9:30 AM| 9 Church St, Halton Hills, ON
Join us to learn about the Halton Hills Cultural Centre & Library's environment features that make it a LEED Silver Certification building. LEED Certification stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.
The Cultural Centre & Library was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance in energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts. The Green Tours take you behind-the-scenes to explain the various features and methods that make the facility a LEED Silver building.
Tours leave every half hour. Meet at the Halton Hills Public Library table in the Plaza outside of the Georgetown Branch.
10:00 AM
Active in the community for over 50 years, the Georgetown Rug Hooking Guild celebrates the artistry of this traditional medium. Group members will demonstrate their craft on Wednesday, October 5th and Wednesday, October 12th from 10am - 3 pm in the Sisnett Lobby of the Halton Hills Cultural Centre. Give it a try!
This event is on virtual on the Helson Gallery site.
6:30 PM| Acton Rotary Park, 24 Elizabeth Drive
3:30 PM| Acton
Meet up with Acton's Artist in Residence Ingrid Mayerhofer at the weekly Farmers' Market, and stay up to date with her community arts project - to be revealed in Prospect Park this October! Ingrid's work has previously been on display through the Public Art Program with her 'After Nature' banner series, displayed throughout the town in 2020 and 2021. This program is presented by the Acton BIA in partnership with the Town of Halton Hills.
4:00 PM| Outside the Acton Town Hall
The Town of Halton Hills has partnered with the Downtown Acton BIA to bring you 'Art Around Acton'. Residents and visitors can experience a variety of temporary and permanent public art activations and cultural events in Downtown Acton until the end of 2022. As part of Art Around Acton and Culture Days, don't miss Ingrid Mayrhofer as the artist in residency at the Acton Farmer's Market this fall and the weekly music series!
Don't miss Ingrid Mayrhofer, visual artist, curator, educator and community arts pracitioner during an 8-week artist residency at the Acton Farmer’s Market every Thursday until October 6. During this residency, Mayrhofer will work with a “Tree of Life” motif, creating clay tiles that will be mounted to form a mural. Visitors can contribute sketches or clay pieces or chose to take a self-curing clay piece home. The final mural will be presented during Culture Days this fall. Residents in Halton Hills may recognize her printmaking works from the After Nature public art banners that were displayed in multiple locations in Town in 2020 and 2021.
7:00 PM| Glen Williams Town Hall, 1 Prince St, Georgetown ON, L7G 2X1
Creating Our Happiness - Drop-in Meditation
with Kadampa Buddhist nun,
Gen Kelsang Kunden
Where does happiness come from? How can we create more happiness for ourselves and others? Buddha teaches that happiness comes from our positive thoughts and actions and unhappiness comes from negative thoughts and actions. When we deeply understand the law of karma, from non-virtue comes suffering and from virtue comes happiness, we can confidently create our own happiness and help others do the sameInstead of blaming our other people, our circumstances, we can learn respond with a positive mind to all challenges and difficulties and generate our own happiness.In September, we will contemplate the following topics and through meditation, deepen our wisdom and understanding and learn how to practically apply these teachings to solve our daily problems and difficulties.
Each class consists of guided meditations and teachings that we can contemplate and practice throughout the week. Each contemplation has a practical application to solve our daily problems. Through attending classes and putting effort into applying these teachings to our daily lives, we can make great progress increasing our own inner peace. Through engaging in meditation practice we can develop and maintain a peaceful mind all the time. If we have a peaceful mind all the time we will be happy all the time, regardless of whether our conditions are good or bad. Now is the time to train in inner peace and happiness by putting Buddha’s teachings into practice.
There is no need to pre-register. Just come along.
$12. $40 for 4 classes.
1:00 PM| 116 Main St S, Georgetown
Join us on this Heritage Walking Tour led by historian John Mark Rowe and learn more about Georgetown's history! This tour of of Main Street, Georgetown will last just over an hour and will start at the Knox Presbyterian Church at 1:00 PM. This event is a part of the Ontario Culture Days Regional Hub Program.
10:00 AM
Active in the community for over 50 years, the Georgetown Rug Hooking Guild celebrates the artistry of this traditional medium. Group members will demonstrate their craft on Wednesday, October 5th and Wednesday, October 12th from 10am - 3 pm in the Sisnett Lobby of the Halton Hills Cultural Centre. Give it a try!
This event is on virtual on the Helson Gallery site.
11:00 AM| 9 Church St, Halton Hills, ON
Luckystickz returns to Halton Hills for a special Culture Days event. Join this engaging musician for a fun, interactive introduction to Steelpan drums! This 1 hour session will include a performance, talk on the history and development of the instrument, and 30 minutes of hands on workshop time where participants will learn and perform a song on the drums. This event is a part of the Ontario Culture Days Regional Hub Program.
6:30 PM
The Dirt on Soil: Composting and Building Healthier Soil
Mycorrhizae, what’s that? At this workshop you will learn what mycorrhizae is and the role it, and soil play in the food web. We will also go over how soil connects to Climate Change, how it absorbs carbon, and how you can effectively compost to build better soil in your garden. This workshop will also discuss urban soil’s effect on trees, and fungal ID tips for some common wood decay, and mycorrhizal fungi.
Workshops run from 6:30pm - 8:00pm via Zoom
Join Conservation Halton online for a series of virtual workshops to learn how you can work with nature to build a resilient garden throughout the colder seasons. Allow their experts to guide you through how to manage rain, snow and ice where you live, build better soil, and keep your garden healthy year-round.
6:30 PM
Putting your Garden to Bed: Winterizing your Yard and being Salt Smart
Gardens still need attention in the Winter — let us help you put your garden to bed naturally and create Fall/Winter interest in your yard. We will give you guidance on how to better use leaf mulch and compost as well as how to source native plants. We will also cover how salt impacts your garden and how you can be salt smart to keep your garden beautiful and healthy year-round.
Workshops run from 6:30pm - 8:00pm via Zoom
Join Conservation Halton online for a series of virtual workshops to learn how you can work with nature to build a resilient garden throughout the colder seasons. Allow their experts to guide you through how to manage rain, snow and ice where you live, build better soil, and keep your garden healthy year-round.
7:00 PM| Glen Williams Town Hall, 1 Prince St, Georgetown ON, L7G 2X1
Creating Our Happiness - Drop-in Meditation
with Kadampa Buddhist nun,
Gen Kelsang Kunden
Where does happiness come from? How can we create more happiness for ourselves and others? Buddha teaches that happiness comes from our positive thoughts and actions and unhappiness comes from negative thoughts and actions. When we deeply understand the law of karma, from non-virtue comes suffering and from virtue comes happiness, we can confidently create our own happiness and help others do the sameInstead of blaming our other people, our circumstances, we can learn respond with a positive mind to all challenges and difficulties and generate our own happiness.In September, we will contemplate the following topics and through meditation, deepen our wisdom and understanding and learn how to practically apply these teachings to solve our daily problems and difficulties.
Each class consists of guided meditations and teachings that we can contemplate and practice throughout the week. Each contemplation has a practical application to solve our daily problems. Through attending classes and putting effort into applying these teachings to our daily lives, we can make great progress increasing our own inner peace. Through engaging in meditation practice we can develop and maintain a peaceful mind all the time. If we have a peaceful mind all the time we will be happy all the time, regardless of whether our conditions are good or bad. Now is the time to train in inner peace and happiness by putting Buddha’s teachings into practice.
There is no need to pre-register. Just come along.
$12. $40 for 4 classes.