Year: 2016
By Clyde Blakely, Senior 3D artist When I was a kid, I used to play video games all the time. I would dream about how awesome it would be to make one, completely oblivious to the fact that video games take a tremendous amount of work. But I wasn’t the only one dreaming about working…
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The Frye Festival—Atlantic Canada’s largest celebration of books, ideas and the imagination—announced the line-up of novelists, poets, children’s authors and short story and non-fiction writers who will be in Greater Moncton as part of its 17th edition, April 23 to May 1, 2016.
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The Rock ‘n Roll Festival’s Chase the King fundraiser week 14 winner is Guy McAllister with ticket #2. Guy won $51.60 for this week’s draw and his designate Sandra Stewart drew the 10 of Diamonds.
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Award winning author, Wayne Curtis, returns home to the Mighty Miramichi this St. Patrick’s Day, Thursday March 17th, to sign copies of his latest book In the Country.
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New Brunswickers are reminded to be cautious around waterways and watch for any potential flooding in their communities as River Watch was officially launched this week.
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Miramichi author Valerie Sherrard has written more than a dozen novels for young people, including Counting Back from Nine, which was short-listed for the Governor General’s Award and The Glory Wind. Her work has also been short-listed for numerous Canadian awards, including the Ann Connor Brimer, Red Maple, and Snow Willow Awards.
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A full house turned out to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day early when Susan Butler hosted her Annual Irish Dessert/ Concert at St. Mary’s Parish Centre in Newcastle yesterday afternoon, Sunday March 13th, 2016. Delicious desserts were accompanied by a full afternoon of entertainment provided by Jack Wilson, the Nelson Doyle Dancers, Katherine Wilson, David Bunnell, Lynn Doyle,…
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The Friends of Beaubears Island would like to extend its thanks for all who made our Speaker Series so very successful over the course of the last month. Thanks to Todd Fitzpatrick and Nelson Rural School, for their gracious offer to host our guests and presenters, and to Bradley Russell, who facilitated access to the…
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First of all, I would like to apologize for not having a January news update on my council matters. It was actually a quiet month so I am combining the past two months. The 37th Annual Salmon Hockey Tournament was held with great success, with over 30 teams in attendance from across the province and PEI.
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ViewFinders: Atlantic Film Festival for Youth, a production of the Atlantic Film Festival, announces its full program for students and teachers taking place at select Cineplex Cinemas throughout the Maritime Provinces during the months of March and April this year. Since its inception in 2002, ViewFinders has brought films to over 75,000 young people in Atlantic Canada.
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Atlantic Presenters Association (APA) have announced that submissions are open for Contact East 2016 coming up in Saint John from September 22nd to the 25th. The deadline to apply is Thursday March 31st, 2016.
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The finalists in the ninth edition of the Tremplin competition (in French), organized by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in collaboration with Radio-Canada, have been announced: Kevin Arseneau (from Rogersville, New Brunswick), André Roy (from Dieppe, New Brunswick), Colin Champagne (from Edmonton, Alberta) and Julien Capraro (from Vancouver, British Columbia). They were chosen from among participants from across French-speaking Canada. The two winners—one for Acadie and one for Western Canada—will be selected in April, after the jury has assessed the finalists’ scripts.
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Memoirs can be great fun to read, or they can be boringly self-indulgent. It all depends on the memoirist. In Claire Mowat’s Travels with Farley (2015 Pottersfield Press), we have a surprisingly candid, friendly and concise memoirist as the late Canadian author Farley Mowat’s wife takes us through a whirlwind tour of their years together from 1969 to about 1976, shortly after they left Newfoundland and to the time they … Read more…
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