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We are spoiled for things to see and do in #HamOnt and #BurlOn. HAMILTON CITY Magazine helps you keep up with it all. Think of us as your plugged-in friend who knows all the cool stuff happening around town! Get out and enjoy – and tell them HCM sent you!

Elizabeth Lennie’s Story and Stardust collection, on display until Aug. 2, is a colourful, nostalgic trip down memory lane. In a room behind the Art Gallery of Hamilton gift shop, brightly coloured paintings invoking childhood memories of warm days on northern lakes are lined up around the…

HAMILTON CITY Magazine theatre reviewers have taken in Hamilton Fringe Festival shows all across our city and delivered fast and fun takes on what they see. Check them all out here, including our critics' picks for Best of Fringe! Fringe 2026 is 55 plays and 400 performances at…

Iconic indie theatre performance festival celebrates 22 years of keeping Hamilton weird. ‘There’s room for everybody at this table,’ says festival director Chris Stanton. Festival director Chris Stanton can’t help but smile as he describes the enduring legacy and appeal of the Hamilton Fringe, the iconic independent theatre…

Steel Town Love, a one-day festival dedicated to romance books, is coming to the Central Library on July 11. Hamilton will be right up there with the romance capitals of the world, when the Hamilton Public Library central branch hosts the second annual romance book festival Steel…