By Angela Long Published August 9 2016 The name of the game says it all: Atoms. “Coming together as big clumps or as tiny individuals” director of Highlands Summer Festival Scot Denton says. Atoms is…

By Angela Long Published August 9 2016 When packing for Europe don’t forget your ball gown. Opera singer Lauren Margison always packs hers “just in case” she says while on break from Highlands Opera Studio.…

By Huw Morgan August 2 2016 Yves Ameline stands with his acrylic paintings at Studio J on Tour de Forest. The 10th annual studio tour offered 26 artists at 14 studios on July 30 and…

By Jenn Watt Published July 28 2016 Valerie Ashton thinks the earth might be telling her something as she works on her residency at Haliburton School of Art and Design. Trees keep emerging from the…

By Jenn Watt Published on July 28 2016 Phoebe Stamp loves her grandparents’ house. She explores the outdoors running along the paths and over bridges discovering the wilderness. But when it came to the woods…

By Angelica Ingram Published on July 28 2016 When local artist April Gates decided to move her home and business to the hamlet of Donald she was excited about the offerings her new neighbourhood would…

By Angelica Ingram Published on July 28 2016 In 2017 Canadians will mark a historic milestone in the art world as next summer will be the 100th anniversary of the death of Tom Thomson one…

By Jenn Watt Published July 28 2016 When the world was at war French painter Claude Monet was in his gardens at Giverny painting. It wasn’t a retreat artist and instructor Andrea Mossop says rather…

By Angela Long July 26 2016 It’s Monday morning on Saltspring Island British Columbia and Robert Bateman can’t decide which painting to work on next. There’s the pheasant sitting on a stone wall a snowshoe…

Art on the Dock – the Kennisis Lake Cottage Owners’ Association’s second annual studio tour on the Kennisis Lakes – has raised $2963 for the Arts Council ~ Haliburton Highlands’ Artists in the Schools program…

By Jenn Watt Published July 19 2016 The Highlands’ summer art tour Tour de Forest has rolled out a special exhibition this year in Haliburton to connect the public with the artists ahead of the…

By Chad Ingram July 19 2016 The Pinestone Resort and Conference Centre will host a music festival later this summer with tickets on sale now. “It’s similar to what the Haliburton Forest did last year”…

If you see a woman looking at your garbage at the Haliburton dump don’t be startled as she may be looking for inspiration or materials for her latest creation. Haliburton School of Art and Design…

By Angela Long Published July 12 2016 Even as the last paintings were being hung visitors wandered into the Rails End Gallery’s “Wanderlust” exhibition. Gallery curator and director Laurie Jones wasn’t surprised. “Lust” she said.…

By Angela Long Published July 5 2016 It’s an hour after closing time and SIRCH Community Services’ Thrift Warehouse prepares to re-open its doors. The Stan Russell jazz trio warms up. Sin a Bit Bakery…

By Angela Long Published June 28 2016 Updated June 30 2016 It was another “Sunday night moan-fest” that made Danielle Goldfinger think back to a time of s’mores by the campfire. “Ugh we have to…

Story and photo by Angelica Ingram Published June 28 2016 Haliburton cottager Don Ross continues to raise funds for the Haliburton Highlands Health Services Foundation. Earlier this month Ross could be spotted throughout the county…

Published June 28 2016 When you enter the doors of the corrugated tin building marked Highlands Summer Festival Limited prepare to get dirty. “Careful of everything you’re wearing” Betty Mills says as she dips a…

By Angela Long Published June 28 2016 Get out your lawn chair and maybe your umbrella the third season of Music in the Park is about to begin. Deputy-reeve Andrea Roberts Dysart et al cultural…

By Darren Lum Published June 9 2016 Where has the time gone for the Highlands Opera Theatre? It’s amazing how 10 years can fly by said the theatre’s co-founder and general director Valerie Kuinka who…