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FONDUEL – Canadian Edition
SweetCheeses!
A show down of hot melted cheese! A chance to try 5 different fondues & 2 types of raclette.
Seedy Saturday
Guelph Tool Library
Seedy Saturday is coming up on March 22nd. This year the Guelph Seed Library has teamed up with the Yorklands Green Hub to offer a Seedy Saturday event in the heart of Downtown Guelph in Old Quebec Street Shoppes. We hope to see you there for a fun day of seed swapping and shopping! The festivities run from 10 am to 3 pm. Stay tuned for more details!!
Community Garden Plot Rentals
Ignatius Farms
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.
International Women’s Day Muggle Dinner and Panel
HighR Learning
HighR Learning invites you to our 3rd Annual International Women’s Day event for a culinary journey that pays homage to Body, Mind and Soul while celebrating the accomplishments of some inspirational women in our community.
Join us for a 4-course Thai inspired meal where each dish is meticulously crafted to delight your senses using bold spices, local ingredients and traditional techniques while helping you understand terpenes.
Following dinner, join us for an insightful panel discussion hosted by The Kween Company. Gain valuable perspectives on navigating challenges, achieving success, and fostering empowerment within yourself and the community.
Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and be inspired by their unique journeys and expertise.
Electrify Everything! Canada’s Home Electrification Toolkit
eMERGE Guelph Sustainability
Almost 25% of our climate pollution comes from our homes. But there’s a lot we can do about it, like electrifying everything and stop the burning of fossil fuels. Your home can be healthier, use less energy and reduce climate pollution. Learn the latest about heat pumps, induction cookers, heat pump dryers, and especially how to avoid upsizing your electrical panel.
Spring/Summer/Fall Shares Now Available (Veggies, Pasta, Sauces & Focaccia)
Piccolo Farm Organics
In 2024 we launched our take on a traditional CSA (Community Supported/Shared Agriculture) called a CSF (Community Shared Food) which was meant to feature the uniqueness of what we do — grow Italian vegetables and use those ingredients to make Italian food (focaccia, bread, pasta and sauces).
We’re bringing back our CSF again in 2025 and offerings will include things like pesto topped focaccia in the early spring/summer months, along with spring spinach infused pastas. As the season goes on, you’ll see toppings transition to include garlic, cherry tomatoes, peppers and more.
Each week, subscribers will receive a food box (retail value of $50) delivered right to your doorstep. Secure your share now! Gluten Free options available!
Signs of Spring Craft Show with BioSnactive Foods Inc.
The University of Guelph, University Centre Building is home to the NEW Signs of Spring Craft Show and Sale. For two exclusive days in March, the show will bring the very best of Canadian designers and artisans and their hand-crafted merchandise to the University. Signs of Spring celebrates all that’s great about hand-crafted and original designs by Canadian artisans that will appeal to the seasoned collector and first-time buyer alike. If you value creativity and excellence you will not be disappointed!
Telos Meditation Group (2SLGBTQIA+)
March 20, 6:30PM, 10C Activity Room 3rd Floor. This queer meditation group meets monthly to share practices for self-compassion, stretching, grounding, embodiment, and physical and mental health. 2SLGBTQIA+ people (and allies) of all experience levels and abilities are welcome. Ages 18+. To be sent email reminders and more details, please contact [email protected]
Art on the Street 2025 Vendor Applications Open
Guelph Arts Council
Art on the Street is co-presented with Downtown Guelph Business Association and features contemporary fine art and craft. The juried event has grown since 2003 to become Guelph’s largest outdoor exhibition and sale. Each year, established and emerging artists showcase their works to several thousand visitors in temporary, open-air studios.
Enneagram for Organizational Leaders
Ignatius Jesuit Centre
The Enneagram is an industry-proven tool that supports leaders and teams to become more self-aware and helps create deep understanding, and synergy for healthier, happier ways of working together, and is used by organizations big and small around the world.
The goal of this professional development workshop is to gain valuable information and experiential learning that will support the important work you do. You’ll be joined by other local leaders in both the profit and non-profit space, and can enjoy the connection and networking over the course of the day.
Puzzle Night
Mix Tape Collection
Mix Tape Collection is a group of community members coming together to spend some intentional time together IRL. We’re hosting a puzzle night on March 8th at 5-7pm in the sunroom! Event is by donation. Please RSVP to [email protected] for more details if you’d like to come hang.
We Will Be Brave // An event about healing masculinity in Guelph
Art Not Shame
Art Not Shame is proud to co-present a free screening of We Will Be Brave, an award-winning documentary about a group of men working to uncover a masculinity that is healing rather than harmful. This screening event features a panel discussion with the filmmakers, and spoken word performance by Justin Reid. Food and refreshments provided! Register now for FREE tickets!
Songbird: An Unconventional Choir
Art Not Shame
Songbird: An Unconventional Choir, is an 10-week community choir offered by local musician, song-writer, and facilitator, Joni NehRita in partnership with Art Not Shame. Songbirds will invite community members (16+) to participate in the art of choral singing, regardless of past choral experience, musical skill or ability. Over the course of the choir, participants will learn to sing in harmony with others as they explore music that engages with themes of social justice, equity, and change and across multiple genres (e.g. pop, reggae, calypso, gospel, and jazz).
Time & Date: Tuesdays, 7-9pm from March 25th – May 27th
Location: Art Not Shame: 119 Wyndham St N
Cost: $280 for 10 weeks (sliding scale and free spots available)
Speed Friending March 13th and 15th at Brothers Brewing
Friends of Friends
Join us at Brothers Brewery downtown Guelph for 3 sessions of 20-minute conversations with a group of different people so you can mix and mingle throughout the evening.
Speed Friending is pay what you can!
Thursday March 13th at 7:30 PM is for folks in their 20s and 30s
Saturday March 15th at 5:00 PM is for folks in their 30s and 40s
Our tables are set up with a theme (you don’t have to follow but it helps connect with likeminded people) as well as conversation prompts at each table to help the flow of conversation. The best part of our events is knowing that each person is there to make connections!
ANIMA presents The Sign of Jonas; an apocalypse folktale
ANIMA early music is thrilled to present The Sign of Jonas; An Apocalypse Folktale, with texts by Luke Hathaway & music by Benton Roark. This (55-minute) work will be performed by Mother Country, a beautiful roots music ensemble led by Benton Roark (voice, banjo, guitar & piano) and featuring Andrew Ivens (voice, mandolin, guitar, piano & lap steel), Phil Albert (voice & bass) & Chris Hull (percussion). Mother Country will be joined by ANIMA’s artist co-directors, Daniel Cabena (voice & fiddle) & Luke Hathaway (spoken word).
This performance will take place on Thursday, March 20th, at 7pm
Tickets (pay what you can) are available at the door.
Here are a few notes about this work from composer Benton Roark:
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.
Spring Registration is LIVE at Guelph Outdoor School!
Spring is in the air… which means it’s time to register for SPRING WEEKLY PROGRAMS @ GOS!
These are our most popular programs of the year, for good reason. Maybe it’s because everyone’s been cooped up all winter, or maybe it’s the way the whole world bursts into life and invites us to be part of it. Either way, we can’t wait to see you out there.
Browse our programs, decide what’s right for the young one(s) in your life, and sign up today.
International Women’s Day Community Celebration
Guelph-Wellington Women in Crisis
March 8th is International Women’s Day and Guelph is celebrating women and femme folks!
Come on out Saturday March 8 from 11am-1pm to 10C for a drag show, poetry, dance performance, kids’ activities and a mini-self-care workshop. Hot beverages and snacks provided.
Prior to the event, participants can meet at Veterans Memorial Bridge at 10:45am (by the Market Parkade) for a traditional “Women on the Bridge” rally and a short march back to 10C for our celebration.
This is a free event and all are welcome!
Handbuilding Techniques Workshop Series with Noni of No Crafts
Otherwise Studios
Join No Crafts, a skilled QBIPOC ceramic artist, at Otherwise Studios for a dynamic series of ceramic handbuilding workshops! This series is perfect for all skill levels, from beginners to experienced artists, and focuses on both structured projects or open studio time to explore your creativity. The workshop series consists of two classes; Introduction to Handbuilding Techniques and Advanced Handbuilding and Personal Projects. You can attend one workshop for $35 or both for $60.
Precious Projections: A Printmaking Show by Celeste Carter
Otherwise Studios
Celeste Carter’s upcoming show, Precious Projections, will be on display at Otherwise Studios where they’ll be sharing a new collection of lino reduction prints they’ve been working on over the past 4 months as the 2024 Otherwise Print Artist in Residence. Come tour the studio and see what Celeste has been printing! Please view the website for open hours March 6 – 9 and join the opening reception March 7, 6 – 8 p.m.
AltGrocery 3.0 Launching in March – Join the Local Food Movement!
AltGrocery is a crowdsourced, nationwide platform connecting local growers, indie grocers, and backyard producers with food lovers across Canada. We’re building a community-driven “food map” alternative to grocery chains, making it easier to find and support small food businesses. Join us and help grow the local food movement! Happy to connect, [email protected], Thanks, Tom
Adult Programs and Spring Workshops Launch
Guelph Outdoor School
Registration for year-long adult programs and day-long adult workshops opens March 26th. Subscribe to our newsletter to get all the details in your inbox.
Free Improv and Sketch Writing Classes
The Friendly Heretic Theatre Company
The Friendly Heretics host free improv theatre and sketch writing classes at 10C in Guelph, and in Waterloo. They believe that improvised theatre play and performance benefits the health and well-being of individuals and society. Their mission is to make improv more accessible and engaging for all. Come out to have fun, to learn, to engage your curiosity, to build skills, to watch, or just to hang out. Find their schedule of classes and performances by reaching out on Facebook, Instagram, or by email.
We’re Booking Build Days!
Habitat for Humanity Guelph Wellington
Looking for a hands-on team-building experience? Build Days are a powerful way for employees or community groups to work together, make a direct impact, and support affordable housing. We’re offering Build Days in Fergus and, starting this spring, in GUELPH! Join us to build stronger teams and stronger communities, one brick at a time.
Arts Explosion Camp: Registration + Call for Volunteers!
Guelph Dance
Arts Explosion Camps return soon! Curious and creative campers express themselves through a variety of art forms – dance, music, theatre, visual art. There is still limited space for March Break camp and space for summer camps.
We are also seeking enthusiastic volunteers for our summer camps – ideal for people interested in working with children, being creative and looking to gain leadership experience.
To register for camp, or express interest in becoming a camp counsellor, visit the heading ‘Camps’ on our website .
Double Bill of Dance: KasheDance and CinnaMoon Collective
Guelph Dance
Guelph Dance looks forward to presenting KasheDance and CinnaMoon Collective of the IBPOC Artist’s Network Tour.
Friday, March 28 at 7:30 PM
Guelph Youth Dance Studios, 42 Quebec St.
Tickets are $10 or $20
