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Thursday, July 21
Happy Hooking (BEG, CH)
with Beatrice Grant, Ontario Hooking Craft Guild Teacher
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
$80 members, $85 non members (materials included)
Primitive Lovers! Learn how to hook in the primitive manner to create an 8” x 8” or 9” circle to use as a hot pad, framed picture or to convert to a clutch purse. Hoops and hooks are provided for your use and may be purchased at the end of the day if you so desire. Rug hooking is simple and easily mastered. Beatrice teaches at Trent University, Prairie Harvest Rug School and holds seminars across North America. Please bring sharp scissors and a lunch. Schomberg Library, 77 Main Street, Schomberg.
Saturday, June 25
Heritage Cemetery Bus Tour
9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., $25
Join the King Township Museum Board as we explore how cemeteries memorialize the people who built our communities. Monuments express past artistry and craftsmanship and provide useful information about early settlement, birth & death patterns and family histories.
Meet at the Dr. Wm. Laceby Memorial Arena in Nobleton.
Registration Required: Call 905.833.2331 or www.kingmuseum@king.ca
Saturday, July 2
FIRST NATIONS “FAMILY” DAY ON THE HUMBER RIVER
9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Cold Creek Conservation Area14125 11th Concession (3.5 km north of King Road between Nobleton and Bolton)
Come for any combination of the 4 activities. Two events require registration. Other two – just come. Cash barbecue from 11:30 to 1:30 p.m. or bring a picnic lunch.
Aboriginal Art & Culture for 8 to 12 year olds with Alfie J. Fishgap (Salish) & Todd Jamieson (Oneida).
9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. $15 per child (includes materials)
Must be accompanied by an adult.
Alfie & Todd will tell stories and explain the differences between the Pacific Coast and the Eastern Woodland styles of art and native culture. Each child will create their own framed Spirit Totem animal drawing to take away with them.
Registration Required: Call Jane 905. 939. 9357. Limited Seating!
Raptor Show – Canadian Raptor Conservancy
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
No Charge.
Please no dogs for today only. Raptors can’t perform with dogs around.
Reptile & Amphibian Show – Sciensational Sssnakes
12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
No Charge.
The most complete collection of Ontario species in the province – safe, friendly and easy to handle
Outdoor Survival Skills
1:30 to 3:30 p.m. $10 per family
with Jonathan Thompson (Mi’kmaq)
Shelter, Water, Fire, Food! Geared towards young families, Jonathan will teach the four principles one needs to stay alive in the wilderness or survival situations. Using separate stations Jonathan will describe each display and have the children do some hands on activities i.e. learn to make fire.
Generously sponsored by Toronto & Region Conservation with support from ASK, Cold Creek Stewardship and King Township
Registration Required: Call Jane 905. 939. 9357. Limited Numbers!
Thursday, July 7
Everything you wanted to know about Native People…But never had the chance to ask….
with Alfie J. Fishgap (Coast Salish Nation in BC) & Todd Jamieson (Oneida Nation near London, Ontario)
7 p.m. Cold Creek Conservation Area. No charge.
Enjoy an evening by the fire sipping on Douglas Fir tip Tea along the Humber River and participating in an intimate discussion with Todd and Alfie. Ask questions on any subject related to Native People in Canada. Having spent the last four years presenting Aboriginal Art, Culture & History to students from grades 3 to 12 they have found that adults have many questions too. This is your chance to bring both worlds together through discussion, and interaction. Bring a lawn chair.
Friday/Saturday, July 8/9
Humber River Shakespeare Co. –
The Comedy of Errors
Outdoor Theatre at Schomberg Fairgrounds,
7 p.m. All performances are pay-what-you-can. Suggested donation $15.
Bring your friends, your family, a picnic, and a blanket and prepare to be enchanted as Shakespeare’s farce comes to King.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Girls and Boys…Step right up to see this amazing, zany, dark, chaotic and upside-down farce. Pandemonium takes place when two sets of identical twins are separated during a shipwreck and years later, both sets of twins appear in the same town. This is a fast paced comedy with burlesque dancers, fortune tellers, magicians and strange visitors, taking you on a roller coaster ride of mistaken identity leading to seduction, arrest, infidelity, beatings, theft and general all round madness.
HumberRiverShakespeare.ca 416 .209 .2026
See other dates: July 10, 13 and indoors on July 12.
Sunday, July 10 Family friendly
Humber River Shakespeare Co. – The Comedy of Errors
at Tyrwhitt Park in Kettleby Village, 2 p.m.
Rain or shine!
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