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Fiddlehead 2023 Summer Poetry Issue Launch âœđŸœ

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

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August 23, 2023
AX Literary Series: Alexander MacLeod. April 29, 2023. Workshop, 3pm-5pm. Reading 7pm.

AX Literary: Alexander MacLeod 📚

April 29, 2023 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

  • Where: The AX Gallery
  • When: April 29, 2023 (Workshop: 3pm-5pm // Reading: 7pm)
  • Workshop Cost: $45 
  • Reading Cost: Free, donations appreciated.
AX Literary Series: Alexander MacLeod. April 29, 2023. Workshop, 3pm-5pm. Reading 7pm.

Reading Description: Will be reading from Animal Person.
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Workshop Title: â€œWho are these people and what is happening to them?” Re-thinking the Relationship Between Character and Plot in Fiction.
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Workshop Description: Character and plot. For many readers and writers, these are the two most important narrative elements in any story.

Some people read and/or write primarily for characters. They feel that a story, at its core, has to be about someone or about a collection of figures. A family saga, for example. Others prefer plot. For them, narrative is what happens, and, in the end, a good story – a mystery for example – is essentially a sequence of unfolding scenes or events. What is a writer to do with this back and forth, chicken and egg kind of problem? 

Rather than trying to quiet these tensions, this workshop instead explores the vital interdependence of plot and character and it asks us to think deeply about the way characters are produced and /or revealed by what happens to them. Using some key exercises and working with examples selected from masterpieces of literature, we will try to reflect on the ways that  these two narrative elements can be strategically combined to produce powerful and memorable scenes. We will also try to branch out a bit to see how good characters and good plotting absolutely require key contributions from the more poetic elements of our writing, such as pacing, tone, rhythm, diction, imagery and sentence structure.

Who are these people and what is happening to them? How does their story “go?” What does it look and sound like? These are just a few of the questions we will try to answer.

$45

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AX Literary Series: Alexander MacLeod. April 29, 2023. Workshop, 3pm-5pm. Reading 7pm.

AX Literary: Alexaner MacLeod 📚

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  • Where: The AX Gallery
  • When: April 29, 2023 (Workshop: 3pm-5pm // Reading: 7pm)
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AX Literary Series: Alexander MacLeod. April 29, 2023. Workshop, 3pm-5pm. Reading 7pm.

Reading Description: Will be reading from Animal Person.
Register here

Workshop Title: â€œWho are these people and what is happening to them?” Re-thinking the Relationship Between Character and Plot in Fiction.
Register here

Workshop Description: Character and plot. For many readers and writers, these are the two most important narrative elements in any story.

Some people read and/or write primarily for characters. They feel that a story, at its core, has to be about someone or about a collection of figures. A family saga, for example. Others prefer plot. For them, narrative is what happens, and, in the end, a good story – a mystery for example – is essentially a sequence of unfolding scenes or events. What is a writer to do with this back and forth, chicken and egg kind of problem? 

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Di Brandt

The AX Literary Series: Di Brandt 📚

March 24, 2023 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

When: Friday, March 24 at 7:00 p.m.

Where: Online via Zoom

Di Brandt

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Cost: Free, donations encouraged

The AX Literary Series is pleased to welcome current UNB Writer in Residence, poet Di Brandt. Brandt will read from her new book, The Sweetest Dance on Earth: New and Selected Poems, before taking questions from the audience.

The following morning, Saturday, March 25, Brandt will host a publishing workshop via Zoom. 

All are welcome to attend. Please register here to receive the Zoom link. (Note: Attendance for this reading is free). 

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March 20, 2023
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Frye Festival 2023 📚

April 21, 2023 @ 8:00 am – April 30, 2023 @ 5:00 pm

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Frye. 24th annual edition. April 21 to 30.

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.

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On March 21, 2023 at 5 p.m., come celebrate the unveiling of the Frye Festival’s 24th annual edition, and be the first to discover the full author lineup and schedule of events!

Preview Party 21 March 2023, 5pm to 7pm at the Centre culturel Aberdeen Cultural Centre

We will also introduce our new web platform. Participation is free, but please rsvp here: http://bit.ly/3ILsCtF

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📍2nd floor of the Aberdeen Cultural Centre

♿ Wheelchair Accessible: ramp at the entrance on Alma Street and elevator in the middle of the building.

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Atlantic Vernacular Artist Talk. Saturday, January 28, 10am-12pm Moncton/Online

Atlantic Vernacular Artist Talks: Karen LeBlanc, Carols Morales, Tracy Austin, Gabriel Robichaud ⚓

January 28, 2023 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Our fourth and final Atlantic Vernacular Artist Talk coming soon! Join us Saturday, January 28th from 10am to 12pm (storm date Feb 4th) in MONCTON and ONLINE! That’s right! We will be holding this Artist Talk will be a physical event, as well as be livestreamed!

Atlantic Vernacular Artist Talk. Saturday, January 28, 10am-12pm Moncton/Online

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Karen Leblanc, and Carlos Morales


Tracy Austin, and Gabriel Robichaud

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LIVE EVENT LOCATION:
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LIVESTREAM LINK:
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Check out the full digital exhibition today:
atlanticvernacular.ca
On display ’til March 2023!

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Atlantic Vernacular is an online exhibition of contemporary craft paired with poetry of Atlantic Canada. Voices of the region include those of our first nations, and multiple mother tongues represented by participating artists and poets. This region is a den of material experimentation, integration of work with one’s environment, and honest confrontation with the challenges of making work in a conservative region of the country. After artworks were selected for exhibition, regional poets were invited to interpret the works through their own medium of verse.

Craft NB would also like to thank their funders: the Province of New Brunswick and the Canada Council for the Arts for their contributions to this special project.

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From competitive basement family karaoke to touring Europe, from fights with an exploitative label to finding his creative voice, from protesting against gentrification to using his music to centre political change, Rollie charts his own development alongside a shifting musical landscape. As Rollie finds his feet, the bottom falls out of the industry, and he captures the way so many artists were able to make a nimble name for themselves while labels floundered. 

Bedroom Rapper also offers us a wide-ranging and crucial history of hip-hop. With an international perspective that’s often missing from rap music journalism, he integrates the gestation of American hip hop with UK grime and niche scenes from the Canadian prairies, bringing his obsessive knowledge of hip-hop to bear on his subject. Rollie takes us into New York in the ’70s, Edmonton in the ’90s, the legendary Montreal DIY loft scene of the 2000s, and traces the ups and downs of trusting your gut and following your passion, obsessively.

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