Plein Air Festival Chatham Miramichi, July 20-21, during Irish Festival.  Register online at miramichiartcore.ca and baybreezeart.ca  Deadline is June 18th$35 (late $40)
Your registration fee gets you into the event, provides you with morning coffee and muffins, a free event T Shirt, and lunch Friday and Saturday.
CALL TO ARTISTS: Plein Air painting event: Open to all interested artists in NB and beyond. Register online at http:// www.baybreezeart.ca or at http://www.miramichiartcore.ca. Deadline for Early Registration is June 18.  Hosted by Bathurst Art Society and Miramichi Art Core.
Fredericton, NB – Solo Chicken Productions is excited to announce that they are taking the coop’s inaugural work, A Record of Us, on the road for their first tour of New Brunswick. In early June the company will perform their inaugural work in Fredericton, Saint John, Moncton and Sackville, forging new partnerships with Saint John Theatre Company, the Aberdeen Centre, and Live Bait Theatre. A Record of Us was created using the text of celebrated New Brunswick author David Adams Richards as the catalyst, resulting in a physical theatre performance that evokes the raw beauty, enduring humour, and hardscrabble realities of life in this province.
A Record of Us premiered as a main stage offering at the 2016 NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival and was created through residency opportunities with Charlotte Street Arts Centre, and the Fredericton Playhouse. The creation of A Record of Us began in the spring of 2015 when Lesandra Dodson and Lisa Anne Ross first launched the coop, which is a performance collective for professional artists to research, develop and perform original works of physical theatre while supporting the artistic growth of emerging NB artists through training and performance opportunities. This piece celebrates the work of a new generation of NB artists who are now making a resounding impact in their field – since the premiere in 2016 the coop company members have been busy training and creating theatre across Canada and are thrilled to be returning to Fredericton to share the work across the province.
A Record of Us is directed by Lesandra Dodson and Lisa Anne Ross, and features the collaborative work of Jean-Michel Cliche, Kira Chisholm, Alex Donovan, Ian Goff, Alexa Higgins, and Lexi McCrae. The tour will include Technical Direction by Trent Logan, and Stage Management by Dee Chiasson.
Located in a newly built wing of the Charlotte Street Arts Centre, Connexion ARC invites the general public to view a sample of original artworks by twelve of its members.
The reception begins at 8:00 PM on May 1st, 2018 at 732 Charlotte Street in Fredericton.
Free admission. Refreshments provided. All are welcome to attend.
Join us to see what’s stirring this spring among Connexion’s members! From easter grasses to grocery lists, some of the featured artists have been experimenting with uncustomary mediums, while others continue to impress with their honed skills in drawing and painting. Lament the canned fish snacks of New Brunswick’s past, meditate on the poetics of a broken skateboard, or the organic effects of paint reacting to silicone. Our members are so talented! The Spring 2018 Members Group Show is on display now until May 7, 2018.
Works by: Peter Bleumortier, Michael A. Doucet, Alex Kennedy, Christina Lovegrove-Thomson, Paul MacNeil, Kevin Melanson, Mel McMichael, Chrissie Park-MacNeil, Jared Peters, Kelly Pleau, Dawn Steeves, and Kasie Wilcox.
Do you want to present your work as part of our next group show? Become a member!
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For further inquiries, please email info@connexionarc.org.
One of our most popular events.The highest quality juried artists and craftsmen from across the Maritimes will have their work on display for sale, surrounded by the colours, textures and fragrances of the gardens. Work will include pottery, jewelry, woodwork, sculpture, painting, textiles and more.
Join us at the Corn Hill Nursery for one of our most popular seminars. After a short discussion of some basic principles used in arranging, we will let you create your own masterpieces. We will provide all the materials. You provide the artistry. If you have pruning shears, gloves, etc. please bring them along.
ARTIST D’ARCY WILSON EXPLORES COLONIAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURAL WORLD WITH PERFORMANCE AND WORKSHOP IN FREDERICTON.
This Friday, Newfoundland-based artist, D’Arcy Wilson, will be presenting in the style of a public lecture, at Odell Lodge from 6:00 to 7:30PM. “The Memorialist: Keynote Address” combines performance and poetry, inspired by North America’s first public zoo, Downs’ Zoological Gardens in Halifax. A full-day workshop, titled “Depository Park,” will follow on Saturday from 10:00AM to 6:00PM. Registration for the workshop is $10 for members of Connexion Artist-Run Centre, and $12 for non-members. Register by emailing info@connexionarc.org
A cyclic and playful meditation, Vivarium is a poetic allegiance to the unsung life persisting everywhere. You are invited to visit a site where four artists give their attention to detail, bending to weeds, bricks, and bugs. Two dancers oscillate limbs and torsos like coleopteras or heliotropic plants — they jostle, camouflage, and compost. A musician plays field recordings, weaving a soundscape. A scenographer creates a pop-up garden from found objects. In the lee of linear time, Vivarium both colonizes and pollinates, engenders and contaminates pre-existing ecologies.
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Méditation ludique et cyclique, VIVARIUM s’allie à la vie sous-estimée qui persiste partout. Le public visite un chantier créatif sur lequel quatre artistes se penchent vers les riverains, les fourmis, les briques et les pissenlits. Deux danseuses oscillent bras et troncs comme des scarabées ou des héliotropes — elles piétinent, se cachent et se compostent. Un musicien joue des enregistrements réalisés sur le terrain et crée un paysage sonore. Une scénographe réalise un jardin d’objets trouvés. À l’abri de la vitesse, Vivarium colonise et pollinise, engendre et contaminent l’écologie existant.
About the Artist
Lucy M. May is a contemporary dance artist, teacher, and writer based in Montréal. She is attracted to the porousness of collaboration and the vastness of dancing. Currently, her performances ask how geo- and bio-social environments thread their way through human movement. She deepened this research in her native province of New Brunswick during the artistic residency Esemplastic Landing, hosted by Atlantic Ballet. Lucy imagines her moving body as a meeting place, where theories and conversations find confluence with what is local, sensual, or tactile.
From 2009 to 2016, Lucy was a member of Compagnie Marie Chouinard. She is an affiliate of Margie Gillis’s Legacy Project. Lucy studied at l’École de danse contemporaine de Montréal and Codarts in The Netherlands.
Ă€ propos de l’artiste
Artiste en danse contemporaine, enseignante et écrivaine Lucy M. May s’est établie à Montréal en 2003. Présentement, ses performances questionnent comment les environnments géo- et bio-sociaux se tissent au mouvement humain. Sa recherche s’approfondit au Nouveau-Brunswick, sa province natale, lors de la project de résidence artistique Esemplastic Landing, appuyé par Atlantic Ballet. Elle imagine son propre corps mouvant comme un lieu de rencontre, là où théories et conversations confluent avec le proximal, le tactile, le sensuel.
Lucy était membre de la Compagnie Marie Chouinard de 2009 à 2016. Elle est artiste affiliée au Projet d’héritage de Margie Gillis. Lucy a étudié à l’École de danse contemporaine de Montréal et Codarts aux Pays-Bas.
Read out loud for 5 minutes from anything you’ve written yourself in a vibrant, friendly environment. Readings take place in the AX gallery, with Knocks CafĂ© open for refreshments.
Supporting Artistic Excellence
Join Atlantic Ballet Atlantique for our largest fundraiser of the year!
The Soirée Grant Thornton Velvet Gala is a celebration of excellence, creativity and innovation in the arts and business. This year’s event will take place at Casino New Brunswick and include a cocktail reception, an exceptional meal and outstanding world-class performances of new works choreographed by Igor Dobrovolskiy.