Saturday, July 5, 2025

Arts & Culture

On Thursday, July 17, the 20th launch of Gwen Lamont’s memoir takes place at Meaford Hall at 7 p.m. Tickets are available at gwenlamontauthor.ca. For over thirty years, the memories of Lamont’s childhood were buried beneath a protective gauze of forgetting. Her memoir, The View From Coffin Ridge: A Childhood Exhumed, is a remarkable story about what happens when we are forced to reconcile with a long forgotten past and the characters who shaped it. No one knew of her poor,...
Forbidden teenage love in a tiny Macedonian village; an unlikely bond between a lonely penguin and a disaffected man in Argentina; the inspiring career of a pioneer camerawoman and war photojournalist. These are just some of the topics explored in six dynamic films that will be featured at the annual Meaford International Film Festival (MIFF), now in its 19th season. Presented by the Meaford Culture Foundation, the festival will open with an evening Gala on Thursday, September 18, followed by three...

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