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Ambitious, Exciting, and Innovative
Ambitious, exciting, and innovative—those are three words Brittany Moat, executive director of the TBSO, uses to describe the upcoming 66th season of the orchestra. This year’s tagline, “The music you’ve been waiting for,” reflects the orchestra’s effort to listen to what audiences want, from bringing back popular concert series to introducing new experiences.
Days of Fantasy and Fun
If you’re up for a day or two of merriment, mysticism, and adventure, you won’t want to miss the Thunder Bay Medieval Faire, being held at the Hymers Fairgrounds October 10 and October 11 from 10 am to 6 pm.
Sheer Will: The Honest Heart Collective
While listening to this record, a funny feeling began brewing in my chest. I realized that Sheer Will feels more like a catalogue of life experiences than an album, with each song capturing a specific feeling and preserving those moments in time.
Terror in the Bay Film Festival
For local artist, filmmaker, and festival director Chris Borgo, celebrating all things horror, indie, and thrilling is at the core of Terror in the Bay Film Festival, which is now in its 10th season.
Wherever You Go, There You Are
It is only because of the skills I built and the impressions I made at home that I was then able to do some work in film outside of town and stand out on applications for other ventures. If you seize the opportunities available, Thunder Bay can act as an incubator for your career and craft, no matter the domain.
The Chippo Cookie Company
Long before Jenna Johns was baking professionally, she and her brother shared a running childhood joke inspired by a favourite book, Chocolate Chippo Hippo. Today, that playful memory has transformed into Chippo Cookie Co., a new baking venture in Thunder Bay offering small-batch cookies with big flavour.
Bree Mary Artistry
Known as @breemary.artistry to her over 8,000 Instagram followers, Nistico’s digital portfolio is a masterful celebration of this lifelong love. Beginning with The Joker cosplays six years ago, she has honed her skills in special effects and prosthetics for human and non-human creatures.
10x10 Short Play Festival
You know the rules. 10 Plays. 10 Minutes. That’s right—the 10x10 Short Play Festival is back to celebrate theatrical talent in the city.
A Festival Lineup That’ll Spin You Right Round
The club can’t handle Flo Rida, but Wake the Giant fans can this September.
To Keep Her
Doughty’s film, To Keep Her, is a 90-minute horror/thriller made with his wife Tassia Dorsamy, exploring the literal and metaphorical experience of being in a toxic relationship.
Coppermine
Director Jeremy Torrie and his team at the Winnipeg-based White Bear Films are bringing a haunting piece of northern history to life with Coppermine, a sweeping historical drama based on Keith Ross Leckie’s 2008 novel of the same name.
At Peace: Propagandhi
It’s been seven years since Propagandhi’s last full length and things (gestures to genocidal conflicts, the environment, surveillance technology, billionaires, on and on) have continued on their downward spiral.
Hometown Anthems
The Thunder Bay Art Gallery will host the debut exhibition of local photographer and filmmaker Laura-Lynn Petrick, Hometown Anthems, running until June 8. The show will focus on highlighting Petrick’s experiences growing up in the rural outskirts of Thunder Bay, and provide a behind-the-scenes look at her family traditions and country life, blending her Finnish roots with the unique aspects of life in Northwestern Ontario.
My Friend Saabe
A new short film has gained international attention after its premiere in New Zealand. My Friend Saabe, directed by Morningstar Derosier and Victoria Anderson-Gardner, was filmed in Migisi Sahgaigan (Eagle Lake First Nation), Derosier says, and screened in late March at the Māoriland Film Festival.
Idiopathic: RHOADS
Add a splash of guitar, the essence of Circle Jerks, and a whole lot of angst, bring it to a roaring boil, and voila, there you have it: scalding punk anger—or in other words, RHOADS’s first official release, Idiopathic.
Women of the Fur Trade
Closing out Magnus Theatre’s 2024–2025 season is Frances Koncan’s Women of the Fur Trade, a historical satire inspired by David Lynch, Hamilton, and the fur trade.
Slow Stitch: The Embroidered Landscape
“It was a good opportunity to push my art practice in a new direction,” says textile artist Mary Jane MacDonald of her upcoming debut solo exhibition Slow Stitch: The Embroidered Landscape. “I wanted to experiment with embroidery and textiles and show other ways of doing it.”
Off the Menu: Station 22
Take a moment and imagine this: a horrifying world where the birds cease to sing, and artists refuse to create new works for lack of a muse. That’s the dimension where hot dogs were never invented. Thankfully for all of us, Station 22, located inside Dawson Trail Brewery, is making all of our dreams come true with their Chicago Hot Dog.
Between the Lines
Sometimes, a good book allows us to escape the real world for just a minute. A musical does, too. But what happens when these two things collide? All the Daze’s latest musical Between the Lines will answer just that.