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ECSQ: Quartet by Candlelight (Saint John) 🎻

December 14 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Our sell-out favourite is back by popular demand! Come take a pause from the busy holiday festivities with a relaxing musical evening by candlelight. We’ll be turning down the lights, lighting some candles, and playing heart-warming seasonal music. Perfect for the whole family.  In the spirit of the season, $5 from every ticket sold will be donated to the local United Way.

December 14th, 7:30PM | Saint John | Saint John Arts Centre

Tickets: $30 Adult | $25 Senior | $20 Student

Established in 2019, the Elm City String Quartet was brought together by their passion for chamber music and a desire to share their love of quartet repertoire with their home town of Fredericton. With Victor Vivas and Mercedes Salazar on violin, Mark Kleyn on viola, and Emily Kennedy on cello, the ECSQ’s exciting and broad programming pairs works by today’s composers alongside celebrated quartet classics. Their first performance was a memorable evening in a small art gallery that was so packed, there were children sitting on the floor between their music stands. Since then, the quartet has been captivating New Brunswick communities with their broad programming and charismatic playing.

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Date:
December 14
Time:
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Cost:
$20 – $30
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Website:
https://www.elmcitystringquartet.com/concert-2

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Elm City String Quartet
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Saint John Arts Centre

20 Peel Plaza
Saint John, + Google Map

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The Caribou Club presents Tea and Treaty Signatures, with Gina Brooks, Susan Sacobie, Becca Ireland, and Elder Ramona Nicholas.

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Promise Makerspace (Annex A Room 14) and the UNB Saint John outdoor classroom (behind the Hans W. Klohn Commons)

Gather in the old village to learn about the tradition of treaty signatures and the responsibility we each owe to treaty. Learn to transpose your own signature (or ntotem) onto winter bark with Wolastoqewi Knowledge Carriers, and then enjoy tea steeped over the fire in bark containers and infused with the medicinal properties of birch.

Space for the etching workshop is limited, and registration is required.

All are welcome to enjoy tea by the fire at 4 p.m. behind the Hans W. Klohn Commons! Bring your own cup. This event is supported by the Department of Humanities and Languages and the Faculty of Arts at UNB Saint John. For general inquiries, email rachel.bryant@unb.ca

Caribou Club

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UNBSJ Ganong Hall

100 Tucker Park Road
Saint John, NB E2L 4L5 Canada
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Make room in your schedule and join us on Wednesday, November 20th at 6pm for our Annual General Meeting! Learn about what we’ve accomplished in the past year, and what’s on the menu for 2025.

Location for the AGM will be announced in the coming weeks. The AGM will also be hosted virtually via Zoom in case you’re unable to be there in person. Light refreshments will be served and we encourage folks to arrive early for a Members’ Mingle

Free

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• Hallie Watson – Farm Walk
• Erica Stanley – Brink of Extinction
• Natalie Légère – The Owls of Turtle Island
• Alicia Robichaud – Journey Through Darkness

This is a free event and all ages are welcome. Light refreshments will be served and wine will be available for purchase (19+)

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Saint John Arts Centre

20 Peel Plaza
Saint John, + Google Map
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October 17 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

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.

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Elm City String Quartet

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20 Peel Plaza
Saint John, + Google Map
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$15 – 25

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Rothesay Ballet School

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🎤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.

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Date:
June 1
Time:
2:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Cost:
$10
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Website:
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Chroma NB
Femmes Against Empire

Saint John City Market

47 Charlotte Street
Saint John, New Brunswick E2L 2H8 Canada
(506) 658-2820
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