The Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick (WFNB) has announced the shortlisted titles for the 9th annual New Brunswick Book Awards.
The winners will be revealed at an awards ceremony on Saturday, June 1, as part of WFNB’s annual WordSpring writing festival in Moncton. The program will celebrate books published in the 2023 calendar year in the poetry, fiction, nonfiction and children’s picture books categories.
The Frye Festival is the largest literary event in Atlantic Canada and a bilingual celebration of books, ideas and the imagination.
Amounting to ten days of festivities, the festival takes place at the end of April and unfolds in the Greater Moncton region, in neighbouring communities, and, in the case of school visits, all over the province.
Best Selling author of The Da Vinci Code, and composer, Dan Brown joins the Sistema NB Children’s Orchestra to perform his Wild Symphony.
Dan Brown – the #1 best-selling author of The Da Vinci Code and related thrillers, Angels & Demons, Inferno, and The Lost Symbol – is known for exciting twists, turns, and surprises.
His musical surprise, WILD SYMPHONY, unveils the novelist as a lifelong musician and composer.
Inspired by the track record and international leadership of NBYO and Sistema NB, Brown has agreed to participate personally in the Sistema NB performance in Moncton on June 11, 2024. This will be his solo, personal collaboration in a Wild Symphony performance in 2024!
And although Wild Symphony is being performed by professional symphony orchestras from around the world, in New Brunswick, Wild Symphony will be performed by the Sistema NB Children’s Orchestra – 120 musicians, 14 years of age and younger, a class of its own.
Now in its 15th year, Sistema New Brunswick has grown into Canada’s largest orchestral program, engaging 1,200 children and youth and employing 60 professional teaching artists. The Sistema New Brunswick program is free. Children, starting in grade 1, participate three hours after school, five days a week totalling 600 hours annually. Music and the orchestra become a powerful catalyst for achievement and social development.
Plan to join us. It will be WILD!
Brought to you by the creative team behind last year’s immensely popular Jesus Christ Superstar, Hubcity Theatre is proud to present Stupid F*cking Bird.
Young playwright Con invites his uncle, his mother, her lover, and his two closest friends to see his new play starring his girlfriend, Nina. What follows is a clash of family, fate, and feelings as each character explores their relationship with each other, the world, and the ideas of love and art.
Razor-sharp witty, bombastically vulgar, and heart-wrenchingly emotional, Stupid F*cking Bird presents a roller coaster of a story exploring love & art, creation & destruction. In this irreverent, contemporary, and very funny remix of Anton Checkov’s masterpiece,The Seagull, Aaron Posner stages a timeless battle between young and old, past and present, in search of the true meaning of it all. Stupid F*cking Bird will tickle, tantalize, and incite you to consider how art, love, and revolution fuel your own pursuit of happiness.
SNB wraps up the season with a salute to heroism, including Beethoven’s mighty “Eroica” Symphony.
Bravo, indeed!
SNB wraps up the season with a salute to heroism, including Beethoven’s mighty “Eroica” Symphony.
Bravo, indeed!
SNB wraps up the season with a salute to heroism, including Beethoven’s mighty “Eroica” Symphony.
Bravo, indeed!
The Elm City String Quartet continues its season with a contrast of minimalism, romanticism and tango. Piazzolla’s Tango Ballet, an excellent example of nuevo tango, is a programmatic suite, and featuring six “film scenes”: introduction, the street, encounter / forgetfulness, cabaret, solitude, and the street again.
Arvo Pärt’s Summa is inspired by Medieval chant and Renaissance polyphony, and was originally composed as an a cappella vocal work for four singers. Mendelssohn’s Quartet Four is full of virtuosic passion, charming dance movements, and intimate romantic lyricism. While these pieces are from different ends of a musical spectrum, they all manage to get to the heart of what music is all about, in their own way.
Tickets:
Adults: $20 | Seniors: $15 | Students: $10 | Sistema Students & Faculty: Free
Advance tickets: https://www.elmcitystringquartet.com/mendelssohn-adams
The Elm City String Quartet continues its season with a contrast of minimalism, romanticism and tango. Piazzolla’s Tango Ballet, an excellent example of nuevo tango, is a programmatic suite, and featuring six “film scenes”: introduction, the street, encounter / forgetfulness, cabaret, solitude, and the street again.
Arvo Pärt’s Summa is inspired by Medieval chant and Renaissance polyphony, and was originally composed as an a cappella vocal work for four singers. Mendelssohn’s Quartet Four is full of virtuosic passion, charming dance movements, and intimate romantic lyricism. While these pieces are from different ends of a musical spectrum, they all manage to get to the heart of what music is all about, in their own way.
Tickets:
Adults: $20 | Seniors: $15 | Students: $10 | Sistema Students & Faculty: Free
Advance tickets: https://www.elmcitystringquartet.com/mendelssohn-adams
Galerie Sans Nom cordially invites you to Hors D’Œuvres – an annual fundraising event.
At this delightful fundraiser, the public is invited to enjoy a decadent buffet and to participate in a silent auction of works generously donated by artists from the region’s greater cultural community. Proceeds go to support the operations of the center and its initiatives.