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Rae Spoon, Tea 4 Three, Sade Paige, and Kasane Baxter 🎤

June 1 @ 2:00 pm 5:30 pm

🎤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.

Details

Date:
June 1
Time:
2:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Cost:
$10
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47 Charlotte Street
Saint John, New Brunswick E2L 2H8 Canada
(506) 658-2820
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Word Feast: Online Poetry Bash 📚

February 9 @ 7:00 pm 8:00 pm

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

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Date:
February 9
Time:
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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Word Feast: Friday Lunch Time Open Mic 🥪🎤

February 9 @ 12:00 pm 1:00 pm

Join us during the lunch hour as you satisfy your appetite with both good food and good writing! 

To reserve a spot to read please email chair.word.feast@gmail.com This event is produced with the support of the City of Fredericton.

Details

Date:
February 9
Time:
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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546 Queen Street
Fredericton,
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Word Feast: Poetry Bash 📚

February 8 @ 7:00 pm 9:00 pm

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.

Details

Date:
February 8
Time:
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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Big Gay Cabaret 🏳️‍🌈🐔

February 8 @ 7:30 pm 9:30 pm

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!

$20 suggested donation
732 Charlotte Street
Fredericton, NB E3B 1M5 Canada
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Word Feast 7 🍽️

February 8 @ 8:00 am February 11 @ 11:00 pm

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

We can’t wait to see you there!

Sincerely, 

The Word Feast Literary Society

Free
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Poetry Reading and Book Launch with Jordan Trethewey 📚

January 25 @ 6:30 pm 7:30 pm

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.

Free
703 Queen Street
Fredericton, NB E3B 1C4 Canada
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Fiddlehead 2023 Summer Poetry Issue Launch ✍🏽

September 7, 2023 @ 7:00 pm 9:00 pm

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.

Free | Zoom registration: thefiddlehead@gmail.com

Free

506-453-3501

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5 Macaulay Lane, University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, E3B 5H5
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Art of Translation Workshop at the AX 💬

March 3, 2023 @ 7:00 pm 9:00 pm

Date: Friday, March 3 at 7:00 p.m.

Location: In-person, AX Gallery

Cost: Free, donations encouraged

AX Literary, The Art of Translation

AX is pleased to welcome Arianne Des Rochers, Jo-Anne Elder, shalan joudry, and Sonia Malaborza to the gallery for an AX Literary Series first—The Art of Translation. These four prolific translators will be joined by moderator and poet Vanessa Moeller to discuss the relationship between the translator and the author, and the translated text as a piece of creative writing. The translators will each read an excerpt from their work, and will then take questions from the audience.

There will be a bookseller on hand, and sales and book signings will take place after the even

5 Macaulay Lane, University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, E3B 5H5
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Image of Sina Queyras. Text reads: Frye February 18th. Community Peace Centre Moncton. Writing in the Folds: Hybrid Memoirs in Poetry or Prose. Writing workshop with Sina Queyras

Writing in the Folds 📙

February 18, 2023 @ 1:00 pm 4:00 pm

On Saturday, February 18, join us for a hybrid memoir writing workshop with poet Sina Queyras.

Image of Sina Queyras. Text reads: Frye February 18th. Community Peace Centre Moncton. Writing in the Folds: Hybrid Memoirs in Poetry or Prose. Writing workshop with Sina Queyras

Never write alone and yet be only yourself. Write with form, with constraints, but find your own shape; your own relationship to constraints. Good writing usually has two qualities: intense familiarity and surprise. A good sentence often changes direction completely midway through. In the sea of language sometimes all one needs to do is steer into the swell. In this workshop we’ll discover tactics for weathering.

Sina Queyras is the author of the poetry collections My Ariel (2017), MxT (2014), Expressway (2009), Lemon Hound (2006), and most recently, Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf (2022), all from Coach House Books.

Details:
February 18, 2023 | 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Community Peace Centre | Wheelchair Accessible
Regular: $ 25 / WFNB: $ 15

Offered in partnership with the Writers Federation of New Brunswick and MAGMA.

$15 – $25
5 Macaulay Lane, University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, E3B 5H5
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