The Fiddlehead is turning 80! We invite you to join us Saturday, February 8th at the Fredericton Public Library for the opening of our exhibit 80 Years of Art at The Fiddlehead which will feature a retrospective of the artwork associated with the magazine over the years.
During the exhibition opening, we will also launch our Winter 2025 issue with readings from contributors: celebrating the next installment of The Fiddlehead. This event is also part of FROSTival!
Join us for a poetry reading with Sylvia D. Hamilton and Amatoritsero Ede, organized in conjunction with the new exhibition Estuaries. Organized in collaboration with the Department of English at Mount Allison University.
Friday 4 October, 4:00 – 5:30 pm, in Tweedie Hall, (Wallace McCain Student Centre, Mount Allison University)
Amatoritsero Ede has published three well-received collections of poetry, “A Writers Pains & Caribbean Blues (1998), Globetrotter & Hitler’s Children (2009) and Teardrops on the Weser (2021) as well as one collection of literary nonfiction, Imagination’s Many Rooms (2022). He also appears in over 15 poetry anthologies and is the publisher and Managing Editor of the Maple Tree Literary Supplement, MTLS. He teaches English at Mount Allison University.
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. Her 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. She is an Inglis Professor Emeritus at the University of King’s College and recently she was appointed to the Order of Canada and the Order of Nova Scotia.
🎤Happening this Saturday, June 1st at the Saint John City Market ✨
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🌈Come out on Saturday afternoon, rain or shine, for a fun afternoon of poetry and music with Rae Spoon, in collaboration with Femmes Against Empire and a lineup of local queer artists!
This event takes place in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Peskotomuhkati, Wolastoqiyik and Mi’kmaq People.
🚪Doors: 2 PM, 🎤Show: 2:30 PM sharp!
Cover $10 to 20 sliding scale. No one turned away for lack of funds.
No advance tickets. Cash and square payments at the door.
🎤Lineup:
2:30 PM: Kasane Baxter (@tide_washed_beloved on Instagram), local poet.
3 PM: Tea 4 Three, songwriters of many genres. (@tea4threeband on Instagram)
4 PM: Sade Paige, local indie, folk pop artist. (@sadepaigemusic on Instagram)
4:45 PM: Rae Spoon: folk, pop, country singer/songwriter and author. (@raespoon on Instagram)
Accessibility notes:
Please don’t wear strong scents.
The washrooms at the market are accessible and the closest accessible washroom will be a single stall in Uncorked’s space.
The event is outdoors on even paved ground with no steps.
☔If it rains we’ll move into the atrium with the following COVID harm reduction measures:
Masking required (respirator masks recommended).
Negative COVID self-test encouraged before event.
We will have a HEPA filter on stage (5000 sq ft strength)
CO2 metre readings monitored and available.
Contact raespoon@gmail.com with any access questions or concerns.
Rae Spoon will donate 5% of the proceeds after costs from all events on their maritime tour to Crips for eSims for Gaza.
Join us for a second helping of poetry readings with Douglas Walbourne-Gough, author of Crow Gulch and the forthcoming collection Island; Danny McLaren, author of the chapbook of poetry and micro creative non-fiction, The Enby Manifesto; and Cara-Lyn Morgan, author of Building a Nest from the Bones of My People!
To register for this event, please email chair.word.feast@gmail.com. Accessibility information: ASL interpretation will be provided
Join the Word Feast Literary Festival for a big helping of poetry with three local poets, Fawn Parker, author of the Giller longlisted novel What We Both Know and her recent poetry collection Soft Inheritance; Jamie Kitts, author of the forthcoming chapbook, Girl Dinner;and Spencer Folkins whose poetry has appeared in numerous literary magazines.
This event is produced with the support of the City of Fredericton. Accessibility information: ASL Interpretation will be provided, venue has stairs.
Solo Chicken Productions in partnership with Charlotte Street Arts Centre invite you to join us for an evening of delightful performances by some of Fredericton’s most creative queer artists. Poetry, burlesque, drag, dance, improv and more! Let’s come together to celebrate queerness, resist hate and kick off 2024 with a powerful message of love and community.
The evening will be hosted by none other than Heather Silk, featuring performances by Sophie Brander, Jean-Michel Cliche, Shane Clark, Evie Fade, Shelby Harnish, Maury Hansen, Sydney Hallett, Olivier Hébert, Kaylee MacNeil, Jena McLean, Chan Polchies, Ruby Ram, Alex Rioux, Emmanuelle Sabina and with VERY special guest, Gail Costello from Equality NB.
All proceeds from the evening will be donated to Equality NB, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting equality & working to improve the lives of marginalized folks in New Brunswick with a current focus on Policy 713.
Join us for an evening of queer PRIDE and resistance to oppression through performance!
The Word Feast Literary Society is excited to announce the 7th Word Feast Literary Festival!
Join us for eleven events over four days of jammed-packed literary celebration. Feed your hunger for literary nourishment with readings from amazing poets and authors, step into the thrilling world of crime and suspense in this exclusive two-hour workshop with Carlos Anthony, jumpstart your own writing career by demystifying querying etiquette with Vanessa C. Hawkins, or share your own words at our Lunch Time Open Mics.
See all the event details, including accessibility information, on our website.
To pre-register for our Zoom events or to reserve yourself a spot at our Open Mics please email chair.word.feast@gmail.com.
Join City of Fredericton Poet Laureate Jordan Trethewey in the Beaverbrook Art Gallery common area, Thursday, January 25, at 6:30pm, for the launch of his highly anticipated book of Fredericton poems, “These Are the People in your Neighbourhood.”
Enjoy poetry readings by your fellow Frederictonians and a Q and A hosted by world traveller and author, Jeremy Gilmer.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase using cash, or etransfer.
Come out and hear stories about people in your neighbourhood. Coffee and snacks are available for purchase at the Daily Espresso.
Admission to the book launch in the common area is free.
Participants are encouraged to also visit the Gallery as admission is by donation on Thursday evenings.
On September 7 at 7 p.m. in Fredericton, join The Fiddlehead for the launch of their 2023 Summer Poetry Issue, with readings from contributors Ali Blythe, Rose Després, Clare Goulet, Jennifer Houle, Kathy Mac, and Carlos Morales. This will include readings of translated works from a partnership with Acadian Literary Journal Ancrages.
This free event will take place in Fredericton, at the Harriet Irving Library’s Milham Room (Rm 100), and on Zoom for those who can’t attend in person (registration required for online participants). An ASL interpreter will be present.
This event is funded in part by the Government of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Culture NB, and the University of New Brunswick.
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