Stay in the know! Tons of Kingston organizations have newsletters you can subscribe to.
One of the motivations here was to make the Awesome Kingston newsletter better. I’m a trustee with AK, and run their bimonthly reminders for pitch submissions and pitch parties. I think the email could do more, and am making it biweekly and dedicated not only to AK announcements but general info about what’s going on in the city.
You can subscribe at https://awesomekingston.org.
With much credit to Redditor /u/terhunne, who assembled much of this list with URLs in a Reddit thread kicking off this question!
In no particular order, with annotations where it may not be clear what’s what:
- 1000 Islands Master Gardeners
- Agnes Etherington Art Gallery (at Queen’s University)
- Awesome Kingston (local micro-grant organization that gives $1000 to a person or organization every month)
- Cataraqui Conservation
- Centre Culturel Frontenac (French cultural organization)
- CFRC 101.9 FM (local campus-community radio)
- City of Kingston: City Matters Newsletter
- Community Foundation for Kingston & Area
- Downtown Dish (Downtown Kingston)
- Flying V Productions (local concert promotion)
- Grand Theatre (downtown theatre/concert hall)
- Greater Kingston Chamber of Commerce
- Inclusive Play Project (inclusive playground projects)
- Kingston Arts Council
- Kingston Canadian Film Festival
- Kingston Economic Development (multiple newsletters)
- Kingston Frontenac Public Library
- Kingston Music Office
- Kingstonist daily newsletter (local independent news site)
- KPP Concerts
- Kuluta Buddhist Centre
- Little Forests Kingston
- McBurney Park Neighbourhood Association – email skeletonpark@gmail.com and ask to be added
- Memorial Centre Farmers’ Market
- Next Church
- OPIRG Kingston (social justice)
- Our Livable Solutions
- Pumphouse Museum
- Salt of the Earth Farms (agriculture, local focus)
- The Screening Room’s Weekly Newsletter (local independent movie theatre)
- The Skeleton Park Arts Festival
- The Skeleton Press (downtown arts/culture newspaper)
- The Spire Insider
- Sustainable Kingston
- Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning
- Theatre Kingston
- Union Gallery (student-centred art gallery at Queen’s)
- Visit Kingston (tourism)
- Whig-Standard (A PostMedia American-owned newspaper, caveat emptor, included for completeness)
- YGKToday! (Local announcements)
Got a newsletter to add?
I’d love to add it, as long as it’s:
- Free
- About Kingston (a lot of people grow roses in Kingston, but I’m not interested in a general newsletter about roses. If there’s a Kingston Rose Growing Association with a newsletter, though, that’s good).
- Semi-regularly updated
Drop it in the form below: