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October 2022
Illuminate Arts Festival 💡
Saturday, October 1 | 6pm - 3am | Downtown Fredericton | Free Illuminate Arts Festival is a free outdoor event highlighting art and performance, from dusk to dawn, on unceded Wolastoqey Territory in Downtown Fredericton, NB. Guided by a festival map, visitors can explore the city in a new light, experiencing an array of pop-up art installations, performances, interactive art displays, and more. Illuminate shines a light on a diversity of lived experiences, narratives, and ideas through public art and…
Find out more »Life Drawing Sessions ✍️
Life drawing sessions at the Sunbury Shores arts and Nature Centre, October 2 – December 11, 2022. Every other Sunday from 1:00pm – 3:30pm Draw from a live model to flex your drawing skills! These sessions are for beginners and experienced drawers who are interested in practicing drawing the human figure. A model will do multiple poses to challenge your perception and way of seeing the figure.
Find out more »Ron Sexmith at the Capitol 🎵
Sunday, October 02 2022 at the Capitol Theatre, Moncton. At 56, Canada’s foremost well-heeled troubadour has made a most unlikely discovery: domestic bliss. All it took, it turns out, was leaving the city he loved. Following 30 years as an emblem of Toronto’s west end, Ron Sexsmith reluctantly uprooted to the serene hamlet of Stratford, Ontario, and the melodic, playful, theatrically vivacious Hermitage came gushing out. “Almost immediately after arriving here I just felt this kind of enormous stress cloud evaporate and…
Find out more »Contemporary Poetries 📚
Contemporary Poetics 1 October 4, 11, 18, & 25: 7:00 - 9:00 pm via Microsoft Teams. Hosted by UNB Writer-in-Residence Di Brandt. Email j.hallett@unb.ca to register. Enrollment Limit: 18.
Find out more »Poetry Reading with Di Brandt and Shauna Deathe 📚
Join us for a reading by critically-acclaimed poet Di Brandt, with an opening reading by current UNB graduate student Shauna Deathe. Free online event. Registration via Eventbrite is here.
Find out more »Thomas Vienneau: Queering Forward ⏩
Hello everyone! I invite you to my upcoming exhibit at the Dieppe Arts and Cultural Centre titled Queering Forward. Vernissage will take place on October 6th at 5PM and will run for the duration of the month. My exhibit will focus on the individual journeys queer people take, concentrating on hardships, hope, and love. We should continue to be visible and represented in the art world and beyond. There will be thirty (30) paintings exhibited. I will be presenting along…
Find out more »Fredericton Poetry Bash 📓
PhD student Amber McMillan will be launching her new poetry collection THIS IS A STICKUP on October 6th. All are welcome to attend this exciting event with poetry readings, giveaways, and a cash bar. Celebrate the launch of Amber McMillan's new collection This Is a Stickup! This launch party will feature readings from Amber and Fredericton poets Sue Sinclair, Triny Finlay, Emily Skov-Nielsen, Mary Germaine, and Meghan Kemp-Gee. Books will be available for purchase from Westminster Books. Join us at…
Find out more »Capitol Theatre’s 100th Anniversary Show 💯
Come celebrate the Capitol Theatre’s 100th anniversary with one of the country’s most talented and interactive performers, Gregory Charles! Travel through time to the exact date the Capitol screened its first silent film: My Old Kentucky Home. On October 6th, 2022 at 8pm, hosts Josée Boudreau and Curtis Sullivan (both alumni from past musical theatre productions at the Capitol), will anchor a musical tribute to one of the country’s most iconic theatres. Musical Director Maestro Antonio Delgado and his 25-piece Tutta Musica…
Find out more »Goodnight Moon: A Rhythm, A Tempo and Stars, Air, Noises Everywhere 🌝🐄🎈🐇🪑
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…
Find out more »Suburbia by Stephen Lack 🏠
Gallery On Queen is pleased to announce "Suburbia," an exhibition by Stephen Lack. The opening of the show takes place on Friday, October 7th, 2022, at 5:30PM. Stephen Lack was part of the influential East Village art scene in the early 80’s with artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Julian Schnabel and Sherie Levine. The subject matter of his work focuses on urban car culture, suburban architecture and cityscapes His Neo-Expressionist style often depicts nostalgic 1950’s Americana charged with an underlying anxiety. As Lack puts it, “I like to seduce…
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