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Top Picks for Pics

Whether you want cultural experiences, outdoor adventure, fantastic family fun, sporting events, or culinary delights, Brantford has tons of tourist attractions that provide fun and memorable photo opportunities. We're highlighting 10 of our top picks for pics.

Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant

Located in Glenhyrst Gardens, a beautifully landscaped sixteen-acre park on the banks of the Grand River, Glenhyrst Art Gallery offers exciting views both indoors and out. The gallery offers contemporary...

May Featured Artist: Martin Smith

May’s Featured Artist is Martin Smith (front, centre in photo), a community actor, director, playwright, and active arts promoter. Smith moved to Brantford over six years ago, and has been busy immersing himself in the arts community, and has acted or directed in over a dozen local community theatre shows, including 12 Angry Men, Waiting for Godot, and Suburban Standoff. If you are a social media user, you’ve likely seen Martin and his colourful blazers on Marquee with Martin – a...

April Featured Artist: Emilee-Mae Feely

April’s Featured Artist is Emilee-Mae Feely, who has been playing piano since the age of 4, and is a self-proclaimed music industrial “serial entrepreneur” from Brantford who has founded 5 businesses!

Emilee graduated from Brantford Collegiate Institute in 2010 and the University of Toronto in 2014. Emilee’s main business, Feely Piano School, began in Brantford and Waterloo in 2014. She started her business while in university to make some extra income; she began teaching piano lessons in students’...

We've Got Spirit (Thanks to the Brantford Cheer Club)!

They’ve got spirit, yes they do! We are talking about the Brantford Cheer Club, of course. The Brantford Cheer Club (Bolts) is an All-Star cheerleading team dedicated to teaching leadership, strength, teamwork and trust to athletes from as young as 5 to 14 years of age through their Mini Cheer, Youth Cheer, and Senior Cheer competitive and noncompetitive programs.

Brantford Cheer Club started in 2017 by Abbey Girard, Owner and Artistic Director of Studio A, Academy of Performing Arts. Cheerleaders...

Featured Artist, Shaun Mulrain

March’s Featured Artist is Shaun Mulrain, a local artist who makes his living by handcrafting guitars, teaching music lessons, and performing live.

Mulrain is a self-proclaimed “artist at heart” and has been since the age of 3. His mother was a piano teacher, and his grandfather was a Big Band guitarist and guitar repairman. He studied music and sang his way through school, performing in musicals, rock bands, school bands and vocal ensembles. He left Brantford at 19 to “chase the musical dream,”...