On Saturday, September 9, more than 70 musicians, visual artists, and performers are turning the trails, bridges, and the Grand River into galleries and stages for a brand new arts festival in Brantford: Day on the Grand.

The Brantford-Brant Business Resource Centre (BRC), a division of the City of Brantford’s Economic Development & Tourism Department, hosted their annual Youth Entrepreneurship Celebration August 17, 2017 at the Laurier Research & Academic Centre (150 Dalhousie St., Brantford).

Brantford’s Official Town Crier, David McKee, has been invited to compete in an International Competition in Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. McKee plans to cry his way to the top against more than 20 other Town Criers, dressed in stunning, colourful regalia. The competition will be held September 12-17, 2017.

The new Group Package Information Guide has over 101 restaurants, attractions, festivals, events and shopping locations for groups to visit and there are 22 new packages which can be offered as day trips or overnight vacations for groups included.

Get ready to set up your easel along the Grand River for the inaugural Brant Colours Plein Air Event (September 21-24, 2017). This brand new event is a four-day juried paint-out that ends with a beautiful show and sale at the Dominion Telegraph in downtown Paris.

The City of Brantford was pleased to welcome over 150 cyclists from the Great Waterfront Trail Adventure on August 10th as they made their way through Day 5 of their 7-day journey from Point Pele National Park to Rouge National Urban Park in Scarborough – a distance of 530km.

Paris, Ontario, nicknamed “The Prettiest Little Town in Canada,” is well-known for their five-day fair held every year over Labour Day weekend. Since 1858, this annual fair brings people together to celebrate rural life through grandstand entertainment, agricultural displays, craft exhibits, livestock shows, midway rides and more!