb. 27 - Sun, Mar. 8, 2026: Hamilton Festival Theatre Company presents Frost Bites, Hamilton’s biggest winter theatre festival, featuring six packed days of indoor and outdoor programming over two weekends. Presented in partnership with Theatre Aquarius and The Staircase Theatre + Lounge. Programming available for all ages.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring interconnected multi-coloured geometric shapes in light blue, purple, yellow, orange and dark blue, with the words Hamilton Fringe Festival in yellow and white lettering inside the dark blue shape.

Hamilton, ON

Hamilton Fringe Festival 2025

PAST EVENT: Wed, Jul. 16 – Sun, Jul. 27, 2025: Hamilton Festival Theatre Company (HFTco) presents its 21st Hamilton Fringe Festival program, with 50+ shows in 350+ performances at over a dozen venues around the city. This year’s festival includes live comedy, theatre, musicals, dance, art, film, family fare and more. Plus, a free outdoor performance walking tour, back by popular demand, & a new festival hub!

Past event: Greyed out detail of a large multi-coloured textile art piece hanging on a gallery wall.

Hamilton, ON

Jan Wade: Soul Power exhibition

PAST EVENT: Now till Sun, Jan. 5, 2025: The Art Gallery of Hamilton hosts Jan Wade: Soul Power in an exclusive showcase, following its 2021 debut at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The first major retrospective of the artist’s work, this exhibition includes installations of mixed-media pieces, paintings, textiles and sculptural objects.

Past event: Greyed out image of the poster for HPO Live Intimate & Immersive. Interactive. Music / Video. An image of a violin crossed with a clarinet in an X formation in the centre of the text.

Hamilton, ON

Intimate & Immersive: ‘Suspended Doorways’ Multi-Media Concert

PAST EVENT. One night only – Wed, May 1, 2024: Join Music Director Gemma New & the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra as they collaborate with multidisciplinary artist Diana Lynn VanderMeulen for an intimate & vivid evening of contemporary music + art at The Cotton Factory.

Past event: Greyed out image of poster for gritLit 2024 Festival with yellow and white text on a black background. Join us as we celebrate 20 years of gritLIT. 5 days. 28 events. 7 workshops. It will be lit.

Hamilton, ON

gritLIT Readers & Writers Festival 2024

PAST EVENT. From Wed, Apr. 17 to Sun, Apr. 21, 2024: Five days, 28 events, 7 workshops. Join gritLIT in Hamilton & online for the 20th anniversary of its annual literary festival. Festival events include readings, panels & interviews, plus interactive events & workshops – offering a view into the minds of some of the most interesting writers working in Canada today.

Past event: Greyed out image of the poster for Choti Choti Batain by Sanskruti Marathe and Davinder Malhi, featuring a burning photograph of a waterfall against a starry night sky.

Hamilton, ON

Play reading: Choti Choti Batain

PAST EVENT. One day only - Sat, Oct. 21, 2023: Pleiades Theatre presents a staged reading of the play Choti Choti Batain as part of the Decolonise Your Ears New Play Festival. As the death of their father brings a Brampton family to their knees, their mother attempts to divorce her dead husband to find freedom again. A love letter to South Asian mothers.

Past event: Exhibition poster showing a portion of a collage where dancing couples are stacked one on top of the other. Text reads: 'CUT OFF' (a collage exhibition); Jonathan Karl Bauerle, Ashley Feldman, Stylo Starr, Caitlin Eady, Loraine Mohar, Nathalie Cortes, Charlie Star, Steve Kettings, Victoria Iles, Nathan Ivano, Nikki Ernst, Matt Hill, Drew Taylor, Jenn Brigger

Hamilton, ON

‘Cut off’ (a collage exhibition)

PAST EVENT: A group show curated by Drew Taylor featuring collage artists. At B.SIDE, a new D.I.Y. gallery & event space on James St. N., during the month of June 2022.