Programming Archive — Events & Exhibitions
2024
Every Chip Stands - Exhibition at The Elm Cafe
Chip Stands are a ubiquitous part of Ontario’s landscape. Most chip stands began as a vehicle of some sort that morphed into a semi-permanent, retrofitted, DIYed shack. They are not pretty, nor do they pretend to be. They are not pristine eateries; you will be eating your food on the side of the road. Chip stands are a highlight of a road trip, a welcome rest stop, a lunch break, and a place to go with your friends and family.
Annual General Meeting
Sundays Best Series at The Elm Cafe
The Gertrudes at The Broom Factory. Sunday November 3rd.
Skeleton Park Halloween Parade October 31st. Halloween Parade Band Brass Over Tea Kettle
In “Through the Lens of Youth” we invite you to explore the diverse realms of adolescent creativity. This exhibition showcases the imagination and evolving artistic voices of senior Visual Arts and Media Arts students from Regiopolis-Notre Dame Catholic High School.
LAL: Spectacular Tour, Kingston
Drawing on the transcendent and transgressive roots of house/electronic music, LAL use each successive album as a chance to explore further and further into the future. With so many futures awaiting us, we’re fortunate to have their music as a guide. The fragile melodies and throbbing bass sound out, like a rope and plank bridge across a dangerous chasm. We could choose to plunge into the gaping maw and take what comes our way; we may instead make unsteady, swaying steps towards safety on that far side. Not the dead happiness of certainty and security but rather the comfort of a future built by vulnerability, magical thinking, generosity and the tenderest of rage.
Moskitto Bar A Celebration of SPAF Volunteers
Moskitto Bar is a fresh and unique sound created in the multi-cultural hub of Toronto, Canada. Their sound combines a beautiful and original mix of Ukrainian, Balkan, Iraqi Middle-Eastern and French Celtic music.
Skeleton Park Arts Festival 2024
Come and enjoy the 19th anniversary of the Skeleton Park Arts Festival, a non-profit annual summer solstice celebration, during the June 22 & 23 Summer Solstice Weekend. This free, family-oriented event takes place in McBurney Park and the surrounding neighbourhood.
Strange Beautiful Things
Exhibition by the artist Sasha Jimenez French at The Elm Cafe
2021
Next Door 2021
Curated by Nicole Daniels
An Evening of Dance
Local dance showcase co-presented with Inner Harbour Collective and Kingston Canadian Film Festival
Halloween Parade with Urban Science Brass Band
Preceded by a youth music workshop co-presented with Roots & Wings, KEYS Job Centre, Queen's Black Graduate Caucus
KPP AT 20
Elm Café Exhibition co-presented with KPP Concerts, featuring photos by Virginia Maria Meeks
Workhorse Film Screening
Co-presented with Kingston Canadian Film Festival, featuring a performance by the Limestone Trio
Herbariums: Meditations on Forgotten Flora
Co-presented as part of Kingston WritersFest, featuring Helen Humphreyshttps://skeletonparkartsfest.ca/spaf-at-home/
2020
Next Door: A Skeleton Park Neighbourhood Art Project
Co-presented with Union Gallery
Skeleton Park People Project
John Claytor
Renga of a Distanced Spring
Jason Heroux, Nancy Jo Cullen, Helen Humpreys, Kirsteen MacLeod, Sadiqa de Meijer, Ashley-Elizabeth Best, and Sarah Tsiang. Video by Ali Dixon.
2019
Doula Support Foundation Benefit Concert
w/ Lemon Bucket Orchestra, Weather Station, The Gertrudes
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Skeleton Press Launch Party
Thursday November 21
Fall Square Dance
Sunday October 20
Halloween Parade in Skeleton Park
Thursday October 31
Mary Poppins Sing-Along Movie Screening
Friday September 20
BAD IDEAS FOREVER feat Jon Claytor Art and Charlotte Cornfield Music
Wednesday September 18
Live Music Aqua Fitness, feat. Spencer Evans’ Goat Steppers
Thursday June 20
Skeleton Park Arts Festival Opening Night, feat. “Who Is Bruce Kauffman?” film screening
Wednesday June 19
The SKELETON PRESS Launch Party, feat. Beverly Glenn Copeland
Sunday June 16
Click here to view the full 2019 festival schedule.