This event will be a screening of the new documentary film, Freeman Patterson: the universe is unfolding as it should, featuring a talk and Q&A with Freeman Patterson, the Director, Scott Munn, and a performance by the film score composer, and New Brunswick born singer-songwriter/composer, Andrew Sisk.
There are no tickets necessary for this event.
Seats are general admission.
September 15 at 7 PM: Grab a friend and join us in our courtyard from 7PM – 9PM. Browse the gallery and enjoy casual collaging with Bayonne Rongen, Button Making with Emilie Grace Lavoie, local craft beer, and live music. Made possible by the City of Fredericton.
Tickets are $10 and all materials will be provided, but feel free to bring items to collage on (frames, wood, etc.). Drop-ins are also welcome.
This is a 19+ event, and dry beverage options are available.
Musician – The Last Call
October 1, 2023 – December 31, 2023
Originally, B70 Internment Camp about 25 miles outside Fredericton was home to German and Austrian Jews who fled the Nazis during the Second World War; later, becoming a prisoner-of-war camp. “Escape” presents a collection of artworks that explore the metaphorical escape from the painful reminders of internment behind barbed wire, as well as appreciating the incredible artistic talent, creativity, and resourcefulness of these internees.
By exploring the drawn, the painted, and the crafted items by many of these prisoners, the exhibition grapples with the memory and memorialization of a difficult and sometimes uncomfortable aspect of Canadian heritage that involved the unjust internment of civilians, including Jews escaping Nazi oppression and many Canadians with only tenuous ties to Axis nations.
Curated by Todd Caissie and organized by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.
October 1, 2023 – December 31, 2023
In Vision & Dialogue seasoned artists Jennifer Pazienza and Paul Édouard Bourque celebrate the power of conversation with an exhibition that features their distinct and complementary views on painting and drawing, landscape and portraiture. At once critical and poetic, themes of identity, of explicit and implied human presence infuse their unique compositional styles. Place, friendship, and the fluidity of time punctuate the narrative threads of this dynamic duet exhibition.
Curated by Jennifer Pazienza and Paul-Édouard Bourque and organized by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.
On September 7 at 7 p.m. in Fredericton, join The Fiddlehead for the launch of their 2023 Summer Poetry Issue, with readings from contributors Ali Blythe, Rose Després, Clare Goulet, Jennifer Houle, Kathy Mac, and Carlos Morales. This will include readings of translated works from a partnership with Acadian Literary Journal Ancrages.
This free event will take place in Fredericton, at the Harriet Irving Library’s Milham Room (Rm 100), and on Zoom for those who can’t attend in person (registration required for online participants). An ASL interpreter will be present.
This event is funded in part by the Government of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Culture NB, and the University of New Brunswick.
Free | Zoom registration: thefiddlehead@gmail.com
Join us Friday, September 8th for UNB’s Memorial Hall’s 100th Anniversary Event
You’re invited to celebrate the Centenary Anniversary of UNB’s beautiful Memorial Hall on Friday, September 8th. Festivities involve a photography exhibition chronicling the history of Memorial Hall, a video showcasing people’s memories and a Memory Book. In addition, Theatre UNB will present scenes from Bard in the Barracks’ Much Ado about Nothing.
Celebrations also include a BBQ, Buskers, live music with the Alex Bailey Swing Band, and of course cake! Events kick-off at 5 p.m.
Memorial Hall has a full and varied history. Built to commemorate the 35 students and alumni who lost their lives in World War I, Memorial Hall was the original home for the chemistry and chemical engineering departments. It also hosted many university convocations and Founders Day events, as well as the annual Christmas Party featuring a puppet show and President Dr. Colin B. Mackay reading ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas. Many also remember it as a venue for UNB’s famed Red ‘n’ Black Revue!
Today, Memorial Hall is the hub for the Fine Arts at UNB and home to the vibrant UNB Art Centre, the Centre for Musical Arts and Theatre UNB. It regularly plays host to live theatre, concerts, art exhibitions and more.
Join us Friday, September 8th for this exciting celebration! Memorial Hall is located at 9 Bailey Drive on the UNB Fredericton campus. The exhibition will be on display until October 27.
For more information, please contact:
Marie E. Maltais, Director, UNB Art Centre
453-4623
mem@unb.ca
Thank you to the College of Extended Learning, UNB Faculty of Arts and the City of Fredericton for their generous support of this project.
August 27 at 2 PM: Our family workshops offer fun, hands-on activities for the whole family! Everyone is invited to explore collective creativity!
Using Claude Roussel’s maquettes of his sculptures for public space as inspiration, create your version of a sculptural maquette. With cardboard, monochrome gradation paint, and glue, imagine a deconstructed construction that could potentially live in the public space of your choice.
Tickets are $25 per family and are 10% off for members.
Join us for an evening of improv comedy from a wide range of Solo Chicken Improvisers, including current students and alum!
Admission is pay what you can, with a recommended payment of $5 or $10. Tickets can be purchased through Eventbrite or at the door the night of the event. The proceeds from this event will go towards supporting further Improv programming from Solo Chicken, as well towards the Charlotte St. Arts Centre.
Doors at 7:00, show at 7:30. The CSAC bar will be running.
‘Sleeping On / The Present’ is the culmination of a multi-year collaboration between percussionist Noam Bierstone, trombonist Weston Olencki, and composer/media artist Sam Salem, combining two new, ambitious long-form solo works for instruments, objects, live electronics, and video. Sleeping On / The Present explores time, distance, and the psychogeography of memory, reimagining the relationship between performer, electronics, media, and audience.
‘The Way Up & The Way Down’ explores and reinterprets Salem’s own archive of materials and associated memories, repurposing a 12-string acoustic guitar as an augmented percussion instrument. Bierstone navigates a delicate and volatile setup of the work in an intimate, devotional space, drifting in and out of timelessness in a world where dreams of the past have replaced visions of the future.
In ‘Bury Me Deep’, Olencki forms a duet, a kind of seance, between their present self and an AI model created from a comprehensive database of over 3000 recordings of their performance techniques made specifically for this project. A suspended trombone reincarnates the disembodied acousmatic sound world of the piece, which moves from the present to the past, from snapshots of South Carolina to AI-mediated footage of a Drum Corp competition. A ghostly choreography, Bury Me Deep is Southern Gothic in the age of the Machine.
September 7, 8 & 9 at 7:30pm at the BOP Studio (800 St Mary’s St), Fredericton.
Nunsense is a hilarious spoof that follows the misadventures of The Little Sisters of Hoboken, New Jersey.
After the recent poisoning of most of the convent, the remaining sisters must band together (mostly) to stage a fundraiser to bury their deceased (and get them out of the freezer where they are currently being stored).
Laced with catchy, original songs, zany, irreverent, physical comedy and dancing from ballet to tap, Nunsense promises to keep audiences young and old rolling with laughter.
*Masking is not required at this performance but audience members are encouraged to wear one if they would feel more safe. As always if you are sick please stay home and email us prior to the performance for a complete refund