The 2012 Island Media Arts Festival is now open for submissions! Calling all media artists from the Atlantic provinces, The Island Media Arts Festival (IMAF) in Prince Edward Island wants you (and your work). Animators, documentarians, comics, tragedians, experimentalists, or whomever you may be… we want to see what you create. In its third year,… Continue Reading
Yearly Archives: 2011
Moncton singer/songwriter Phil Flowers launches single from first album
Moncton based singer-songwriter, Phil Flowers presents Disguise, first single of his album People People, launched in November 2010. This first solo album earned him three 2011 Music NB Awards: Anglophone Recording, Male Recording Artist, and Rock Recording as well as a nomination in the Emerging Artist category. Phil Flowers used to be “a bit of… Continue Reading
A Mountain School Christmas
When my mother was a girl she would walk up the road every weekday morning with her siblings and friends to the old Mountain School, a traditional one-room schoolhouse in Gray Rapids on the Miramichi River in New Brunswick. I’ve grown up listening to stories of how children of all ages and grades learned their… Continue Reading
Finding Yourself Again After Cancer
How we perceive the world is much dependent on how we perceive ourselves. If perception of self is jeopardized, so too is the life force – the spirit. Women diagnosed with cancer are unwilling witnesses to its debilitating affects. The core of self enters a limbo state; a realm of darkness. The change in appearance… Continue Reading
Shaun LeBlanc Launches Single
Moncton singer-songwriter, Shaun LeBlanc, launches Wonderful, a lovely pop ballad dedicated to his wife, following their engagement in 2009. This song can be found on his EP Start Something, launched in October of this year. The song tells their story – the story of two people who finally found their soul mates. Not only are… Continue Reading
Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Contest for Youth 2012
The League of Canadian Poets, a national not-for-profit poetry organization founded in 1966, invites Canadian youth to participate in its Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Contest for Youth. There are two age categories, junior (grades 7-9) and senior (grades 10-12). First place poems in each category will receive a cash prize of $350, second place winners will… Continue Reading
Holiday Raffle in support of NB Summer Music Festival
Each year the New Brunswick Summer Music Festival brings the best in classical chamber music to Fredericton, performed by Canada’s most talented artists. To support the Festival, a number of years ago Bruno Bobak generously donated the original and a limited edition of 100 prints of his work, “Blissfield Pool”. We are selling raffle tickets… Continue Reading
Christmas Angel Dollars for Charlotte Street Arts Centre
In a world cluttered with discount store trinkets and disposable novelties, it can be tricky to find a gift with special meaning. The Charlotte Street Arts Centre in Fredericton is pleased to offer a new socially responsible, community-centred Christmas gift initiative with big heart: Christmas Angel Dollars. You are invited to give an irreplaceable gift… Continue Reading
Miss Representation Documentary Film Fundraiser
There will be a local screening of Miss Representation on Thursday November 24th at the James M. Hill Theatre in Miramichi beginning at 6:30pm. Tickets are available at Books Inn and are $10 in advance or $12 at the door. After the screening, there will be community/ panel discussion led by Ivy Lam. All proceeds… Continue Reading
The Importance of New Beginnings
You reach a certain stage in life when it seems there are more endings than beginnings. In his epic book, Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill says that most people have given up their dreams by mid-forties. There are many ways to die. I got thinking about this as I sat parked in front of… Continue Reading
