Arts & Entertainment
Till the Boys Come Home (2015 Goose Lane Editions) by Curtis Mainville, a 22-year veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces, focuses on the good men (and women) of Queens County, New Brunswick who either volunteered, were conscripted or stayed home to support the war effort by working on the family farm or in the mines.
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Bruce, Brian, and Larry also known as The Good Brothers are in the province this week as part of their 2016 Maritime Express Tour and will perform at the Renous Recreation Centre on Friday April 22nd and at the Bathurst Legion on Saturday April 23rd. Both shows start at 9 pm and tickets are $20…
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The curtain rises on Friends of Beaubears Island’s latest theatrical production, The Tide Recedes, this Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 7 pm, at the Vogue Theatre. The actors are putting in last-minute rehearsals, director Chris Matheson keeping a watchful eye on their progress, as a growing audience anxiously awaits the show. It’s not too late to…
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The ViewFinders: Atlantic Film Festival for Youth has just announced its 13th annual Youth Film Competition for Atlantic Canadians ages 18 and under. Deadline for submissions is Monday, May 9th at 5 pm.
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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.
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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,…
Read MoreThe 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.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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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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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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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