Arts & Entertainment
New Brunswick author (born in Miramichi, now living in Fredericton) Chuck Bowie has written three books in his “Sean Donovan: Thief for Hire” series. Three Wrongs (Muse It Up, 2013) is the first instalment. The latest is Steal it All (2016). When I first found out about Sean’s vocation as a thief, I thought about that 60’s TV series “It Takes a Thief” starring Robert Wagner.
Haiti Village Health presents … “THE VOICE for Haiti” on Friday April 15th, 2016 in the Carrefour Beausoleil Auditorium. Come and enjoy an evening of great musical entertainment provided by local Horizon Health staff as they compete for the title of “The Voice”. Performers include: Paula Aube, LPN Andrew Chan, 4th year medical student Norman Colford, SPD dept,…
The Fiddlehead and the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick have announced the shortlisted titles for the first-ever New Brunswick Book Awards. The awards will be presented at the 2016 Atlantic Book Awards Gala – the first time New Brunswick will host the event – on April 27th at the Capitol Theatre, Moncton, as part of the Frye Festival.
The Friends of Beaubears Island are excited to announce the next event commemorating the 150th anniversary of the end of shipbuilding on the Island, a theatrical production, The Tide Recedes. A century and a half ago, the Goldfish and La Plata sailed from Beaubears Island, marking the end of nearly a century of shipbuilding, and…
Symphony New Brunswick will perform for the first time in the City of Miramichi this April. Italian Romance, an orchestra concert celebrating the Romance of spring, is coming to the Miramichi with works by some of the best loved and passionate Italian composers including Puccini, Vivaldi and Verdi. Highlights of this delightful concert will include the…
Jon Tattrie has written a very clever book in Limerence (2015 Pottersfield Press). What do I mean by “clever”? It is a clever idea, cleverly conceived and written. It concerns the life of Manitoba resident Sam Stiller who loses his wife and son in a car accident and sets out to reinvent himself on the east coast of Canada as Cain Cohen.
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.
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.
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.
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,…
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.
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.
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.