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.
Conference (506) is a multi-stage program that helps emerging and developing artists build sustainable careers in the music industry.
New Brunswick is teeming with musical talent, far exceeding the infrastructure and professional resources available. Conference (506) aims to give artists the tools to achieve the next step in their careers.
In PRACTICE, takes place on October 21·22 and is for the whole music industry! While our event showcases emerging and developing artists, established and exporting artists, as well as industry professionals, are welcomed to attend the professional development and the networking sessions.
We can’t have an industry conference without industry pros! If you book for a festival or venue, and you are looking for an excuse to get out of the house, save the date for the ‘In PRACTICE’ portion of Conference (506), OCT 21-22.
𝗘𝗺𝗺𝗮 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘆’s 𝗜 𝗪𝗮𝘀 𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗣𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝘆 𝗕𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗚𝗼𝘁 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗺
Bourse Imago 2021, presented at Galerie Sans Nom from September 23rd to October 20th 2022.
Emma Delaney (she/her) is an artist from Albert County, New Brunswick, whose work fits within a conceptual framework. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Mount Allison University in 2020 and is now entering the field of Art Education. Delaney has an interdisciplinary practice focusing on installation, textiles, printmaking and daily drawings. Her practice incorporates personal investigations surrounding physical and mental health, past experiences, and queerness. Through her work, she interacts with the relationship between of LGBTQIA2S+ people and rural places. She has spent over a year working in a small fishing community, collaborating with other artists and growing her practice through learning new trades such as raku ceramics and rug hooking. All of these learnings have influenced her overall connection to self/identity in relationship to landscape.
The interest in the juxtaposition of craft and fine art is a natural impulse that occurred after leaving the institutional setting of school and transitioning into a small village. The separation of artisans and artists often referred to in Art History parallels a similar mentality towards queer and female people living within a rural context. The figures presented in my work are various self-portraits. Although they lack realism, they are glimpses into the banality of my life. This idea of slow life exhibited in rurality is adjacent to my experiences as a queer female in early adulthood. This inspiration is presented through my choice of materials and images that are connected to my life in Albert County, New Brunswick. Rug hooking and felting are just a few of the fibre arts used in my practice that have deep connections to rural communities. The use of found materials combined with printmaking is also seen in this body of work, using antiques to construct sculptural pieces. I Was Out Picking Flowers And My Beer Got Warm is a collection of work that ranges from felted puppets, rug hooking, painting, relief and screen printing, to beading and sculpture. This project came to fruition through the formative experience offered by Imago’s Bursary in 2021-2022.
Presented at Imago from September 23rd to October 20th 2022.
Opening reception Friday September 23rd from 6 to 8 pm.
Pat Joy was born and resides in the city of Moncton, New Brunswick. He enjoys tattooing, printmaking, painting and arranging objects.
Pat Joy thoroughly enjoys the process of block printing, repeating images and carving, and uses this medium to make images that are simple in form and easily readable from a distance. In his paintings, he experiments with colour and the freedom of loose naivety, allowing himself to paint quickly and in the moment without much contemplation. Pat Joy is a proud member of Imago and loves community.
Mbwa
Dogs are said to have another set of eyes, to see the dead and those who trespass against the living and nature. Dogs are companions and friends to us and our ancestors. They live with us in the village, ward threats from our homes and hunt in the wilderness. Dogs have the ability to traverse spaces between here and there. Bless them and bless you.
The Elm City String Quartet continues their season with two absolute staples in the quartet repertoire. If you love immersive and expansive masterpieces, this concert is for you. The concert begins with the second string quartet of Johannes Brahms, which is an A-minor feat of musical transcendence. The second piece in the program is Benjamin Britten’s second string quartet: a meditative, intricate, and brazen musical journey.
String Quartet No. 2 in a minor, Op. 51, No. 2 – J. Brahms (1833 – 1897)
I. Allegro non troppo
II. Andante moderato
III. Quasi minuetto, moderato – Allegretto vivace
IV. Finale. Allegro non assai
(Intermission)
String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op. 36 – Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976)
Tickets can be purchased at the links below:
November 23, 7:30 – Saint John Arts Centre, Saint John, NB – tickets
November 25, 7:30 – Wilmot United Church, Fredericton NB – tickets
November 27, 2:00 – Empress Theatre, Moncton NB – tickets
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
Sunday, October 02 2022 at the Capitol Theatre, Moncton.
At 56, Canada’s foremost well-heeled troubadour has made a most unlikely discovery: domestic bliss. All it took, it turns out, was leaving the city he loved.
Following 30 years as an emblem of Toronto’s west end, Ron Sexsmith reluctantly uprooted to the serene hamlet of Stratford, Ontario, and the melodic, playful, theatrically vivacious Hermitage came gushing out.
“Almost immediately after arriving here I just felt this kind of enormous stress cloud evaporate and all these songs started coming,” recalls Sexsmith. “I’d walk along the river every day into town and feel like Huckleberry Finn or something. It had a really great effect on my overall state of being.”
This new zen can be heard from the first moments of Kinks-esque album opener, Spring of the Following Year, as the serene sound of birds situate the listener into Sexsmith’s state of grace.
It’s not like he was planning to write his 16th long player as soon as he arrived, he adds. After all, Sexsmith was already quite busy turning his first novel, Deer Life, into a prospective musical. But when melodies as infectious as the Chi-Lights-inspired You Don’t Want to Hear It or the ear-worm inducing Lo and Behold entered his mind, he had to get them on record. Adding his signature mischievously astute worldplay (in Dig Nation, for example) to ground the album firmly in the Sexsmith oeuvre. Even the album’s title is a coy subversion of the 15-time Juno nominee’s own expectations upon arriving in Justin Bieber’s hometown. “I felt I’d reached the age where I could be a hermit finally, but it didn’t really work out that way,” he laughs.
Further reflecting Sexsmith’s new confidence, Hermitage is the first album on which he played nearly all the instruments, an idea he credits to producer and longtime drummer Don Kerr. “Don said ‘Why don’t you make one of those sort of Paul McCartney-type records?’ and it’s like a light bulb went on over my head,” he says. “That had never occurred to me.”
The result is the songwriter’s most self-assured collection, still charmingly subtle yet increasingly full of musical vigor, as on Chateau Mermaid, an ode to his own Stratford Graceland, or the surprisingly hopeful Small Minded World, (originally penned for the Adams Family film), in which Sexsmith croons, ‘Oh now don’t feel blue ‘cos they don’t get you, you’ll win this small minded world.’
Museum in the evening… art in the dark!
You can now visit the Université de Moncton’s art gallery, Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben Cohen, and the Acadian Museum on Thursday evenings, both for self-guided visits and for organized activities.
Resurgo Place and the Galerie Sans Nom (Aberdeen Cultural Centre) will also open on Thursday evenings.
* This Thursday, September 15, at 6 PM: Outdoor drawing workshop inspired by the work of artist Laura Demers.
Participants will have the opportunity to choose the location where they wish to work in the garden outside of the gallery while reflecting on the natural environments that surround them.
These drawings, in which the natural elements and the weather may be involved, will be made with simple tools (pencils, crayons, graphite on white paper) – a collaboration between the participant and nature.
Go here for the complete schedule of events. More information will also be shared on our social media channels throughout the fall.