October 4, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Contemporary Poetics 1 October 4, 11, 18, & 25: 7:00 – 9:00 pm via Microsoft Teams.
Hosted by UNB Writer-in-Residence Di Brandt.
Email j.hallett@unb.ca to register. Enrollment Limit: 18.
Contemporary Poetics 1 October 4, 11, 18, & 25: 7:00 – 9:00 pm via Microsoft Teams.
Hosted by UNB Writer-in-Residence Di Brandt.
Email j.hallett@unb.ca to register. Enrollment Limit: 18.
Saturday, October 1 | 6pm – 3am | Downtown Fredericton | Free
Illuminate Arts Festival is a free outdoor event highlighting art and performance, from dusk to dawn, on unceded Wolastoqey Territory in Downtown Fredericton, NB. Guided by a festival map, visitors can explore the city in a new light, experiencing an array of pop-up art installations, performances, interactive art displays, and more.
Illuminate shines a light on a diversity of lived experiences, narratives, and ideas through public art and performance. Illuminate seeks to engage audiences, providing new and accessible opportunities to interact with the arts and explore local environments, inspired by the global phenomenon Nuit Blanche.
Illuminate is presented by Fierté Fredericton Pride, a non-profit, volunteer-led organization that strives to promote inclusion and intersectionality in celebrating and advocating for 2SLGBTQ+ individuals and communities. The inaugural edition of Illuminate is funded in part by the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Visit www.illuminateartsfestival.com to learn more.
In this workshop, Wei Qing will share tips and tricks for their work and studies in the art of Stage Management. The workshop will explore the role of Stage Manager in the production team, uncover key skills and tools that enable a stage management team to thrive and understanding the importance of management in a room. Collaboration, curiosity, and connection will root the discussions in this workshop.
Wei Qing will come to the workshop with key points, stories and paperwork to share – but the workshop will also be adapted to those who attend and the interests of the room. Wei Qing is also interested in having discussions about decolonizing the practice of stage management and invites anyone who’d like to talk about stage management or the process of creating theatre to attend!
When: Sunday September 25, 2022, 10AM – 1PM
Location: Black Box Theatre, James Dunn Hall, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, NB
Cost: FREE. (Thanks to Experiential Learning)
Max Enrolment: 20
Partnerships: In partnership with Solo Chicken Productions, The Office of Experiential Learning
Horror fans, come out, come out, wherever you are!
Founded in 2020, the Demonic Brilliance Film Festival is an international horror film festival brought to you by Creeker Films and Steam Powered Studios. As horror filmmakers ourselves, we strive to highlight horror films and the people who make them!
9.23 The Tipsy Muse Cafe
9.25 Broken Record Bar & Music Room
Doors 7:30 pm
Screening 8 pm
Explore the work of photographer Chris Donovan in Stay Solid or Move West, a photography exhibit at the George Fry Gallery. An opening ceremony will be held September 22 at 4:30pm.
Visit the exhibit from September 22 to October 19, from 10am to 4pm at the George Fry Gallery at 408 Queen St.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Stay Solid or Move West is a photographic project and book by Saint John-based photographer Chris Donovan. The work is a diaristic account of his purposefully displaced coming-of-age, as well as a subconscious look at intergenerational trauma, love, and sense of belonging.
This year, Advanced Studio Practice’s Guest Lecture Series is partnering with the Beaverbrook Art Gallery to celebrate local artisans.
Hosted every Thursday from 12pm to 1pm, guest speakers will deliver an hour-long lecture, speaking to their practice, process, and life as a working artist.
The Guest Lecture Series models successful contemporary practice to NBCCD students. It informs, inspires, and ignites art and design dialogue and engagement within the local arts community.
The ASP Guest Lecture Series is hosted by the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design’s Advanced Studio Practice certificate program each year and is organized, in part, by its students, as well as being part of the program’s curriculum. It brings artists from across New Brunswick to speak to NBCCD students and the greater public.
Advanced Studio Practice students focus on self-directed studio work, in addition to implementing a professional career plan through networking, mentorship, pop-up shows, exhibitions, wholesale opportunities, and more. Students will acquire business skills and enhanced studio practice to launch into self-employment or a successful career in the creative cultural sector.
In 2022, the guest lectures will return to an in-person format allowing the community to gather and engage. Those who attend the lecture will gain free access to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and its collections afterwards.
The ASP Guest Lecture Series focuses on New Brunswick and provides:
These noon-hour sessions celebrate the creative, cultural, and academic achievements of artists, designers, and fine craft practitioners.
September 15 – Laura Boudreau
September 22 – Bruce Gray
September 29 – Drew Kennickell
October 6 – Gary Weekes
October 13 – Melissa LeBlanc
October 20 – Erica Stanley & Aidan Stanley
October 27 – Rachel MacGillivray
November 3 – John Geldart
November 10 – Oakley Wysote Gray
November 17 – Melissa Peter-Paul
November 24 – Brigitte Clavette
December 1 – Kristyn Cooper
December 8 – Judie Acquin-Miksovsky
For further information or to receive updates, please contact: Jean.Rooney@gnb.ca
The Elm City String Quartet is kicking off their first full season with a bit of everything. We will be starting with one of the great Beethoven quartets, the opus 18, no. 4 in C minor, full of drive, energy, and passion. Following that, we will introduce you to “Strum,” an exciting piece by Jessie Montgomery, an American composer who’s making a big name for herself. The concert will be concluded with Philip Glass’ fifth quartet, a pure minimal masterpiece.
Tickets can be purchased at the links below:
September 23, 7:30 – Wilmot United Church, Fredericton NB – tickets
September 24, 7:30 – Saint John Arts Centre, Saint John NB – tickets
September 25, 2:00 – Empress Theatre, Moncton NB – tickets
Celebrate in Song 2022: Music to lift the heart and sing the world awake Friday, October 28 to Sunday, October 30, 2022
Dr. Joel Tranquilla, Conductor
Thomas Gonder, Accompanist
With singers from the Canadian Chamber Choir: Chloé Thiessen, Soprano;
Deborah Buck, Alto; Darrell Christie, Tenor; Christopher Lane, Bass
And with other special musical guests
Grace Memorial Baptist Church
536 Northumberland Street
Fredericton, NB E3B 3K8
Please register before Sunday, September 18, 2022
Celebrate in Song 2022 is an opportunity for choral singers to learn and perform challenging and beautiful music in collaboration with Dr. Joel Tranquilla, members of the Canadian Chamber Choir, and musical guests from around the region. It is:
– A celebration of the ongoing resilience of choral music in New Brunswick
– An opportunity for singers to grow and learn, and to connect with and expand their musical family
– A rare opportunity for New Brunswick student and adult singers to work with and learn from some of Canada’s best choral professionals
No matter how long you have been away from singing, Celebrate in Song is a wonderful way to re-discover that joy.
Go here for more information.
Cat Candow wants to break out from the tradition of sending postcards only during trips and start creating cards to send from home.
As global border closures due to the pandemic cut off her travel even after three years, Candow plans to do a series of postcards of Fredericton during her residency for the Fredericton Arts Alliance, Sept. 5–11.
“I would like to create images using all of the techniques I usually use, including embroidery, painting, photography, and lacemaking,” she said. “I’ll try to find out new ways to layer, combine, and finish them digitally.”
Candow has enjoyed creating, sending, and receiving postcards immensely since her first school trip
in fifth grade. She is fascinated by the image of the place, and by the feelings and emotions that each photograph captures.
Candow, who studied a variety of fibre arts while growing up in Germany, came to Canada as an exchange student to study fashion design at NBCCD. She returned to Fredericton after completing her journey around the world to sew, create art, and occasionally lead workshops.
On Sept. 10, she will host an in-person workshop at the Fredericton Botanic Garden Resource Centre
at 1 p.m. She wants to encourage participants to explore the colors and textures around them in
nature while teaching them to embellish a printed photograph with embroidery and beads. “I hope to get people interested in playing and creating with me, using embroidery on photographs.”
The Fredericton Arts Alliance is grateful for the support of the City of Fredericton and Downtown Fredericton in making these residencies possible.
On September 21 from 5-6:30pm, the City of Fredericton Summer Artist in Residence Exhibit Opens! Each artist in residence spent two weeks either at Killarney Lake Park, or the Fredericton Botanic Garden to work “en plein air.”
Come check out a multitude of new works that span across many mediums in the Charlotte Glencross Gallery and the Penny Gallery in the Charlotte Street Arts Centre. The exhibit runs until November 3rd so there will be plenty of time to see all of the new pieces!