Provincial Election All Candidates Meeting
Guelph/Wellington Coalition for Social Justice
An all Candidates Meeting will take place Tuesday February 11, doors open at 6:30pm, this is free event with free parking.
Italian Canadian Club
135 Ferguson Street
Donations welcome!
Where do candidates stand on the issues you care about?
This event is hosted by the Guelph/Wellington Coalition for Social Justice, for more info email: [email protected]
Freelance Graphic Designer for hire!
Enthizi Creative
My name is Erin and I’m a graphic designer who is passionate about creating beautiful and informative designs to support small businesses, social enterprises, not-for-profits, and cool people. If that’s you and you need help with communications and design, send me an email at [email protected]!
Human Systems Dynamics Gathering 2025 – a participatory conference
Kate Webster
May 28, 2025 6pm – 9 pm
May 29 – 30, 2025 8am – 5pm
Calling all changemakers! Does this sound like you?
• You see complexity all around you – in your teams, your communities and your organizations.
• You see patterns that may not be fit for purpose, but which you believe can be shifted.
• You know that when you ask more questions, you can see uncertainty as a place of possibility and potential rather than of risk and threat.
• You want to connect with other people who are excited to keep learning, to take action for good in the world.
Come join us to deepen your understanding of how to work with complexity. Whether you are working to shift patterns or address change in the individual, team, organization or community spheres, learning to apply the models, methods and approaches of Human Systems Dynamics can help.
Panel Discussion: Supporting Survivors of Human Trafficking
Guelph-Wellington Women in Crisis
February is Human Trafficking Awareness Month in Canada.
Join us on February 19 from 12-1:30pm for a panel discussion on the theme of “Wrapping Around: Mobilizing Our Community to Support Survivors of Human Trafficking.”
Our panel of front-line experts from across sectors will discuss best practices in survivor support, challenges, solutions and ways to do support work in a sustainable way.
This event is for anyone who supports folks who are at risk of or who experience trafficking, whether in your personal or your professional life.
Tickets are free. Coffee and light snacks will be served.
2SLGBTQIA+ Youth Group
Out on the Shelf
We’re excited to announce our new Youth Group brought to you in partnership between Out on the Shelf and Parkwood Gardens on Wednesdays at our library, second floor of 10C from 7:00 – 9:00pm
This group is for ages 13-18. See you there!
Clothing Drive
Out on the Shelf
We need your new or gently used clothing!
During winter PRIDE this year Out on the Shelf and Guelph Pride will be having a pay what you can clothing drive on Wednesday, February 12 from 1:00pm – 8:00pm. All funds from the event will be donated directly back into Guelph Pride and Out on the Shelf.
Please have all donations in by FEBRUARY 7.
Please bring donations to the library during operating hours.
ANIMA presents: The Sign of Jonas; An Apocalypse Folktale
March 20, 2025 | 7-9pm
Pay What You Can Tickets
ANIMA is thrilled to present The Sign of Jonas! This (55-minute) performance will celebrate the recent release of Mother Country’s recording of The Sign of Jonas, with texts by Luke Hathaway and music by Benton Roark. Here are a few notes from Benton about the work:
“Sparse in construction, timeless in imagery, arcane in meaning, and proto-mythical in characters and narrative, The Sign of Jonas superimposes personal apocalypse on environmental and cultural collapse. It imagines a song cycle lost and found: a musical manuscript orphaned by the cataclysms of the 21st century, and rewakened to ritual life far in the future. The fragmentary text speaks of travelling, of death and rebirth, of decay and regeneration; the music is a ritualized series of part songs, responsorials, chants, chorales, and incantations, performed as a folk-music-pageant-mystery-play, complete with communal singing and other forms of audience participation. When our lives end, they continue in one another.”
Local, Organically Grown Microgreens
Backyard Roots & Shoots
Want microgreens delivered to your doorstep every week, less than 24 hours after they’re harvested?
We offer 4 different varieties of microgreens or the Weekly Micro Variety Pack:
– 60g Broccoli
– 100g Sunflower
– 100g Pea
– 75g Crunchy Mix
– Weekly Micro Variety Pack (1 Order of Each)
They’re exceptionally fresh because they’re delivered less than 24 hours after they’re harvested, and grown sustainably with less water and no pesticides.
Use code 10C to get free delivery within Guelph for any size order.
Live Performance Life Drawing with SHEBAD
Otherwise Studios
February 20 6:30-8:30pm
Get ready for a unique, intimate evening with local legends, SHEBAD, at Otherwise Studios for another live performance life drawing event! This event will give you a behind-the-scenes peak at what a SHEBAD rehearsal looks and sounds like, while learning how to draw a moving figure. The rehearsal format and drawing class are carefully curated together to create an enjoyable art & music experience that match each other’s energy. There will be guided demos every step of the way, teaching techniques to draw and problem-solve quickly, lean into intuition, and capture moving shape, form, and light. Come to draw, or just enjoy the sweet sounds of the band!
Collaborative Gelli Plate Printmaking at Royal City Brewing
Otherwise Studios
February 13 7-9PM
Bring your Valentine or Palentine to this collaborative gelli plate printmaking workshop at Royal City Brewing! Experiment with monoprinting without a press using a gel plate printing technique – learn how to compose interesting imagery using stencils, transfers, and various tools to create texture. Go home with a new art skill, some team-building skills, and a collaborative print made with someone you care about! Purchasing one ticket to this workshop admits two people and includes two drinks (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) from Royal City Brewing Company.
Free Webinar: The hidden biases to tackle the challenge of food insecurity and hunger?
Municipal Waste Association on behalf of the Ontario Food Collaborative
Hear how Clancy Harrison has transformed surplus food into an opportunity that challenges the status quo. Taking this endeavour into her own hands to establish meaningful collaboration, Clancy has distributed over four million meals in her community, improving the stigma around access to healthy foods.
Where: On Zoom – You must pre-register to attend
Blind Date With a Book
Pages and Conversations Book Club
February 16, 3:30-6:00PM
Hosted by the Pages and Conversations Book Club, a book club for women of color within the KWCG (Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge-Guelph) community, this special galentines day book swap is a fun and relaxed way to meet new people, share your love of literature, and celebrate community.
Community Garden Plot rentals
Ignatius Farm
Ignatius Farm Community Gardens plots are a welcoming and beautiful place to garden, be a part of your neighbourhood farm, and build a wonderful sense of community. Various sizes available to rent for the upcoming season.
Gardens open May 17. Register early as plots sell out fast.
BIOREGIONAL HERBALISM: TREE MEDICINE – an Adult Workshop
The Guelph Outdoor School
February 22, 2025 12-4PM
BIOREGIONAL HERBALISM connects herbal medicine, ecology, and a sense of place by working with locally abundant plants in a way that honors reciprocity and ethical harvesting. This winter workshop focuses on conifers like pine, hemlock, and fir, exploring their medicinal actions, ecological roles, and preparation methods. Participants will learn to identify trees by bark, buds, and growth patterns during a plant walk, gaining skills to deepen their connection to winter ecology. The hands-on session includes brewing tree tea, tasting tinctures, and creating an all-purpose salve to take home. We hope to see you there!
Guelph Film Festival: Submissions now open!
Submissions are now open for the 2025 Guelph Film Festival!
We are also VERY excited to announce that we are now a qualifying festival for the Canadian Screen Awards (Canada’s version of the Oscars)!
If you have a documentary that you would like us to consider head on over to FilmFreeway and review our submission requirements. We also accept short animations geared towards kids 0-11.
The Hive an Arts Collective Events
Winter Oddities Market
February 23, 2025 12-4PM
Oddities and reptiles, ghosts of Guelph and our nature inspired, harvest required earth loving local artists come together in the cold ? to warm you up with workshops, info and crafts and of course all their amazing art for sale! see you there!
Valentine’s Market
February 9, 2025 12-4PM
Valentine’s Day Market! Shop for your loved ones from local artists. Create a scent-ual massage candle at our workshop! Kiddo crafts area to make valentines with Two Rivers Neighbourhood Group.
Family Fun Market
February 16, 2025 12-4PM
20+ local vendors! Great brunch menu! Kids workshops, meet and greet with some slithering friends ? Niche Forms will run a Q and A on reptile care. Crafts to keep you busy, art to fill your soul ✨️ ♥️ Honey to taste and neighbors to support! See you there?
