Hope Festival Featured Artists (Organized by Basic Income Peterborough Network with support from United Way Peterborough & District and Peterborough Public Health)
The Hope Festival is coming up fast (THIS SATURDAY!) and we have some great artists lined up to entertain and inspire you.
Grab a free ice cream and jump into the festivities!
Saturday July 26, 12:30PM-4:30PM, at Millennium Park
Hope Festival Featured Groups Organized by Basic Income Peterborough Network, with support from United Way Peterborough & District and Peterborough Public Health.
Enjoy FREE interactive activities provided by our featured groups: Basic Income Peterborough Network Bedford House Canadian Mental Health Association HKPR Council for Persons with Disabilities Peterborough Action for Tiny Homes Peterborough AIDS Resource Network Peterborough Community Health Centre Peterborough Food Action Network Peterborough Youth Substance Use Prevention The Seasoned Spoon Café Saturday July 26, 12:30PM-4:30PM, at Millennium Park
Will we see you at the Hope Festival this saturday?
You'll enjoy FREE interactive activities provided by our featured groups!
Saturday July 26, 12:30PM-4:30PM, at Millennium Park
Hope Festival: growing hope, dignity, and belonging together Organized by Basic Income Peterborough Network with support from United Way Peterborough & District and Peterborough Public Health
Basic Income Peterborough Network is hosting its first Hope Festival in Millennium Park on July 26 2025 from 12:30PM - 4:30PM!
This highly interactive and family-friendly festival will bring community members together to celebrate the transformative work already happening locally, and generate new ideas for collective action.
The Hope Festival will feature participatory art projects by local artists, as well as activities presented by groups doing important work in our community. We’ll also have FREE ice cream!
Basic Income Peterborough Network is hosting its first Hope Festival in Millennium Park #ptbo on July 26 2025 from 12:30PM - 4:30PM!
Join us for participatory art, interactive activities, and FREE ice cream!
Join me at Artspace next week!
Hope Festival Volunteer Opportunities
Hope Ambassadors: Are you a people-person? Put your cheerful demeanor to work at the Hope Festival by welcoming festival-goers and guiding them through the event space!
Logistics Crew: Do you like to work behind the scenes? We need your muscle to support setting up and tearing down the Hope Festival!
Ice Cream Scoopers: Would you like to put smiles on people’s faces? Join our Hope Festival ice cream scooper crew and spread the joy!
BIPN needs volunteers for our Hope Festival coming up on Saturday July 26 in Millennium Park!
Want to get involved?
Email volunteer@basicincomepeterborough.ca
Learn more about the Hope Festival on our website: basicincomepeterborough.ca
PETERBOROUGH READER SPOTLIGHT: Elisha Rubacha @elishamay.bsky.social
We're honoured that local legend Elisha will be a reader at our Peterborough ZZOO launch!
June 18 7pm PETERBOROUGH reading with special guests Chris Hutchinson @unfamiliarweather.bsky.social, Murgatroyd Monaghan & Elisha Rubacha @elishamay.bsky.social at Take Cover Books (59 Hunter St E) www.facebook.com/events/99677...
Finalists announced for the #Ptbo Arts Awards. The Electric City Culture Council will announce the winners during a June 12 reception at the Canadian Canoe Museum.
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MA|DE presents ZZOO Peterborough Launch Reading & Signing Guest readings by: Murgatroyd Monaghan Elisha Rubacha Wed June 18 at 7PM Take Cover Books 59 Hunter St
I'll be reading some #BruceTrail poems at MA|DE's #ptbo launch of ZZOO!
Wednesday June 18, 7PM
Take Cover Books
Hope Festival Call for Artists Extended Deadline: Saturday June 8 at 11:59PM
Artists, there's still time to get your applications in for the Hope Festival!
We've extended the deadline to Saturday June 8 at 11:59PM.
We encourage applications in ALL art forms.
Find the application guidelines on our website: basicincomepeterborough.ca
ONE WEEK LEFT TO APPLY, #PTBO!
Two more weeks to get those applications in!
Please share widely #ptbo.
#ptbo artist pals, check out this hopeful opportunity with @basicincomeptbo.bsky.social !
Dang, Ursula, that sounds pretty cool.
Justin Million:
An impeccable poet, and editor of poetry at bird, buried press.
Having grown up a zinester, I'm not sure whether I would've ever started actually submitting my work to publishers without the encouragement of Justin Million...
He is often my first reader, and always my best person.
Ursula Pflug:
@pflugu.bsky.social's book "Green Music" was a huge inspiration to me when I was a teenager. The magical realism was fascinating and gorgeous.
- I think I probably stole a lot from it in "brainsick" the book I self-published when I was a 17-year-old high school dropout.
Ernest Hemingway:
Found Hemingway in university and loved the simplicity of his language.
I also won the inaugural Barbara Rooke Travel Prize at Trent University by writing about "The Sun Also Rises" and that paid my way to Spain, which is a trip I'm very grateful to have had.
Charles Bukowski:
His writing opened me up to what poetry could be, and for that I am grateful. As a kid who had grown up around a lot of normalized misogyny, I wasn't put off by his treatment of women, and while I'm happy to have unlearned THAT garbage, I'm still glad that his work informed mine.
JD Salinger:
I haven't done a reread of Salinger in recent memory, but I think maybe I just felt incredibly seen by his work when I was first reading it as a young person. Having the books handy remains a comfort.
Kurt Vonnegut:
Slaughterhouse Five is my all time favourite book, and one could probably argue that the way I approach writing a collection of poetry is Tralfamadorian-inspired.
Who are the 5 writers that made you?
Kurt Vonnegut
JD Salinger
Charles Bukowski
Ernest Hemingway
Ursula Pflug
[And also Justin Million ❤️]
TODAY!
Love in Social Change Work Hope Workshop
Join Basic Income Peterborough Network for another workshop in our Hope Series, this time in partnership with One City!
This session will explore the importance of love in social change work through dialogue, art, and thinkers throughout history.
Find us at Trinity Community Centre (360 Reid Street) March 19, 2PM - 4PM
Join Basic Income Peterborough Network for another workshop in our Hope Series, this time in partnership with One City!
Explore the importance of love in social change work through dialogue, art, and thinkers throughout history.
Trinity Community Centre (360 Reid Street)
Wed March 19, 2PM-4PM
None of the "Caprock Poems" manuscript would exist without public funding for the arts.
Thank you to @ontarioarts.bsky.social for supporting my continued work on this project, and thanks to Brick Books for recommending me for funding.
#OAC #RecommenderGrants
#BruceTrail #CanLit #Poetry
I have been boycotting Amazon... forever? And all of Nestle's holdings for the past... idk 7/8 years maybe?
I don't expect everyone to drop everything, but there are obvious evils in the world and I do my absolute best to avoid supporting them with my dollars.
Single day symbolism is not enough.
Happened to catch this one amazing moment of the Oscars by chance last night.
Haven't seen the documentary, but the words shared were powerful.
#FreePalestine
I have high hopes for young people everywhere stepping up for the working class and embracing difference. A turban certainly WAS a barrier in the past, but millenials/gen z are the largest voting block now - if we vote. If he can engage us sufficiently, I think he has a chance anywhere, even Quebec.
Acrylic painting of Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump on a circular wood block, based on a photograph taken by Doug Mills while Trump yelled at Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. Zelenskyy looks into the camera almost like Jim from The Office, but full of what I assume is a mix of rage and disbelief (and which I admit isn't properly captured in his expression in the painting.)
Same painting, but viewed from an angle to show the sides of the wood block painted the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag.
I couldn't stop thinking about this photograph, so I spent my afternoon and evening sitting with it.
#StandWithUkraine
Letterpress poster by Jackson Creek Press: KEYBOARDS Live poetry and broadsides Bijoux Bar Feb 28th, 7-9PM 399 Water St PTBO NOGO
Get yourself down to Bijoux Bar right NOW for LIVE poetry and broadsides by Justin Million and @jacksoncreek.bsky.social.
#KEYBOARDS
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