Dried Floral Arrangement Class
2025-12-03 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | Three Sheets Brewing Tap Room, 1246 Goderich Street, Port Elgin, ON, Canada
We have an awesome chance to get together with some friends over the holiday season coming December 3rd ✨ Grab a friend and let’s learn how to create the perfect dried floral arrangement!

Kiwanis Holiday Concert
2025-12-03 19:00 - 22:00 | Harmony Centre, 890 4th Ave E, Owen Sound, ON, N4K 2N7, Canada
Excellent music in support of a great cause.
The annual Christmas Concert fundraiser for the Grey Country Kiwanis Festival of Music.
Wednesday Dec 3 at 7pm (doors 6:30pm).
Admission is by donation.

B.A.L.L. Lecture Series
2025-12-04 10:00 - 12:00 | Bayshore Community Centre
All Too Clear: Beneath the Surface of the Great Lakes
For the past three years, documentary filmmakers Yvonne Drebert and Zach Melnick have been exploring the underwater world of the Great Lakes with a cutting-edge underwater drone, or “ROV.” Diving to the lake’s greatest depths and filming for hours at a time has allowed the husband-and-wife team to capture never-before-seen footage of the lakes’ most elusive species.
Join these freshwater explorers and their ROV, “Kiyi,” for a “behind-the-scenes” look at their latest documentary, “All Too Clear.” See how quadrillions of invasive mussels have re-engineered the Great Lakes on a scale not seen since glaciers. Organisms of all kinds—from tiny plankton to large fish—are vanishing, creating vast biological deserts. From dazzling shallow-water worlds resembling the Caribbean to the shipwreck of the “Africa,” entombed in mussels 300 feet below—All Too Clear explores the freshwater world like never before.
This lecture will begin with the showing of a 20 minute version of Yvonne and Zach’s award-winning feature-length documentary, followed by the usual talk and Q&A format.

Lecturers – Yvonne Drebert & Zach Melnick

Filmmakers Yvonne Drebert and Zach Melnick are the founders of Inspired Planet Productions, located on the beautiful Saugeen (Bruce) Peninsula in Ontario. For more than two decades, the husband-and-wife team have been shining the spotlight on Canadian nature and history stories, creating more than 40 hours of broadcast documentary, including the 2021 Canadian Screen Award nominated series, “Striking Balance.” For their 2024 series “All Too Clear,” Drebert and Melnick shifted their lens to the underwater world. Using cutting-edge ROVs, they immerse themselves in rarely seen aquatic environments, capturing extraordinary wildlife behaviours, and even discovering the occasional shipwreck.
All Too Clear Film Website

Christmas On The Bay in Meaford
2025-12-04 14:00 - 20:00 | 12 Nelson St East, Meaford, Ontario, 12 Nelson St East, Meaford, Ontario, Meaford, Ontario, Canada
Thursday, December 4: 2:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Friday, December 5: 2:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Saturday,December 6: 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Sunday, December 7: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Come and immerse yourself into a welcoming world of delightfully decorated wooden market stalls, twinkling lights, fire bowls, beautifully adorned Christmas trees, music, and live entertainment. Stroll through the market and experience the sights, sounds and, scents of the season. Shop for the area’s finest locally made foods, artisanal products, and hand-crafted gifts.
In celebrating diversity, Christmas On The Bay™ strives to be a welcoming, inclusive, and safe space creating a sense of belonging for all. Everyone is encouraged to be a part of this magical event.
Explore and discover Meaford as well. Local retail, and dining seasonal features can be found throughout the Meaford downtown area.

Marsh Street Rocks: Student Showcase
2025-12-04 18:30 - 21:00 | The Marsh Street Centre, 187 Marsh Street, Clarksburg, Ontario, Canada
All the Marsh Street Rocks groups perform at the MSR Showcase. Concert starts at 6pm – Thursday Dec 4th, 2025 – – – FREE ENTRY EVENT – – –

TIFF Film Circuit: The Penguin Lessons
2025-12-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Bruce County Museum and Cultural Centre, 33 Victoria St N, Southampton, ON, Canada
December 4 | 7:00 PM
Our TIFF Film Circuit series continues with a screening of the 2024 British-Argentinian film The Penguin Lessons. Inspired by the true story of a disillusioned Englishman who went to work in a school in Argentina in 1976. Expecting an easy ride, Tom discovers a divided nation and a class of unteachable students. However, after he rescues a penguin from an oil-slicked beach, his life is turned upside-down.

About the Film
Starring Oscar nominee Steve Coogan, this poignant dramedy follows an Englishman’s personal and political awakening after he adopts a penguin during a cataclysmic period in Argentine history. Inspired by true events, The Penguin Lessons takes to heart the notion that saving someone’s life begins a new responsibility. In this case, that someone is a surprisingly wise, utterly adorable penguin. Helmed by Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty; Military Wives, TIFF ’19), The Penguin Lessons delivers this delightful story with wit, warmth, and subtle insight into just how rewarding it can be to do the right thing.

Craft Show - Artisans Holiday Show and Sale
2025-12-05 - 2025-12-08 | Bayshore Community Centre
Shop expertly curated handmade products in home décor, fashion, jewellery, visual art, body care, artisanal food items, and many more unique works while meeting the passionate creatives in person, and hearing their stories.

Christmas on the Bay in Meaford
2025-12-05 14:00 - 20:00, 2025-12-06 10:00 - 20:00, 2025-12-07 10:00 - 16:00 | Meaford

Rob Elder
2025-12-05 20:00 - 23:00 | Harbour Street Fish Bar, 10 Keith Ave #403, Collingwood, ON, L9Y0W5, Canada
Rob Elder

Rob Elder is an independent singer-songwriter based in Ontario, Canada, who could be described as a “re-emerging” artist. In a previous life, he was an award-winning young musician who self-released two albums and performed his way onto many stages and into many hearts.

Saturday Morning Sound Bath with Jay Robinson
2025-12-06 10:00 - 12:00 | Lotus Sound Collingwood
Join Sound Bath Artist Jay Robinson for a 60 minute Saturday morning Gong Bath featuring an ever evolving palette of sonic tools including Planetary Tuned and Chau Gongs, Percussion, Santoor, Harmonium, Handpan, Singing Bowls and more.
All cushions and comfort supplied by Lotus Sound.

The Most Wonderful Time...Maybe: CMF
2025-12-06 15:00 - 17:00 | First Presbyterian Church, 200 Maple Street, Collingwood, Ontario, Canada
Celebrate the holidays with great music, a whole lotta fun, and with BROADSWAY … featuring four of Canada’s finest musical theatre, jazz and cabaret artists doing the music of Broadway – and the Holidays – their way and delighting audiences in the process!
Join Dora Mavor Moore award-nominee Diane Leah, JUNO and ECMA-nominee Heather Bambrick, international touring artist Julie Michels, and jazz/cabaret vocalist Kylie Martin, for “The Most Wonderful Time … Maybe”, celebrating the season with an evening of Yuletide classics and lesser-known seasonal gems, all put together in unique arrangements with tons of musicality and humour! CBC Radio called it “a musical version of the best Christmas party ever” … and it’s a party you won’t want to miss!

Moreston By Candlelight
2025-12-06 16:00 - 20:00 | Grey Roots, 102599 Grey Road 18, Owen Sound, ON, N4K 5N6, Canada
2025

It’s that special time of year again, and we are pleased to invite friends and families to our beloved holiday tradition: Moreston by Candlelight.
Festivities include:

Horse drawn wagon rides
Live music featuring Moreston by Candlelight favourites
Delicious hot apple cider (bring a reusable mug!)
Holiday cookies
Heritage buildings open to explore
Delicious hot and cold treats for sale from Heat n’ Eat Meal Co.

Join us to celebrate the magic of the season in this unique family friendly event – presented by Fairmount Security.
Moreston by Candlelight runs on two evenings, December 6th and 13th, from 4-8 p.m.

Shipyard Kitchen Christmas Party 2025
2025-12-06 19:30 - 21:00 | Trinity United Church Collingwood
An evening of holiday music and laughter with the Shipyard Kitchen Party and special guests in support of the Trinity Church Food Program.
A Christmas Tradition returns! Join Shipyard Kitchen Party and special guests, Derek McLean, Emily Power, Rick Fairburn and Jason Redman for an evening of holiday folk music, storytelling and comedy. A feel-good way to kick off the yuletide, supporting the Trinity Food Program!
Tickets are $45 plus HST.
Get 5 tickets for the price of 4 with the “4 + 1 More” deal! Bring an extra friend!

The Barra MacNeils - An East Coast Christmas
2025-12-06 19:30 - 22:00 | The Roxy Theatre, 251 9th St E, Owen Sound, ON, N4K 1N8, Canada
The Barra MacNeils – An East Coast Christmas is a musical potpourri of traditional MacNeil family favourites gleaned from Christmas ceilidhs, midnight masses and the general festive frolic that accompanies each holiday season. With their captivating vocals, distinctive harmonies and extraordinary musicianship, The Barra MacNeils inject new life and energy into the sights and sounds of Christmas, prompting the Halifax Daily News to describe them as “a treasure of the East Coast, rich with tradition and unmatched in ensemble performance”; and the Globe & Mail to name the recording on which this tour is based “one of the best five Christmas albums of all time!”
The five MacNeil siblings – Lucy, Boyd, Stewart, Kyle and Sheumas – combine on a vast array of instruments including accordian, guitar, piano, fiddle, bodhran, mandolin, banjo, Celtic harp, tin whistles, bouzouki, flute … all underpinned by the nimble-fingered Jamie Gatti on bass. The result is a sound that is unmistakably The Barra MacNeils, one moment a rousing chorus, then a hauntingly beautiful Gaelic ballad, the next a flurry of foot-stomping instrumentals, which of course pulls one then another into a step-dancing revelry. For a delightful seasonal celebration, don’t miss An East Coast Christmas with The Barra MacNeils!

Radio Sonics Dance Party
2025-12-06 20:00 - 23:00 | Harbour Street Fish Bar, 10 Keith Ave #403, Collingwood, ON, L9Y0W5, Canada
Radio Sonics
ROCK! DANCE! PARTY!: Get ready for the sound of good times with The RadioSonics. This talented group is known for delivering the ultimate classic rock dance party that will have everyone on their feet. With a setlist packed full of big hits from artists like David Bowie, The Killers, The Cure, The Black Keys, Tears for Fears, Simple Minds, Def Leppard, Kings of Leon, and more, they know how to keep the energy high and the dance floor packed.

Walker House Artisan Craft Market
2025-12-07 10:00 - 14:00 | Walker House Museum, 235 Harbour St,, Kincardine, Ontario, Canada
Walker House Artisan Craft Market
Date: Sunday, December 7⏰ Time: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM Location: The Walker House
Discover and support local makers while finding unique gifts for the holiday season!
Admission: By donation
Come celebrate local creativity and get a head start on your holiday shopping!

Owen Sound Winterfest
2025-12-07 11:00 - 15:00 | Owen Sound Farmer’s Market Building, 114 8th St E, Owen Sound, ON, N4K1K8, Canada
December 7th, 14th, 21st
Winterfest is a celebration of local arts, crafts and food. Join us Sundays in December at the Owen Sound Market building for a wonderful festive experience. I’m addition to all the fabulous offerings there will be live music and demonstrations by local artisans. Bring a friend and make an afternoon of it. Come for lunch, sit and enjoy the music and a fabulous, warming Christmas bevy! Save the dates. Shop. Eat. Enjoy. Repeat.

Fantastic Cinema Club: Die Hard
2025-12-09 18:30 - 22:00 | The Marsh Street Centre, 187 Marsh Street, Clarksburg, Ontario, Canada
Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988)
Die Hard is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza, based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp.

It stars Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, and Bonnie Bedelia, with Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton, Paul Gleason, and Hart Bochner in supporting roles. Die Hard follows a New York City police detective, John McClane (Willis), who becomes entangled in a terrorist takeover of a Los Angeles skyscraper while visiting his estranged wife during a Christmas Eve party.

The Little Mermaid: The Panto
2025-12-10 - 2025-12-22 | Simcoe Street Theatre, Studio 7, 65 Simcoe Street, Collingwood, ON, L9Y1H7, Canada
Theatre fans of ALL ages can cheer on our hero, The Little Mermaid, as she chases her dreams across the deep waters of Georgian Bay and beyond!
Boo and hiss at the scheming Sea Witch, celebrate the season with underwater royalty, and take a swim with Theatre Collingwood this December!
Featuring Y2K fashions and fun twists on your favourite pop hits from the 2000s, this show will have you dancing in your seat from beginning to end.
You’ll sing, you’ll laugh, you’ll shout, you’ll cheer! Theatre Collingwood’s annual Panto party is here!

Our box office is at 150 Saint Paul Street, unit 201, Collingwood.

Endswell Fundraiser
2025-12-11 - 2025-12-12 | Endswell Brewery, 26 Elm St, Collingwood, Collingwood, Ontario, Canada
We’re offering 150 Later Pizzas and 150 Endswell cocktails* on a pay-what-you-can basis, with 100% of proceeds donated directly to My Friend’s House.It’s a house party. It’s a pizza bonanza. Most importantly, it’s a chance to show up for a cause that matters.Dine-in, take-out, order online, call, or walk in, whatever works. Just come eat pizza, have a drink, and help make a difference

Roxy Young Company: Impressions JR Showcase
2025-12-11 17:30 - 20:00 | The Roxy Theatre, 251 9th St E, Owen Sound, ON, N4K 1N8, Canada
Join the participants of Act 1 as they show off their performance skills! This 30 minute performance showcase the cumulative production the group has been working on. General Seating.

OSFN Presents Keriann McGoogan and Sisters of the Jungle
2025-12-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Bayshore Community Centre

Light Up The Holidays
2025-12-12 17:00 - 20:00 | Bruce County Museum and Cultural Centre, 33 Victoria St N, Southampton, ON, Canada
Join us for an enchanting evening at our annual Light-up-the-Holidays celebration. This family-friendly event offers a variety of activities designed to bring holiday cheer and create lasting memories.
Immerse yourself in the festive spirit with the Chantry Singers as they lead a Holiday Sing-Along in the Bruce Power Theatre!
Children and families will also have the opportunity to meet Santa for a classic Christmas photo, or take part in face-painting, crafts, heritage demonstrations, and a scavenger hunt. Enjoy Holiday Storytime from the Bruce County Public Library, whose Bookmobile will be back for you to check out books to read over the holidays.
This evening of family fun will also include complimentary food, coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and cookie decorating!
Whether you’re crafting ornaments, enjoying seasonal music, or exploring our animated exhibits, there’s something for everyone to enjoy. Come share the warmth and wonder of the holiday season with us!

The Celtic Tenors - A Celtic Christmas
2025-12-12 19:30 - 22:00 | Meaford Hall, 12 Nelson St E, Meaford, ON, Canada
Celebrate the holiday season with the most successful crossover act to emerge from Ireland. These world-class artists will perform holiday classics that will have the audience smiling into the season with uplifting harmonies.
Their international presence and truly unique sound has led them to sell over a million albums worldwide. The skill, range and ability of these world class tenors, combined with the personality and fun of genuine performers will have any audience smiling. Expect three unique solo voices, but one tenor sound!

12 Days of Christmas - Brightshores Oncology Fundraiser
2025-12-13 - 2025-12-14 | Online
Gift: $250 Gift Card to TenThirtyFive Grey/Bruce, Date Night for 2 from Milk Maid, Live Christmas Tree from Kevin Dandeno
Value: $425
From: TenThirtyFive, The Milk Maid & Kevin Dandeno

TenThirtyFive Grey/Bruce is a full-time charity serving vulnerable youth and women in Grey and Bruce Counties. They fund their charity by selling quality, previously loved clothing to women in our upscale thrift boutique.
https://www.tenthirtyfivegb.com/

The Milk Maid is a fine cheese & charcuterie company with locations in Owen Sound, Port Elgin, and Meaford
https://www.themilkmaidcheese.ca/
A Live Christmas Tree from the Kiwanis Tree lot is a personal donation from community member Kevin Dandeno

Terms & Details

There are 1,366 printed tickets available at $25 each.
Cash is the only method of payment for ticket purchases.
Only tickets that have been paid for and verified as paid, are eligible for the draws.
Ticket purchases are not tax deductable.
Ticket purchasers must be 18 years of age or older and cannot be purchased in the name of a minor.
Tickets available for purchase at various locations around Owen Sound. Or, until supplies last.

Brightshores Owen Sound Foundation Office
1800 8th Street East, Owen Sound, Ontario
Monday – Friday: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
TenThirtyFive Grey Bruce
99 Queen Street East, Hepworth Ontario
Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Heartwood Home
939 2nd Ave E, Owen Sound, Ontario
Tuesday to Friday 11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Saturday 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Ticket sellers, members of the Brightshores Owen Sound Foundation Staff and Board of Directors or anyone residing at the same address as these individuals are not permitted to purchase tickets.
All prizes must be accepted as awarded and claimed within 6 months of the draw.
Brightshores Owen Sound Foundation will make every reasonable attempt to contact the winner. Contact attempts will be made through telephone, email, and registered mail. If those methods of contact fail, advertising will be done in area newspapers and/or radio stations within 120 days following the draw.
Winners agree to the use of their name for publicity and reporting purposes. Winner’s names may be published on social media platforms, print advertising or press releases on local news platforms affiliated with Brightshores Owen Sound Foundation.

Website – https://www.12daysofoncology.com
Facebook page – 12daysofchristmas-brightshoresoncologyfundraiser

Stubs of all sold, verified paid tickets, are placed in the drum prior to each draw.
Prior to each draw, the drum of tickets will be spun a minimum of three complete rotations. Following each draw the ticket number will be verified, recorded, and returned to the drum for all other subsequent draws.

Total Value for all prizes: $6,829
Prizes will be drawn daily from prize 1 to prize 12 at Brightshores Foundation office (1800 8th Street East, Owen Sound) from December 13th through until the 24th at 9:30 a.m.
All prize draws will be supervised by a neutral third party.

Elmwood Craft Vendor Show
2025-12-13 10:00 - 15:00 | 10 William Street N 9 Clifford ON N0G1M0 Canada
Craft and Vendor Show
Saturday Dec 13 2025
10 am to 3 pm
Elmwood Community Center
Free admission
Donation to toy and food drive if possible

GEORGIAN BAY SYMPHONY: Community Christmas Concert
2025-12-13 16:00 - 18:00 | East Ridge Auditorium, 1550 8th St E, Owen Sound, ON, N4K1K4, Canada
Enjoy this one hour “pay what you can’ concert hosted by the Georgian Bay Symphony. Hear familiar Christmas tunes, sing some carols, and make some great family memoires. There will be a few special guests too.
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Donations at the Door.

Home for the Holidays: GBS
2025-12-13 19:00 - 21:00 | East Ridge Auditorium, 1550 8th St E, Owen Sound, ON, N4K1K4, Canada
A full orchestra and choir is our special gift to you in this Yuletide season! GBS is excited to partner with Shoreline Chorus, a 45 member community choir based in Owen Sound, for our annual, not to be missed, Christmas concert. Joyful seasonal music of all kinds as well as an audience singalong! This is a great evening for some wonderful family memories.
