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3 / DECEMBER 2018 / THE OVERCAST and Portraits, Land Landscapes, and Abstract Lectures on Art. The series sold out, inspiring Pickard- Vaandering to launch a second hugely popular THE THOUGHTFUL CONVERSATION of loan sharks and other parasites. WITH CHAD BENNETT Understanding installment. Section 347 of the Criminal Code of Canada made it a criminal offence to Contemporary Pickard-Vaandering begins the events with a charge more than an effective rate of lecture, using images and humour to discuss WHY IS THE 60% per year. Art Are Drawing different ideas having to do with art theory. A Crowd at She stresses the importance of understanding PROVINCIAL That all changed when in 2007 the art as a response to a particular historical and Federal government of the day altered political moment. “I’ve created powerpoint GOVERNMENT the criminal code. An amendment to The Rooms the criminal code exempted loans of presentations with great big, delicious, juicy DRAGGING less than $1500 for a term of 62 days images of historical art. I’ll show an image or less. In this same amendment, BY EVA CROCKER and then discuss in my lively lecture manner ITS HEELS ON the Federal government granted the what the image is, why we’re talking about it, provinces the authority to regulate On December 8th, Anne Pickard- and where it sits in the timeline of art history,” REGULATING THE payday loans within their respective Pickard-Vaandering explained. Vaandering is wrapping up the PAYDAY LOAN jurisdictions. winter edition of her three-part After the lecture portion of the session, lecture series, Introduction to INDUSTRY? In 2008, within only a few months of Pickard-Vaandering leads participants to the the Federal amendment to the criminal Contemporary Art at The Rooms Gallery to apply what they’ve learned to a code, Ontario was able to effect with a session on abstract art. current exhibition. In some cases she works In 2016, the provincial Liberal regulations of the payday loan industry with Curator Mireille Eagan and Registrar Chris government announced they by passing legislation without any “One of the messages I’m trying to get across Batten to pull relevant pieces out of The Rooms’ were going to institute new need for further Federal intervention. is, if you’ve got eyes and feelings, you can vault, giving participants an opportunity to Regulations currently exist in all understand art,” artist and educator, Anne rules to regulate the payday take in work they might not otherwise get the other provinces in Canada, except Pickard-Vaandering said. loan industry. chance to see. “When we go into the Gallery Newfoundland and Labrador. after the lecture, and the visitors explain Pickard-Vaandering has been developing and According to Service NL, those rules what the art means to each other, it’s really Which brings us back to our facilitating art education programming at The would "set borrowing limits, increase beautiful,” Pickard-Vaandering said. government's claim that they are Rooms for eight years. For a lot of that time, consumer awareness of their rights awaiting further exemption from the she focused on engaging school-aged kids, when entering into a payday loan In the upcoming lecture on abstraction, Federal government before being however she became increasingly aware that agreement, and provide them with Pickard-Vaandering and her audience will able to pass legislation and enact there was a hunger in the city for more art remedies when payday lenders don't talk about the political circumstances that regulations. This claim, much like education programming geared towards adults. honour their responsibilities." gave birth to abstract expressionism, as well the promised regulations, seems like “As I started to get to know my job and the as some local, more contemporary artists so much rubber gnashing of flapping people in the community a bit more, it became The teeth of these rules was to be the who work with abstraction. She’s excited to gums for show, and certainly does not obvious that people wanted more meat on capping of interest rates charged to $21 discuss the work of Jordan Bennett, Peter bear up to much scrutiny at all. the bones of understanding contemporary per every $100 of loan, to a maximum Bell, Don Wright, Anne Meredith Barry, and art,” Pickard-Vaandering said. “Having a loan of less than $1500. Even $15 on Elena Popova. It has been over a decade since lecture series with a little bit of an academic the 100 would represent an annual the Federal government made the component really seemed to fit that need.” percentage rate (APR) of 390%, so Since confirming her hunch that folks in the city these teeth would be dull and wobbly, amendment to the criminal code, and more than two years since the With the support of Art Gallery Director are craving more opportunities to learn about but at least it would put on a show of provincial government promised some Anne Chafe, Pickard-Vaandering launched art theory, Pickard-Vaandering has committed doing something. Unfortunately it's two regulations. So we must ask: why is the Contemporary Art at The Rooms lecture to offering the Contemporary Art at The Rooms years later, and even these promised the provincial government dragging its series last winter, with monthly three-hour lecture series on a regular basis along with rubber toothed regulations have not heels to the advantage of an industry sessions. Each session explores a different other one-off lectures on topics that relate to been put in place. topic in contemporary art including; People work being displayed in The Gallery. which is described the world over as The government claims that they are predatory? waiting for an exemption from the Federal government to the section of Profiteers of pain, and those preying on the criminal code which sets limits on desperation, deserve no protection, not interest rates charged to consumers. from anyone, least of all a government That claim deserves scrutiny, and elected to serve the public. It's time for therefore some background. our public servants to start doing the public’s business. 2019 brings with it a Previous to 2007, payday loans were raft of pointed questions, winter is here effectively illegal, the sole preserve and an election is coming. PHOTO: THE ROOMS THE PHOTO:

4 / DECEMBER 2018 / THE OVERCAST themselves alive, is a big part of why we How Evolution became a social species. A species that trusts what our parents and other adults tell us when we're young and impressionable. Wired Us to The glitch is that we remain impressionable. We trust what we're told. Some of us trust, Buy the BS of without knowing, that Jesus was real and walked on water, or that or that "John is totally an asshole, man, Jamie told me!" Today's Fake We’re susceptible to having our behaviour and beliefs shaped by what we're told, as News & Social opposed to what we observe ourselves as concrete truth and reality. And what we learn Media Hearsay doesn’t really need to be true for us to buy it. One more perk (or downfall) of big brains is to cooperate and co-exist together. By up their own minds on a matter. But that's language: our primary way of influencing BY CHAD PELLEY contrast, a gorilla would totally refuse boring in this "Too Long; Didn't Read" era each other’s behaviour. According to various to follow a "rule" in exchange for a God’s of social media. The Washington Post has disciplines, it was the richness of our approved entry into heaven ... in an "afterlife" proven most of us only skim headlines in Human beings are unique in that language that allowed us to get smart and we have never seen. The gorilla would need social media feeds now, and call ourselves we’re one of a kind on earth. Right evolve as we did, to rulers of the world. Our to see God and heaven first. It wouldn’t know informed. And we only share those stories if vocabulary allowed us to store immense now anyway. There is concrete fossil even understand what heaven is without the headline triggers us by being polarizing, amounts of information, and, believe what and genetic proof that there was seeing it. In that sense, smart as we are, and catchy, or contentious. others tell us about things we’ve never seen. as beneficial as our big brains have been, we once as many different species of It started out helpful, "Hey man, don’t go are prone to believe what we're told. For reasons too plentiful to list here, news humans co-existing on earth as there down by the river, there’s hungry hippos down there.” Without language, you’d has devolved to 1-sided bombshells meant currently are different kinds of bears. Enter fake news. Our propensity to buy it is probably have been eaten by a hippopotamus to go viral and elicit robust comment We homo sapiens simply obliterated inherently human. Trump believes half the that day. It would've been horrible. threads, so Facebook will deem it "relevant" the other species of humans, the same lies he feeds the news cycle, because he enough to drag it to the top of more people's heard it from a source he trusts. The other way our global sprawl is crowding Language allowed for the social cooperation feeds. And the best fuel to stoke the social half of the lies he tells, he tells because that made our species thrive and over take media fire is simplified, 1-sided, short, and out every other species on earth. he knows the mantra, “People will believe the world. We cannot cooperate without contentious articles. News that leaves us whatever they read these days.” It's not even It started with our brains getting bigger than language. Picture yourself in a small town that angry, or feeling good, as opposed to truly our fault, we’re wired this way. other animals’ brains. No one’s 100% sure speaks only Mandarin – you’d have a harder informed. We're being fed a new kind of why, but we do know that we gave up a lot time finding a plate of food than you would news: puzzle pieces of the truth, instead of 20 years ago, we were safer from fake news of our muscle mass for a bigger brain – the in England or Alaska. This is why different the full picture. -- there were fewer sources of it and we energy required to grow and power bigger languages evolved in different parts of the were less exposed to it. We got our news brains had to be diverted from somewhere, world simultaneously: cultures everywhere If modern media was as solid as it used to from legit media outlets. We got the news and when you’re smart, well, brains over found a way to communicate, in order to be -- financially and in terms of who "owns when we got home from work every day, brawn, right? We started using these big cooperate and outdo all the other animals. because no one was being bombarded them" -- we'd better survive this era of Too brains to build tools that helped us hunt, fight, with information from sun-up to sun-down Much Information. But news is compromised take shelter from the storms and predators. But language also gave us the ability to the way we are now. Not too long ago, cell now. Because Google and Facebook get discuss, preach, and teach things we haven’t phones were just a rumour, the Internet all the ad sales revenue that used to fund Another big game-changer in our evolution actually seen. Things like laws (“you are was a strange novelty, and social media papers; because profit-driven mergers are was how our species accommodated the not allowed to steal!) or religious beliefs wasn’t even a word. Local media was our obliterating good old fashioned provincial bigger skulls required for these bigger (“misbehave and you'll burn in hell!”) allow exclusive portal to what was happening in or community papers; because desperate brains. Our babies' heads were getting large numbers of people to cooperate, in a way our hometown, or in the world. media outlets are taking corporate money to bigger at a faster rate than birth canals no other species cooperates. At least not in the stay alive. were in women. Death by child birth became numbers we cooperate in. Wolves or chimps an issue. Only women who gave birth to a have to trust each other to cooperate and do Social media and the Internet have both HBO's John Oliver recently showed us what doable-sized baby lived. Natural selection something together. We don’t. Because we're widened and polluted that porthole. all these mergers and buy-outs are doing did its callous thing, and killed all mothers united by these laws, nationalities, religions, Social media and the internet allow what to modern media. He ran a montage of and babies except the ones with the genes and social etiquettes that we totally fabricated we hear to come from anyone, and they for smaller heads at birth. because our language was elaborate enough allow rumours, lies, and 1-sided hearsay more than 50 news anchors, at seemingly to come up with them. to spread more easily than ever before in unrelated news channels, all across the US This new human trait favoured babies being human history. Social media has also re- on the same night. Each one of the anchors born pretty dumb and useless for the first Whatever you want to call them – social shaped media's intention with their stories. signed off, word for word, with the same year of our lives, while we develop and grow. constructs is the common wording – things Traditionally, news was about giving the forced message the sole owner of those The parenting and socialization required to like laws, countries, and religions allowed public the full picture, and quotes from both 50 outlets told them to read. If every news keep our babies alive until they can keep unprecedented numbers of a single species sides of the story, so the public could make outlet is saying it ... it must be true?

5 / DECEMBER 2018 / THE OVERCAST The brewery will launch with a New England IPA, a porter, a blonde ale, and an English Baccalieu bitter. So, something for everyone. “We Jerry's truck offers wanted to name our beers after different some new dishes to Master of Naan the city’s growing landmarks or history around Bay Roberts” Trail international Burry explains. Indian Express Food Truck food scene

Brewing MAD ROCK (NEW ENGLAND IPA) BREWING TRAIL BACCALIEU PHOTO: Open for Business BY LAUREN POWER Their New England IPA is named after Mad Offering Beers Rock, a highlight of the Bay Roberts Shoreline Heritage Walking Trail. To quote the Town Jerry Joy and his wife and two tempered curry, with light sweet tones That Cheers of Bay Roberts’ website, “The reason for the girls have been living in St. from the pumpkin and coconut, and with name ‘mad rock’ becomes clear to anyone who some heartiness from the beans. They John's for the past seven years. Local History experiences the surf pounding the shore here.” are very tasty and nutritious, too!” It was through his work as a BY CHAD PELLEY BACCALIEU BLONDE (BLONDE ALE) realtor with Keller Williams The menu changes every day. “There Like every brewery, they offer a blonde ale, as Platinum Realty in St. John's is a limitation to the amount of food that can be produced at the truck,” says Mark Burry & Julian Kean, two it’s a crowd pleaser and a craft beer gateway that Joy got the motivation to best friends and 3rd cousins from for the less adventurous patron. Joy. “So we decided to go with a limited get the wheels on The Indian menu every day, but they will be freshly Glovertown, have launched SMOKE ROOM (PORTER) Express, his culinary side hustle. prepared every day. I think people of St. Newfoundland’s latest brewery. This one is named after the smoke room on John's will appreciate it! Nothing tastes Baccalieu Trail Brewing opened the famed SS Kyle; the history-rich ship that “I always served a full Indian buffet at better than freshly cooked food.” mid-November in Bay Roberts, and is visibly run aground in Harbour Grace. If my agent's open houses whenever I brought our provincial Craft Brewery the name has you wondering if it’s a smoked listed new houses,” says Joy. “A lot of my Joy recommends his curry platters, Count up to one dozen. porter, it’s not. “Some people say there’s a fellow realtors encouraged me to start featuring basmati rice, naan, butter little smokiness in it, but it mostly has a restaurant or food truck or something. chicken and chickpea curry, all for $9.99. Burry and Kean got keen on notes of dark chocolate So, I thought of taking a chance!” There’s vegan and veg options, too. beer from their adventures and caramel.” in homebrewing. As they It was Joy’s wife, Jasmi, who suggested According to Joy, the response to the were mastering their hobby, WINTERMAN’S ESB that he should put his face on the side Indian Express has been overwhelming. they noticed the craft beer (EXTRA SPECIAL of the truck. “She thought it would be “It is so exciting to hear the responses boom happening around the BITTERS) funny,” he says. from the returning customers and new province. Breweries were “We got the name from customers, both online and the serving not just popping up in urban a local friend of ours, The Indian Express serves both North window!” says Joy. “The other day when centres, but in vibrant rural Brent Jones,” Burry says. Indian and South Indian cuisine. Generally it snowed, it was just unbelievable to towns like Twillingate, “He’s an engineer, but he’s speaking, North Indian cuisine brings in see the number of people standing at the Port Rexton, and Dildo, also a bit of an historian. lots of breads (like naan and samosas, line, fighting the snow and wind!” which Joy serves on the truck) and curries where they quickly Back in the times of slavery Located in Bay Roberts! such as palak paneer and aloogobi. In the coming months, Pit Crew on 11 became social hubs for in the United States, some their communities. Major's Path will be the Indian Express’ African Americans escaped Joy brings the Southern inspiration permanent spot. “As it gets warmer, we and made their way here to The duo settled on Bay Roberts to launch through his use of rice, lentils, and are planning to go around the city for Newfoundland in ships, on their brewery because it’s an area Burry was stews, and seasoned veggies with lunch hours. We are also very excited their way to wherever they were headed. Brent drawn to. “It’s a large population base under- tamarind and dried curry leaves. He’s about the upcoming summer festivals!” said his grandparents and family, like a lot of served in craft beer, like most rural areas in also bringing some dishes that are new other Newfoundlanders, took these people Newfoundland” Burry says.“We settled on Bay to the city’s growing international food The Indian Express is open at 11 Major's Roberts, came out and met with a few people, in for the winter. Gave them food and a warm scene. “Pumpkin erissery is a popular Path every Tuesday through Saturday, and ended up buying our location here place to stay until spring, when they dish from the south Indian state of Kerala serving supper. For updated hours, find on Shearstown Beach.” He says were on their way.” He says it’s a in India, where we are originally from,” them on Facebook, or follow them on the whole town and neighbouring Two best friends “nice piece of history that speaks says Joy. “Pumpkin erissery is a mild and Instagram at @indianexpress. from Glovertown communities have been very to the kindness and generosity of have brought our Newfoundlanders.” welcoming. This includes the provincial Craft folks at the nearby Newfoundland Brewery Count up Distillery Co. in Clarke’s Beach. to one dozen. Cheers to that, and their “They’ve been really supportive. Winterman’s ESB: no other local For example, they have a guy who’s brewery is making a bitters, so really good at instrumentation and far, as part of their core beers. But controls. We had a few questions for him, it was one of Burry & Kean’s favourite and he popped down. They were all here at homebrews, so they made it one of the our grand opening too.” brewery’s core offerings.

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BOCA Winner: Bernard Stanley’s Gastropub Runner-up: Yellowbelly VEGETARIAN HAVEN Winner: The Peaceful Loft Runner-up: The Sprout/Poyo best of FOOD RESTAURANT SPECIAL RESTAURANT IN NEWFOUNDLAND Winner: Piatto’s Lunch Special Winner: Mallard Cottage Runner-up: Evoo 2-for-1 Pizzas (5-6pm) Runner-up: Adelaide Oyster House RESTAURANT ATMOSPHERE NEW RESTAURANT 2018 Winner: Mallard Cottage Winner: Boca Tapas’ Bar Runner-up: Merchant Tavern Runner-up: Saucy Mouth Food Truck CHINESE BRUNCH SPOT Winner: Magic Wok Winner: Mallard Cottage Runner-up: The Peaceful Loft Runner-up: Merchant Tavern FISH’N’CHIPS FOOD SPOT OUTSIDE OF Winner: The Duke DOWNTOWN ST. JOHN'S Runner-up: Chafe’s Landing Winner: Bonavista Social Club GUILTY PLEASURE GREASY SPOON Runner-up: The Grounds Winner: Ziggy Peelgoods RESTAURANT TO TAKE A DATE Runner-up: Ches’s Fish & Chips Winner: Mallard Cottage FOOD VENDOR AT THE ST. JOHN'S Runner-up: Boca Tapas’ Bar FARMER'S MARKET MOST DELICIOUS DISH IN NL Winner: Fatima’s Indian Food Winner: Butter Chicken @ India Gate Runner-up: Curry Delight stjohnsfarmersmarket.ca Runner-up: “The Stephanie” @ Piatto GROCERY STORE BAKERY Winner: Coleman’s (Newfoundland Dr.) Winner: Georgestown Bakery Runner-up: Belbin’s Runner-up: Rocket Bakery HI N P SUS A M IA I R FOOD SPOT ON SKIP THE DISHES T O T Y O A L Winner: Sushi Nami Royale E Runner-up: Soul Azteka

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7 / DECEMBER 2018 / THE OVERCAST and everyone digs the latest Mark Bragg, a deserving MusicNL triple award-winner this Talkin' past month. In the past few weeks, we've seen great interest in the debut from Jenina MacGillivray, the sophomore releases from The Gift Youngtree & The Blooms and Patrick Boyle; the PREDHAM KATIE PHOTO: latter is now on vinyl. One of the big surprises of 2018 has been the release of Fur Packed Action, of Music “The Dull Thud Of Fur” on double vinyl. Their fan base both provincially and nation-wide have with Tony pounced on the opportunity to acquire a copy. WHAT'S A LOCAL ALBUM OR TWO, Ploughman NOT FROM 2018, THAT CONTINUES TO SELL WELL AS A CHRISTMAS GIFT AT FRED'S? of Fred's Each and every Christmas there are artists that never drift off the gift buyer’s radar. The Once, Hey Rosetta!, Amelia Curran, Fortunate Records Ones, Ron Hynes, and Matthew Byrne are always in demand. They're all enormously Talking music with Tony important names, their works valued and loved by so many. It’s always fun to engage in chat Ploughman meanders quickly into about all and any of those performers, and “Rumours.” Gerri’s vocal contribution, her album will appeal to not only fans of Ron Hynes deep, heartfelt, and passionate share thoughts on their distinctive albums. discourse. And so it should: how sense for nuance, subtlety, and pure emotion but folks who enjoy county/folk done right. is at times jaw-dropping. Fortunate Ones is Also in the class of folk/singer-songwriter is many things exist in this world we WHAT ABOUT a shimmering Pop record and although it hit the brand new Youngtree & The Blooms. We LOCAL CHRISTMAS ALBUMS, GOT A can all agree on that we love? Music the streets in December of last year, Kellie just launched this album here at Fred’s. Fans SUGGESTION OR TWO? has united and defined cultures Loder’s new record is a strong choice in this of John Prine, Gram Parsons, Ryan Adams, We have maybe 75 different titles, and more forever; music is the soundtrack category. Jason Isbell, and late 60’s Dylan will find this coming out this year. Rum Ragged was huge truly interesting. Guitarist-extraordinaire to our parties, the shows & movies last year, and a really fun record. And you have FANS OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC? Craig Young fits nicely in this vein as well. we watch, pivotal moments in our so much variety with original albums from The Trad/NL is always aplenty with choice. Rum Consistency is Craig’s calling card. Finally, one personal lives. Once, Hey Rosetta!, Fortunate Ones. There are Ragged lead this year’s pack of solid titles. of my top picks would be Sherry Ryan’s latest, three Ennis Sisters Christmas albums, and Anita Best & Sandy Morris teamed up for without question the best album of her life. long-time favorites like Simani, Masterless Men, Tony is as much a musical institution as Fred's a beauty, while The Ennis Sisters and Irish and Ed Kavanagh come immediately to mind. In Records itself. So who better to talk Christmas Descendants continue to record vital folk FANS OF SOMETHING DIFFERENT? the past few years, Matthew Byrne and Shelley gift tips with than him? "Music is a classic music, in what have been consistently strong Glen Collins falls suitably into this bracket. An Neville sparked great interest. I’m looking gift," he says. "It’s instant pleasure, creates careers. Brad Tuck has been the surprise hit album of robust instrumentals, it's an electric forward to hearing the brand new Ian Foster immediate rapport with friends and family. of 2018, and Mark Hiscock of Shanneyganock guitarist with a full band running the gamut & Nancy Hynes Christmas release, and the We sing along, or dance, or simply lean into fame has just released his second solo effort. from classic rock to Jeff Beck-like fusion, and Fretboard Journey album in early December. that which inspires us no matter who you are. Mark’s new one has a nice mix of Country & features guest vocals from Dana Parsons, Music at holiday time is essential. Music was, Western with Celtic foundations, and is Janet Cull, and rap from Neil Conway. WHAT LOCAL ALBUMS WOULD YOU is and always will be a great gift," he says. expected to be one of the hottest Denis Parker, joined by his daughter RECOMMEND FOLKS BUY FOR PEOPLE "It’s qualitative on a scale that speaks to our choices this Christmas. Sarah and a veteran cast of local ON THEIR SHOPPING LISTS WHO ARE ... humanity, our nature, our soul." blues and rock musicians has a FANS OF ROCK? QUIETER, FOLKIER much celebrated new record, Strong local Rock albums for consideration WHAT HAVE BEEN SOME OF THE TOP- SINGER-SONGWRITER while Patrick Boyle leading a this year would be Mick Davis, Mark Bragg, The Once's newest album SELLERS OR TOP PICKS AMONG STAFF STUFF? sounds like the record cool jazz quartet, Joel Hynes' Waterfront Fire, and Another North. AT FRED'S THIS YEAR, IN TERMS OF This is my favorite category and Fleetwood Mac should edgy contemporary fusion of 2018 RELEASES BY LOCAL ARTISTS? features a plethora of tasty picks. have made after folk/rock, and Swinging Belles FANS OF POP OR “Rumours” 2018 has been another stellar year for all genres Jenina MacGillivary’s Marion is one kiddies' (and parents) delight, RADIO-FRIENDLY MUSIC? of local music, led by The Once, Rum Ragged, of the year’s most pleasant surprises. present some of the better off the Radio/Pop Friendly releases to suggest Fortunate Ones, Ennis Sisters, Mick Davis, Craig This record possesses the kind of intimacy beaten track releases. Young, Anita Best & Sandy Morris, Swinging would have to include The Once at the top of you would experience while sitting on the Belles, Irish Descendants, Waterfront Fire, the list. Right now, and I say this without the couch with someone as you go through a photo If this interview hasn't zeroed you in on a Denis Parker and Sherry Ryan. You can witness slightest hesitation, Geraldine Hollett has album, and hear the stories behind the picture. few gifts, Tony stresses that "we have an right there the variety of styles and artists. As perhaps the finest voice in Canada for the I’m very impressed with this one. Ken Tizzard enthusiastic and knowledgeable staff, eager massive as some of these releases have been, style of music the band delivers. The newest released a beautiful tribute to the late great Ron to help and make suggestions." Pop on down, the Fred’s staff favour several unique titles like album, Time Enough, sounds like the record Hynes. I like how Ken kept things very simple support local, and surprise yourself with a Brad Tuck, Glen Collins, Swamps, Ken Tizzard, Fleetwood Mac should have made after and chose an intriguing cast of numbers. This new album or two for yourself.

8 / DECEMBER 2018 / THE OVERCAST HIP HOP/ ELECTRONIC ACT Winner: Chess Club little overlap in the past from a structural Runner-up: Van Buren Boys best of MUSIC standpoint. These institutions are BLUES/JAZZ BAND AN Making perhaps the most responsible for the RY BAND IN THE PROVINCE RY Winner: Earle & Coffin ER H growth and nurturing of music in the Winner: The Once S Runner-up: Denis Parker province, and their influence and legacies Runner-up: Soap Opera Music Work SINGER IN THE PROVINCE spread far and wide. SOLO ARTIST/DUO IN THE Winner: Steve Maloney Comprehensive PROVINCE Runner-up: Janet Cull Workshop Series By combining their powers, there’s a real Winner: Rube & Rake MOST TALENTED Aims to Better chance to help Newfoundland & Labrador’s Runner-up: Fortunate Ones MUSICIAN IN NL artists realize their full potential, and allow NEW BAND/ARTIST 2018 Prepare Musicians Winner: Tim Baker them to enjoy a more productive and Winner: John Runner-up: Steve Maloney for a Career in Music lucrative musical career. Those who sign up Banana Vacuum Runner-up: RPM ALBUM OF 2018 will get access to workshops taught by some BAND/ARTIST TO SEE LIVE Winner: Banana Vacuum’s BY BRAD PRETTY of Newfoundland’s finest talents, and what Winner: The Kubasonics Never Mind the Minions sets the presenters apart is not just their Runner-up: The Catalina Reapers Runner-up: Belle Trackies’ Making Music Work is a major musicality, but their proven ability to carve LOCAL SONG OF 2018 Running with Wolfgang collaborative effort with the goal out a living playing music at a professional Winner: “Stop the Trains” by Sherry Ryan MUSIC FESTIVAL/EVENT OF 2018 of fostering professional skills in level, both at home and beyond. “Play Doh” by Dormitories Runner-up: Winner: Lawnya Vawnya musicians in Newfoundland & ROCK/POP BAND Runner-up: Iceberg Alley Labrador. Business and brand are imperative to C Winner: Soap Opera MUSIC VENUE HE SS success these days, no matter the talent C L Runner-up: Mark Bragg & the Butchers Winner: The Ship U B We have musical talent, but that talent that lies behind it all. These workshop FOLK/COUNTRY BAND Runner-up: could use an incubator, an educational presenters – names like Duane Rube & Rake E Winner: RAK The Black Sheep Andrews, and Meg Warren – have been & hub, something that can equip a talented E B Runner-up: Sherry Ryan U on the leading edge of music industry R musician with the knowledge, beyond LOUD/HEAVY BAND their talent, they need to navigate the for a long time, making the most of Winner: Banana Vacuum increasingly complicated waters of the coming from, or living on, a cold rock in Runner-up: Conditioner modern music industry. the North Atlantic. Whether it’s ex-Hey TRAD BAND/ARTIST Rosetta leader Tim Baker, members Winner: Rum Ragged By providing ambitious and talented of Buddy Wasisname, or the classical Runner-up: Shanneyganock people with the right tools for the phenoms Duo Concertante, the variety less-fun aspects of the job, Making of worldly experiences and lessons that Music Work hopes to help establish a can be passed along to fellow musicians THE ONCE new breed of professional musicians should prove incredibly valuable to those in NL; one that is better equipped to who want to take the next step. tour, manage their band and finances, be prepared for the studio, expand As a semi veteran of the music scene their audiences through branding and myself, it’s very refreshing to see the SOAPOPERA.BANDNL marketing, and a whole lot more. In major players work together towards so doing, Making Music Work could be a common goal. For years I’ve seen a real bulldozer for the barriers that great musicians toil away into oblivion.

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9 / DECEMBER 2018 / THE OVERCAST Those who gathered at the event this year what kicks the biggest dent in a person’s Similarly, the report argues, a National Policy on the tried to identify policies that are working income, to the point of landing many people Food Policy would go a long way in well (and should be strengthened further), in poverty, unable to meet their other improving the affordability of healthy eating Rock Summary and policies that are not working well needs. If better policies could ensure that in NL. As it stands, there is a prominence (and cause issues for people). Discussion what people pay for a roof over their head of diet-link diseases here. We have the Report Calls for tables were set for Housing, Income, is affordable, more people/families could highest rates of diabetes and heart attacks Transportation, Education, Food, better afford healthy food, school among Canadian provinces for instance. National Policy Health, and Other. supplies, transportation to work or Changes for medical appointments. The report offers multiple solutions there, Among other things beyond somehow lowering the cost of – fodder for future As it stands, the affordable healthy food or enacting guaranteed annual Local Poverty Policy on the Rock Overcast articles – The housing situation sounds incomes. These options include but are not seeks to solve poverty Summary Report argues grim. You can’t even state a limited to better food skills training so folks Reduction largely through policy that broader policy from preference about where you’d know how to shop for and prepare healthy amendments the Federal Government, want to live. “Currently an offer meals on a budget, and improvements BY CHRIS DONALDSON that could be fine-tuned and of social housing is made, and you in access to healthy food, from more adjusted between Provincial need to take what is available or go to community gardens in rural areas (where Policy on the Rock is an annual and Municipal governments, is a the bottom of the list.” fresh produce is scarce), to more such necessary change. gardens growing healthy produce to donate gathering of people from At the level of the provincial government, the to food banks. government, community-focused “People need a pathway out of poverty,” the report says government could “shift policy nonprofits, and those living with report reads, “[but] as a country, Canada toward set rent levels to avoid financial The report also calls for a national low income. The aim of 2018’s Policy does not have a defined measurement of burdens.” The report also recommends that investment in Early Childhood Education. on the Rock was to facilitate a poverty nor a methodology to measure NL Housing should simplify the application inequities over time.” “Not only will this provide the skills that discussion between participants process, among other things. As for a municipal government’s contribution, they some children living in poverty miss out on in order to identify the day to day A National Affordable Housing Program is could “work with community non-profits to before attending school, it will also benefit hurdles of those living in poverty, among policy goals the report says would alleviate homelessness by finding temporary parents, by allowing them more free-time and to develop solutions to these alleviate poverty. The cost of renting a accommodations for ‘hard to house’ to pursue an education, career, or other problems. home or paying a mortgage is generally individuals.” opportunity.” Wish list. Santa doesn’t need laces. Santa needs traction, warm, dry feet and comfort in a storm. (So do Santa’s helpers!) Give the gift everyone wants. Merry Blundstone to all and to all a good walk!

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10 / DECEMBER 2018 / THE OVERCAST established, splitting what was formerly the diocese of Newfoundland. Occupied Yellowbelly to ideas and enthusiasm to handle it. They haphazardly by European fishermen, Harbour re-opened in their new space the first bring new life Grace was one of the best fishing harbours in The Geek weekend of December, and here are four Conception Bay, and by the 1800s, the town to the reasons you really need to visit.

ROBERTS FELICITY PHOTO: was quite prosperous. Bar Has ONE Infamous So prosperous that it was known as The Dedicated theme rooms. There’s a special Capital Of Conception Bay, more important Moved To lair for Dungeons and Dragons play, with than St. John's in the Labrador and seal Cathedral a team of six Dungeon Masters at the fisheries. Bishop John Dalton, head of the new Duckworth ready, a library with over two thousand diocese, was constructing a cathedral that books, and a Harry Potter of the would reflect Harbour Grace's importance. Here Are 4 Great Hall. Oh, and there’s also Modeled after St. Peter's in Rome, the church a bar if all the rest isn’t enough. Immaculate took decades to build. Dalton enlisted the Reasons To help of Father Enrico, or Henry Carfagnini, TWO an Italian priest skilled in architecture. Check It Out Conception Craft beer and good whiskey. The bar’s Dalton died before the building was done, and clientele has spoken, and what they’ve with no consultation with the congregation, BY FELICITY ROBERTS said is that they want craft beer. Jody in Harbour Carfagnini was chosen as his replacement. herself enjoys whiskey, and the bar will Jody Bowen is grateful to Terry be hosting a Women and Whiskey group Grace Disagreeable and authoritarian, Carfagnini O’Rourke and Colin Dalton, for ladies to spend some quality time scrapped with the Benevolent Irish owners of the Rock House, for BY FELICITY ROBERTS together discussing fine spirits. Society, alienated taking a chance on her idea two the Irish Catholic summers ago, and helping her THREE With its sale to Brenda community, and turn a corner of The Rock House Games and Crafts. Hundreds of games, O'Reilly and Craig Flynn resigned after a decade. on George St. into The Geek Bar. from board games to video games, Apparently, people drew of Yellowbelly Brewery, even Lego. Plus crafts kits from local their blinds as he passed some say that Harbour So are a lot of people in businesses like Fabric Merchant and Cast to leave town, and he laid St. John’s. The following on Cast Off, that set you up to knit or quilt Grace's Cathedral a curse on Harbour Grace she has built has been while enjoying your pint. Many knitters of the Immaculate upon departing. instrumental in her move are already familiar with Knit Night at the Conception is getting to larger (much, much Geek Bar. The cathedral was still a second chance. larger) digs in the Reluctant not done. Finished by Over 125 years old Chef/Vinyl Room’s old home on 290 FOUR Bishop Ronald McDonald, The stone structure, Duckworth. “This bar is built by the Goodwill runs high amongst geeks. it was consecrated in 1884. which held its last community,” Bowen says. From help The Geek Bar is a great place to make Fabulously expensive, no one mass in 2014, needed millions in repairs, with lighting, to some very cool décor friends. “Everyone is a geek about thought to insure it. In 1889 and officials wondered if the right buyer donations, the family she’s built, around something” Jody says, and her goal is to it burnt down, and work on a new cathedral would appear. When the Yellowbelly team proudly embracing of all that is geeky, provide a relaxed, inclusive place started. By 1892, the elegant Gothic Revival came along, opinions varied on beer in the is doing everything they can to support where all may comfortably style building, with its two spires flanking the cathedral, but community spirit won out. With the ambitious move. She and manager let their geek flag fly. entrance, was consecrated. plans of a brewery, restaurant, beer garden, Geoff Smith may have a lot of room to fill hotel, and spa on the deconsecrated grounds, with cool stuff, but the two have enough up to 100 jobs can be expected to come to the The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception community in the next few years. fell into disrepair as the town's fortunes waned in the next century. The CARFAGNINI'S CURSE waning fortunes, along with AND THE CAPITAL OF various fires and business disasters in Harbour Grace CONCEPTION BAY When the Yellowbelly GERRY team came along, over this time has been "Second chance," however, opinions varied on beer attributed to Carfagnini's ROGERS in the cathedral, but curse. is misleading. The cathedral community spirit MHA for is a cat with nine lives, and this won out St. John’s development is simply the next But fortunes change. O'Reilly Centre chapter of its story; a story tightly and Flynn's cathedral endeavor adds woven with history of the town itself, and a destination in an area already rich in the rise and fall of fortunes. folklore, stone ruins like the eerie Ridley Hall, and interesting sites like the unmarked, skull adorned grave believed to be that It starts in 1865, when the dioceses 729-2638 / [email protected] of Harbour Grace and St. John's were of a local pirate.

11 / DECEMBER 2018 / THE OVERCAST salmon are a threat to wild populations. The the basic terms of EIS guidelines. salmon we farm here are not genetically “Grieg hasn’t conducted the basic research Contraver-Sea related to our wild fish. Our wild fish have that was required,” said ASF President Bill evolved over time to thrive in our cold, harsh Taylor. “The company has relied on secondary Atlantic ocean. When escapees breed with information which has already been declared Why the Grieg Aquaculture Project wild fish, they water down our wild fishes’ insufficient by government staff and the in Placentia is Such a Big Deal ability to survive in the cold, harsh Atlantic. provincial Supreme Court.” It takes an inconceivable amount of time for fish to adapt to their environment, the way The Atlantic Salmon Federation argues that our wild fish have adapted to the specific in addition to a lack of study, the EIS contains temperatures, ph, seasonality, flow rates, unjustified and unreasonable conclusions. BY CHAD PELLEY WHY THE COURTS HAVE and more of our waters. And they They say no field work was conducted INTERVENED ON THIS PROJECT pass that DNA along to their by Grieg to determine the migratory offspring so they can thrive This would be the routes, genetic structure, and This is not another article blindly Back in 2016, when the Liberal government here too. Farmed salmon largest aquaculture project abundance of wild salmon in bashing and berating aquaculture. DNA waters those traits in our province, maybe the Placentia Bay, despite this approved what many considered to be country, so government's The fact is, world-leading agencies an insufficient Environmental Impact down, weakens them. unchecked enthusiasm for being a clear requirement on the state of food in the world are Assessment (EIS) on the project, the Atlantic Farmed salmon are another potentially ill-fated of the EIS guidelines. In telling us that we must turn to the sea Salmon Federation took the decision to court. also more aggressive mega-project has response, Grieg says what and fearless, so they’re people worried. odds, because there is no to feed our growing population. By They did so on the grounds that the EIS just wasn’t good enough to prove nothing would a nuisance for wild risk of interbreeding between 2050, we’ll need to double the amount go wrong. They did so on the grounds that a populations. wild salmon and farmed escapes, of food we’re producing, and it’s just minister cannot greenlight a project with a because they say their fish will be not feasible to do so on land. subpar EIS. They did so because government In late September, DFO confirmed 100% sterile. But the ASF says they was disregarding its own regulations to that escapees from fish farms are provide no verifiable proof of this claim. Nor is land-based food farming, as we tend approve the mega-project, waving the Job positively harming wild populations of to do it, environmentally sustainable. The Creation Flag to distract us. You know, as we salmon. Take the great farmed fish escape ASF appealed the Grieg NL project again way Corporate Farms rear livestock right do in this province. of 20,000 fish in Hermitage Bay in 2013. We in October of 2018, this time under the now rivals the oil industry as a leading cause know that a good chunk of them got lucky Environmental Protection Act. In late of climate change. Farming fish for protein The judge sided with the Atlantic Salmon with the locals. DFO has proven that in 18 November, the provincial government requires a smaller environmental footprint Federation, and declared that a proper, of the 19 rivers they sampled, wild fish had released the project anyway, alleging the than farming cows -- less area, less water, reassuring Environmental Impact Assessment farmed salmon DNA in them. "We weren't proposed project has undergone “a robust less Co2, less lots of things. So aquaculture would be a “duty owed to the people of the surprised to find hybrids,” said biologist examination, including scrutiny by a federal- isn’t all bad; few things are. province.” Brendan Wringe, “we were surprised to find as provincial environmental assessment many hybrids as we did, and to find them as committee.” The concern around Grieg’s proposed But our Department of Municipal Affairs and widely spread as we did.” aquaculture project in Marystown and Placentia Environment took that judge’s decision back ASF has critiqued the conflict of interest that Bay is that it will be one of the largest salmon to court to fight it, stating that “more than Of 1,700 fish sampled, 27% were hybrids arises from the provincial government acting farming operations in Canada. So we should 15 terms and conditions will ensure that or just straight-up farmed fish and their as regulator, decision-maker, and an investor want it done right. That's all. And, depending development proceeds in an environmentally descendants. No one’s really talking about in Grieg. The ASF also says that in addition to on who you talk you, there are, or there are not sustainable manner.” this, even though we know our wild salmon government investing public money into this concerns it'll be done right. numbers are plummeting in many places. And project, “the memorandum of understanding HOW REAL ARE THE RISKS? no one’s talking about the fact that salmon between Grieg NL and Newfoundland and It’s important that folks who roll their eyes at farms don’t have to report “small escapes,” Labrador gives the company a monopoly on environmental concerns understand what’s at Outbreaks, particularly of the ISA Virus and which means there’s conceivably a constant salmon aquaculture in Placentia Bay.” stake here – we’re talking about jeopardizing sea lice, have and do happen in our province, flow of farmed fish into wild waters. the health of our wild fish, and the habitat resulting in mass culls of farmed fish and The project wants to place the largest salmon YOU CAN OPPOSE A PROJECT that sustains it. From so many standpoints -- consumer wariness of eating farmed salmon. farm we've ever had in an area where wild & NOT AN INDUSTRY economic, environmental, food security -- we Couping fish up in a wild sea makes them salmon populations are considered at risk of want to avoid jeopardizing our wild fish stocks easy prey for parasites. There is, however, extinction Our Liberal Government is trying to double and their habitats. increasingly tech-driven measures to prevent the amount of food we produce here by these things. WHAT’S SO CONTENTIOUS ABOUT 2022. That’s great, we need that effort, Also, our government is invested in this GRIEG'S ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT we’ve all heard the stats like “we’d run out of project, and aquaculture, like hydro-electric As for mass escapes of farmed fish into the ASSESSMENT? perishable foods here in 2-3 days if the ferries projects, can end up costing us money if wild, they happen often enough to worry were delayed.” things go wrong. A quick Google search about them. In August, for example, between It has raised eyebrows that Grieg was allotted will round you up dozens of examples of 2 and 3 thousand fish escaped from a Cooke three years to complete the EIS, but finished it Government has committed to double local governments investing in shady aquaculture Aquaculture facility. in 2 months and 10 days. The Atlantic Salmon food production by 2022, largely through operations, only to see losses in the millions Federation (ASF) reviewed the EIS submitted growing more veggies and growing more fish caused by the kinds of diseases and failures When farmed fish escape their sea cages, it by Grieg Seafood, and declared the document through aquaculture. To their credit, The Ball that plague fish farmed poorly. doesn't just mean wasted dollars. Farmed deficient on the grounds that it fails to meet Government has made numerous positive

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commitments and policy amendments GRIEG’S REPUTATION OH ME NERVES geared towards improving provincial DOESN’T HELP agriculture, and the food system itself in our province. As for aquaculture, the plan is One of the red flags for many here, is that to boost annual farmed salmon and mussel Grieg doesn’t come to Newfoundland with production to 50,000 and 10,750 tonnes its reputation intact. Grieg is a Norwegian IT’S BACK! respectively. company whose own government has rejected recent proposals for not being In light of that commendable effort, it’s modern and innovative enough. important to note you can oppose a project and not an industry. That's what a lot of Grieg has faced legal hot waters in Norway centred folks are trying to say about this as well. A former manager has faced Grieg project. Just, whoa: are we sure this criminal charges for admittedly lying about is going to be okay, what's the rush here? sea lice counts, and Grieg was expelled Leo White is one of the founders of from the Scottish Salmon Producers the Newfoundland and Labrador Organization in 2014 for bringing in Coalition for Aquaculture smolts from Norway without Reform (NL-CAR), and shares quarantining them, which this sentiment. He has put wild salmon at risk expressed concern at the of infectious diseases. lack of environmental Other Grieg projects have concerns in all the talks of lost millions of taxpayer growing our aquaculture dollars after governments industry. "We are not welcomed them into their anti-aquaculture,” he’s said. waters. “Aquaculture has a place in Newfoundland and Labrador ... So yes, people are concerned. Not we just think that it needs to have better blindly, not because aquaculture itself is regulation, and more input from the public, horrible -- it really can be done right. The more transparency.” concern is that Grieg is proposing building the largest fish farm operation our province Concerning the proposed, contentious has ever seen, yet we don't trust the name Grieg project, NL-CAR identified several Grieg, we have concerns about the validity concerns, like potential sea ice damage to of the EIS, and we're weirded out by our cages, 17 of 20 cages being too close to own government so eagerly investing in known salmon rivers, and the effects of this project, all for a few moderate-waged CANDY CANE BARK farmed salmon waste on the ecosystem. jobs ... that will vanish in a week if this The Department of Municipal Affairs and project flops. (and our entire Christmas Chocolate Collection!) Environment remains adamant Grieg will monitor everything (cages, water quality, Grieg, understandably, is quite pleased etc), comply with public reporting, and with it all. In the publication IntraFish, a 166 DUCKWORTH STREET • AVALON MALL that all the concerns around the project higher-up at Grieg said of the proposed ST. JOHN’S INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT are overblown because the legal process project in Placentia Bay, “Our company GANDER MALL • CORNER BROOK PLAZA has been above board. You know, like the appreciates the government’s aggressive Liberal government's uncontested hiring at approach to cultivate investment in WWW.NEWFOUNDLANDCHOCOLATECOMPANY.COM The Rooms. Burn! aquaculture."

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14 / DECEMBER 2018 / THE OVERCAST seems non-committal about what listeners take away. Are her songs well-spun romantic tales, or solid life advice to be taken at face-value? SPIN THIS. It’s largely up to the JENINA-MACGILLIVRAY listener to choose. Two songs, "Holy

PHOTOS: PHOTOS: Winter" and "Marion," NEW RELEASE are the exception. "Holy Winter" recounts Macgillivray’s brush with death in the winter of 2014. Waking up in a hospital bed after emergency surgery, Jenina MacGillivray listened over the phone to the MacGillivray's sound of her many friends playing a benefit concert for her in downtown St. John’s. It is a vivid movie scene about frailty and grace, written by MacGillivray the filmmaker first and Marion foremost, and set to song. She approaches mortality once again with the album’s title

track. Marion is a sorrowful contemplation BY SANDY MAY about the loss of MacGillivray’s mother, but also a thank you for the gift of her own life and those Last month St. John’s-based of her siblings. With each listen I’m reminded filmmaker, writer, and musician of a chance encounter with MacGillivray at the airport; both of us waiting for planes to take Jenina MacGillivray released her us home to siblings and an ailing parent. The debut album, Marion. closing line: “you taught us all how to be best friends” is such a simple and moving observation After years of writing and playing her songs about the journey of loss; about sadness and for audiences in cafes and bars, she sent the hopefulness and everything in between. album, which she named in honour of her mother, out into the world. MacGillivray’s For her debut album, MacGillivray handed debut is a love letter to friends and family, to the task of recording to Jake Nicoll. Nicoll cities and towns, and to the past and potential has a discernable style, which is present lovers who inhabit them. It is a love letter to life throughout Marion, particularly on songs as a continuous succession of present like "Beautiful Boy in the Grocery moments. Store," and "Skipping Stones," where he contributes backing Marion begins with light vocals and drums. Nicoll guitar, moody tremolo, knows well what to leave and MacGillivray looking on and off the table, back warmly on a fleeting however, and complements marriage engagement in MacGillivray’s songs and the Portuguese resort town, magnetism perfectly. In terms Carvoeiro. Ill-fated seaside of her sound, MacGillivray’s love fast-forwards to Ontario, St. voice is warm and laid back, John’s, and back around to their care with an understated quality to it that free time in Carvoeiro. On the surface it’s an immediately calls to mind Sherry Ryan. On affectionate, light-hearted song about being in "Carvoeiro," there’s even a Julee Cruise/ love, or at least being in love with love, but it’s David Lynch feeling to her backing vocals, also a meditation on remaining open-hearted but ultimately it’s MacGillivray’s unabashed because, well, what else can we do? love for indie-hero Jonathan Richman that most comes through on Marion. Richman MacGillivray’s lyrics are rooted in poetry about might have actually written "Olden Days," everyday things, whether that be the death of a had he not been so in love with the Modern parent, missing good friends on the other side World. Richman’s special brand of humour is of the world, or crushing on the new cute boy something MacGillivray clearly cherishes. All in at the grocery store. It’s this equal appreciation all Marion is a thoroughly enjoyable debut from for everyday moments and impermanence MacGillivray that I appreciate more with each that MacGillivray weaves throughout the listen. Favourite tracks include: Marion, Little 12 songs on Marion. For the most part she Things, Beautiful Boy in the Grocery Store.

15 / DECEMBER 2018 / THE OVERCAST He went on to say, "I do not have evidence our clients. For example, if the big game could enjoy a nutritious meal of moose Are Food that food banks are prioritizing this was moose meat, it would need to be meat, he feels the public need to be looked initiative. In fact, given the fact that food cut into steaks and properly packaged. after, and we need to move cautiously banks already have access to moose meat Any such meat would also have to be forward, to put this program in place in the Banks from the Charitable License Program, and government inspected." right way. With all of the proper checks and none have requested any such access, balances. Willing that is telling. And since the more recent Elaine continues, "My understanding is that public attention to the issue, no food bank such a program exists in other provinces, LIABILITY & COMPLIANCE have contacted myself or my department and it would certainly be beneficial if the NOT AN ISSUE And Able To looking for such a scheme." same program were introduced here in the province. SPAN relies primarily on CFSA As the food banks and the CFSA have made Distribute Minister Byrne makes an important point, to acquire food to fill its shelves, and to clear, they are capable, equipped, and if food banks themselves are unable or distribute to single parent families. If a willing, under the right conditions, to accept Wild Game? unwilling to accept and distribute wild game program was in place for hunters to donate wild game meats for distribution, if the Big meats, than the issue ends right there. their big game, it would be donated to Game regulations are indeed amended. CFSA who then would distribute it to food BY CHAD BENNETT 2 VITAL ORGANIZATIONS ARE KEEN banks in the province including SPAN's." Government inspection is something all ON SUCH A PROGRAM parties would need, and a criteria which can This past October in The Overcast, COMMUNITY FOOD SHARING be satisfied by the processors. Under the I outlined a program called Hunters I contacted MUN Campus Food Bank, ASSOCIATION ABLE, WITHOUT Meat Inspection Regulations, approved wild the Single Parent Association, and the game is permitted in government-inspected Feeding the Hungry. This program LIABILITY CONCERNS, BUT Community Food Sharing Association RELUCTANT and licensed establishments. If wild game would allow hunters to donate (CFSA) to get clarity directly from the is processed in the lawful manner, then wild game to food banks. One source. All three possess the capability to I interviewed Community Food Sharing donated to food banks by hunters, there theme to emerge from the resulting store and distribute perishables, are open Association (CFSA) General Manager should not be any legal obstructions, other conversations, outside of legalities to exploring such a program, and needed Egbert Walters over the phone. To than Big Game Regulations, to prevent such and liabilities, was the possibility public safety concerns addressed. paraphrase, he said he thinks the hunters meat from being distributed. feeding the hungry program has real merit. that the food banks themselves At MUN Campus Food Bank, Anne Sinnott and that CFSA has capacity and equipment As for liability concerns, The Donation of may not possess the capabilities or responded. "Accepting wild game is not a necessary to store and distribute Food Act protects someone from liability desire to distribute wild game. matter the Campus Food Bank board has perishable foods; it's what they do every in almost all circumstances except those discussed, as it's not a topic that anyone day of the year. And yes they are insured who donate for profit, and those who MINISTER BYRNE'S FEELS has brought to our attention. against liability issues. knowingly donate food that is unfit to STRONGLY FOOD BANKS ARE NOT eat due to sanitary conditions. Under the INTERESTED IN BEING ABLE TO I would imagine that if we were to But that doesn't mean they are willing Food Premises Act, non-profit groups are PROVIDE DONATED WILD GAME participate in such a program, we would to take chances. Before this program is given extensive exemptions to the multiple first seek advice from the CFSA, our local started, they would need to know all of regulations under that Act, so long as they This possibility was raised most strongly by food bank organization, about food safety the specifics about how things are to be follow standard health guidelines. Minister of Fisheries and Land Resources and liability issues. If we ever were to handled. That means an understanding of Gerry Byrne. During an email conversation accept wild game, we'd need it ready to the complete food chain progress from A to MUN Campus Food Bank's main hesitation with NAHA President Barry Fordham, one give out to people." Z, with all of the T's crossed and I's dotted. was due to unfamiliarity, not any lack cc'd to local media, Minister Byrne stated, of willingness or capability. SPAN was "A key stakeholder in the proposal that you Anne continues "We have several each As for what food banks should do, he says extremely enthusiastic about the prospect, as are advancing are food banks. Their views of fridges and freezers. We do have the that is entirely up to them. The CFSA does long as certain criteria were met. As for the need to be considered and included. Your ability to store perishable foods. Best I can not set policy, and each individual food CFSA, they want to see the public protected proposal is absent of any commitment say right now is we would be willing to bank would need to make the decision to and well fed, and acknowledge that done of food banks requesting big game consider taking the wild game, but would participate in the program for themselves, properly the Hunters feeding the Hungry meat. While I acknowledge that some need to talk some more about it." when the time comes. program can achieve that. Food banks exist individual food banks may be willing to after all to provide nutritious food to those accept the resulting liabilities and benefits At the Single Parent Association of For instance, he says he knows from in need, and another source of high quality of participating in such a scheme, on a Newfoundland (SPAN), Executive Director conversations with the Salvation Army that protein would be an extraordinary gift, case by case basis, it is evident from our Elaine Balsom said, "SPAN would be more they would not be willing to participate especially heading into the winter months at own consultations that any organization than willing to accept wild game if the big currently, as things now stand, whereas the conclusion of the hunting season. accepting and taking responsibility for raw game regulations were to be amended. others he is sure would. game meat, that has not been government This would be another source of food for Hopefully this has addressed Minister inspected and certified, or whose handling our single parent families, and would mean Walters does personally think that this Byrne's valid concerns, and we can move conditions cannot be guaranteed, would meats in their food hampers. SPAN would program will work, but not without forward with a little more hope of a little make for a risky proposition for the be able to freeze the big game, but it would considerable caution. While he says it more food on the shelves as we head into organization to accept." have to come to us ready to distribute to would be wonderful if a young boy or girl the new year.

16 / DECEMBER 2018 / THE OVERCAST BOTTLE OF RED WINE The name Ninepenny also ties into the AT THE NLC UNDER $25 In for a community and concept of the brewery Winner: Campo Viejo Reserva Rioja best of DRINK itself. “The ‘nine’ references the town of (Spain Section) Penny CBS, as there are nine communities that JPORTREXTONBREW BREWERY IN THE PROVINCE Runner-up: Mark West Pinot Noir make up Conception Bay South, where Winner: Port Rexton (US Section) Quidi Vidi Ninepenny we're located,” says Moores. “The ‘penny’ PHOTO: Runner-up: BOTTLE OF WHITE WINE invokes images of our design scheme, NEW BREWERY THAT OPENED IN 2018 AT THE NLC UNDER $25 Dildo Brewery & Museum Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc Brewery which is rooted in the turn-of-the-century Winner: Winner: Runner-up: "The Re-Birth of Quidi Vidi" (New Zealand) industrial feel that we have been describing LOCAL CRAFT BEER, SPECIFICALLY, Runner-up: Smoking Loon Pinot Griggio opening in CBS as ‘minimalist steampunk.” Like the gone- BY NAME (US Section) but-not-forgotten Canadian penny, the Winner: Port Rexton Blue Steel Kettle Sour BOTTLE OF GIN AVAILABLE AT THE NLC BY LAUREN POWER design scheme incorporates copper, vines, Runner-up: Quidi Vidi Calm Tom IPA Winner: NL Distillery Co.'s Seaweed Gin and leaves throughout. LOCALLY BREWED CIDER Runner-up: Hendrick's As 2018 winds down, the Winner: NL Cider Company's Forager BOTTLE OF VODKA AVAILABLE Moores credits the Conception new day of craft beer Runner-up: Newfoundland Cider Company's AT THE NLC Bay South community for Scrumpy NL Distillery Co.'s Rhubarb Vodka is still dawning in the Winner: A round of Ninepenny its support since they CAFE Runner-up: Grey Goose province. It looks like the was generally announced their intention considered to be the Winner: Fixed Coffee and Baking BOTTLE OF RUM AVAILABLE next brewery to open by high quality beer of to open a microbrewery and Runner-up: Rocket Bakery AT THE NLC 2019 will be Ninepenny 19th century taproom. SPOT TO BUY COFFEE BY THE BAG Winner: NL Distillery Co.'s Gunpowder England Fixed Coffee and Baking and Rose Brewing in CBS. With very Winner: Another community that helped Runner-up: Jumping Bean Runner-up: The Kraken few renovations left, they’re just get Ninepenny of the ground is the NL PUB IN THE PROVINCE BOTTLE OF WHISKEY AVAILABLE about ready for final inspections craft beer community. “We wouldn’t have Winner: The Ship AT THE NLC before they open their doors. made it this far without help from the local Runner-up: The Duke of Duckworth Winner: Jameson's microbrewery community, especially Alicia BAR IN THE PROVINCE Runner-up: Tullamore Dew “We had independently wanted to make and Sonja of Port Rexton, who have been Winner: Merchant Tavern BOTTLE OF SCOTCH AVAILABLE a go of it, and after deliberating for some helping us since that Easter weekend of Runner-up: The Underbelly AT THE NLC time, we came together over the Easter 2017,” says Moores. BAR STAFF Winner: Auchentoshen The Ship Aberfeldy weekend in 2017 to really pull the business In the growing community of Winner: Runner-up: Runner-up: Quidi Vidi Brewery BOTTLE OF TEQUILA AVAILABLE plan together as a group of four,” says microbreweries, Ninepenny is hoping to SPOT TO GRAB A DRINK WITH A DATE AT THE NLC Dwayne Moores. add to what Newfoundland and Labrador OR FRIEND Winner: Patron Silver ORT REXTO has to offer. P N B Yellowbelly / The Underbelly L U Winner: Runner-up: E With fellow brewers Glenn Bartlett, S T Runner-up: Quidi Vidi Brewery Hornitos E E Keith Bartlett, and Justin They plan to produce beer to sell L

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a microbrewery after Adelaide Oyster House U Runner-up: R years of home brewing. as well as keg contracts “We all have different with restaurants. strengths, backgrounds, BLUE STEEL KETTLE SOUR and interests, and that’s For their initial offering, Port Rexton says your favourite local craft beer “uses Lactobacillus and orange peel to create a Ninepenny plans to have been lending itself well bright beer with light lemonade-y tartness, zesty orange character, and a refreshing finish. At 4.7% to the journey so far,” says an IPA, a white IPA, a pale this beer is well-balanced and ridiculously good looking (yes, the title is a Zoolander reference).” Moores. The mix of engineering ale, a brown ale, and a porter. know-how, project management “We describe some of our recipes as skills, and brewing fundamentals, and ‘North American ingredients brewed in a all things Newfoundland & Labrador British style’” says Moores. “We hope our have come together into the brew that is large scale recipes come out in such a way Ninepenny Brewing. that keeps to this description.”

The term Ninepenny traces back to 19th century England. “In the 1800s in Britain, beer used to be taxed by the penny/pence/ shilling,” says Moores. “This became a slang of sorts. Much the same way Check Facebook and ‘suds’ or ‘a cold one’ is used today, they Instagram (@ninepennybrew) would ask for a ‘threepence.’ A round of for hours and a grand opening Ninepenny was generally considered to be announcement. the high quality beer on offering.”

17 / DECEMBER 2018 / THE OVERCAST best of PEOPLEANDCULTURE MAGGIEATLARGE

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18 / DECEMBER 2018 / THE OVERCAST were called in for immediate repayment, whips gouging and tearing through skin and NEWFOUNDLANDIA BY CHAD BENNETT and both James and Philip were brought muscle. James, an epileptic, was lashed 14 to court in separate trials to be squeezed times before losing consciousness in a fit of for what everyone already knew they didn't convulsions. Philip endured 12 lashes, 108 have. They pleaded their case and promised rips into his body before agreeing to turn full payment at the conclusion of next fishing over his possessions, which under English The Cat-O-Nine Tails season. They lost. law included his wife’s house.

Incident That Changed Social The surrogate judges found them guilty The wives however, were not going down of contempt of court and they were without a fight. Both Sarah Lundrigan and Order in NL sentenced. The sentence was the same in Mrs. Butler refused to leave their property. both cases, something which hadn't been When constables showed up at their homes, Social change happens one of two this bloody character found its way into print seen in Newfoundland for a generation, they refused any and all orders, with Sarah ways; either a slow scraping crawl, was in 1681, during a London murder trial. not for more than 30 years: both men were going so far as to declare that if anyone We'll meet "The Cat" in a little while. as though all of human fear or greed sentenced to 36 lashes with the cat-o-nine approached her home she would "blow his tails. Many had died from far less. brains out." The surrogate judges, furious had fingernails digging into time, or Early spring in 1819 began like hundreds that any woman would openly defy them, when enough of those nails break, before, as preparations for the fishing The fishery had failed for everyone, but ordered the constables to smash in their and a sudden flash forward of free- season ramped up to a frenetic pace. And some were lucky enough to not have their doors and throw the woman out, robbing fall occurs. as was custom, both James Lundrigan of debts called in, and escaped this barbarism them of their homes. Cupids, and Philip Butler of Harbour Main thought left in the past. Two separate court Significant events can cause such a outfitted themselves for the fishing season cases with two different surrogate judges, The Lundrigans and Butlers did lose their break, and in 1819 something occurred in on credit, using their possessions and and both men were given the exact same homes, but this incident galvanized the Conception Bay which slipped the social houses as collateral. This was the normal extraordinary sentence. This was planned, reform movement, organized real political order. routine, and a safe practice which most these two men were being made an example opposition, abolished the practice of fisherman of modest means employed. It of, but why? surrogate judges, and created a system for The players in this drama are two was understood that even if a bad season granting crown land. Newfoundland-Irish fishermen, James struck, the debt would simply roll into the Newfoundland had progressed socially much Lundrigan and Philip Butler, their wives, following year. Occasionally the fishery faster than Mother England in at least one But most importantly, women's rights as Sarah Lundrigan and Mrs. Butler (her first failed after all, and it was common enough important facet, women’s rights. Women per Newfoundland custom were deeply name has been lost to history), two English that when it did happen, there was hardship, had been equals in the fishery for decades, entrenched. Far from preventing women a judges, David Buchan and John Leigh, and but no one panicked. There would always and although we were still subject to English greater role in society, as was the judges' aim, finally a cat-o-nine tails. be another season. So when the fishery of law, by Newfoundland custom, women could it would launch forward progress from this 1819 failed, James and Philip prepared for a inherit and own property even after marriage. moment on; a struggle which is still ongoing. The cat-o-nine tails was a nine tailed whip, lean winter, but never expected what was to This progression is what summoned the used most notably in England at the time by happen next. vindictive savagery from the low English Thanks to this moment in our history, if ever the Royal Navy, Army, and some extremely judges. The wives of both James and Philip a woman's rights are tread upon, we can all rare judicial punishments. It was designed The regular judges took their leave at the owned their respective family homes. say with one voice and with the strength of for severe physical punishment and extreme close of summer and returned to England, Sarah Lundrigan: "Defiance in the face of all pain. The expression "to rub salt in the leaving in their stead surrogates to preside. James Lundrigan was tied to a fish flake oppression, defiance always." wound" comes from sailors pouring salt Enter John Leigh, an Anglican priest, and at his home town of Cupids, Philip Butler water over their backs which had been David Buchan, a naval officer who, for two was bound to a fence in Harbour Main for (Based on real people and real events. chewed to ribbons by a cat-o-nine tails, in an winters, had been Acting Governor while all to see. Both were stripped to the waist. Source: As Near To Heaven By Sea by Kevin attempt to prevent infection. The first time the real one wintered in England. All debts They were lashed most brutally, the knotted Major)

19 / DECEMBER 2018 / THE OVERCAST International Bazaar special is that it provides 5 Holiday opportunities for local and multicultural food and craft vendors to sell their amazing THE ENTHUSIAST! BY LAUREN POWER Markets & products and to showcase our cultural diversity. The International Bazaar is a Craft Fairs fundraiser for good causes, including providing scholarships for girls in Northeastern Nigeria You’re Not Gonna who are victims of Boko Haram." How to Stay in the - Zainab Jerrett, President of We Care Want To Miss Foundation of Newfoundland and Read This Christmas This Month Labrador. The International In Iceland, they call this time of year Jólabókaflóðið pronounced( BY EVA CROCKER QUIDI VIDI VILLAGE Bazaar is also a “yola-boka-flod"). It's Icelandic for "Yule book flood," the annual PLANTATION CHRISTMAS fundraiser for CRAFT OPEN HOUSE release of new books, occurring in the months before Christmas. I’m an advocate of scaling victims of Boko Haram December 8th back gift giving, and focusing @ Quidi Vidi Village Plantation Thanks to Iceland’s long literary tradition (and the lasting effects of some WWII-era on spending time instead of 10am -5pm. Free Admisison rationing), giving books to each other on Christmas Eve, and then spending the night money on loved ones during the “The annual Plantation Christmas Craft Open reading, became an essential part of the Christmas tradition. holiday season. And I’m a firm believer House is a special event where Plantation artisans invite alumni as well as other local If the crunch of Christmas has got you down, set aside some time to read and call it that when it comes to gifts, a hand- craftspeople and makers to showcase their “Jólabókaflóðið.” Here in NL, we have publishing houses of various sizes and specialties drawn card or a plate of homemade work in picturesque Quidi Vidi Village. There to cover all Yule book flood needs. “The Crackie by Gary Collins is a wonderful read cookies is more special than anything will be 20+ vendors with beautiful, handcrafted for anyone who likes to curl up on a cold winter’s night with a good book,” you can pick up at the mall. products, live music, warm beverages and says Cassandra Aucoin of Flanker Press. She also recommends The treats. Visitors can expect to see – and Most Perfect Gift by Hubert Furey, a collection of short stories that All that said, one of my most favourite holiday purchase – pottery, textiles, leather “illustrate the peace, goodwill, and magic that happens at this activities is treasure hunting in the hustle and work, prints, copper tooling and special time of year.” bustle of a good craft fair. Here’s a roundup of much more.” some exciting new markets and reliably fun - Kara Lynn, Plantation Artisan. There’s also The Flanker Dictionary of Newfoundland English, craft fairs to check out this December. edited by Garry Cranford. “You can stump your family from here SOME GOOD MARKET and away with words from all across our province, unique to MERRY GEEK-MAS 2018 December 8th & 15th Newfoundland and Labrador,” says Aucoin. December 2nd @ Canon Wood Hall, @ Mazol Shrine Centre St. Thomas' Church For Christmas folklore, there is Dale Jarvis’ book, Any Mummers 10am - 5pm. Admission by donation (for the 10am - 4pm. Free Admisison (with a ’Lowed In? It’s out-of-print right now, but your local library will likely have a School Lunch Foundation) collection for local food banks at the door) copy that can spend the holidays with you. "Geekmas is an annual market dedicated to “Some Good Market is all about supporting the unique, geeky, and quirky people from local and concentrates on showcasing Pedlar Press publisher Beth Follett recommends some poetry for your long winter’s Newfoundland. We have local geeky vendors, a handmade, quality craft ... with a little yummy nights. “Oderin, poetry by Agnes Walsh is a new collection,” says Follett. “A tribute visit from Darth-Santa and the R2-D2 brothers, food added in for some good measure. The to Walsh’s mother, and, in effect, a tribute to all NL women who raised their children a canteen with snacks and homemade chili, and craftspeople of the Some Good Family are during hard times. Don’t our thoughts at Christmas turn to mothers (Mary) and our a 'blind date with a book' table. We often get passionate about what they do and it shows in own?” She also recommends Faunics, poetry by Jack Davis (Pedlar 2017). “A quiet and costumed characters come and check out the the quality of what they do. Come and see the deeply beautiful reflection on the purpose of engagement with the natural world.” event as well. It was created through the efforts best makers and don't forget to visit Fund-O- of the Sci-fi on the Rock volunteer committee, Pig with your food bank donation!” “We have a fantastic children’s book that would be perfect for Christmas Eve. It’s to help raise the funds to cover our annual - Laurie LeGrow, Organizer called A Moose Goes a-Mummering,” says Donna Francis of Breakwater Books. “It convention (March 29th-31st, 2019). As we are uses the same rhyming scheme as The Twelve Days of Christmas.” Spoiler: instead of all volunteers, no individuals personally profit, UNITY IN THE COMMUNITY CRAFT FAIR, a partridge in a pear tree, it’s Chris Moose in a Spruce Tree. Local publisher DRC has but we do bring along a Charity so they can LOCAL MARKET AND DONATION DRIVE two Christmas books for young readers. “One is The Christmas Adventures of Eldred raise funds and awareness for their cause. This December 9th the Elf, about an elf who lives in Bowring Park, but who goes to the North Pole to help year our Charity partner is the School Lunch @ Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Santa every Christmas,” says author Jean Edwards Stacey. Stacey also recommends A Foundation!” - Sara Burke, Committee Member. 10am -3:30pm. Admission by donation Newfoundland and Labrador Christmas Wish by children’s author Necie. (proceeds support Unity in the Community) “This will be a great event with amazing local CHRISTMAS MULTICULTURAL One additional-but-essential part of the Icelandic tradition of staying in to read is vendors selling art, prints, books, FOOD AND CRAFT FAIR access to good chocolate. For your enjoyment, the Newfoundland Chocolate Company knits, clothing and accessories, December 3rd recommends their Candy Cane Bark and their Candy Cane Hot Chocolate. “Both of these @ St. Augustine’s Church children and baby products, jewelry, products use rich 54% dark chocolate (not bitter at all!), infused with mint oil and topped 11:30am - 4:00pm; cosmetics and face painting provided with crushed candy cane pieces.” Merry Jólabókaflóðið! $2 admission (kids under 11 free) by Spry creations.” "What makes the St. John's - Karen Silver, organizer

20 / DECEMBER 2018 / THE OVERCAST Mavericks, making him the first Indian, in a of the remarkable story of this teenaged nation of over a billion, to get drafted giant, who was wearing size 18 shoes that to the NBA. a cobbler had stitched together, by sewing

The Edge's STJOHNSEDGE together two different pairs of shoes. From there, things didn’t pan out as many At 14, he had the projections of others thrust Satnam had hoped. The very thing that had set upon him.“The next Yao Ming.” The NBA PHOTO: him apart so far, his gargantuan frame, wanted to break into the untapped India was what hindered his future. In the NBA, market, and felt Singh could have an effect Singh space for a lumbering center was quickly similar to Yao Ming’s in China. The media disappearing, and the traditional lapped up the story. And at 14, Singh,

center was pushed into extinction who was already a seven-footer Bhamara by the small ball revolution by then, had the weight of a that followed the Golden State nation projected on his wide From One in a Warriors’ success. In an era Bhamara was shoulders. of floor-spacing, big men the first Indian in a were expendable. nation of over a billion But, Singh doesn’t check out the documentary Billion, to One consider himself a victim of to get drafted to One in a Billion is described as Singh never played a single expectations. He still maintains "the journey of Satnam Singh Bhamara of the By's minute in the NBA, instead the NBA that basketball has been his as he works to fulfill his dream of spending two years in the G-League, vehicle to a life beyond his wildest becoming the first India-born player to the NBA’s development league, where dreams, when he was growing up in be drafted into the NBA." BY ROHIT BHASKAR he averaged about 7 minutes a night in 29 a farming village without paved roads, games over two seasons, barely registering where electricity was intermittent, and St. John's Edge Centre Satnam Singh on the box score. He eventually returned to farming the only occupation. He also takes India in mid-2017, and the experience shook his role as an ambassador for basketball grew up fast. Like literally. Before him up. But a good tournament for the India seriously, and has hosted basketball clinics in he was a teenager he towered over national team in the Commonwealth Games India where thousands of youngsters turn up, most of the men in the nondescript qualifiers earlier this year, where he averaged eager to learn from his example, and follow in farming village where he was born: 14.5 points and 7.5 rebounds a game, was a those size 22 footsteps. reminder to all including himself, that if given Ballo Ke, in rural Punjab, India. playing time, he can produce. A fresh start, that’s

how Singh describes There was only one man in the village taller A move to the St. John’s Edge, and the his move to the than him – his father, Balbir Singh, who 2018-19 NBL season, represents another Edge. He maintains stood a shade over 7 feet. opportunity for the 22-year-old, 7-2, that his ultimate 295-pound center, to continue his basketball goal unwaveringly His situation also forced him to grow up early. evolution; a journey which first garnered the remains making it At 14,with no familiarity with English, he left attention of the global media when he was to the NBA. Except, his hometown of 800 on a scholarship to the barley into his teens. his perspective has IMG Academy in Florida, a renowned finishing changed slightly. school where the alumni include NBA legends One in a Billion: in addition to being the title He doesn’t want to like Kobe Bryant and Chauncey Billups. of an inspiring Netflix documentary on his be one in a billion journey from a village in India to the NBA, anymore, he wants to At 19, he was drafted late in the second the phrase also aptly captures the hysteria inspire his compatriots and round of 2015 NBA draft by the Dallas that followed Singh, as people got wind become the first among a billion.

21 / DECEMBER 2018 / THE OVERCAST LISA MOORE FILM SCENE SUPERSTAR IN NL Winner: St. John’s International Women’s Recommended Read of the Month Film Fest

MIREILLEEAGAN Runner-up: Shawn Doyle THEATRE SCENE SUPERSTAR IN NL Winner: Robert Chafe Runner-up: Ruth Lawrence the image, he discovered details that had ACTOR/ACTRESS been invisible in the tiny photo he found Matthew Winner: Greg Malone online. He describes how, in addition to his Runner-up: Gordon Pinsent Hollett’s curiosity about what motivated the event in ARTS FESTIVAL OR EVENT (NOT the photograph, these fine points led to his MUSIC-CENTRIC) fascination with it. best of The Arts Winner: St. John’s international Women’s Film Festival AGAN Album E E Album Rock reveals its artistry LL BEST THING TO EI Runner-up: Writers at Woody Point IR in much the same way as HAPPEN IN 2018 M VISUAL ARTIST IN NL Rock the photograph itself. Winner: The inclusive nature Winner: Mike Feehan Upon careful reading, of Paul Power’s play, Crippled Runner-up: Will Gill details emerge that elicit Runner-up: Book by local ART GALLERY IN THE BY OLIVIA HEANEY further inspection. On author in Canada Reads PROVINCE one of Hollett’s original (Sharon Bala, The Boat Winner: The Rooms

photographs of a sunset / NAC-CNA.CA / HOUSEOFANANSI.COM / MATTHEWHOLLETT.COM PHOTOS: People) Runner-up: Eastern Edge In Camera Lucida, in Shallow Bay, a large dot WORST THING TO VISUAL ARTS MVP IN NL Roland Barthes lays out centred below the overlaid text HAPPEN IN 2018 Winner: Mireille Eagan a theory of photography first appears to be an element of design, Winner: Non-competitive appointment to key Runner-up: Eastern Edge that differentiates “studium,” the but a closer look suggests lens flare. position at The Rooms PHOTOGRAPHER IN NL Runner-up: The Passing of Mary Pratt Winner: Tom Cochrane general study of visual images, Dave Howells Descriptions of names graffitied across LOCAL BOOK PUBLISHED IN 2018 Runner-up: from “punctum” – an element Winner: Something for Everyone (Lisa GRAPHIC DESIGNER IN NL rocky outcrops along the highways between Moore) Winner: Jud Haynes or detail within a photograph St. John’s and Ship Cove tease out the link Runner-up: The Boat People (Sharon Bala) Runner-up: Mike Feehan that unexpectedly “pierces” and between contemporary painters and the LOCAL AUTHOR CRAFTSPERSON SELLING THEIR STUFF 19th-century sailors in “Album Rock.” “bruises” the viewer. Winner: Lisa Moore AT STORES & FAIRS Runner-up: Michael Crummey Winner: Megan Jackman (Ragmaw In addition to such poetics of word and The punctum is that part of the image that LOCAL PLAY OR FILM, 2018 Handbangs) “rises from the scene” – “shoots out of it like image, Hollett offers a deft analysis of Winner: Between Breaths (Play) Runner-up: Erin Callahan St. John (Saucy an arrow,” infusing it with meaning while scale, colour, perspective, and light in Runner-up: An Audience of Chairs (Film) Pots Pottery) holding the viewer’s gaze. the “Album Rock” photograph. Without COMIC / FUNNY PERSON DANCE SCENE SUPERSTAR becoming too self-aware, he explores Winner: Vicky Mulalley Winner: Lynn Panting HAFE Album Rock tells the story of how the photographer’s struggle to T C Runner-up: Matt Wright Runner-up: Louise ER B O a photograph made by a French capture the natural world, LOCAL COMEDY EVENT Moyes / Heidi R sailor in the mid-1800s so as well as the challenges Winner: Jokes at John’s (Thursdays at Dowden pierced writer and visual artist of historical and artistic Trapper John’s) Matthew Hollett, that he began research. Runner-up: Almost Baymous (by a years-long research pursuit. HalfHandsome Productions) He writes that “[l]ike the Part travel narrative, part art paper fibres that gleam history, Album Rock combines from [his] macro photos,” his creative non-fiction, poetry, and “research into ‘Album Rock’ is a photography as it traces Hollett’s attempt mishmash of little loose ends.” to learn as much as possible about Paul- Émile Miot’s “Rocherpeint par les marins Hollett also problematizes the colonial français,” or what he calls “Album Rock” gaze of Miot’s photography, inextricable – a photograph of French sailors playfully from the “Album Rock” image itself. “By painting the word “Album” in white, five- inscribing whiteness on the landscape, foot-tall letters on a large rock in Ship Cove a whiteness that lingers 160 years later,” somewhere between 1852 and 1859. Hollett writes, “‘Album Rock’ exemplifies the power of naming, of written language as Hollett first stumbled across the photo a means of asserting ownership.” while scrolling through the website of the Corner Brook Museum & Archives. Album Rock is one of the most piercing local After obtaining a high-resolution scan of books of the year.

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