GeneviĂšve & Matthieu’s installation-performance M. Gros is inspired by the Canadian investigative technique known as Mr. Big, which allows a police officer, undercover, to obtain a confession from a suspect of a serious unsolved crime. Led by shape-shifting characters, living sculptures, binomial weapons and a televisual sound environment, M. Gros tackles issues of identity such as surveillance, infiltration, idea theft and copying; but beyond the classics of investigative games, the story mostly stages a contemporary artistic flora.
Join us for a special in-conversation event between bestselling author Ann-Marie MacDonald and Mount Allison University literature professor and researcher Andrea Beverley! Books will be available for purchase from Tidewater Books.
November 12, 2022 1:30 p.m. Moncton Public Library Wheelchair accessible $ 15 Register on the Frye Website or over the phone at (506) 859-4389.
In the late nineteenth century, Charlotte Bell is growing up at Fayne, a vast and lonely estate straddling the border between England and Scotland, where she has been kept from the world by her adoring father, Lord Henry Bell, owing to a mysterious condition. Charlotte, strong and insatiably curious, revels in the moorlands, and has learned the treacherous and healing ways of the bog from the old hired man, Byrn, whose own origins are shrouded in mystery. Her idyllic existence is shadowed by the magnificent portrait on the landing in Fayne House which depicts her mother, a beautiful Irish-American heiress, holding Charlotteâs brother, Charles Bell. Charlotte has grown up with the knowledge that her mother died in giving birth to her, and that her older brother, Charles, the long-awaited heir, died soon afterwards at the age of two. When Charlotteâs appetite for learning threatens to exceed the bounds of the estate, her father breaks with tradition and hires a tutor to teach his daughter âas you would my son, had I one.â But when Charlotte and her tutorâs explorations of the bog turn up an unexpected artefact, her father announces he has arranged for her to be cured of her condition, and her world is upended. Charlotteâs passion for knowledge and adventure will take her to the bottom of family secrets and to the heart of her own identity.
Trained in printmaking and photography with a BFA from the University of Moncton (2013), in her art practice Arsenault combines print and textile work with installation, video projections and sound art. Snippets of memories evoked from images and words drawn from archives and anecdotes account for her personal history and those of others, creating a fragmented and re-sewn narrative. The questioning of memory, its capacity for veracity or its unconscious distortions is at the heart of her research.
Arsenault currently works in Moncton, from the Aberdeen Cultural Centre. She has participated in several group exhibitions held in the Maritime Provinces, as well as solo exhibitions and creative residencies in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec. She has been working as the Curator of Community Engagement at the Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen since 2019, in addition to being an independent curator.
memorandum is a collaborative project that has been developing since 2021, and is a direct response to the isolation caused by the pandemic. Donations of sweaters and blankets knitted by members of various communities have been used as materials for the construction of a comfortable and safe space where individuals are encouraged to remember and let go. The knitted designs before their destruction are transformed into silkscreens, leaving a trace of their original form and function, as well as the words and thoughts left by the contributors. A projection shows the artist engaging in repetitive actions – a kind of self-soothing practice in a fit of anxiety.
This project is presentedas part of the Media Arts component of FICFA thanks to funding support from the Canada Arts Council, the Province of New Brunswick, the City of Moncton and ArtsNB.
One night 8 performances Saturday, November 26th 8PM show Salle Bernard-Leblanc Centre Culturelle Aberdeen 140 Botsford St, Moncton Voluntary contribution: All funds go to the artists!
November 1, 2022
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Bluebirds is set in Ătaples, France, 1918. Nurses Christy, Maggie, and Bab have crossed oceans to care for wounded Canadian soldiers in the Great War. Despite the terrible injuries they must deal with, they manage to stay hopeful as the dangers of the front draw closer to their hospital. Through it all, the three women find friendship, independence, power, and influence in a place where men, once again, are trying to destroy the world.
The complete program will be revealed during a press conference which will take place on Tuesday October 18 at 10 am at the Aberdeen Cultural Centre. Tickets will be available on the FICFA website at a later date, follow our social media for updates.
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 worldâs 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 Groupâ). Today, the professional recognition of the Debussy String Quartet is indisputable