While most students were celebrating homecoming this past Saturday afternoon, the borscht-loving community was packed into the basement of St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church on York Road. People were gathered for the annual ‘Mama’s Borscht Festival’ to take in the cultural experience of Ukrainian food, dance and entertainment. For those […]
Arts & Culture
The Ontarion’s arts and culture articles cover the local artistic scene, including news, interviews, and reviews.
Poetry slam at eBar
Downtown Guelph’s eBar hosted Guelph Spoken Word’s September edition of their poetry slam on Saturday night. A celebration of words, theatrics and social progression, a number of local poets performed their work competing for a $100 prize, and as is custom for the Guelph Poetry Slam, the night featured a […]
Jenn Grant and Jim Bryson
Above The Bookshelf At 10 p.m. on Thursday Sept. 19, the eBar was filled to the brim with anticipation. The lights were dim; couples young and old occupied the booths lining the walls of the bar. The floor in front of the main stage was cleared, and the atmosphere felt […]
Bands kick off Eden Mills Writer’s Festival
Joel Plaskett Emergency, Bidiniband and Jim Guthrie perform The beautiful and acoustically divine River Run Centre welcomed with open arms three unique performances to kick off the 2013 Eden Mills Writer’s Festival. Dave Bidini and his Bidiniband opened the evening with a quirky blend of alt-rock, dark crooning and politically […]
Missed Connection Records
Download cards are now a part of the Guelph music scene Tyler Belluz of Missed Connection Records is stirring up some excitement throughout the city of Guelph. He is a graduate of Indiana University and his specialty is classical music. Belluz’s new venture is to showcase local talent by choosing […]
Geeks, don’t get your Batsuits in a knot
Geeks are weird. This has been obvious for a while now, since the times of the Dungeons and Dragons panic and before our imagined metropoli and obsession with brooding bat based crime fighters. We have an intensity of opinions that sometimes gets in the way of perspective. This problem seems […]
Guelph Jazz Festival
Emily Jones During the latter half of last week, downtown Guelph housed its annual Jazz Festival which was a must see event held in the beginning of September every year. Even though the weather was gloomy, people came out to see the unique talent that had been brought together through […]
TURF reviews: Belle & Sebastian at Fort York – July 7, 2013
Kicking things off with an instrumental that amasses more sounds and contributors as it progresses, the sprawling B-side that is “Judy Is a Dick Slap” and its late ’80s/early ’90s game show theme comparisons provided a fitting opening number that also allowed Belle & Sebastian’s roster modest introductions to the […]
TURF reviews: Whitehorse at Fort York – July 7, 2013
Whitehorse is husband and wife Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland’s band. Hamilton-bred, they moved to Toronto a week before TURF and share their band’s name with a city in Yukon. The layers of the group’s genesis are many, but there’s a minimal chance they outweigh those of its sonic output. […]
TURF reviews: The Wooden Sky at Fort York – July 7, 2013
Kicking off the fourth and final day of Toronto Urban Roots Fest, The Wooden Sky played an 11 a.m. set to a dedicated group of concertgoers. The band opened with “Child of the Valley,” then playing through tracks like “(Bit Parent),” “City of Lights/Dancing At My Window…,” “Take Me Out,” […]
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