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ArtsLink NB’s Mentorship Program: Call for Mentees 👥

Now Accepting Applications for Mentorships from November 2024 to November 2025

ArtsLink NB is now accepting applications for the next iteration of our standalone mentorship program. Artists of all disciplines who live in Atlantic Canada face the unique challenge of pursuing their practice from a marginalized area of the country.

Building networks through lifelong engagement in peer-to-peer and mentor-to-mentee discourse is vital to pursuing a career for any arts professional, but the need is especially high in New Brunswick.

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Root Words: in search of New Brunswick arts writing 🖋️

Update 7 August: Pitch Deadline has been extended to Monday August 12th, 11:59pm

Critical writing is essential to a vibrant arts ecosystem. It is a way to celebrate and uplift the arts that is powerful because it brings new ideas and connections into consciousness. It is a bridge between disciplines that helps to build understanding of a wider context.

This opportunity is open to writers at absolutely all career stages and levels of experience. Read on for more information about how to pitch your idea.

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Writers’ Open Mic 🎤

The Writers’ Open Mic is a free monthly event open to all. Come out and read your poems, short stories, comics, novels, essays, twitter posts, stand-up comedy, etc. Or just come to listen. Please wear a mask.

A projector will be set up for those with comics or other images or videos they want to share. Files can be brought on a USB or emailed in advance. Accessibility concerns, general questions, and image or video files can be directed to laurawatsonartwork@gmail.com.

Writers’ Open Mic 🎤

February 11 @ 3:00 pm 4:00 pm

The Writers’ Open Mic is a free monthly event open to all. Come out and read your poems, short stories, comics, novels, essays, twitter posts, stand-up comedy, etc. Or just come to listen. Please wear a mask.

A projector will be set up for those with comics or other images or videos they want to share. Files can be brought on a USB or emailed in advance. Accessibility concerns, general questions, and image or video files can be directed to laurawatsonartwork@gmail.com.

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February 11
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3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
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Free
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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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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 DescriptionWill be reading from Animal Person.
Register here

Workshop Title“Who 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? 

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
5 Macaulay Lane, University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, E3B 5H5
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AX Literary Series: Alexander MacLeod. April 29, 2023. Workshop, 3pm-5pm. Reading 7pm.

AX Literary: Alexaner MacLeod 📚

April 29, 2023 @ 3:00 pm 5:00 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 DescriptionWill be reading from Animal Person.
Register here

Workshop Title“Who 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? 

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
5 Macaulay Lane, University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, E3B 5H5
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Frye. 24th annual edition. April 21 to 30.

Frye Festival 2023 📚

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

The Frye Festival is the largest literary event in Atlantic Canada and a bilingual celebration of books, ideas and the imagination.

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.

5 Macaulay Lane, University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, E3B 5H5
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Preview Party 21 March 2023, 5pm to 7pm at the Centre culturel Aberdeen Cultural Centre

Frye Festival Preview Party 👀

March 21, 2023 @ 5:00 pm 7:00 pm

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

We are looking forward to seeing you!

📅 March 21, 2023
⏰ 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
📍2nd floor of the Aberdeen Cultural Centre

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

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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