June Arts & Culture Scene: Tweed & Area Events

The Tweed & Area Arts Council has been working with several other local organizations to share information / coordinate the many arts / culture events happening in our community. One of the products we have prepared to help get the word out is a monthly poster calendar that highlights Tweed arts and culture events. This one is for June 2025 – please share the pdf or jpeg version! For more details on these and other events, and to learn about additional arts events in Tweed, see our events listing ! Please feel free to submit your arts or culture event to us so we can add it to the calendar.

Heads up on some items of interest:

• Learn more about the Tweed & Area Arts Council and what we do, including our updated brochure, at About Us – Tweed and Area Arts Council.    If you appreciate our work, please consider becoming a member or making a donation to support our work as a charitable not-for-profit organization run entirely by volunteers.
• The Arts Council is organizing this year’s ‘Tweed’s Front Porch Ruckus’ on Sat. June 28.  Learn more about performing, hosting a porch, or sponsoring at ‘Tweed’s Front Porch Ruckus’ June 28, 2025. We have almost 20 participating porches/performers, and new this year are some family activities in Memorial Park: try out an instrument and learn about the Stirling Musical Instrument Lending Library, as well as free face painting. There will also be performers on the Tweed & Company Outdoor Stage! Sign up for porches/performers closes on June 7…Keep an eye out for the map of this year’s event mid- to late- June.
• The current ‘In Conversation with Artists’ features painter Cid Palacio: painter, gallery owner and teacher. A selection of Cid’s work is on display at the Tweed Public Library, Quinn’s of Tweed Fine Art Gallery and in the atrium at the Marble Arts Centre.  Read an article or watch the video interview on our YouTube channel at ‘In Conversations with Artists’: Cid Palacio – Painter, Gallery Owner, Teacher. Next up for the summer is painter Bob Pennycook!
• Art in the Park is Sat. August 2 at the Pavilion/Memorial Park.  Get details at Art in the Park.  Applications for artists/artisans are being accepted, and tickets for a fundraising lunch are available at the Tweed News and from Arts Council Board members. You will enjoy a recent news blog on the history of Art in the Park.
• Tweed & Company Theatre is offering theatrical performances, concerts and more at the Marble Arts Centre this season.  If you haven’t yet seen the spectacular new atrium and renovated theatre space – you really should… June shows at the MAC include Illusionist Nicholas Wallace’s ‘A Work of Fiction’ on June 6, and Betty Baker’s Drag Bingo on June 14. Paintings by the late legendary painter Audrey Ross are on view and available for purchase at the MAC until the end of June.  Mark your calendars for June 22’s ‘WILDEST DREAMS: A Tribute to Taylor Swift’ and Sept 26 ‘Practically Hip’ shows at the Tweed & Co Outdoor Stage in Memorial Park – both are FREE/ ‘Pay What You Feel’!
• There is more information on each of the events included in the poster on our event calendar…