Join us for the unveiling of the newly restored “Beavers” sculpture by Acadian artist Claude Roussel at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, on November 23, 2024 from 2PM to 4PM!
This restoration project, in partnership with the City of Fredericton, returns this iconic piece to public view. Come celebrate this cherished part of Fredericton’s history and the rich cultural heritage it represents!
Join us as we launch the opening weekend of Radical Stitch with an inspiring showcase of creativity and craftsmanship! Discover unique beadwork from local artists and shop directly from talented vendors.
On November 8, 2024, alongside the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick and presenting partner UNI Coopération financière, artsnb will celebrate the artists who will be receiving the four (4) awards for High Achievement in the arts: the Visual Arts Award, the Literary Arts Award, the Performing Arts Award, and the inaugural Indigenous Artist Award.
The 2024 laureates are Phil Comeau, Valerie Sherrard, Marshall Button, and Tara Francis.
The Jim Axelrod Big Little Band, with special guest Amber Bishop will perform at Wilmot United Church on Saturday, October 26 at 7:30 p.m.
You’ll hear swing, blues, bossa and pop classics in the wonderful acoustics and beautiful atmosphere of Wilmot United, located at the corner of King and Carlton streets downtown.
This is a pay-what-you-will event, with proceeds to support the work of the Wilmot United Church Outreach Committee.
The Elm City String Quartet opens their season with string quartets that span three centuries – Haydn’s famous “Emperor” Quartet, Pulitzer-winning composer Caroline Shaw’s “Plan & Elevation,” and Smetana’s autobiographical quartet “From My Life.”
We’re back for ECSQ Season 3!
The ECSQ starts their season with their favourite concert formula; something old, something new, and a tune to sing on the way home. The concert kicks off with “The Emperor” string quartet by Haydn, the formative master of the quartet genre. The piece is a favourite classic, and a great way to refresh our quartet sound after a summer break. We continue with “Plan & Elevation” by Pulitzer Award winning composer Caroline Shaw, who is one of top movers and shakers in the modern quartet writing scene. We close the concert with Bedřich Smetana’s Quartet 1, “From my Life,” a musical memoir written while the composer’s hearing was rapidly deteriorating.
Nous sommes de retour pour la troisième saison de l’ECSQ !
L’ECSQ commence sa saison avec leur formule de concert préférée: quelque chose vieux, quelque chose de nouveau, et un refrain à chanter en rentrant à la maison. Le concert commence avec le quatuor à cordes “L’Empereur” de Haydn, le maître fondateur du genre du quatuor. L’œuvre est un classique favori et un excellent moyen de rafraîchir notre son de quatuor après les vacances d’été. Nous continuons avec “Plan & Elevation” de la compositrice Caroline Shaw, lauréate du prix Pulitzer, qui est l’un des pionniers de l’écriture moderne pour quatuor. Nous concluons le concert avec le premier quatuor de Bedřich Smetana, “From my Life”, un mémoire musical écrit alors que l’ouïe du compositeur se détériorait rapidement.
Join us in celebrating Solo Chicken’s newest cohort of Level 1 improvisers in an evening of fun and fast short-form improv games!
When: Doors open at 7:00 PM, show starts at 7:30 PM
Where: The Charlotte Street Arts Centre Auditorium (top floor). Note that the auditorium is wheelchair accessible and is equipped with an elevator.
Tickets are pay-what-you-wish, with a recommended donation of $10 per person! Feel free to pay less or more depending on current ability to support our programming!
Join our Level 3 Improv grads as they take to the stage and tackle long-form improv for the first time!
Come out and support this amazing cohort as they come to the end of Solo Chicken’s improv program!
When: Doors open at 7:00 PM, show starts at 7:30 PM
Where: The Charlotte Street Arts Centre Auditorium (top floor). Note that the auditorium is wheelchair accessible and is equipped with an elevator.
Tickets are pay-what-you-wish, with a recommended donation of $10 per person! Feel free to pay less or more depending on current ability to support our programming!
Join us for a panel discussion organized in conjunction with the new exhibition Estuarieswith Sylvia D. Hamilton, Joana Joachim and Thandiwe McCarthy.
Dr. Joana Joachim is Assistant professor of Black Studies in Art History and Social Justice at Concordia University. Her research and teaching interests include Black feminist art histories, Black diasporic art histories, critical museologies, Black Canadian studies, and Canadian slavery studies. Her curatorial projects include Estuaries presented at the Owens Art Gallery (2024) and Blackity presented at Artexte (2021). Her current book project examines practices of self-preservation and self-care among Black women in contexts of slavery under the French by considering both historical and contemporary artworks. She earned her PhD in the department of Art History and Communication Studies and at the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at McGill University. Dr. Joachim obtained her master’s degree in Museology from Université de Montréal and her BFA cum laude from University of Ottawa. In addition to the special issue of RACAR, “salt: For the preservation of Black diasporic visual histories” co-edited with Pamela Edmonds, Dr. Joachim’s writing has appeared in books, journals and magazines including Routledge Companion to African Diaspora Artedited by Eddie Chambers (forthcoming October 2024), History, art and Blackness in Canada, Manuel Mathieu: World Discovered Under Other Skies, Canadian Journal of History and C Magazine.
Sylvia D. Hamilton is a multi-award-winning Nova Scotian filmmaker, artist and writer known for the documentaries Portia White: Think on Me, The Little Black School House and Black Mother Black Daughter, among others. She is the author of the poetry collection, And I Alone Escaped to Tell You, a finalist for the Nova Scotia Masterworks Award and the 2015 League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her latest collection titled Tender was a finalist for the League of Canadian Poets 2023 Pat Lowther Award and the winner of the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia Maxine Tynes Poetry Award. Other awards include the 2019 Governor General’s History Award for Popular Media and the Documentary Organization of Canada’s 2021 Luminary Award.
Thandiwe McCarthy is a 7th generation African Canadian spoken word poet, writer, and public speaker. After a residency at Arteles, Finland, Thandiwe has begun focusing on his writing practice. As the culture correspondent for Maritime EDIT magazine, he highlights Black community leaders and artists. He has delivered keynotes for the Atlantic Public Libraries Association, the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design’s 2024 graduation and has lectured on leadership at Saint Thomas University. He was a Co-founder of the New Brunswick Black Artists Alliance and Emancipation Celebration event and he has played a key role in helping to recognize August 1st as Emancipation Day in New Brunswick. His Canada Council funded project the “Still Here Initiative” celebrates fifteen generational Black New Brunswick families and will launch a national art exhibition and globally distributed book in July 2025.”
This panel discussion is made possible with support from the Centre for Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University.