Arts & Culture

Meaford-based artist Doris Rose has been selected for the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award 2026 at the National Portrait Gallery in London, UK. Formerly known as the BP Portrait Award, the exhibition is one of the world’s leading showcases for contemporary portrait painting, attracting thousands of international submissions annually, with only a small number selected for exhibition in London before touring the UK. “I’m incredibly honoured to have been selected and to become part of the history of this exhibition,”...

The Meaford Public Library invites the community to Hamlet Tales: Authors Among Us, a series of free author readings and talks celebrating local voices and the stories that connect Meaford’s communities, as part of the Municipality of Meaford’s 25th Anniversary of Amalgamation. The series reflects on the coming together of the former Town of Meaford, Township of St. Vincent, and Township of Sydenham in 2001, and honours the villages and hamlets that have shaped the municipality over the past 25...