A Remembrance Concert resented by the Lintuhtine Choir and very special guests.
Directed by Helen M. McKinnon.
Accompanied by Lynn Mills.
Sunday, Nov. 6th @ 3:00 pm
Monetary Donation at door for Remembrance project.
Saint Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 512 Charlotte Street, Fredericton
Presented by Dance Fredericton Danse and featuring guest artists Alanna McAdie and Peter Lancksweerdt, soloists with Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet, The Nutcracker is a full-length ballet which showcases original choreography created for Dance Fredericton Danse, elaborate costuming and sets, and the classical score by Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
This fairy tale ballet opens with the festive Victorian party scene on Christmas Eve in the Stahlbaum home and later follows Clara and the Nutcracker Prince on their journey to the Land of the Sweets. In the Magical Kingdom they are feted with delightful dances from around the world, including the stunningly beautiful pas de deux of the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier. This timeless classic will delight audiences of all ages.
At the Fredericton Playhouse, Friday, December 2nd at 7:30 pm and Saturday, December 3rd at 2pm.
Enjoy selections from Mozart, Darvish, and Beethoven with the Saint John String Quartet.
Thursday, November 3, 2022: St. Thomas University, Fredericton
7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 5, 2022, Saint John Arts Centre, Saint John
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 5, 2022, Resurgo Place, Moncton
7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Buy tickets here.
The Silver Wave Film Festival is excited to be celebrating our 22nd anniversary this year!
The 2022 festival will be a hybrid offering screenings both in-person and online.
We hope you enjoy the festival!
We are excited to be offering several screenings at different venues and an awards show in-person this year. Tickets will be cash only available at the door.
There are also online screening options. Click here for the full schedule.
Join us on Friday, October 28, 2022, at 7pm for our next Connexion Exchange artist talk! This is the 7th of 9 artist talks featuring mentees and their mentors from the Connexion Exchange mentorship program. Enjoy an hour long presentation and Q&A with Emily Kennedy + Lou Sheppard, answering questions about their artist talk, discussing their studio practice and chatting all about their 3-month mentorship.
Emily Kennedy is a cellist and composer based in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Often seen collaborating with electronic musicians, dancers, visual artists, and songwriting projects, her personal practice is an opportunity to synthesize her classical training with her interests in improvisation, minimalism, field recordings, and pop music. She mulls over translation, repetition, self reflection, and time in her work, using loop and effect pedals to expand the possibilities of her instrument.
She is a graduate of the performance program at the University of Ottawa and Wilfrid Laurier University. Her interest in performing and writing new music has brought her to Banff’s Concert in the 21st Century residency, the Britten-Pears: CAPPA program in Aldeburgh, UK, Montreal Contemporary Music Lab, RE:FLUX Festival in Moncton, NB with improv trio Terre Wa, and suddenlyLISTEN in Halifax, NS. She frequently performs with the Elm City String Quartet, and writes and sings for the duo Pallmer.
Lou Sheppard works in interdisciplinary audio, performance and installation based practice. His work is often responsive, investigating the material and discursive contexts of a site and how and their affect on bodies and environments. His research is often evidenced through graphic notations, scripts and scores which are then performed in collaboration with other artists and in community gatherings. Lou’s recent projects include Phase Variations, an exploration of queer archives, The Exquisite Corpse, a meditation on post human worlding, and I Want To Be a Seashell…, responding to the Dalhousie Arts Centre with collaborator Will Robinson. Lou’s exhibition Rights of Passage will open this September 2022 at the Art Gallery of York University.
Lou has presented work and participated in residencies across Canada, in the US and Europe, including at the International Studio Curatorial Program in New York, and La Cité des Arts in Paris, and as faculty at The Banff Centre in Banff, AB. Lou has been long listed for the Sobey Award in 2018, 2020 and 2021, and was the recipient of the Emerging Atlantic Artist Award in 2017. He has participated in the Toronto Biennial, the Antarctic Biennial, and is currently completing a public art commission for the Broadway Subway Project in Vancouver, BC.
Of Irish, English and Scottish descent Lou is a settler on the traditional and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq in Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia.
Classical music, Sting Quartet:
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 7:30 PM at the Capitol Theatre in Moncton.
Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 7:30 PM at the Imperial Theatre in Saint John.
Friday, October 14, 2022 at 7:30 PM at the Playhouse in Fredericton.
In thirty years of activity, the Debussy String Quartet has been acclaimed throughout the world, continually sharing the same passion in its musical interpretations on the world’s most prestigious stages: Japan, China, United States, Canada, Australia, Russia, Europe, gaining renown through regular tours on all the continents.
Thirty years of evolution which have made the Quartet a key player on the international music scene, with numerous awards, including a First Prize in the Evian International String Quartet Competition in 1993 and a Victoire de la musique 1996 (« Best Chamber Music Group”). Today, the professional recognition of the Debussy String Quartet is indisputable
Join The Fiddlehead, in partnership with Word Feast, as we launch the Autumn issue with readings from Jenny Hwang, Griffin Poetry Prize and Governor General’s Literary Prize winner Tolu Oloruntoba, CBC Short Story Prize winner Corinna Chong and Fawn Parker, who has been longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
The event will take place in the Milham Room (Room 100) of UNB’s Harriet Irving Library and on Zoom for those who can’t attend in-person. An ASL interpreter will be present and coffee, tea and light snacks will be provided. As per UNB policy facemasks are mandatory when not eating.
The event is free to all. To attend virtually, please register by emailing thefiddlehead@gmail.com to receive the Zoom link. When registering please provide your name and whether or not you require ASL services. If attending in person, registration is not necessary.
This event is funded by the Canada Council‘s Reopening Fund.
Queens, Clowns and Fools is an introduction to pathways for new work creation that address, invokes, or involves an audience’s presence directly into performance.
As taught by multi-award-winning drag clown Justin Miller (aka Pearle Harbour), this class aims to equip its participants with the skills to tear down (or at least peek around) the fourth wall, tap into their impulse and imagination, and open themselves up to the risk, surprise, and love that can arise when performers authentically listen to their audience, and respond urgently to hug the calamity in the room.
Using tenants of Pochinko clown, bouffon, direct address, cabaret, commedia dell’arte, butoh, and contemporary drag, participants will tap into a presentational form that is both ancient and entirely in the moment.
This class is ideal for actors, drag queens, comedians, clowns, storytellers, solo- and interdisciplinary-performers, lecturers, anyone who has the courage to stand in front of someone else and entertain with both their wits and their heart.
When: Wednesday, October 19th, 2022 , 6:30PM – 9:30PM
Location: Black Box Theatre, James Dunn Hall, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, NB
Cost: FREE
Partnerships: In partnership with The Fredericton Playhouse, Solo Chicken Productions, The Office of Experiential Learning and The Plain Site Theatre Festival.
Register here.
Gallery On Queen is pleased to announce “Suburbia,” an exhibition by Stephen Lack. The opening of the show takes place on Friday, October 7th, 2022, at 5:30PM.
Stephen Lack was part of the influential East Village art scene in the early 80’s with artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Julian Schnabel and Sherie Levine. The subject matter of his work focuses on urban car culture, suburban architecture and cityscapes
His Neo-Expressionist style often depicts nostalgic 1950’s Americana charged with an underlying anxiety. As Lack puts it, “I like to seduce the viewer into the beauty of the image world and then reveal the threat.”
“Suburbia” will show at the Gallery until October 28th. You can find more details by clicking the “Exhibition Information” button below.
Joe Blades brought his passion for poetry with him everywhere, much like the journals that were his constant companion. Joe was a poet, a publisher, an artist, and champion of the literary arts. He passed away April 22nd, 2020, at age 58, leaving behind a wealth of written and artistic contributions that span 40 years of hard work and reflect a tenacious dedication to art making and promotion.
Please join Joe’s friends, colleagues, and family as we pay tribute to his life and work. A special thanks to UNB Libraries, UNB Arts Centre, and the City of Fredericton for their generous support of these events.
Memorial Reading: UNB, Harriet Irving Library, Event Space (rm 318), 7:00PM – 9:00PM Friday, October 21st, 2022. Refreshments, and gifts of Joe’s work will be provided. Please consult UNB’s masking policy.
Blades Archive Display: UNB Harriet Irving Library, 3rd floor, Research Commons, October 17th- November 10th, 2022. A curated selection of his journals, art, and memorabilia. The complete archive is accessible at Archives & Special Collections, UNB Libraries.
Broken Jaw Press Book Display: UNB Harriet Irving Library, 1st floor, Learning Commons, October 17th- November 10th, 2022.
Seating is limited, please RSVP through this event.
For more information please contact: askus@unb.ca