Everything worth doing in Durham Region this week — markets, festivals, live music, one-off events, and the small stuff that never makes the news. Updated weekly.
Things to Do
Durham Region this week: Halloween lands on a Saturday and the whole region comes out in costume, an Alice Cooper legend spills studio secrets at the Biltmore, and a new café inside Whitby's Abilities Centre pours coffee with a purpose.
Ajax
Durham Region this week: a reader sends us to a pinball café in downtown Whitby, Oshawa's Food Truck Corral spins up the midway one last time, and Saturday turns into a region-wide Halloween dress rehearsal.
Ajax
Durham Region this week: Saturday crams four free fall festivals into a single day, a horror-themed café in Courtice settles into its favourite month, and the Ajax Comedy Club reopens after a week off for construction.
Region Wide
Durham Region this week: a Whitby dance studio throws in six nights of free group classes, Ajax serves Saturday-morning cartoons with a cereal buffet, and chinook salmon climb a fish ladder in Bowmanville.
Region Wide
Durham Region this week: a cult-classic musical comedy claws its way onto an Oshawa stage, a dessert shop I already can't stop ordering from opens its first Durham storefront in Ajax, and Clarington's arborists show you how pruning is really done.
Things to Do
Durham Region this week: Oshawa's brand-new festival wins a provincial award before its second run, Port Perry's arena turns 50, and a free Mr. Dress-Up exhibit counts down its last days in Pickering.
Region Wide
Durham Region this week: a $155-million sports complex swings open in Whitby, fall fair season peaks in Uxbridge and Orono, and a comedy club keeps doing its quiet, excellent thing in an Ajax banquet hall.
Region Wide
The end of August in Durham Region, Ontario: A car show takes over Uxbridge, comedy night's back in a banquet hall, and a countdown to school.
Ajax
Hey, hi, hello there, folks and friends. Welcome to the very first issue of From Durham. No fanfare, no confetti cannon (alright, alright, just one) — just a weekly rundown of what's actually happening around the region, so you can stop piecing it all together across five different Facebook