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This Week at Agnes
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Film screening
15 March 2025 @ 7 pm at the Screening Room
 Agnes’s Open Secret series is back with a Third Edition! Open Secret x Prismatic Ground presents a program of short works by five filmmakers exploring the gaps in their relationships to ancestral homelands. Join us as we experience the work of Samy Benammar, Razan AlSalah, Miryam Charles, Lindsay McIntyre and Daphne Xu.
We are thrilled to welcome guest curator Inney Prakash, Artistic Director of the NYC-based film festival Prismatic Ground, to Kingston for a Q&A after the screening.
Tickets are free, but registration is required.
Film still, A Stone’s Throw, Razan AlSalah, 2024.
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AGNES Talks
20 March 2025, 6–7:30 pm @ Grant Hall
 We welcome the inimitable Bruce Kuwabara to give our 2025 Frances K. Smith Lecture in Canadian Art.
A founding partner of KPMB Architects and lead architect on Agnes Reimagined, Bruce Kuwabara presents several recent projects that explore themes of art and community and the insights gained while working on Agnes Reimagined, our special new home. The talk is followed by a public reception.
Agnes members can register for early entry featuring a cocktail hour and a complimentary beverage ticket. Not yet a member? Become one today and gain access to perks like early entry to events, intimate opportunities to engage with our guest speakers, artists and curators and discounts on ticketed features.
This event is free, but registration is required.
Bruce Kuwabara, Sketch for Agnes Reimagined, Agnes Terrace Looking East, 2022. Courtesy of KPMB Architects.
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Artmaking
5 April 1:30–3:30 pm @ Rideau Building
 In this session of our long-standing artmaking series The Studio, multi-disciplinary artist Emebet Belete brings participants together to learn how to crochet. Dozens of community-made crochet squares will cover the Upper Front Street Bridge in Belleville in a brightly coloured patchwork! This project celebrates the diverse communities of the Bay of Quinte.
This workshop is free and open to every experience level. Registration is required.
Emebet Belete is an artist and educator born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A graduate of the Addis Ababa Fine Arts School and Queen’s University, Emebet reflects her cross-cultural observations living in Ethiopia, Canada and Asia through her multifaceted practice that ranges across oil and acrylic painting to collage and mixed media.
Emebet Belete with a crochet student. Photo courtesy of artist.
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Artmaking
Select Thursdays @ Rideau Building
 Start your weekend early on Art Hive Thursday nights! Guided by registered art therapist Harper Johnston, participants can create on their own artworks or can follow the optional weekly art activities provided by Harper.
Registration is required, but admission and all materials are free!
Art Hive at Agnes. Photo: Garrett Elliott.
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Looking Ahead
Join Agnes for a Members-only valuation and lecture event!
Following the success of Bring Your Thing: AGNES Roadshow this past summer, experts from auction house Cowley Abbott are back in Kingston to valuate your Canadian or International artworks. The event, taking place on 3 April 2025, also includes a lecture from Cowley Abbott owner and partner, Rob Cowley.
Want to sign up for a time slot for a free valuation between 2:30-4:30 pm, or join us for the reception and lecture starting at 4:30 pm (or both!)? Become a member today!
Registration for the event coming soon!
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Queen’s University
36 University Avenue
Kingston, Ontario
Canada K7L 3N6
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Agnes Etherington Art Centre is situated on traditional Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee Territory.
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