Funding coming to arts and BIPOC organizations
The holiday season came a little early for 36 local arts organizations and organizations serving Black, Indigenous and…
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The Observer’s reporting on the Creative Arts includes a regular array of features on local artists, musicians, actors and theatre companies in Waterloo Region.
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A ton of music, and plenty of stories
After more than six decades in the music industry, Larry Mercey has a few stories to tell. More…
Arts fund grants support two Wellesley artists
Heidelberg musician Paige Warner and Wellesley artist Jackie Partridge are among the latest recipients of grants from the…
KWS takes their Christmas spectacle online
The KW Symphony’s Yuletide Spectacular would normally immerse audiences in a varied musical experience inside the acoustically rich…
Time to do the write thing
In what began as a bucket-list project six years ago, financial planner Bill McBay put a check mark…
Celebrating Christmas with a virtual cabaret show
December’s arrival would typically see the Christmas concert season move into high gear. But as with almost all…
Learning to tell a story from the ground up
Everybody’s got a story to tell. Thanks to the Registry Theatre in Kitchener, the area’s young people can…
Quarantine leads to new songs, debut EP
Kitchener-born musician Matthew Burkhart was on vacation in Arizona when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the Western world. He…
Plenty of stories of pets in the workplace
With so many people working from home of late due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people with pets are…
The show must go on
For EDSS drama teacher DJ Carroll, it’s just not Halloween without some kind of show featuring his students…