Arts

<p>The Tipsy Muse Café started hosting bi-weekly open mic events on Sunday afternoons in order to bring back the sense of community and culture in downtown Fredericton after COVID-19. Rob Pinnock and his wife, Krista Touesnard, first opened the café together in January 2019. Pinnock said the Tipsy Muse is special because it is more [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The New Brunswick College of Craft and Design is putting on a series of fall workshops through their EdVentures program to give the public an opportunity to try new hobbies. EdVentures, formally known as Leap, is a program that provides a variety of art workshops throughout the year with the goal of creating a community [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The third-annual Plain Site Theatre Festival is calling on playwrights to submit scripts for the March 2022 line-up. The LGBTQ2IA+-oriented festival aims to promote and foster queer visibility within the St. Thomas University and greater Fredericton theatre community, said STU graduate and Plain Site founder Alex Rioux. “[Writers] have an opportunity to present their work [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Aaron Beaumont, a St. Thomas University graduate, founded QT Fatties in May 2021 because they were inspired to create a space where people like them, plus-size members of the LGBTQ2IA+ community, could meet and support each other.  The QT Fatties Art Market, on Oct. 30, will feature LGBTQIA2+ and plus-size artists showcasing their talents at [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Charlotte Street Arts Centre opened an exhibit on Sept. 23 featuring the artists from the Summer Artist-in-Residence Program. Between June and September, different artists spent two to three weeks outside their studios in the Fredericton Botanic Garden at Odell Park. Brittany Schuler was one of the artists involved in the project. Schuler is a visual artist [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Nathan DeLong, a St. Thomas University and The Aquinian alum, debuted his first book – Woodstock: New Brunswick&#8217;s Oldest Town Through the Years. The book, which was released last week, highlights the history of the area and provides a perspective on a growing community’s identity. “I found as I was doing research, a lot of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Some voices are missing from theatre stages in New Brunswick. Natasha Barlow is a Mi’kmaq actress, playwright and director from Indian Island First Nation who studied at Cape Breton University. She said that while she hasn’t experienced any targeted racism in the N.B. theatre community specifically, she doesn’t feel welcome. “If you&#8217;re going into somewhere [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Fredericton Public Library launched a bilingual social media campaign titled &#8220;Learn, Unlearn, and Relearn.&#8221; The library’s staff will be posting material on their Facebook page from their collection of Indigenous resources, fiction and non-fiction, for 215 days in honour of the 215 children found in unmarked graves at the site of the Kamloops Indian Residential [&hellip;]</p>

<p>&#8220;Copy and paste&#8221; superhero movies dominated box offices and TV screens for over a decade now. With the main target demographic being children, they fall into predictable dialogue and formulaic plots. Venom: Let There Be Carnage had every opportunity to split from the herd, but unfortunately didn&#8217;t take it. Released last Friday, the sequel follows [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Adelle Elwood, known on stage as Keeper E, is establishing herself as a rising indie-pop star and emerging East Coast artist. Her latest single, &#8220;Fourteen,&#8221; was played more than 10,000 times on Spotify since its release on Sept. 17. &#8220;Fourteen&#8221; was selected by Spotify for some of its most popular playlists – ‘New Music Friday’, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Beaverbrook Art Gallery&#8217;s new program, Shared Spaces, was introduced to display Indigenous talents and provide an educational experience for the public. The gallery completed their $50,000 fundraiser to earn the J.T. Clark Family Foundation challenge grant on Sept. 30 which will fund Shared Spaces.   Tom Smart, the director of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Amber McMillan, University of New Brunswick English professor, published her most recent piece of work – a collection of short stories entitled The Running Trees.  The collection is comedy-focused and features a number of perspectives throughout a series of individual, anthology-style stories. Although she has published poems and journals for six years, this is McMillan’s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Theatre New Brunswick’s newest pandemic project, Plays2Perform@Home, brings the stage to the living room where participants can perform a series of short plays with family or friends from the comfort of their homes. Halifax’s Eastern Front Theatre partnered with TNB to come up with creative ways to continue to showcase dramatic talent throughout the pandemic. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>After a season and a half of empty theatres and dark stages, the Fredericton Playhouse announced the return of their signature Spotlight Series.  The series brings a number of acclaimed musicians, dance, circus shows, comedy performances, theatre pieces and more to the stage. Tim Yerxa, the director of the Playhouse, said that the series came to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Battle of the Arts New Brunswick&#8217;s founder has a message to Black youth in the Maritimes: “Come tell your story through your art.” Battle of the Arts (BOTA) is an organization that began in 2010. BOTA hosts events to showcase talented youth and give them an opportunity to perform. Their upcoming event “Igniting Black Youth [&hellip;]</p>

<p>After nearly a year and a half of waitlists and web shows, the University of New Brunswick Arts Centre fully opened its doors. A collection of woven images by Vita Plume entitled Patterns and Portraits opened on Sept. 10 and was the first, full in-person exhibition since the beginning of the pandemic. “Anybody who wants [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Kicking off the fall term with a new concept, Theatre St. Thomas presented a series of themed events on Sept. 11 entitled Fever Dreams.  Unlike the usual stage productions that TST produces, this event was composed of screenplay readings, theatre games and a variety show.  Madigan Donovan-Downs, an acting executive at TST, said he heard [&hellip;]</p>

<p>One of New Brunswick’s most popular music festivals returned to the streets of downtown Fredericton last week after over a year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 30th annual Harvest Music Festival, formerly known as Harvest Jazz and Blues, saw thousands of attendees pack inside sectioned-off tents and other areas for music, food [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Tony LePage was driving with his fiancé when he got the call from the director of Come From Away on Broadway, Christopher Ashley. He was told he scored the role of Kevin T/Garth in the Apple TV filmed production. “I just immediately sort of burst into tears,” said LePage. LePage looked at his fiancé and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Kennlin Barlow, a non-binary, two-spirit, Indigenous filmmaker from Indian Island First Nation was invited to the Toronto Queer Film Festival for their short film Above a Grey/Green Sea.  They said the film doesn’t follow a strict plot line or narrative. It’s mainly a compilation of footage of them from ages 19 to 20 years old [&hellip;]</p>