Call for Projects! Arts Atlantic Symposium | 21-23 October, Saint John, NB.
We invite artists, arts collectives, curators, scholars, or arts professionals to submit proposals for presentations, performances, temporary installations, interventions, or workshops on the theme of FUTURE POSSIBLE for ArtsLink NB‘s inaugural Arts Atlantic Symposium.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 31, 2022.
APPLICATION & INFO: https://www.artsatlantic.org/
INFO SESSIONS: May 13 and May 18 (online, registration required).
AREA 506 celebrates the best of New Brunswick through music, culture and goods. What started out in 2016 as a local festival has turned into a permanent East Coast experience on the Saint John waterfront. Whether you like the funky sounds of the saxophone or the upbeat rhythm of electric pop, we have it all!
AREA 506 presented by Bell Aliant is set to take place over the New Brunswick Day long weekend, extending the new AREA 506 Waterfront Container Village into the biggest party event of the summer. The Saint John waterfront will come alive from Friday July 29 through Sunday July 31, providing three days of music, culture and goods with headline sets from Arkells, The Glorious Sons, Sloan and an incredibly diverse supporting lineup.
For tickets, visit the festival website.
Country Singer/Songwriter and the recipient of the 2021 International Singer songwriters Association Award for Entertainer of the Year Award, Aaron Halliday is a Canadian country music singer/songwriter who lives in Kelowna, BC. Aaron has more than 20 years of playing behind him, with a wide open road ahead.
At the Imperial Theatre, May 12, 7:30pm.
Held In partnership with BGC Greater Saint John, Chroma NB‘s Youth Creative Nights are monthly arts engagement events, hosted by 2SLGBTQIA+ facilitators and held for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth and allies between 12 and 18 years old.
Creative Nights aim to break down social isolation and foster a safe space where participants can make friends, learn a new skill, and creatively nurture their sense of self within a community of like-minded individuals.
We are pleased to be partnering with Brilliant Labs on this tech-savvy workshop. Mi’kmaw abstract artist Jan Martin will demonstrate how to take, then insert photos into found images using Photoshop. Basics of Photoshop will be taught, so no experience needed.
Please wear a mask to this event. Please register using this link.
Jan Martin is a Mi’kmaw non-binary painter and abstract artist from Listuguj Mi’gmaq First Nation. Jan, who started out as a photographer, mixes their love of painting with their photography background – digitizing and melding together real-life paintings with photographs.
Using Photoshop, Jan will show us to do this ourselves. No experience required.Chroma’s Creative Nights are monthly arts events, held exclusively by and for 2SLGBTQIA+ and gender diverse individuals. They aim to break down social isolation, fostering a safer space where participants can make friends, learn a new skill, and creatively nurture their sense of self within a community of like-minded individuals.
This event is free. Creative Connections is a wheelchair accessible space with a gender neutral bathroom. Please wear a mask when not eating or drinking.
Maximum 8 participants for this workshop, so book your spot soon.
The Saint John Arts Centre (SJAC) is excited to welcome back Jane Geurts to teach Studio 65+ Watercolours. As Jane guides you through a variety of techniques, you will discover the qualities that make watercolour such an enjoyable and unique experience. This workshop is designed for beginners who have never picked up a brush before, through to intermediate level participants.
In this workshop you will explore:
WORKSHOP INFORMATION
Age group: Seniors and Adults
Time: 1:30-4pm
Dates: Tuesday afternoons – April 26, May 3, 10, 17, 2022
Duration: 4 weeks
Tuition fee: $110 for adults / Seniors aged 65+ are eligible for a 20% discount on all adult workshops; enter coupon code SENIOR65 at checkout.
Supplies fee: $20, purchased from your instructor at the first class
Skill level: Beginner/Intermediate
Capacity: 10 students
Click here to learn how to register.
The Saint John Arts Centre is pleased to welcome back senior artist Jane Geurts, who will guide you through an intuitive approach to watercolour painting. You will engage your imagination and creativity in an exploration of abstract compositions with this liquid medium. This workshop is designed for participants who have moved beyond the beginner’s level.
Time: 6-8:30pm
Dates: April 26, May 3, 10, 17, 2022
Duration: 4 weeks
Fees: $115 tuition
Supplies: Participants will purchase a $20 materials kit from the instructor on week 1
Skill level: Intermediate / ‘beyond beginner’
Capacity: 10 students
Seniors Discount: Seniors aged 65+ are eligible for a 20% discount on all adult workshops; enter coupon code SENIOR65 at checkout.
Jane Geurts is a designer and painter with a penchant for watercolour. She is well known for her large scale watercolours that grace residential and commercial spaces across the country. Her artwork has been purchased for public and private collections in Canada, the US, and Holland, and she has lectured and conducted workshops around the globe. Jane spent more than thirty years as Head of Design at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design, and has acted as a design consultant for several commercial and residential design firms, with her work being featured on HGTV
The Saint John Arts Centre is proud to partner with the Early Music Festival to present a benefit concert with all proceeds going to the Canadian Red Cross Ukraine Humanitarian Crisis Appeal.
This all-Mozart program features:
Saturday, May 14, 2022, 7pm • Tickets: $25 minimum
(Please note, we have set up the digital tickets as ‘name your price’, so you can donate a different amount over $25 if you would like to do so!) Get your tickets here.
Back by popular demand at the Saint John Arts Centre – join Tzigane Caddell for this fantastic two-day workshop! Students will learn the fundamentals of Indigo dyeing, using Shibori resist techniques on cotton. We will begin by stitching patterns on, and Indigo-dyeing, a hanky. Students will create Shibori resists on cotton yardage, a bandana and a large fine cotton shawl, which will then be dyed in the Indigo Vat.
Age group: Adults
Time: 9am-4pm with a 1 hour break for lunch, both days
Dates: Friday, April 22 & Saturday, April 23, 2022
Fees: Tuition – $90 / Kit purchased from instructor – $60 (kit includes: vat and stitching supplies; 1 metre Cotton yardage; 1 Organic Cotton Hanky, 10” x 10″; 1 Organic Cotton Bandana, 24” x 24″, 1 Organic Cotton Mull Shawl, 44” x 82”)
Capacity: 6 students
Skill level: Beginner
STUDENT SUPPLY LIST
Apron or Work Clothes: waterproof is ideal. Indigo-dyeing is messy and permanent!
Rubber gloves: the longer the better; elbow-length, if you can.
Coffee/ Water/ Snack/ Lunch: We have an hour at lunchtime. The City Market and other restaurants are a 5-10 min walk, if you wish to buy lunch.
One article of clothing or small household item (like a pillow case), made of cotton or linen, for dyeing on the second day.
No large items, bedding, or heavy fibres (like terrycloth or denim) please.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Tzigane Caddell, retired landscape designer from Rothesay, NB, began exploring natural dyeing in 2017. Indigo dyeing quickly become a consuming passion and is now the central focus of her small-batch fibre-dyeing enterprise – Tzindigo (Tz + Indigo). Tzigane uses shibori resist techniques to create patterns on cotton, linen and silk shawls and scarves and up-cycles linen clothing – giving a second life by resuscitating it in the indigo vat.