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COUNTDOWN TO THIRD SHIFT: TRAVERSE Aug 19 – 22

THIRD SHIFT is a free, all-ages annual festival of public contemporary artworks in Saint John, New Brunswick. From August 19th through 22nd, THIRD SHIFT will turn Uptown Saint John into an outdoor contemporary art gallery for four days! You can look forward to visiting over 20 temporary public art installations scattered around the Uptown area as well as a series of small in-person and online art presentations and artist talks.

HOST: A Virtual Contemporary Art Project

HOST is a borderless project. Part art exhibition and part walking simulator game, it exists entirely online. With animated walls, interactive navigation, and hyperlinked portals, HOST brings together works by eleven contemporary artists who offer glimmers of reciprocity by caring for the places where mutual understanding, appreciation, and hope take root amid the tangle of contemporary issues.

Featuring artwork by: rudi aker, Anna Binta Diallo, Séamus Gallagher, Maggie Higgins, Emily Kennedy, Caroline Monnet, respectfulchild, Lou Sheppard, Rachel M Thornton, Winnie Truong, and KC Wilcox. Curated by Amy Ash. Follow @host_project_ on Instagram

Get your copy of Shorelines at these shops!

Shorelines: Climate Concern & Creativity is a collaborative project that promotes an ongoing dialogue between environmental action and artistic practice in New Brunswick. The publication was conceived and realized by two non-profit organizations, the community-based environmental organization, ACAP Saint John, and Third Space Gallery, Saint John’s artist-run centre for contemporary art.

Shorelines focuses geographically on the Saint John area and communities that extend along the Bay of Fundy, including Grand Manan Island and Sackville. Contributors include Patrick Allaby, Amy Ash, Jack Bishop, Bailey Brogan, Katie Buckley, Nathan Cann, Chris Donovan, Sara Griffin, Hailey Guzik, Sarah Jones, Jericho Knopp, Jamylynn McDonald, Christiana Myers, Ben Peterson, Bethany Reinhart, Graeme Stewart-Robertson, Kate Wallace, Laura Watson, and KC Wilcox.

Member Spotlight: Mary Garoutte

Mary Garoutte is a professional visual artist based in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.

Born in Mesa, Arizona, Mary has spent most of her artistic career travelling between the US and Canada. She holds her degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (BFA 2004) and is an arts instructor, mentor and active facilitator in art education though the public and private sphere. She has exhibited throughout Canada and internationally, notably at the University of Ulsan in Ulsan, South Korea.

Primarily an oil painter in the Alla Prima tradition, Garoutte attempts to explore vignettes of dreams and regressed memory, framed within the surreal and the mundane. Most of her visual chronicles are extracted from her own dreams; some random and others interconnected to form a psychological and deeply personal narrative framed within a modest surrealist approach to painting. Garoutte’s aim is to create a visual dialogue between her works to serve as an inquiry of the subconscious and the human psyche, as well as explore environments of human isolation where humankind ends and nature begins. Focusing on the elements of personal and societal fears and aspirations, Garoutte creates pieces that are cryptic, and a somewhat autobiographical self-portrait through symbolism, interior spaces, and the use of the interplay of light and darkness.

Garoutte’s work is inspired by 20th century painters as Alex Colville and Edward Hopper, as well as modern and contemporary photography and film – drawing from the work of filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock, Gregory Crewdson, Evelyn Lambart and the dreamlike, surrealist imagery of the 1960’s art films of Sergei Parajanov.

Copyright Visual Arts / Droits d’auteur arts visuels (COVA-DAAV) are pleased to present Image Bank, a new digital licensing tool for Canadian visual art. This new technology showcases artwork by some of Copyright Visual Arts’ 1200 affiliated artists. It allows galleries, publishers, and other companies to search for Canadian artists and to easily get quotes for licensed use of their artwork. Image Bank also provides several types of licenses directly and quickly online.

Positive Impact
“The Image Bank simultaneously promotes our Canadian artists while making copyright licensing quick and simple!”
– Marcia Lea, Executive Director of COVA-DAAV

“We are proud to announce the official launch of the platform, and we hope you will enjoy its clever and user-friendly design. The Image Bank offers new technological and practical possibilities to presenters and artists.”
– Hélène Pappathomas, Copyright Agent, Copyright Visual Arts (COVA-DAAV)

Availability of the Image Bank
This product is one of the first online copyright licensing websites in Canada, and it has been designed by Ottawa software company, QuickSilk, for COVA-DAAV. The Image Bank is now available at: www.cova-daav.ca.

COVA-DAAV would like to thank the Government of Canada, RAAV, and CARFAC for their assistance in the development of this important digital tool.

About Copyright Visual Arts
COVA-DAAV is a not-for-profit copyright management society providing Author’s Rights administration for professional Canadian and Québécois visual and media artists. It provides Users with a comprehensive access to the artworks and professional services of its members.

Copyright Visual Arts responds to a shifting art economy in the digital age by providing effective tools to enable visual and media artists to achieve sustainable careers.

Copyright Visual Arts facilitates broad access to the finest works by Canadian and Québecois artists through simple and effective online or person-to-person licensing.

For more information :
In Ottawa: Marcia Lea, Executive Director, Copyright Visual Arts

In Montreal: Hélène Pappathomas, Copyright Agent, Copyright Visual Arts, 514-866-7101

For more information on the Image Bank:  www.cova-daav.ca

THE 16TH ADFDA IS GETTING READY! A QUEBEC DANCE COMPANY IN THE SPOTLIGHT!

(Moncton, NB August 9th, 2021) – atlantic dance FESTIVAL is in THREE DAYS! Save the dates and come participate in the festival from August 12th to 22nd, 2021! 

ZEUGMA DANSE joins us

adFda is proud to welcome ZEUGMA DANSE, a Quebec-based dance company to its 16th edition! For the occasion, we invite you to attend the CUBE show on Saturday, August 14th at 12:00 pm and 5:00 pm for free on Downing Street in Moncton, NB. Cap – Pelé will also be hosting the company on Sunday, August 15th at 1:00 pm at the Arena parking lot. Be part of the party!

About ZEUGMA DANSE

ZEUGMA DANSE, active since 2001, has developed its signature style by drawing inspiration from Quebecois jigging and fusing it with percussive dance and contemporary movement, creating an explosive vocabulary and a unique choreographic identity.

The CUBE Show

CUBE is a performance that allows the audience to experience the rhythm and to take part in a unique event during which four performers and percussionists compose a performance by adapting to the space that surrounds them and to the spectators who inhabit it, moving from a free and exploded space to a constraining structure. This progressive compression of space will influence the performers’ gestural vocabulary as much as the emotional charge conveyed. 

With more than 180 performances in three years on three continents, Cube has been presented day and night, indoors and outdoors. Come and take part in this exclusive event!

See you on Saturday, August 14th and Sunday, August 15th for ZEUGMA DANSE’s Cube show! 

For more information :Vanessa ChiassonCoordinator(506) 855-0998adfestivalda@gmail.com

Satellite Théâtre, is offering you two (2) tickets to our production of  Pépins, un parcours de petites détresses, presented at Festival Acadie Rock, in collaboration with la Galerie Sans Nom and Verger Belliveau Orchard. 

Summer is made for sitting on a terrace, having a drink and admiring nature. As New-Brunswick deconfines, it’s time for us to gather together once again while surrounded by luscious vegetation. It’s time for us to chat again.

On August 18, 19 and 20th 2021, creation company Satellite Theatre presents Pepins, un parcours de petites detresses, at the Verger Belliveau Orchard in the magnificent Memramcook valley. On site: a bar, a DJ and of course, theatre. As the sun sets and your beverage is down to its last sip, a guide will accompany you through the rows of apple trees, in what evokes an outdoor art gallery, lit by thousands of delicate lamps.

Both a celebration of nature and a sharing of the inevitable grief caused by isolation, Pepinsis a roving performance that takes the audience into the heart of the modest, commonplace concerns associated with a pandemic. Somewhere between the gala apples and the honey crisps, the show invites us to explore an array of surprising installations: the intimate spaces of five women struck by a collective desire to reconnect with something that transcends them.

The set design, signed Anne-Marie Sirois in collaboration with la galerie Sans Nom, will transport audiences to a heterotopic space where vast nature and homely intimacy make one. Objects-as-clues, playful sculptures and interdisciplinary installations frame an askew universe and invites onlookers to fill the gaps with their own pandemic baggage.

Shows are August 18, 19, 20th (21, 22, 23rd respectively in case of rain). Two departure times are possible, either 8:15 PM or 9:15pm.

Thank you for responding at info@satellitetheatre.ca to confirm your date and time preferences before Tuesday, August 3rd, to ensure availability at one of the following shows:

●Wednesday, August 18th at 8:15 PM or 9:15pm. (postponed to August 21st in case of rain)
●Thursday, August 19th at 8:15 PM or 9:15pm. (postponed to August 22nd in case of rain)
●Friday, August 20h at 8:15 PM or 9:15pm. (postponed to August 23rd in case of rain)

For further information: www.satellitetheatre.ca

Where: Christ Church Cathedral, Fredericton NB
When: Friday October 15 to Sunday October 17
Music: Rutter Requiem (selections)
Bob Chilcott Aesop’s Fables (selections)
Robin Bayley Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above
Andrew Balfour Ambe

Clinician: Dr. Kiera Galway, Mount Allison University
Accompanist: Thomas Gonder, Christ Church Cathdral

Every year for almost 40 years, singers from New Brunswick, around the Maritimes and beyond, have gathered for the New Brunswick Choral Federation’s Choral Fest to rehearse and perform a significant work of choral music under one of Canada’s leading conductors.

Choral Fest 2020, like choral events everywhere, was cancelled due to necessary public health restrictions. Now, thanks to vaccinations and increasing knowledge of how to prevent transmission, the performing arts are coming back to life.

The coronavirus pandemic continues to limit us, but Choral Fest 2021 will celebrate the music that we can make together.

Singers are asked to pre-register by email or online form, available on our web site. Spaces are limited. A certain number of spaces are reserved for tenor and bass voices.

We are not asking for payment at this time. We will invite registrants to confirm their attendance with payment beginning September, deadline Tuesday, September 14, 2021.

Choral Fest 2021 will follow all public health guidelines, and will incorporate additional expert recommendations specific to choral events. Registrants’ health and safety will be our priority.

The New Brunswick Choral Federation expects registrants to be vaccinated according to the recommendations of New Brunswick’s public health officials.

For details and to pre-register, visit our website nbcfsite.wordpress.com/choral-fest

Or email the New Brunswick Choral Federation at nbchoralfed@gmail.com

Dates and details subject to change as we continue to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. We are planning for restrictions of a Yellow phase of recovery. Choral Fest 2021 would not proceed under a more restrictive phase of recovery.

Choral Fest 2021 is supported by the Fredericton Community Foundation, by the City of Fredericton,and by the Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture, Province of New Brunswick.

ADFDA UNVEILS ITS 2021 PROGRAM ! TICKETS ARE OFFICIALLY ON SALE ! 

(Moncton, NB – August 3^rd, 2021) – The DansEncorps Productions team has unveiled on their website the program for the 16th edition of the atlantic dance FESTIVAL danse atlantique to be held August 12th-22nd, 2021 in Moncton, NB. This year’s program includes indoor and outdoor performances, film screenings, walkabout performances and workshops. Artists are gearing up and tickets are now on sale in our website.

Artists from elsewhere

This year, we are pleased to welcome artists of different origins for our shows. Starting with the Emergence contemporaine show, which will feature Ariane Famelart, Chantal Baudouin, Julien Derrradj, and performer Simone Gauthier. These artists come respectively from Quebec, Acadia, and France. Come and discover the new generation of professional dancers who are touring Canada!

Symbolic works

More than just performances, the Festival is an opportunity for artists to deliver a message through their works. In the choreography Femme fatale 2.0, Ariane Famelart wants to show the paradoxes of a woman who tries to be strong but falls, DIE FORELLE by Julien Derradj questions the symbolism of dreams by wanting to give a meaning to his existence, Réalité deshumanisante by Constance Gadan talks about a character torn and trapped in time by the strings of a stressful society. Come and discover their world through their work!

See you in Moncton, NB, from August 12th to 22nd, 2021 for the 16th edition of atlantic dance FESTIVAL!

(English Follows)

Présenté du 15 juillet au 10 août 2021 à la galerie de l’Atelier d’estampe Imago, premier étage, Centre culturel Aberdeen, 140 rue Botsford, Moncton. 

Vernissage le jeudi 5 août 2021 de 17h à 19h.

« S’entourer d’herbes médicinales » est une série de sérigraphies imprimée à la main par l’artiste Carole Deveau lors de sa résidence de membre à l’Atelier Imago en avril 2021. Pendant sa résidence, Deveau voulait surmonter le défi d’imprimer en grand format. Avec un motif qu’elle avait dessiné pour une oeuvre d’art en boîte, elle a retravaillé l’image pour qu’elle devienne un morceau “casse-tête” d’environ 10”x12”, qui fut ensuite divisée en cyan, magenta, jaune et noir. Avec ces 4 morceaux, elle imprima section par section les œuvres présentées au mur, imprimant finalement l’œuvre qui mesure environ 4’5”x13’2.5” (oui, 13 pieds)!
 
Originaire de Moncton, NB, Deveau détient un baccalauréat avec distinction en arts visuels (2000) de l’Université de Moncton. Elle a participé à plusieurs  expositions solos et de groupes, travaillant surtout en relief et en sérigraphie à l’atelier d’estampe Imago. 

Elle a toujours aimé incorporer le public dans le processus de création en leur offrant la possibilité d’interagir avec ses œuvres. Dernièrement, elle concentre ses recherches sur des manières d’utiliser ses œuvres pour aider les gens. 

Les questions ou les demandes des médias peuvent être envoyées directement à l’artiste à l’adresse caroledeveau@gmail.com.

Phase verte :Le port de masque lors du vernissage et toute visite au Centre culturel Aberdeen n’est plus obligatoires à partir du 1er août 2021. Si vous êtes plus confortable avec votre masque, vous êtes bienvenus de le porter.

Nous aurons un bar payant lors du vernissage.

Voir l’évènement sur Facebook

Notes sur l’accessibilité 

Pour accéder nos espaces, il existe trois (3) entrées doubles : l’une donnant sur la rue Botsford qui offre une espace d’entrée mesurant 80 pouces en largeur X 78 pouces en hauteur; une autre donnant sur la rue Alma, qui offre une espace d’entrée mesurant 80 pouces en largeur X 78 pouces en hauteur; et une dernière donnant dans le Parc du Sommet (devant le Centre Aberdeen), qui offre deux espaces d’entrée mesurant 34,5 pouces X 78 pouces en hauteur chacune. Par contre, une partition installée entre les deux portes peut être enlevée pour laisser un espace de 72 pouces en largeur.

À l’entrée du côté de la rue Alma, il existe une zone d’embarquement et le bâtiment est muni d’une rampe d’accès. De ce même côté de l’édifice, il y a une (1) espace de stationnement pour personnes à mobilité réduite. Les deux autres entrées sont accessibles par des escaliers équipés de balustrades. Seul le point d’entrée du côté de la rue Alma est doté d’un bouton qui automatise l’ouverture des portes.

Il existe trois (3) salles de toilettes privées et non genrées au même étage. Deux (2) d’entre elles sont situées à droite de l’entrée du restaurant Les Brumes du Coude, dans un corridor plutôt étroit avec un petit rebord au plancher (1 pouce). La troisième – accessible aux fauteuils roulants – est située dans une alcôve située à la droite du bureau de la Galerie Sans Nom, à gauche de la porte du bureau de DansEncorps. 

Presented from July 15th to August 10th, 2021 on Imago’s gallery wall, first floor, Aberdeen Cultural Centre, 140 Botsford Street, Moncton. 

Join us for a reception on Thursday, August 5, from 5 to 7 p.m.

“S’entourer d’herbes médicinales” is a series of hand-printed screen prints by artist Carole Deveau during a member-residency at Atelier Imago in April 2021. During her residency, Deveau wanted to overcome the challenge of printing in large format. With a design she had drawn for Art en Boîte, she reworked the image into a “puzzle” piece of approximately 10″x12″, which was then divided into cyan, magenta, yellow and black. With these 4 pieces, she printed section by section the works presented on the wall, finally printing the work that measures approximately 4’5″ x 13’2.5″ (yes, 13 feet)!
 
Originally from Moncton, NB, Deveau holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with distinction (2000) from the Université de Moncton. She has participated in several solo and group exhibitions, working mostly in relief and screen printing at Imago. 

She has always enjoyed incorporating the public into the creative process by offering them the opportunity to interact with her work. Lately, she has been focusing her research on ways to use her work to help people. 

Questions or media requests can be sent directly to the artist at caroledeveau@gmail.com.

Notes on the accessibility 

To access our spaces, there are three (3) double entrances: one on Botsford Street, which offers an entrance space measuring 80 inches wide X 78 inches high; another on Alma Street, which offers an entrance space measuring 80 inches wide X 78 inches high; and the last one on Summit Park (in front of the Aberdeen Centre), which offers two entrance spaces measuring 34.5 inches X 78 inches high each. However, a partition installed between the two doors can be removed to leave a space of 72 inches in width. 

At the Alma Street entrance, there is a loading zone and the building is equipped with an access ramp. On this same side of the building, there is one (1) parking space for persons with reduced mobility. The other two entrances are accessible by stairs with railings. Only the entrance on the Alma Street side is equipped with a button that automates the opening of the doors.

There are three (3) private, non-gendered washrooms on the same floor. Two (2) of these are located to the right of the entrance to Les Brumes du Coude restaurant, in a rather narrow corridor with a small (1 inch) floor ledge. The third – wheelchair accessible – is located in an alcove to the right of the Galerie Sans Nom office, to the left of the DansEncorps office door. 

Opening online August 1 st and in store August 3 rd

NEW RELEASE – SAINT JOHN, NB
JULY 29 2021

A year after our first “Covid-19” exhibition, which featured a new online format of art opening, Jill Higgins is revisiting her “Icons” series.

Jill has pulled focus to our beautiful province in capturing iconic New Brunswick scenes, celebrating primarily the summer season and what often creates the best memories.

“These paintings, these are my summers. This is my cottage.” Jill Higgins. Many of the images are from locations that Jill has a very personal attachment to.

From boats to bonfires, you’ll find Jill has stayed true to her distinct style and palette, using a thick stroke impasto technique. The blasts of fuchsia and turquoise within the compositions have become a signature accent in Jill’s work.

“Last year we released freshly finished paintings one at time over 30 days, with Jill bringing in the works every couple days. They were a little tricky to handle, but the response was amazing. A lot of attention was on New Brunswick over the pandemic, and Jill’s work was collected all over the country by people wanting to have a little piece of this beautiful place. This year, with the long weekend, we both agreed that celebrating our province would be best launched on New
Brunswick Day. Most of our clients got very comfortable viewing art shows online and so we’re that’s where we’re opening the show first. It will be accessible to all on August 1 st , from the website. There’s also a 3D gallery that everyone can check out and get a sense of the works’ scale. Then when we reopen on Tuesday, the 3 rd , we welcome everyone to come visit us in person.” Elizabeth Cook, owner of Handworks Gallery.

For anyone passing by, there are posters with QR codes to scan that will take them directly to the exhibition page. Many of Jills works will be placed in the gallery windows for the long weekend.

Handworks Gallery is located at 12 King Street in Saint John, NB. Jill’s works, and other pieces by Maritime artists, can be found at Handworks.ca

The Saint John Arts Centre is a multidisciplinary venue, dedicated to serving the community through arts, educational and cultural programming accessible to all. They strive to be an innovative showcase for all forms of creative expression and multidisciplinary thought.

The SJAC is very busy this summer hosting multiple exhibitions, workshops, and more.

From July 9 to September 3, 2021 the SJAC will show a few different exhibitions every Tuesday and Wednesday from 9am to 5pm. 

These include: 

Fibre Art Network, ‘20/20 Vision’ in the Port Saint John Gallery, showing art quilts by a collective of fibre artists from Western Canada. 

Alan Grabelsky, ‘Love Songs: A Journal of Fateful Encounters’ in the City Gallery, showing a series of serigraphs.

‘Creative Aging: An Art4Life and UNB Project’ in the Upstairs galleries, showing a large show of works by local seniors who participated in a research project about the effects of art activities on health/wellness in senior populations. 

Admission is free for all galleries, though any donations are gratefully accepted. 

As well, the SJAC and the Saint John Early Music Festival are proud to present a sixth year of the Summer Classics Series, a series of lunchtime classical concerts offered through the summer on Wednesdays in July & August at 12:15 pm (July 7 – August 18). All are welcome, admission is by freewill offering. This series is sponsored by Emera New Brunswick, The City of Saint John Community Arts Funding, and the Province of New Brunswick Department of Tourism, Heritage, and Culture.

Finally, the SJAC is offering a few different workshops this summer, including:

Animal Sculpture in Clay, a four-day workshop where Melissa Kennedy will share her expertise with her students on August 9, 10, 11, and 21 (TBD, based on group needs for finishing), 2021. 

Drawing: Classical Portraiture, a weekend of classes taught by Melissa Kennedy, as she instructs participants in portrait drawing with a live model on Friday, August 13 and Saturday, August 14, 2021.

SPaRT! Summer Camp (Sports/Participation/Art/Recreation/Together!), a fun-filled week of art and recreation designed to foster your child’s creativity and physical activity through the arts, swimming at the Canada Games Aquatic Centre and other fun adventures around town happening August 9 to 13, 2021 (Mon-Fri) 9am to 4pm.

Artists are encouraged to apply to have their work shown in the SJAC galleries at any time, with the goal that the SJAC’s selection committee will meet twice a year on or around April 30th and October 30th.

You can submit your application here:

http://www.sjartscentre.ca/category/exhibitions/apply-to-exhibit/  

Visit Saint John Arts Centre’s website here:

http://www.sjartscentre.ca/ 

Visit the SJAC’s social media pages here: Instagram and Facebook

Sign up here: https://doodle.com/poll/iu5ci34nrbfqdc6w?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link

Spots are limited: first come first serve! Please only sign up if you can attend the weekend sessions as well.

Our first One 2 One series will have you working directly with an accountant to develop your accounting system and establish a regular process for updating your finances. You will have a 30 minute consultation session with Owen Green, CPA, where he will assess your financial needs and identify specific opportunities to help you.

Time slots for initial consultation available (in person or through Zoom): 

Monday, August 9: 2 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm

Tuesday, August 10: 10 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm

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These will be followed by 3 in person half day weekend group sessions:

1- Financial Budgeting (August 22, 12 pm to 3 pm)

2- System set-up (August 28, 12 pm to 3 pm)

3- Establishing a process (August 29, 12 pm to 3 pm).

The consultant will provide weekly 15 minute check-ins with the participants between sessions and a final 30 minute debrief after the final session to be scheduled after the final session.