This Christmas season explore the art of stained glass with artist Ruth Dunfield at Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre. Sunday, November 20, 1:00 – 4:00 pm
Tap into your creative side and make a unique festive Christmas ornament to hang on your tree or give as a special one-of-a-kind gift. The possibilities are endless and will live on forever! All tools and materials are included $100. Limited to 8 participants.
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Sunbury Shores Arts & Nature Centre will hold its annual general meeting for 2022 at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, 17 November, 2022. In person (139 Water Street, St. Andrews) and via ZOOM.
All current Members of the Centre and the general public are welcome to attend. Only Members are entitled to vote.
Click here for Zoom ID and password.
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Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre, Saint Andrews, NB is pleased to present Art in Mind, an exhibition organized by the Canadian Mental Health Association of New Brunswick (CMHANB) in Charlotte County. Art in Mind will be on exhibition from November 10 until November 19, 2022.
For the fourth year, CMHA issued a call for participants to create artworks that help shine a light on mental illness. Fifty-eight artworks were submitted by 24 residents of Charlotte County living with the effects of mental illness for exhibition in Art in Mind.
Artwork in a variety of media, including acrylic on canvas, watercolour, wool, needle felting, crochet in cotton and other materials are presented in the exhibition. Artist statements that accompany the artworks describe the significance of creativity in the lives of the artists and how the creative process improves mental well-being.
The exhibition opening and an opportunity to meet the artists will take place Friday, November 10 from 5:00 – 7:00 pm. The public is welcome to attend.
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Montreal contemporary artist Matthew-Robin Nye has created the solo art installation Good Night Moon: a Tempo, a Rhythm to reflect many of the elements in the children’s book by Margaret Wise Brown, including “a tiny toy house and a young mouse, a comb, and a brush and a bowl full of mush and a quiet old lady who was whispering ‘hush’”.
Opening Reception Friday, October 7, 5-7PM at Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre.
The installation includes performance residencies with Montreal contemporary artists KG Gottman and Jordan Arseneault, the former exploring technology to create immersive visual experiences and the latter presenting a music and movement performance. Through their interventions, both artists seek to enhance the viewer’s experience of Good Night Moon.
In conjunction with and in celebration of Good Night Moon, Saint John-based Guest Curator Amy Ash has brought together the work of six contemporary artists in the ancillary exhibition Stars, Air, Noises Everywhere, also presented at the gallery.
Stars, Air, Noises Everywhere features the work of Jack Bishop, Kathy Hooper, Sara Brinkhurst, Jenn Carson, Darren Emeneau, and KC Wilcox, who embrace the creative potential of play, imagination, and storytelling often associated with childhood in their work. At the same time, their work invites us to enter into unexpected narratives and see the world differently, “within the rhythm and tempo of everyday experience”.
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Earth Fest at Sunbury Shores has been postponed until Sept 28th.
Sunbury Shores Earth Fest. Postponed to Wed, Sept 28. 6:30pm- 8:30pm.
Sunbury Shores will be hosing Canada’s first EarthFest. EarthFest is a global initiative dedicated to bringing awareness to our interdependence with planet Earth and is a call to action to alter our relationship to one of healing and reverence.
What will happen during EarthFest? Earth-centric activities and educational opportunities to learn more about our interdependence with Earth and all living beings. Activities are designed for all ages, from children to teens to adults. Morning, Elementary school. Organized by Schools.
Evening, open to the public.
Free admission! 139 Water Street, Saint Andrews, NB, E5B 1A7
Opening reception, for Shadow Ecology, Friday, September 2, 5-7PM at Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre.
“Shadow Ecology” pairs Heather McCaig’s sculpted glass and Emily Phillips’s paintings to create a gallery exhibition about environmental conservation in Canada.
Heather McCaig’s glass draws attention to the disappearing ecosystems of Canada that are quickly becoming shadows on our landscapes due to human disturbance. Her incredibly detailed native flora and fauna from each region brings the country’s ecosystems together in one room, allowing the viewer to recognize that by losing these crucial ecosystems, we are losing ourselves.
Emily Phillips’s art connects people with beloved wild places in the Fundy region. She aims to evoke in her viewers the same attachments she feels to these places along with an appreciation for their intrinsic value and continued conservation.
Join us this Friday for the Opening Reception this Friday, September 2, from 5-7PM
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The Art of Storytelling at Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre.
Saturday, August 27, 2022, 10am to 3pm
The Art of Storytelling – Writing Workshop
Saturday, August 27, 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre
St. Andrews by-the-Sea, NB
Cost: $85/person
Spaces are limited; please contact us and register in advance by August 24.
Need a refresher on the art of storytelling? Seize the remaining hours of summer and join award-winning author and professor Dr. Gerard Collins for this condensed version of his storytelling masterclass, which he recently taught at the invitation of the Frye Festival.
In this half-day workshop, we’ll talk about story structure, how to show instead of tell, how to develop characters, enhance narrative tension, infuse your prose with subtext, and write dialogue that gets people talking.
Bring your questions and conundrums—we’re putting it all on the table.
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About your host:
Gerard Collins is the award-winning author of FINTON MOON, MOONLIGHT SKETCHES, and most recently, THE HUSH SISTERS. (www.gerardcollins.ca)
Gerard is a Newfoundland writer, now living in New Brunswick, whose first novel, Finton Moon, was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, the Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage and History Award, and has won the Percy Janes First Novel Award. In 2019, he turned the Finton Moon experience into a multi-media art exhibition, “The Book that Wrote Itself”. His short story collection, Moonlight Sketches, won the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award. In 2021 his second novel, The Hush Sisters won an international Next Generation Indie Book Award in the suspense category and also was a finalist in the paranormal category.
Gerard has won numerous arts and letters awards for fiction, published in journals and anthologies, garnered positive reviews and arts grants, had his short stories taught in multiple university courses, and his first novel has been placed in high school learning resource centres across Newfoundland and Labrador.
To ask a question or to register for “The Art of Storytelling,” email gerardcollins@gerardcollins.ca
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Raku Pottery instructed by Leo Despres.
September 13 – October 22 at the Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre.
Tuesdays 6:30 – 9:00pm
Beginner / Experienced / Adult / Youth 14+
Explore Raku glazing and decorating techniques to create the three basic characteristics of Raku – Crackle, Lustres, and Carbonization. Raku firing is one of the most natural techniques that you can encounter in pottery. In raku firing, all of natural elements are used, earth, fire, air, and water.
Materials included
Registration Deadline: September 5, 2022
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Beginner Lithography at Sunbury Shores, instructed by Emmaline Mortimer.
September 24 – 25, 2022
Saturday and Sunday, 12:30 – 5:00 pm
Beginner / Adult / Youth 14+
Lithography is a printing process dating back to the 18th century, based on the principle that grease and water don’t mix. This beginner lithography workshop will cover the basics of the lithography process from preparing the lithographic stone, drawing the image on the stone, preparing the stone through an etching process, and finally resulting in a print.
Materials are included
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Exhibition at Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre runs from July 22 to August 13, 2022.
Opening Friday, July 22, 5 pm – 7 pm.
Sunbury Shores will be holding a group exhibition titled Maritime Colours incorporating natural pigments from July 22 through August 13.
Featuring: Renata Britez, Sara Jones, Christianna Myers, Jennifer Pazienza, Ralph Simpson, and Danika Vautour.
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