The Freddy Words writing group will be hosting a 24-hour Write-In starting at noon on Saturday, August 14, 2010 at the Fredericton Inn. The cost of the Write-In is $20 if paid by August 7 or $30 after that. Proceeds from the event will go to support National Novel Writing Month.
National Novel Writing Month (http://www.nanowrimo.org) is a challenge to write a 50,000-word novel in the month of November. In that spirit, we are encouraging participants to set personal goals for the 24-Hour Write-In. There will be writing games and other activities going on throughout the event to keep participants motivated. There will also be a meet n’ greet social event Friday night, August 13.
The Fredericton Inn is conveniently located near many food outlets. You can find out more about the hotel from their web site: http://www.frederictoninn.nb.ca/. A few couches for out-of-town participants are available with members of Freddy Words. These are provided on a first-come first-serve basis.
To register, please email freddywords@gmail.com with your name and whether you would like to be billeted with one of our members. We can accept payment by PayPal or cheque (Canadian cheques only, please), and we accept Canadian cash at the door. We will respond to confirm you are on our list, and your spot will be secure once we receive your payment.
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Blessings of the float
Until August 15th, Caraquet is the place to be! Many cultural events celebrating French-speaking culture, from Acadie and beyond, are on the program: concerts featuring Acadian music, rock, Cajun style, Québec artists, rap and electro-pop, classical, jazz, a special theatre play celebrating Haiti, and much more. There is something for everyone at the 48th edition of the Festival acadien de Caraquet!
The Festival acadien de Caraquet is proud to showcase many talented artists from here and beyond. On August 4th, the public will have the chance to see great Quebec singer-songwriter, Richard Desjardins, whose respected work has been critically acclaimed from all over. Acadian Peninsula born Jean-François Breau, now a well-known artist in la Francophonie, will present a show with the charming Marie-Ève Janvier, his partner on stage as well as in life, on August 5th. An evening of country music with Mike Parker and Denis Landry will take place on August 6th and on August 7th people will dancing with Nova Scotia act Blou and Quebec singer Alain François. Legendary Acadian singer, Angèle Arsenault, will be bringing her positive energy and joie-de-vivre onstage on August 8th. Read more »
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Mayor George LeBlanc chats with Northrop Frye at the site of the future public art display.
The Frye Festival needs your help to win $25,000 to create a bronze life-sized sculpture of Northrop Frye sitting on a park bench reading a book outside the Moncton Public Library. As part of a national competition presented by Pepsi Canada, the Festival has submitted a proposal to win the funds to create an enduring reminder of our community’s most famous son.
Vote to Refresh Moncton! Beginning on Thursday, July 1st and running until Tuesday, August 31, 2010, everyone is invited to visit the website www.refresheverything.ca daily and vote for “Feed your imagination” in the Arts and Culture section. The winner will be chosen exclusively on the number of votes it receives, so vote daily and get your friends and family to do the same!
Public art plays a vital role in creating a liveable and beautiful city and enhances the quality of life of all its citizens. That is why Mayor George LeBlanc is all over this project: “The City of Moncton believes whole-heartedly in the value and importance of public art. A sculpture like this one would celebrate our most famous son’s legacy while helping to create a more visually rich downtown core.”
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To All Atlantic Region Writers: A Weekend Full of Workshops
The Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC), Atlantic Region, is excited to offer Communicating for Cash, a weekend workshop filled with sessions to show you how to make money from your writing and lots of opportunities to network and socialize with other professional writers.
Workshop topics and leaders are Getting Work with the Federal Government with Marion Soubliere, Marketing Your Freelance Writing Services Using Traditional and Social Media Marketing Tools and Optimizing Your Website for
the Best Possible Search Engine Results with freelance writer and trainer Paul Lima, Getting Published Using Online Print-On-Demand with award winning author, speaker and publisher Julie V. Watson, Whose Story is it Anyway? with author Johanna Bertin and A Package with Punch: How to Make a Successful Non-fiction Submission with Goose Lane Editions managing editor Akou Connell.
Communicating for Cash takes place July 9 to 11 at Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB. Registration fee $175 for PWAC and CFU members and $225 for non-members.
Anyone interested in more information, or who would like to register, can visit http://pwacatlantic.ca/. Be sure to join our facebook page Communicating for Cash PWAC Atlantic Writers Workshop for the latest updates.
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La Sagouine (Photo by: Dolores Breau)
La Sagouine, a play featuring one of Acadia’s most famous characters, was recently featured at Toronto’s Pleaides Theatre and enjoyed great success. Penned by Antonine Maillet, La Sagouine is portrayed by Viola Léger who embodies completely this 72 year old shrewd Acadian washerwoman. She presented a series of monologues in front of a Toronto audience asking for more. Theatre critics were full of praise and described La Sagouine as a “national treasure”. The play was presented in English for two weeks at the end of May and in French from May 31st to June 5th. The last time La Sagouine was played in Toronto was in 1979.
Many cultural critics gave a perfect score to Viola Léger in the role that has made her a well-known figure on the Canadian theatre scene. Praises were also given to the team surrounding Léger: Director John Van Bureck, set designer Yannick Larrivée, and lighting director Robert Thompson.
“La Sagouine is a cultural and artistic treasure,” simply states The Globe and Mail. Cultural critic Christopher Hoile of Toronto’s Eye Weekly states: “La Sagouine is simply essential viewing. (…) There really are no words to describe the quiet brilliance of Léger’s performance. You simply cannot imagine anyone else so fully and so compassionately embodying such an immensely rich character.” Robert Crew of the Toronto Star says: “It is, in fact, one of the little gems of Canadian theatre — gritty, honest and utterly true to life. I’ve never seen La Sagouine in French and my feeling is that it would add an extra dimension to what is already a warm, wise and wonderful piece of theatre.” Critics praised the universality and realism of the monologues and gave notice to a solid direction and the glorious lighting. Read more »
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Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned professional writer – the Maritime Writers’ Workshops is for you! Since 1975, the Maritime Writers’ Workshops (MWW) has delivered high caliber instruction to those seeking an intensive workshop experience. Over those 30 plus years, hundreds of people have participated, made new friends, and learned critical skills on the development of their writing – all in a comfortable and inviting atmosphere. So go ahead, flex your writing muscles, and join us at the MWW!
The MWW offers participants the opportunity to pick and choose from a series of one-day workshops, all in a unique and supportive community of writers who share a commitment to excellence.
There are one-day workshops in everything from “How to Get Started” to Life Writing, and fiction and screen writing to “How to Get Published”.
Workshop Schedule
Monday, July 5 – Getting Started – Jo-Anne Elder
Tuesday, July 6 – Unleashing the Splendor Within: An Adventure in Life Writing (CCOM 4061) – Eve Mills Nash
Wednesday, July 7 – Creativity to Craft: A First Fiction Workshop – Carla Gunn
Thursday, July 8 – Screen Writing – Lex Gigeroff
Friday, July 9 – How to Get Published (CCOM 1913) – Biff Mitchell
Time: All workshops run from 9 am to 4 pm (not including lunch).
Location: McCord Hall, 7 Bailey Drive, UNB Campus, Fredericton
Cost: $115 per workshop (+ Hst) or $460 for the week (5 workshops for the price of 4!)
For more information: Call Alison Howells at (506)452-6360 or email ahowells@unb.ca.
Register now at (506)453-4646!
See: http://www.cel.unb.ca/pers_cult/writers/index.php
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On Saturday, June 26 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. more than 40 Atlantic Canadian writers will be signing books at participating stores across the region. Come out and meet your favourite storytellers and pick up some great books for summer reading!
Presented by Atlantic Books Today/Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association (APMA), Atlantic Author Day features writers included in this year’s Summer Reading Guide, available at all book retailers in Atlantic Canada. APMA Executive Director Peggy Walt commented, “Atlantic Author Day is a time to celebrate our home-grown authors. By joining the celebrations at your local bookstore, you will be supporting our local book community.”
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Rayanne Brennan
The Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick is about to embark on a three-year plan to enhance and expand its services to writers under the leadership of newly-elected president Rayanne Brennan.
The Moncton-based magazine editor was acclaimed at the WFNB Board’s June meeting. The former weekly newspaper editor and daily newspaper correspondent is now a communications consultant to corporate and government clients, editor of The Atlantic Co-operator and a freelance photo-journalist. She is joined on the executive by treasurer Kate Merlin, Riverview, and secretary Grace Morris, Moncton. Directors are: Gerard Beirne, Fredericton; Andrew Flanagan, Belledune; Dorinda Glover, Miramichi; Corey Redekop, Fredericton; Marlene Hull, Saint John; and, Deborah Carr, Hillsborough.
Ms. Brennan thanked WFNB’s immediate past president Marilyn Lerch and executive director Lee Thompson and for their vision and dedication to the federation, noting that WFNB’s membership has nearly doubled in the past two years.“Their efforts have laid a solid foundation upon which to build our organization for the future.”
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J.J. Steinfeld (Photo by Brenda Whiteway)
The Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick (WFNB) and the Canada Council for the Arts are pleased to announce that PEI novelist, poet, and playwright J.J. Steinfeld will be reading at the La Teraz Gallery on 154 Church Street, in Moncton.
The reading will take place at 8 pm, at the front of the gallery. J.J. will be driving over that long expanse of raised concrete just to be with us, so please come out and hear this wonderfully entertaining writer, and in the meantime get the chance to hang out with a great gang of writers and admirers of writers in a beautiful gallery.
J. J. Steinfeld is a fiction writer, poet, and playwright who lives on Prince Edward Island. He has published two novels, Our Hero in the Cradle of Confederation and Word Burials, nine short story collections, and two poetry collections, An Affection for Precipices and Misshapenness, along with two short-fiction chapbooks, Curiosity to Satisfy and Fear to Placate and Not a Second More, Not a Second Less, and two poetry chapbooks, Existence Is a Hoax, a Woman in Fishnet Stockings Told Me When I Was Twenty and Where War Finds You. Read more »
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To all the musicians out there, the deadline to apply in order to participate in the Fête de la musique in Moncton (Moncton’s Music Celebration) is in a little less than a week. Artists wishing to perform are invited to do so through the website: www.musicnb.org and before Saturday May 15, 2010.
On June 21st, South East New Brunswick will celebrate la Fête de la musique (Music Celebration Day)! This is an open invitation to local musicians to register and take part in the celebration.
Musicians of all genres are invited to take part voluntarily in the event whose success increases each year. This year, the majority of musical performances will take place at the Tidal Bore Park, on the edge of the Petitcodiac River and at City Hall.
An international celebration!
La Fête de la musique is a genuinely popular, bilingual and free event. It mixes all genres and is open to all audiences with the aim to popularize musical practices and to familiarize youths and adults from all walks of life to all musical expressions.
La Fête de la musique of Moncton, coordinated by Mamadou Konte, is an initiative of Consulate general of France in Moncton in collaboration with Music NB, the Fédération des jeunes francophones du N.-B., the Centre d’accueil et d’intégration des immigrant.e.s du Moncton métropolitain, l’Alliance française de Moncton, the city of Moncton, Branch Graphic Design, Carol Doucet Communications, and CapAcadie.com.
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Arts | Kellie Underhill | 
August 4, 2010 3:33 pm | 
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