Community & Fundraising
WW1 Soldier’s Connection to Tabusintac Found By April Vye A few years back I had the pleasure of putting together a Veterans’ Book while managing the Tabusintac Community Computer Access Centre. The Blackville Centre under Mary McCormack had already done this and it gave me the idea to do the same. Funds from our book…
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The Miramichi and the Great War (1914-1918) by Gary Silliker Youngest Recruits Albert Williston of Baie du Vin was eager to get into the fight overseas so he enlisted in the 145th Battalion at Moncton on March 1, 1916. Albert was 12 years old. Private Williston was quickly discharged when it was discovered that he…
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The Silver Wave Film Festival ran from November 6 – 9 in Fredericton this past weekend. This year’s event offered a showcase of multicultural, new youth screenings, French and English programming of all genres and lengths and a comprehensive industry series which brings experienced and emerging producers and filmmakers together. In its 14th year it was evident how much…
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Trenches When I look out in the night, I see stars as bright as a flame, on the muddy, bloody ground, all I see is the bloodshed of millions. And in the fields, the body of thousands. Every day is the same, wishing I leave, wishing I die. Every night the passion of millions […]
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On Saturday night, November 8th, the Annual Silver Wave Awards Show handed out major hardware to filmmakers from all over the world. The big winners ultimately were NB Filmmakers. Below is a list of all the award winners: The Isaac ‘The Puma’ Miller Award for Best Youth Shorts in memory of young filmmaker/skateboarder/photographer Isaac Miller: The Railroad […]
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The Galerie ARTcadienne in Miramichi presents a new exhibition with the passionate artist, Denise Paquette, illustrator of children’s books. The exhibition opens on Thursday, October 30th and runs until Sunday, November 30th, 2014. Denise Paquette studied visual arts at regional Cegep of Lanaudière in Joliette, Quebec, literature at the Université de Moncton, then narratology at Université de […]
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The local documentary Still Fishing: Beyond the Escuminac Disaster has been accepted into the 2014 Silver Wave Film Festival. The festival happens in Fredericton from November 6 – 9, 2014. Still Fishing: Beyond the Escuminac Disaster will screen on Sunday November 9th at 12 pm at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre, 732 Charlotte Street. The film is a…
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Lion’s Head Press released a new edition of New Brunswick author Raymond Fraser’s novel, The Bannonbridge Musicians. Raymond Fraser’s relentlessly funny third novel tells the story of a group of young Maritimers forever dreaming of “goin’ down the road” and making it big in Toronto. Their drinking bouts, their womanizing and their adventuring in small-town […]
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Giv’er Miramichi recently sat down with local artist, Vanessa Pesch for a candid chat about her work. This 23 year old has been painting for only five years and pursuing art as her career since just 2012 following her graduation with a bachelors degree in philosophy, but already she’s experiencing success and is certainly one…
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By Glenn Copeland Kidplayhouse Productions is now Kidplayhouse Productions Inc. — a not-for-profit corporation. We have an expanded mandate that includes providing: theatre arts education, theatrical performances and related theatre and performing arts activities for children, youth and adults opportunities for participation in the performing arts for children and youth with special challenges, mental, physical…
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What’s Wrong with this Picture? By Deanna Nordin Hi, my name is Alex and I went for the ride of my life the other day and now I have NO CLUE WHERE I AM! It all started on a Monday morning … or was it a Saturday? I don’t know, but I was sitting on…
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Tara Jardine’s family jokes that she should have been born 40 years earlier. That’s because the 24 year old self-taught artist draws most of her inspiration from the music and movies of the 60’s and 70’s. She carries herself with a quiet confidence you mightn’t expect from someone her age but her “old soul” is…
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Acclaimed as one of the finest theatrical productions on the River, the Friends of Beaubears Island will stage the one-act play, What’s to Come?, live on Beaubears Island July 26 at 2 pm. Tickets are available for purchase at the Beaubears Island Interpretive Centre in Bicentennial Park, Nelson. Beaubears Island Executive Director, Wendy Comeau insisted…
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