With Canada’s 150th birthday and summer quickly approaching, here is a round-up of the top 10 free things to do in Hamilton this summer for the big 1-5-0. Light up the Knight: An Evening Event at Dund…
Art & Culture
Pride Hamilton 2017
It’s time to get loud and proud, Hamilton! The Pride Hamilton 2017 committee came together after an open LGBTQ town hall in November 2016 where they asked the community what they would want to s…
The #greendoorhouse
Have you ever heard of a house that has it’s own hashtag? Architect Agata Mancini’s house does. The #greendoorhouse stands alone as a contemporary splash on a historic street. Agata and her husband To…
Francis Fougere presents The Carports of Pleasant Valley
Inspired by his childhood home in suburban Montreal, Photographer Francis Fougere is bringing his latest photo series “The Carports of Pleasant Valley” to the Dundas Carnegie Gallery from June 2nd to …
The Quilted Portrait
Meet Quilted Portrait aka Jeff (Fuzzy) Mall; a quiet little guy with a big beard that’s behind an art project called Faces of Hamilton. He’s a self-taught artist that recently moved from Pittsburgh t…
Auchmar Manor House
For nearly 165 years, Auchmar — a pre-Confederation gothic manor — has sat perched upon the Hamilton Mountain, built at a time before Mohawk College and big-box stores populated the neighbourhood. Con…
The Death Of The Fawcett House And A Call To Save Modernity
So long, Fawcett House. A Trevor Garwood-Jones jewel located at the edge of Sydenham Hill in Dundas, with an incredible vista of the valley, has just been demolished. This marks a similar trend happen…
Hamilton Youth Poets – Louder Than A Bomb
With Hamilton’s art, food, and music scenes garnering more and more attention, there’s another incredible art form that’s right there under the radar. Hamilton Youth Poets (HYP) was …
Architecture Crawl 2.0
It has been just over 2 years now since the Hamilton Burlington Society of Architects hosted their first Architecture Crawl (during the OAA Annual General Meeting). Finally, after much anticipation, t…
Q&A with Principal Architect Bill Curran
You went to the University of Waterloo to study architecture. What brought you back to Hamilton? Just serendipity. I never really planned to come back to Hamilton, I never thought there’d be an opport…