Arts

<p>It&#8217;s hard to nail down Matt Ellis&#8217;s role in Nova Scotia-based folk group The Band Villages. “Villages is very much a band. The songs would not be the songs without all four of us,” said Ellis. The group is a family affair as his cousins, Travis Ellis and Jon Pearo, also take part. With Matt [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The UNB Art Centre and the New Brunswick Black Artists Alliance (NBBAA) are partnering to present a film series opening on Feb.16.  Gary Weekes, co-founder of the NBBAA, said the idea to have a film festival started with having a film to show but nowhere to show it.  Coincidentally, Weekes and Black documentary filmmaker Juanita [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The works of well-known popular music greats like The Supremes, the Jackson 5, the Temptations and Marvin Gaye blend together to form the set list for The Legends of Motown, a 16-piece group of singers and musicians who host a tribute review to Motown. David Callender founded the show back in 2010, which started as [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University held Mid-Winter Celebrations from Feb. 3 to 5, which celebrates the sleep of Mother Earth, when snow covers the land as a blanket of protection and nourishment. During this time of restoration, organizers honoured the femininity of the winter solstice and celebrated when life slows down. The Aquinian&#8217;s photo editor, Daniel Salas, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Black Box Productions wrapped The Fofana Kingdom this past Saturday after four well-attended shows. The Fofana Kingdom followed princess Ozanna from the Fofana Kingdom, a fictionalized version of Sierra Leone, who travelled to other cultures seeking solutions to problems the kingdom was facing, such as possible colonization and food shortages. Saa Andrew Gbongbor, the director [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Skinamarink is the type of movie that slowly but surely digs its way through your skin and makes its home underneath.  It is a modern experimental ode to creepypastas, slow cinema and analog horror. It’s slow, very slow. But over its one hour and 40 minute run time, it works its way from unnerving to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Beaverbrook Art Gallery celebrated its new collection of pieces on Jan. 28. The Aquinian’s photo editor, Daniel Salas, took pictures of the event.</p>

<p>Nigerian hyper-realistic artist Jola Adeniji features Black women in the portraits that will be displayed at his upcoming art series “Diary of a Mad Black Woman.”  His series is being displayed at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre and will be open from March 17 to 18. Adeniji said he has felt like an artist since [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Just before the winter break, Lexington Books released Paradigm, Logos, and Myth in Plato’s Sophist and Statesman — a set of dialogues about the works of Plato, written by St. Thomas University professor Connor Barry. He said his love for Plato’s work stemmed from being a fan of science fiction.  “In high school, I think we [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Over the past few years, movie studios have attempted to capture the strange magic of campiness in horror, but rarely have they been successful.  All of this comes from a misunderstanding surrounding “trash cinema” — a gospel that says a campy movie is a movie that is so bad, it&#8217;s good. The best of campy [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As a journalist, I am constantly consuming news. It’s my job, after all — to be informed, to know what’s happening here and everywhere. Many only start tuning into what’s going on in the world as they get older, but for me, it all began the second I was born.  Peru is a land of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Fredericton’s film aficionados have had a place to go and watch limited-release, independent or international films on a big screen, for decades.  The local movie theatre has always played the role of showing high-grossing films. The role of showing other movies that didn’t end up in the main theatres can often fall to community members.  [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Fredericton’s Beaverbrook Art Gallery acted as the backdrop for a ceremony on Jan. 18, unveiling a portrait of Willie O’Ree, the first Black hockey player in the NHL, that now sits in the gallery’s permanent collection.  The portrait was unveiled on the 65th anniversary of his first NHL game and is mounted next to an [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The fields of art and science are often considered to be on different sides of the academic spectrum, but the UNB Art Centre is combining them for its upcoming bilingual exhibition on the Subway canyons in Quebec’s St. Lawrence Estuary.&nbsp; The exhibit, open from Jan. 20 to Feb. 10, will allow people to explore the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Avatar: The Way of Water was released in mid-December and is a sequel to the 2009 highest-grossing movie of all time, Avatar. The film follows the story of the Na&#8217;vi, a blue-skinned people on the alien planet Pandora.  The creators of the film say they drew inspiration from Polynesian Indigenous groups for the Na’vi people. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University&#8217;s welcome back winter carnival, held from Jan. 11 to 13, brought together the campus community for events ready to melt away any second-semester blues. The Aquinian&#8217;s photo editor, Daniel Salas, went to check it out.</p>

<p>Kailha Winter-Smith’s 14-year-old stepson, Logan, has been taking part in activities at Autism Connections Fredericton since he was six years old.  She was asked to share her and her son’s story as part of the Songs of the City concert, which takes place on Jan. 18 at the Fredericton Playhouse.  United Way New Brunswick hosts [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Many people took to social media to share their opinions when La Rosalia’s Motomami won Album of the Year at the Latin Grammys over Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti. I noticed two main criticisms of this decision. The first criticism is strictly about the technicalities of the music contained in the albums and the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Living most of her early life on Prince Edward Island, Fiona Steele, a St. Thomas University alumna, said it made her feel stuck. Her collection of poems, Coming Home, is about how that changed once she moved away. Steele had one roommate during her time at STU with whom she would share her poems, but [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The St. Thomas University Jazz Ensemble held its end-of-semester on Nov. 30 in Kinsella Auditorium at Margaret Norrie McCain Hall. Band members, including vocalist Olivia LaPointe, entertained audiences with the classic big band and modern jazz, Latin rhythms and even a few Christmas favourites. The Aquinian&#8217;s photo editor, Daniel Salas, stopped by.</p>