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The Edmundston Arts Center is looking for proposals from artists, groups and arts organizations, to participate in a public art project that will take place in Edmundston this fall. Artists are invited to install temporary or permanent contemporary artworks, in public spaces, including works form the visual arts (painting, sculpture, performance, installation, etc.), the literary arts (poetry, essays, etc.), sound arts, including experimental music (performance, installation, etc.), as well as cultural mediation activities (workshop, discussion with the artist, etc.).
Information For more information and/or to discuss your project, contact Ms. Emilie Grace Lavoie, artistic director and curator, at 1-506-852-6366 or by email at: emilieglavoie@gmail.com.
Moncton, April 7, 2021 – The Acadian Association of Professional Artists of New Brunswick announces today that the Soirée des Éloizes will be broadcast on television on June 5, 2021 to resolve a scheduling challenge with the Gala Trillium Gold.
Radio-Canada will broadcast the Soirée des Éloizes on Saturday, June 5 at 8 p.m. (Atlantic time), 8:30 p.m. (Newfoundland time), on ICI Télé in the Atlantic provinces. It will also be possible to listen to it at the same time via the Internet on radiocanada.ca/acadie . The show will also air on ICI ARTV at 8 p.m. across the country. It will then be available for catch-up on ICI TOU.TV for one year.
“By changing the date of our evening, we are resolving this scheduling challenge with the Gala Trille Or for the benefit of artists from the Canadian and Acadian Francophonie. »Adds Carmen Gibbs, Executive Director of the AAAPNB.
You are therefore all invited to join us for this special Éloizes evening. Follow our social media to learn more about the 2020 finalists.
Over the past few months, Access Copyright has worked with a small group of authors to test out a book mailing campaign to push Prime Minister Trudeau and the federal government to reform the Copyright Act so that Canadian creators and publishers are paid for the use of their work by the education sector.
You may have seen authors such as Sylvia McNicoll, Robert Rotenberg and Amy Stuart on social media sharing that they mailed one of their books as well as personal letter to the PM.
Many of the authors who have taken part have received letters back from the PM’s office confirming their mailing were getting through and thanking them for sharing their work with the Prime Minister.
With that welcome news, it is now time to take this campaign to the next level.
That’s where we hope you will get involved.
It’s all part of an effort to bring to Ottawa’s attention the urgent need to address the education fair dealing exception, which has resulted in much of the education sector refusing to pay approximately $150 million in royalties for educational copying.
The federal government plans to introduce a bill later this year to update the Copyright Act to address its obligations under Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement to extend the term of copyright protection. They are also in the process of conducting a series of consultations around various aspects of copyright law which will inform additional the amendments to the Act. At this time, the government has not indicated any intention to address the harm caused by the education fair dealing exception.
This is deeply concerning as our creative sector has been dealing with the impact of this issue for almost a decade now. That’s why we are asking you to join this campaign today and share your work and your thoughts on what it means to be a Canadian creator with the PM, and why the federal government needs to take action to fix fair dealing.
Here is how you can get involved
Mail one your books to Prime Minister Trudeau: Who better than you to share a Canadian story with the PM? Along with a book, include a personal note to him describing what trying to build a living as a professional writer looks like in Canada. How do you make ends meet? What sacrifices do you have to make? How has the loss of royalties from the education sector affected you? The mailing address is:
Right Honorable Justin Trudeau, P.C. , M.P.
Prime Minister of Canada
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2
Share your mailing on social media: Before you mail out your book, please take a picture and post it to your social media platforms, with an explanation of why you are sending your book to the PM—for example, “I mailed my latest book to Prime Minster Trudeau to remind him what supporting Canadian creators really means.” It’s important that Canadians see the faces behind our stories and their rich diversity.
Here is how to make your message heard
Encourage others to get involved: Help build the momentum by encouraging others in your network to take part.
Amplify what others are doing: Share posts related to the campaign. Just search for #IValueCdnStories on Twitter, Instagram in Facebook and then RT, share, like and comment away!
Have questions? We’re here to help. Email Access Copyright at editor@accesscopyright.ca.
Renewal of the AGAVF Board of Directors
Thank you to the members and partners who attended the AGAVF Annual General Meeting on March 31, 2021. Following the presentation of Rémi Belliveau’s presidential report and the annual report presented by Lise Leblanc , Executive Director, the members renewed their board of directors. The AGAVF warmly thanks the outgoing administrators Zoé Fortier (artists’ collective Sans-atelier) and Mathieu Léger (artist and board member of the Imago Estampe Workshop, Moncton) for their commitment and welcomes Armand Birk , artistic director of the Center des arts visuels de l’Alberta (CAVA) and Émilie Grace-Lavoie , artist-curator, member of the Board of Directors of Galerie Sans Nom who join Rémi Belliveau, Tam-Ca Vo-Van, Nisk Imbeault and Lou-Anne Bourdeau .
Christian Michaud – Auto sapiens
Curators: Paul Édouard Bourque and Tanya Eindiguer
from February 20 to April 3, 2021
University of Moncton
Moncton, New Brunswick
www.umoncton.ca/umcm-ga
Vanessa Moeller – Bean There, Done That. 2018-2020
Monica Chamberlain – Inside the lines
from March 5 to April 30, 2021
The Crossings with Phanie Bernier and Mathieu Léger
Cross residency with AdMare
140, rue Botsford, room 16
Moncton, New Brunswick
www.galeriesansnom.org
AGAVF – The incubator in police station – May 3
vertical – Laval – April 11
Center d’Art daphne – Montreal – May 15
60 seconds radio 2021 – April 11
Atelier Presse Papier dissemination center – Trois-Rivières – April 15
Chinatown Biennals – Toronto – April 15
New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) – Toronto – May 14
ODD Gallery – Dawson City, Yukon – April 15
Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery – Waterloo – April 2
VIFF – Vancouver – April 23
Craft Ontario – Toronto – June 7
AKA Artist-run Center – Saskatoon – ongoing
Southern Alberta Art Gallery – Lethbridge – ongoing
Franklin Furnace Fund – New York – April 8
AIR Frais program – New Brunswick – April 23
Atelier Silex – Trois-Rivière – April 15
Le Château – Vassivière Island International Art and Landscape Center – April 23
Ephemeral District – Vast et Vague – Montreal – Matapedia – May 2
Call to artists from Quebec and the Atlantic provinces – East-North-East – Saint-Jean-Port-Joli – May 9
La Chambre Blanche – Quebec – April 18
Plinths and Traffic Boxes – Saskatoon – April 15
Public wall art – Mississauga – April 16
Call to Indigenous Artists for Collaborations at the Etobicoke Civic Center – Etobicoke – April 16
Indigenous public art – Ottawa Public Library and Library and Archives Canada – Ottawa – April 12 and May 31
3rd edition curated incubator – AGAVF – May 3
e-flux – Announcements Editor and Journal Image Editor – now
Evergreen Public Art Program – April 18
Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas – Journal – ongoing
Artspace Artist Run Center – Artistic Director / Curator and Director of Operations and Development jobs – open until filled
Vie des arts magazine – April 4
revie Inter, current art – May 1
Commissioner – Flag of Malta – April 5
Distribution center of the Atelier Presse Papier – Trois-Rivière – for curators – April 15
Cosmis Bulletin – May 1
Esse art + opinion – sportification – April 1
East of your empires – Quebec – ongoing
Revue de Paris – call for contributors – in progress
Calling professional artists: AX, the Arts and Culture Centre of Sussex is currently seeking proposals for in-person, virtual, plein air and ceramics workshops to take place between July and December, 2021. We would like to offer workshops in a variety of areas such as visual arts, ceramic arts, fine craft, literary arts, the creative process and youth programming. The formats for these workshops can be half-day or full-day classes, week-long workshops, and online or after-school programs.
The deadline to submit your proposal for these workshops is April 30, 2021.
If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please visit the AX website to access our Workshop Proposal form.
If you have any questions or would like to learn more about the proposal process, please contact us at info@axartscentre.ca or 433-8351.
FLOURISH Festival announces 50+ performers ahead of hybrid June event
Fredericton’s FLOURISH Festival has shared an impressive line-up ahead of its June 10-13 edition, announcing Motherhood, Wolf Castle, Century Egg, Eliza Niemi, LXVNDR, and nearly fifty other artists. Festival performances will encompass music, art, installations, workshops, poetry, and more, in a mix of in-person and digital events.
“With restrictions still in place throughout the country, we’ve focused on emerging artists in the Atlantic Bubble, while also ensuring collaborations and participations from artists across Canada and internationally, through digital means,” said FLOURISH co-organizer, Jane Blanchard (she/her). “The majority of our artists are presenting work at FLOURISH for the first time, which is incredibly exciting for us.”
Organizers are working both with existing venues and new spaces, to create a socially distanced concert experience that ensures a safe, comfortable environment for all artists, patrons, volunteers, and support staff.
“We are working with venues and locations across Fredericton to ensure that we can still take over the city with music and art, while also ensuring compliance with restrictions,” Blanchard said. “We may not be able to host sweaty punk shows or cram into small spaces this year, but we will be taking over public spaces with pop up performances, temporary public art, live music and more. We successfully adapted our 2020 programming, and learned a lot from that experience. We’re looking forward to trying out some new methods of presentation for 2021.”
The list of performers announced today includes (alphabetically): Albert Dalton, Aleya Michaud, An-Laurence Higgins, awakesleeping, Back River Lady, Book Buddies, Century Egg, Charles Harding, Cryptozoologists, Crystal Drew, David R. Elliott, Designosaur, dope.gng, Eliza Niemi, Emily Blair, Emily Harding, Emily Kennedy, Erin Goodine, Evan Furness, Eve Parker Finley, Heat $heets, illestpreacha, lil omar, Indigo Poirier, Jeff Arbeau, Jocelyn Anderson, Jordan Johnson, Katie Hamill, Kelsey Klip, Klarka Weinwurm, LXVNDR, La Bise, Laurel Green, Lazermortis, Maky Lavender, Marian, Matt Carter, Motherhood, Natasha Cliche, Olivia Chrysostom, Olka Art Collective, Post Coal Prom Queen, Rebecca Salazar, Sabrina Thibodeau, Sacha Stephan, Sadie, Shelf Life, Shiftwork Collective, Souvenir, The Firey, Wolf Castle, and 3 of Cups.
“As usual, we’re a melting pot of art, music and more, across Fredericton,” said Blanchard, of the 2021 line-up. “We’ll still be welcoming artists from away for digital performances and installations, but our in-person programming will have a focus on the Atlantic region. We’re really excited to see locals Motherhood tear up a live show, for instance, along with Century Egg and emerging artists Book Buddies and La Bise. Installations will be another focus this year and we’ll be presenting a few around the city, along with temporary public art pieces.”
“Our 2021 hip-hop programming is a personal favourite, with LXVNDR, Wolf Castle, Dope.Gng, Albert Dalton and more,” Blanchard said. “Beyond music and visual art, we have some very cool digital performances lined up, including a project called “Cornelia Webster” by Jeff Arbeau and Lindsay Jacquard, which is a multimedia interactive fiction in HTML format, following the many branching lives of Cornelia Webster (The Coleman Frog) as never told before. We have workshops planned, poetry, comedy and spoken word events, community projects and so much more.”
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ABOUT
FLOURISH Festival is a music and art festival located and operating in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The festival began in 2014, presenting small DIY music shows across the city. Since 2014, the festival and organization have evolved into a four-day festival presenting music, educational programming, visual art, theatre, community projects, public art and more. FLOURISH Festival accepts and presents all genres and art forms, aiming to challenge and encourage cultural and artistic development and appreciation. FLOURISH Festival is a labour of love and hard work and is run primarily by volunteers. We work tirelessly to present emerging artists in the community, as well as on an international and national level.
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Press Contact: Brendan MaGee
Front Porch Publicity frontporchpublicity@gmail.com
Press Release – FLOURISH Festival announces 50+ artists ahead of hybrid June event (1)
Struts Gallery invites New Brunswick-based artists to submit Poster proposals
We invite New Brunswick-based artists to propose artworks to be considered for Struts Gallery’s artists’ poster series. Each poster in the series is autonomous and is not required to adhere to a specific theme. Read more about the series below.
The posters are full colour, single-sided, printed on 18 x 24” 80lb gloss cover stock, produced in an edition of five-hundred. Artists will receive fifty copies of the poster and an artist fee of $450.00. The posters are designed to be posted and will not be available for sale (surplus copies may be used as an incentive for student memberships in the future).
The submissions will be adjudicated by a jury made up of staff, board members and the wider Struts membership.
Struts remains committed to inclusive and diverse programming. We encourage submissions from Indigenous artists, artists of colour, artists with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ artists.
Proposals must include:
An image or mock-up of your proposed poster
A single paragraph biography
A brief written description of the work
A current CV and link to your artist website if available
Please include your contact information on your CV
Proposal Image Format:
Files should be scaled for an 18″ x 24″ format, landscape or portrait
.JPG or .TIFFs, no larger than 2 MB
Poster Format:
If selected, the image must be provided at 18″ x 24″, at 300 dpi
How to submit:
Artists can submit materials to info@strutsgallery.ca with the subject heading POSTER PROJECT.
Last Fall, we launched a series of four posters by Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber, Melanie Colosimo, Séamus Gallagherand Lenka Clayton. Not overtly conceived of as a response to COVID-19, the works ended up addressing issues of fear, anxiety, safety and death. This Spring, the second four posters will be released, including works by Raymond Boisjoly and Céline Huyghebaer plus two more selected from this open call.
https://www.strutsgallery.ca/open-calls
Shortlisted titles announced for New Brunswick Book Awards
March 29, 2021 – The Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick and The Fiddlehead have announced the shortlisted titles for the 6th annual New Brunswick Book Awards. The winners will be revealed at a virtual awards ceremony on Thursday, May 6.
The program will celebrate books published in the 2020 calendar year in the poetry, fiction and nonfiction categories and children’s picture books published in the 2019 and 2020 calendar years.
The finalists are as follows:
Mrs. Dunster’s Award for Fiction
Judge: Mark Sampson, author of several novels, most recent All the Animals on Earth, short story and poetry collections
Mark Anthony Jarman, Fredericton, Czech Techno (Anvil Press)
Riel Nason, Quispamsis, Waiting under Water (Scholastic Canada Ltd.)
Kathleen Peacock, Fredericton, You Were Never Here (Harper Teen, imprint of Harper Collins Publishers)
Alice Kitts Memorial Award for Excellence in Children’s Writing
Judge: Frieda Wishinsky, author of over 60 trade and educational children’s books including picture books, chapter books, novels, and nonfiction
Shyla Augustine, Fredericton, Mi’kmaq Alphabet Book (Herman’s Monster House Publishing)
Illustrator Braelyn Cyr, Fredericton
Marla Lesage, Lincoln, We Wear Masks (Orca Book Publishers)
Illustrator Marla Lesage
Kim Renton, Stilesville, What-Cha-Doing? (Chocolate River Publishing)
Illustrator Tamara Thiebaux Heikalo, St-Jean-de-Matha, Quebec
The Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize
Judge: Yusuf Saadi, winner of the The Malahat Review‘s 2016 Far Horizons Award for Poetry and the 2016 Vallum Chapbook Award. His first collection, Pluviophile, was selected for the CBC’s 2020 summer reading list
Allan Cooper, Riverview, Waiting for the Small Ship of Desire (Pottersfield Press)
M. Travis Lane, Fredericton, Keeping Count (Gordon Hill Press)
Emily Skov-Nielsen, Saint John, The Knowing Animals (Brick Books)
Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Nonfiction Award
Judge: Naomi Lewis fiction and nonfiction writer, editor, and creative writing teacher. Her 2019 memoir, Tiny Lights for Travellers has won numerous awards including Alberta’s Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction
Odette Barr, Petit-Cap, Teaching at the Top of the World (Pottersfield Press)
Virginia Bliss Bjerkelund, Fredericton, Meadowlands: A Chronicle of the Scovil Family (Chapel Street Editions)
Phillip Lee, Fredericton, Restigouche: The Long Run of the Wild River (Goose Lane Editions)
The New Brunswick Book Awards are open to traditionally published and self-published authors who have lived in the province for three of the last five years, including the award year.
The book awards program represents a partnership between the Writers’ Federation, which for more than 30 years has passionately supported the development of home-grown writers at all stages of development, and The Fiddlehead, Canada’s oldest literary magazine, which has nurtured New Brunswick’s literary culture for more than 75 years.
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Media Contacts:
Ian LeTourneau
Ian.letourneau@unb.ca
Cell: (506) 440-8072
Rayanne Brennan
rayanneb@rogers.com
Cell: (506) 961-3633
The Fresh AIR (artist-in-residence) program will return for the 2021 summer season through a collaboration between the provincial government and the New Brunswick Arts Board, also known as artsnb.
The program will support 10 artists as they engage with the public and develop their artistic practice or existing projects over five days at a New Brunswick provincial park or tourism site.
“Last year’s launch of this program was an incredible success and we are happy to be able to expand it to even more locations this summer,” said Tourism, Heritage and Culture Minister Tammy Scott Wallace. “This is one of the many ways we are supporting our province’s artistic community throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The 2021 Fresh AIR program will expand from five to 10 locations this year: Mactaquac, Herring Cove, Hopewell Rocks, Fundy Trail Parkway, Parlee Beach, Miscou Lighthouse, Village Historique Acadien, Sugarloaf, Jardin botanique du Nouveau-Brunswick, and Mount Carleton.
“For artsnb, the Fresh AIR program offer a double springboard: it allows our professional artists to meet new audiences in extraordinary contexts,” said Alain Boisvert, chairperson of the New Brunswick Arts Board. “This partnership brings new meaning to the accessibility of the general public to the exceptional works of professional New Brunswick artists.”
Selected participants will be offered an artist fee for participating in the residency and complimentary accommodations at their chosen site, if applicable.
“This program will provide opportunities for professional artists to express themselves, gain exposure and enhance their work portfolio,” said Scott-Wallace. “It will also offer New Brunswickers a better appreciation of culture and the arts while showcasing our artists and their creative process.”
The program will take place from June 23 to Aug. 29 and is open to all New Brunswick professional artists. Selected artists will choose their preferred location and submit an application, which will be reviewed by a selection committee.
The deadline to apply is April 23. The application and more information are available online.
L’installation Autobiographie Collective de Nicole Haché témoigne de son savoir et de sa sensibilité face aux relations interpersonnelles et à l’importance d’une symbiose collective. Œuvrant autrefois comme technologiste en laboratoire médical, Nicole conjugue l’histologie à une démarche artistique qui entrelace le savoir et la créativité. « Tels des individus évoluant en société, les cellules juxtaposées communiquent entre elles et coexistent en créant des liens intimes qui rendent la vie possible dans une symbiose organique, » d’expliquer Nicole Haché. Son installation célèbre la diversité, et permet une réflexion vis-à-vis de l’importance du rôle de chacun dans la communauté. Autobiographie collective a été créé lors d’une résidence de création interculturelle qui réunissait les communautés autochtones, francophones et anglophones du Nouveau-Brunswick.
Moncton, March 18, 2021 – The Acadian Association of Professional Artists of New Brunswick (AAAPNB) announces today that the Soirée des Éloizes will be broadcast on Saturday, May 29, 2021.
Radio-Canada will broadcast the special on Saturday, May 29 at 8 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. in Newfoundland, on ICI Télé en Atlantique. It is also possible to listen to it at the same time via the Internet at radiocanada.ca/acadie. The show will also air on ICI ARTV at 8 p.m. across the country. It will then be available for catch-up on ICI TOU.TV for one year.
The teams have been working for several months to create a renewed edition of the Soirée des Éloizes: “The pandemic has forced us to show ingenuity to recognize the artistic excellence of the 2020 cuvée of the finalists. I am so happy that this evening can take place ”, explains Carmen Gibbs, general manager of AAAPNB and producer of Éloizes.
The production and artistic direction of this special have been entrusted to Kevin McIntyre and the animation will be assumed by none other than Matthieu Girard.
The world has changed a lot in the past year: “The arts and culture sector is particularly affected and the repercussions will be felt for many years to come. The Éloizes are no exception to this reality, ”adds Carmen Gibbs.
You are therefore all invited to join us for this different evening at Les Éloizes. Follow our social media to learn more about the 2020 finalists.
The AAAPNB has decided to virtually maintain the Éloizes Youth Activities.
The invitation was extended to all teachers and the interest shown by the education community in Youth Activities confirms the need for arts education and education through the arts.
More than 200 workshops will therefore be offered in the 34 schools of the Francophone Northeast School District and in six educational daycares that will reach more than 3,000 young people aged 2 to 18: “The results are beyond our expectations. … It’s extraordinary, it’s magnificent! », Affirms Philippe Beaulieu, president of the AAAPNB.
The List presents the events of the members of the Association des groups en arts visuels francophones ( AGAVF ), that is to say fifteen artist-run centers and galleries across Canada, and compiles calls for submissions in visual arts, media arts, performance, art. public, residencies aimed at artists and curators.
Couleur (s) by Reza Rezaï – artist of inspiration: Xavier Mutshipayi – as part of the exhibition The other p resented at the Center culture franco-manitobain. Photo: Mike Peters
Jen Funk, Xavier Mutshipayi, Stéphane Oystryk, Reza Rezaï and Eric Plamondon – The other from October 8 to November 28, 2020
340, boulevard Provencher
Winnipeg, Manitoba
www.ccfm.mb.ca
Sylvie Roussel-Janssens, François Michaud, Ghislain Brown-Kossi, Marie-Pascale Lafrenière, Jérôme Baco, Valérian Denis, Chantal Cardinal and Serge Bennathan – Essential collaboration: the Office of Francophone and Francophile Affairs of SFU and the Francophone Cultural and Artistic Council of British Columbia as part of the Printemps de la francophonie the 26, 27, and 28 mar 2021
STUDIO 17
2425 Manitoba Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
lecollectifcb.ca
EJECT performing arts videoclub collaboration: La Nouvelle Scène, Trillium Theater and Catapulte Theater from March 15 to April 15, 2021
67 Nicolas Street
Ottawa, Ontario
saw-centre.com
Stephanie Castonguay – Capturing optical frequencies home residence from April 19 to April 25
Michael Fernandes – Before and after the electric car home residence and on Instagram @beforeandaftertheelectriccar since January 14, 2021
Claude Wittmann – Wheels / politics / panic Project until June 2021
Stefan St-Laurent – Please feed the animals Listen to the virtual conference again
54 Elgin Street
Sudbury, Ontario
www.gn-o.org
Christian Michaud – Auto-Sapiens
Produced with the collaboration of Jeanne Mance Cormier, curator
Curators: Paul Édouard Bourque and Tanya Eindiguer from February 20 to April 3, 2021
University of Moncton
Moncton, New Brunswick
www.umoncton.ca/umcm-ga
Nicole Blundell, Frances Caswell-Routhier, Renee Knight, Monique Handfield, Hélène Lefebvre and Richard Robesco – Membership
Curator: Raymond Aubin
Virtual exhibition since March 4, 2021
67 Beechwood Ave
Vanier, Ontario
www.voixvisuelle.ca
Colette Balcaen, Réal Bérard, Shaneela Boodoo, Brigitte Dion, Danielle Koslowsky Fontaine, Roger Lafrenière, Chanelle Lajoie, Janine-Annette Littmann, Chase Martin, Xavier Mutshipayi, Dominique Rey, Melanie Rocan, Michel St-Hilaire, Janelle Tougas – In conversation
Curators: Lou-Anne Bourdeau and Alexandra Keim
videos
until April 3, 2021
101-219, boulevard Provencher
Saint-Boniface, Manitoba
www.maisondesartistes.mb.ca
Vanessa Moeller – Bean There, Done That. 2018-2020
Monica Chamberlain – Inside the lines from March 5 to April 30, 2021
140, rue Botsford, room 16
Moncton, New Brunswick
www.galeriesansnom.org
Evelyn Berg, Kyle St-Thomas and Josh Ajohn – Exhibition from February 26 to April 9, 2021
9103 95th Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta
www.galeriecava.com
AGAVF – The incubator in police station – May 3
Kamouraska Art Center – March 31
Dare-Dare – Montreal – March 26
60 seconds radio 2021 – April 11
Atelier Presse Papier dissemination center – Trois-Rivières – April 15
Vertical artist center – Laval – April 1
The little views – Culture Trois-Rivières – April 1
Alternator Center for Contemporary Art – Kelowna – March 21
Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery – Waterloo – April 2
VIFF – Vancouver – April 23
Craft Ontario – Toronto – June 7
BIPOC Artist Instagram Project – ongoing
AKA Artist-run Center – Saskatoon – ongoing
Southern Alberta Art Gallery – Lethbridge – ongoing
Franklin Furnace Fund – New York – April 8
Call to artists from Quebec and the Atlantic provinces – East-North-East – Saint-Jean-Port-Joli – May 9
National Higher Art School of Bourges – calls to young artists – March 31
La Chambre Blanche – Quebec – April 18
Moving Image Lab – Meech Lake – March 24
Call to Indigenous Artists for Collaborations at the Etobicoke Civic Center – Etobicoke – April 16
BMO Convention Center – Calgary – March 30
Indigenous public art – Ottawa Public Library and Library and Archives Canada – Ottawa – April 12 and May 31
Third Shift – Saint-Jean – March 21
3rd edition curated incubator – AGAVF – May 3
Artspace Artist Run Center – Artistic Director / Curator and Director of Operations and Development jobs – open until filled
Vie des arts magazine – April 4
revie Inter, current art – May 1
Commissioner – Flag of Malta – April 5
Distribution center of the Atelier Presse Papier – Trois-Rivière – for curators – April 15
Digital America – online arts journal on internet culture – March 22
Sobey Prize for the Arts – March 19
Galerie La Box – Bourges – March 31
Cosmis Bulletin – May 1
Esse art + opinion – sportification – April 1
East of your empires – Quebec – ongoing
Revue de Paris – call for contributors – in progress
March 16, 2021 – Music·Musique NB is proud to announce that Cal Johnson (photo below), of Tobique First Nation in New Brunswick, is the first recipient of the Indigenous Artist Development Program. The initiative was created to provide one emerging Indigenous artist with the tools, support and guidance to achieve a new musical project.
Multi-instrumentalist Cal Johnson plans to re-record traditional Wolastoqiyik songs, previously recorded by Elders from the Tobique First Nation community. The songs will be re-imagined in an EP format and include a full musical accompaniment, as the original recordings have no instrumentation apart from the traditional drum.
Cal Johnson will be supported throughout this project by Mi’kmaq artist Wolf Castle, from the Pabineau First Nation, as well as by the Music·Musique NB (MNB) team. Hip Hop artist Wolf Castle initiated the project to create more spaces where Indigenous voices can be heard.
“We hope that this pilot project becomes a full-fledged recurring program,” says Jean Surette, Executive Director of MNB. “Our goal is to widen the scope and support many more emerging Indigenous artists.”
Cal Johnson is currently residing in Truro, where he completed the Music Arts Program at NSCC.
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Media contact: Jean Surette / jean@musicnb.org / 506.383.4662
Moncton, le 16 mars 2021 — Le gouvernement du Nouveau-Brunswick a présenté aujourd’hui un budget qui ne reconnait pas le tort que la pandémie lui a fait subir et qui maintient les arts et la culture comme parents pauvres dans la province. L’Association acadienne des artistes professionnel.le.s du Nouveau-Brunswick (AAAPNB) est déçue du manque de vision du gouvernement et du manque de soutien pour la relance du secteur des arts et de la culture.
Le budget ne reconnait pas que certains secteurs de l’économie se sont effondrés à cause de la pandémie. Un fonds de relance d’un peu plus de 7 millions de dollars a été annoncé au ministère Tourisme, Patrimoine et Culture pour contrer la pandémie. Ce fonds est cependant réparti entre plusieurs secteurs : les arts, la culture, le patrimoine, le tourisme, l’archéologie, les sports, les parcs et les attractions. À lui seul, le secteur du tourisme devrait s’accaparer plus de 40% de ce budget, si on se fie au succès du programme pour encourager le tourisme en 2020.
La pandémie de la COVID-19 a causé d’énormes dégâts à l’industrie des arts et de la culture au Nouveau-Brunswick. L’industrie qui rapportait 572 millions de dollars en 2018 et qui créait 7525 emplois a subi des pertes d’emploi de 17 % entre décembre 2019 et décembre 2020. Au Canada, les retombées économiques du secteur arts, spectacles et loisirs ont régressé de 50 % entre décembre 2019 (16 018) et décembre 2020 (8000).
Philippe Beaulieu, président de l’AAAPNB : « On se moque de nous en nous proposant un petit plaster. Il est inconcevable que le gouvernement ne comprenne pas qu’il faille soutenir le secteur des arts et de la culture qui est en crise à cause de la pandémie. S’il se désintègre, notre secteur ne pourra plus contribuer aussi bien à l’éducation, à l’innovation, à la cohésion sociale, à la rétention des jeunes, à l’expression des communautés. »
Le Premier ministre Blaine Higgs affirmait que l’économie de la province a repris presque en son entièreté. Ce n’est pas le cas de notre secteur. Le manque de volonté du gouvernement provincial de soutenir notre secteur risque de coûter très cher aux Néo-Brunswickois et Néo-Brunswickoise en pertes économiques et en pertes d’emploi pendant plusieurs années.
Le Nouveau-Brunswick compte sur une main-d’œuvre dans le secteur des arts et de la culture composée en grande partie de travailleurs et travailleuses indépendant.e.s et qui ne fait que croître avec les années. Cependant la pandémie frappe fort et, dans une étude récente, près d’un artiste sur deux songe à changer de carrière.
Carmen Gibbs, directrice générale de l’AAAPNB : « Je suis abasourdie de constater à chaque année que le gouvernement ignore toujours la valeur des arts et des industries culturelles au Nouveau-Brunswick. Notre secteur contribue à l’économie de la province davantage que le secteur de la foresterie, celui des pêches, de la construction résidentielle, ou même de l’extraction minière. C’est incompréhensible. »
L’Association acadienne des artistes professionnel.le.s du Nouveau-Brunswick est un organisme de services aux arts qui regroupe des artistes professionnel.le.s. Depuis 1990, elle a pour mission de promouvoir et de défendre les droits et les intérêts des artistes et de faire reconnaître leur contribution au développement de la société. www.aaapnb.ca
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Renseignements :
Jean-Pierre Caissie
Directeur adjoint
506 863-9857
ACT NOW! :
The Arts and Culture Sector Needs Help
March 9, 2021 – ArtsLink NB and the Association acadienne des artistes profesionnel.le.s du
Nouveau-Brunswick (AAAPNB) are publishing today the English version of the report entitled
ACT NOW! For the Survival of the Arts and Culture Sector (MAINTENANT AGISSONS pour la
survie du milieu des arts et de la culture). This report is the result of two rounds of consultations
with 250 artists, arts and cultural organizations and businesses in New Brunswick to outline a
plan to revive the sector.
“Between January 2020 and January 2021, 17% of jobs in the information, culture and recreation
sector were lost in New Brunswick. The Canadian Arts, entertainment, and recreation sector
suffered a 50% loss in generated revenues between December 2019 and December 2020. Help is
needed more than ever in the sector. We would expect measures in the next budget to help the
industry.” Carmen Gibbs, Executive Director of AAAPNB.
Upon reading of the report MAINTENANT AGISSONS, ArtsLink joined forces with the AAAPNB to
translate the report as they recognized the issues, needs, and solution propositions were alike in
the Acadian and Anglophone communities.
“ACT NOW! For the Survival of the Arts and Culture Sector will be a key guiding document for
the recovery of New Brunswick’s arts and culture sector, and reflects tireless hours of
consultation and research. ArtsLink NB recognizes the importance of disseminating the
recommendations broadly to strengthen and protect the arts sector. We look forward to working
alongside our partners on the action items identified in the report.” Julie Whitenect, Executive
Director of ArtsLink.
The consultations were carried out, in June and October 2020, through the round tables of
the Renewed Global Strategy for the Integration of Arts and Culture into Acadian Society in New
Brunswick. This structure enabled the AAAPNB to quickly consult artists from all disciplines,
festival and event organizers, presenters and other artistic, cultural and heritage organizations,
as well as cultural businesses in the music, music and entertainment sectors, media arts and
publishers.
This report proposes six main courses of action for the sector to come back to life, ensuring that
all elements of the artistic ecosystem can survive the crisis. For the sector to succeed in the
short, medium and long term, the following recommendations should be followed:
• Ensure a solid foundation for the arts and culture sector, in particular thanks to the adoption by
the Government of New Brunswick of a law on the status of the artist, and provide for the
alignment of the procedures implemented with those federal government, and urging the federal
government to complete the review of the Copyright Act.
• Allocate a stimulus fund and new investments for the arts and culture sector, and tax foreign
web companies to finance these funds and investments.
• Strengthen artistic and cultural organizations and industries, in particular by providing more
funding for the basic operations of artistic and cultural organizations.
• Foster creation, distribution and professional development by increasing funds for the creation
and production of new works, by increasing funding for creative residencies, by granting an
additional amount to all presenters to ensure the maintenance of their activities and by creating
a fund to help artists and cultural workers to enable them to take the necessary training or have
access to professional resources to promote themselves on the Web.
• Stimulate demand for cultural products by putting in place a series of measures to restore
public confidence, encourage local purchasing and provide transport assistance.
To read the report: aaapnb.ca or artslinknb.com
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For interviews
Julie Whitenect
Executive Director
ArtsLink NB
506-608-9914
julie@artslinknb.com
Jean-Pierre Caissie
Directeur adjoint
AAAPNB
506-852-3313 ext 224
jeanpierre.caissie@aaapnb.ca
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