Please note that Campbell House Museum will not be providing house tours from Sunday, July 29th through Tuesday July 31st. Garden will be accessible throughout the day for Diageo’s World Class Cocktail Week.
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Museum Closed on Thursday, June 21 and Friday, June 22
The museum will be CLOSED on Thursday, June 21 and Friday, June 22 for a private event.
Please join us when we reopen on Saturday, 23 June at 10 am for Etsy Street Team Summer Market.
Museum Closed Sept 1 – Sept 14
Please note that the museum will be closed Sept 1 – Sept 3 for Labour Day weekend.
This is also our fourth year to join TIFF celebrations, as part of Mongrel Media’s annual takeover. The museum will be closed for the public during this time, Sept 4 – Sept 14.
We will resume our regular business hours on Saturday, September 15.
If you have any questions about our hours or concerns about the noise during this time, please do not hesitate to contact us at 416-597-0227 x2 or info@campbellhousemuseum.ca
Happy TIFF!
The 6th Degree: Interactive Theatre Show at Campbell House
Thursday, May 9th / 2002; The body of 30-year-old Chloe Traeger was found brutally murdered in the basement of her own home through what appeared to be some kind of sinister sacrificial ceremony. The Hastings County Police Department believe of the 6 suspects they have rounded up so far, they are definitely harbouring the guilty party.
The Police Chief has them contained in an unused witness protection house somewhere outside of Marmora, Ontario; they are each in their own locked, guarded room waiting to be questioned. Youll have to scan through the case files of the suspects, look over photographs taken at the scene of the crime, and examine physical evidence found on the night of to aid in this disturbing investigation.
As an officer of the Hastings County Police, it is up to you and your partner to talk to, question, and interrogate these suspects in order to decipher not only the truth of this complex and harrowing crime, but determine who exactly is the most culpable of the murder of Chloe Traeger.
Be warned, this investigation contains content involving crimes of a sexual and religious nature, explicit images of the results of this crime, interacting directly with those that may be involved in said crime, walking around the house for an extended period of time, climbing stairs to multiple levels of the house, and potentially working with a friend to solve a case the likes of which this precinct has never seen before.
Also be warned, once the interrogation period starts, you will NOT be allowed to join in late; please arrive early or on time if you expect to be a part of this investigation.
The max number of investigators taking part in this process is 16, and everyone will be split into pairs of 2. If you arrive with another partner, you may work together. If you arrive with 2 others (Making 3 of you), expect to get split up; the outlier will either have to work with a stranger or figure things out on their own.
This is a two-and-a-half hour process. Drink a strong coffee, wear comfy shoes & roll up your sleeves; its going to be a long night.
Show dates and times:
May 23, 6 pm & 9 pm
May 24, 6 pm ONLY
May 25, 6 pm ONLY
May 26, 9 pm ONLY
May 30, 6 pm & 9 pm
May 31, 6 pm ONLY
June 1, 6 pm & 9 pm
June 2, 6 pm & 9 pm
Get your tickets here: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3396243
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Common Readings, the April Edition: Come for the Words and the Wine!
Come for the Words and the Wine is an exciting literary reading series organized by Common Readings.
Join us on Monday, April 23rd at 7:30 pm and engage with the works of poets Ben Gallagher, Laura Ritland, and Michelle Brown who will all be reading from newly published books available for purchase at the event.
Doors open at 7 pm, the event starts at 7:30 pm and runs until 9 pm.
Pay-What-You-Can
BEN GALLAGHER is a poet and essayist, who divides his time between Toronto, ON and Scotch Village, NS, where he helps to organize a co-operative farm. He is currently in a PhD program at OISE, studying poetry curriculum and pedagogy, alternative arts education, and land. He is also a co-host of semi-regular Listening Parties. Recent writing can be found in The Maynard, The Puritan, Sewer Lid, Arc, (parenthetical), and Lion’s Roar.
LAURA RITLAND’s poems have appeared in magazines across Canada, including The Fiddlehead, CNQ, The Walrus, Maisonneuve, Arc Poetry Magazine, and The Malahat Review. She is the author of the chapbook Marine Science (Anstruther 2016), a graduate of the Masters in Creative Writing Program at the University of Toronto, and recipient of the 2014 Malahat Far Horizons Award. Born in Toronto and raised in Vancouver, she currently divides her time along the west coast between Vancouver and the California Bay Area, where she is a PhD student in English at UC Berkeley and a current Simpson Fellow with the Simpson Family Literary Project. Her debut collection East and West launches with Véhicule Press this April.
Originally from Victoria, BC, MICHELLE BROWN lives in Toronto with her husband and three-legged dog Bo. Previously shortlisted for CV2’s Young Buck poetry prize and longlisted for the CBC poetry prize, Safe Words (Palimpsest Press, 2018) is her first full-length collection.
Common Readings aims to create an environment that supports all aspects of diversity within the Toronto literary community and beyond. This literary reading series creates a forum where both emerging and established writers can be exposed to new work from those at differing stages of their career. Every Common Readings is an opportunity for a variety of voices to interact in order to establish artistic and community dialogue.
Hosted and curated by Toronto poet Daniel Kincade Renton with support from the Common Readings Collective.
For more information, check out Common Readings website and Facebook Page.
Common Readings Literary Reading Series will run at Campbell House Museum on every fourth Monday until June 25.