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Theatres

Theatre on the Ridge

Theatre on the Ridge (formerly Theatre 3x60) is a not-for-profit professional theatre company performing year-round in Port Perry, Scugog Township and Durham Region. Its summer season is staged at its summer home, Scugog Shores Museum Village in Port Perry, with recent productions including Romeo & Juliet and the world premiere of the locally-inspired play Piggyland. The company also runs fall programming at the Blackstock United Cultural Center and year-round engagement through its Connecting Through Theatre programs: attending plays, acting classes, staged readings, workshops and talks. Box office hours: Tuesday to Friday 1 pm to 7 pm, Saturday 11 am to 4 pm, and Sunday 11 am to 1 pm on show days. Tickets are available through the company's own website and box office line.

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Outdoor sculpture garden at Tinkls' Gallery with large woven-branch sculptures and a building painted with a colourful geometric mural, photographed at dusk
Galleries

Tinkls' Gallery

Tinkls' Gallery is the art gallery of Judith and Viktor Tinkl, set on a rural property outside Sunderland. Judith creates textile and fibre art, including fabrications shown in exhibitions across Ontario; Viktor builds large outdoor sculptural pieces such as his Cogs, Wheels and Whirligigs constructions. The grounds include an outdoor sculpture garden, and the gallery takes part in the Uxbridge Celebration of the Arts Studio Tour. The gallery is generally open from 24 May to Canadian Thanksgiving, by chance or by appointment.

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Theatres

Town Hall 1873 Theatre

Town Hall 1873 Theatre is a historic performing-arts venue in downtown Port Perry that has hosted arts and culture in the community for more than 150 years. The restored heritage building at 302 Queen Street presents a varied year-round program of plays, live concerts, comedy nights and community events, including tribute acts, classical music and family programming. The venue is operated as a not-for-profit community theatre hub with volunteer support, and its current four-year Reshaping the Future campaign is funding accessibility, resiliency and sustainability improvements to the building. Box office hours: Thursday and Friday, noon to 5:00 pm, plus one hour before every performance; ticket links are published on the theatre's own events calendar.

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Museums

Town of Ajax Archives

The Town of Ajax Archives is the municipal archives service for Ajax, formally established by Ajax Council in February 2010 to collect and preserve archival materials documenting the growth and development of the town, including the Defence Industries Limited wartime years and HMS Ajax. Since 2022 the archives have been managed by Ajax Public Library. The collection includes photos, artifacts, records and history books, many digitised and viewable through the OurOntario website, with a display case in Town Hall and a display table in the Local History section of the Main Branch library. The archives are located at Town Hall and are not open to the public; research help and in-person visits (at the Main Branch, with at least one week's notice) are arranged through the Town's website. No public phone or business email is published on the official archives page, so none is listed; the cover image is a generic AI illustration clearly marked as such.

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TRAPPED escape room poster for the Room 057 theme at the Ajax location, showing a dark biohazard-style room with the TRAPPED logo.
Escape Rooms

TRAPPED Escape Room - Ajax

TRAPPED Escape Room in Ajax offers four themed 60-minute escape games: Room 057, an abandoned-hospital mystery for 3 to 7 players; Ancient Pyramid, an Egyptian tomb adventure for 4 to 8 players; Death Note, a detective-themed investigation for 2 to 6 players; and 7734 Hound Lane, a haunted-house mystery for 4 to 8 players. The venue hosts birthday parties, corporate team-building sessions and group events, with general admission listed at $31 and child admission at $25 per person plus discounts for birthdays and repeat visits. Typical opening hours: Monday to Thursday 1:30pm to 10pm, Friday 1:30pm to midnight, Saturday 11am to midnight and Sunday 11am to 11pm.

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Family Entertainment

TreeHouse ClubHouse

A 10,000-square-foot indoor playground in Pickering with giant slides, a multi-level climbing structure, a volcano climb, a toddler driving track and obstacle paths. The electronics-free space is designed for active, social play, with safety rules including socks at all times and parent/guardian supervision. Private birthday party rooms are available. Play hours are published via the business's Google listing rather than on the website, so none are stated here.

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Exterior of the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington: a tall red-brick former barley mill building with an outdoor sculpture garden in the foreground
Galleries

Visual Arts Centre of Clarington

The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (VAC) is a not-for-profit public art gallery and art education centre in Bowmanville. Incorporated in 1976, it presents contemporary art exhibitions by local, regional and national artists and runs arts education programs for children, youth and adults in studios including a pottery studio with kilns, a painting studio and a loft gallery. The gallery occupies a historic four-storey 1905 former barley mill on the banks of Soper Creek, with traditional white-walled exhibition space, an unrestored loft installation space and an outdoor sculpture garden. Admission is free. Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday 12pm-8pm, Saturday 12pm-4pm, closed Sunday and Monday (hours subject to change).

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Arcade racing games, including Super Bikes motorcycle cabinets, at Volt Raceway
Family Entertainment

Volt Raceway

Volt Raceway is an indoor electric go-karting and entertainment venue at 2383 Durham Regional Highway 2 in Bowmanville. It offers electric go-kart racing on two tracks (the 352-metre Thrill Track for ages 14 and up and the 170-metre Fun Track for ages 7 and up), an arcade with more than 30 games, bowling, an axe-throwing lounge, pool tables and the Volt Blaster battle room. The venue has an in-house restaurant serving chicken wings, poutine and stone-baked pizza, and hosts birthday and corporate parties for up to 300 guests, go-kart racing leagues, camps, and events in its launchpad event space. Opening hours are not published on the site, so check with the business before visiting.

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Historic red-brick Waverley Place museum house with a wraparound veranda
Museums

Waverley Place Museum

Waverley Place is a historic house museum in Bowmanville operated by Clarington Library, Museums & Archives. The period home presents local heritage exhibits and is used for museum programming and community events, including seasonal gatherings on its grounds. The site sits alongside the organization's archives and collections spaces. The official site does not publish regular visitor hours for this building, so please contact the organization before visiting.

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