The Symphony New Brunswick season 2022-23 continues with selections from Shostakovich, Shaw, and Haydn.
Ensemble: Saint John String Quartet.
Thursday, December 1st, 7:30pm – 9pm
McCain Hall, St. Thomas University
Friday, December 2nd, 7:30pm – 9pm
Saturday, December 3rd, 7:30pm – 9pm
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M. Gros by Geneviève & Matthieu
November 11 to December 18, 2022 at the Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen
Opening: November 11, 4 – 6 p.m.
Performance as of 4:30 p.m. | Performance collaboration: Stefan St-Laurent
Artist talk (in French): November 12, 9 :30 – 11 :30 a.m. Dieppe Arts and Culture Centre.
Geneviève & 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.
The duo Geneviève & Matthieu, from Rouyn-Noranda, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, emerged in the late 1990s. Their work combines art, performance, music, and daily life. Using interdisciplinary practices, from happening to music composition and from performance to installation, this duo creates collective performances and stagings of sometimes festive but always human social scenes.
This project is presented as part of the Media Arts component of the Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (VAM-FICFA). The exhibition will be on view from November 11 to December 18, 2022. Opening hours are from 1 to 4 p.m. from Tuesday to Sunday and until 8 p.m. on Thursdays.
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 Charlotte’s 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 Charlotte’s appetite for learning threatens to exceed the bounds of the estate, her father breaks with tradition and hires a tutor to teach his daughter “as you would my son, had I one.” But when Charlotte and her tutor’s 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. Charlotte’s passion for knowledge and adventure will take her to the bottom of family secrets and to the heart of her own identity.
Memorandum by Alisa Arsenault.
Presented from November 10th to 19th 2022 at Imago Artist-Run Print Studio.
Opening reception Friday November 11th at 6pm.
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 presented as 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.
A Strategy Dance event.
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!
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.
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Bluebirds is set in Étaples, 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.
Theatre New Brunswick‘s production of Bluebirds is on tour in New Brunswick at the following dates and venues:
Theatre Restigouche | Campbellton, NB | 7:30 pm | BUY TICKETS
Empress Theatre | Moncton, NB | 7:30 pm | BUY TICKETS
Imperial Theatre | Saint John, NB | 7:30 pm | BUY TICKETS
W.C. O’Neill Arena Theatre | St. Andrews, NB | 7:30 pm | BUY TICKETS
Carleton North High School | Florenceville-Bristol, NB | 7:30 pm | BUY TICKETS
Motyer-Fancy Theatre (MTA) | Sackville, NB | 7:30 pm | BUY TICKETS
The opening night of the 36th Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie will take place on Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 8 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre.
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.
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
As part of the Paradise Lost and Found exhibition, the curator Carolina Reis proposes three short films: Speaking to Their Mother (Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan) by Marjorie Beaucage (English and Cree), Root Up by Katia Café-Fébrissy (French with English sttl), and Extractions by TJ Cuthand (English with French sttl). The screening will be followed by a conversation (in French) with artists Marjorie Beaucage and Sylvie Pilotte, curator Carolina Reis, and Émilie Savoie, project coordinator of Passons à l’action climatique (Let’s take action on climate change) of Université de Moncton.
The screening will be held outdoors, near the Student Centre on the Université de Moncton campus, at 8 p.m. on September 29. Warm clothing and a blanket or folding chairs are recommended! In case of rain, the screening will be held in room 001-B of the Fine Arts Building.
“Contamination is the central theme of the documentary Root Up by Katia Café-Fébrissy. We are introduced to a young woman from Guadeloupe who has left the city to become a farmer on the land she inherited from her father. During filming, she discovers that her little piece of paradise and everything that grows there are toxic. TJ Cuthand’s autobiographical film Extractions draws a parallel between the domination of political, economic and police authorities over the land and resource extraction, and domination over Indigenous peoples, particularly over the bodies of women and children. In Speaking to Their Mother (Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan), Director Marjorie Beaucage gives voice to Rebecca Belmore and accompanies her as she sets up her giant megaphone aimed at a clearcut area so that her community can speak to the land,” explains Carolina Reis.
Starting October 5, Paradise Lost and Found will also be presented online in collaboration with VUCAVU, which will include a video-tour of the exhibition and the curatorial text. All three short films will also be available for free October 5-16. A virtual round-table discussion with Katia Café Fébrissy, Marjorie Beaucage, Laura St. Pierre and the curator will be streamed online at 5 p.m. EST (6 p.m. Atlantic) and available in video afterwards.