CYBER EVENTS CALENDAR Issued Weekly by the Cultural Affairs Office, City of Saint John
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CYBER EVENTS CALENDAR Issued weekly by the Cultural Affairs Office, City of Saint John Here's what's happening in the greater Saint John area in the next ten days. Add your event online at www.saintjohn.ca/events ‐ DEC 06 – DEC 16, 2012 ‐ Know someone who might enjoy receiving this calendar? Ask them to subscribe by sending us an e‐mail at [email protected] View a longer range calendar at www.saintjohn.ca/events Until Dec 22 EXHIBITION: PAINTINGS BY RUTH SULLIVAN. Library Milllennium Artplace, 1 Market Square. "Off the Tip of My Brush", an exhibition of watercolour paintings by Ruth Sullivan. Exhibition continues until December 22. Open for viewing during regular Library hours. (506) 649‐6040. Until Dec 31 I KNOW YOU BY HEART: PORTRAIT MINIATURES. New Brunswick Museum, 1 Market Square. 9:00 am‐5:00 pm. Until 31 Dec 2012. The NBM is honored to be first to host this travelling exhibition, I Know You by Heart: Portrait Miniatures, organized and circulated by Library and Archives Canada (LAC). This exhibition features 35 miniatures, an oil painting loaned by the Musée national des beaux‐arts du Québec, and a five‐minute bilingual video. The exhibition showcases portraits with fascinating stories, notably that of Alice Walker, the portrait around which LAC built the branding for the exhibition, and of Demasduit, the only known portrait of a Beothuk person created from life. The NBM collection includes over 100 portrait miniatures dating from the mid‐18th century to the 1920s. The small selection of miniatures from the New Brunswick Museum collection chosen to accompany the LAC exhibition, I Know You by Heart: Portrait Miniatures, are works painted in the province, show New Brunswick citizens or were executed by New Brunswick artists. The display also includes archival material that relates directly to the sitters or artists of these portrait miniatures. (506) 643‐2300 or 1‐888‐268‐9595 www.nbm‐ mnb.ca **Temporary Exhibition Dates subject to change.** Contact Phone: (506) 643‐2300 Until Dec 31 TRIBUTARIES: DARREN EMENAU. New Brunswick Museum, 1 Market Square. 9:00 am‐5:00 pm. Until 31 Dec 2012. Part of the New Brunswick Museum’s Know Your Own Artist series, Tributaries celebrates the art of Darren Emenau. Darren Emenau, ceramist and sculptor, lives and works along a tributary of New Brunswick’s primary watercourse, the St. John River, and he scours the local landscape for both inspiration and raw materials. Among the exhibition’s components are several examples of the bricks scavenged from the shoreline. They can be appreciated as objets trouvés, or found art, worthy of aesthetic consideration. His suite, Resurfaced, contains bricks that have been enhanced with a wide variety of glazes and then re‐ fired. Emenau has also manufactured some of his own brick forms. Another work, Freshet, is an assemblage of natural elements – branches, twigs, dried leaves and straw – combined with carefully crafted ceramic cylinders or tubes with highly textured glazes. It celebrates the processes inherent in the annual flooding of the St. John River. The New Brunswick Museum is proud to recognize and support the creativity, diversity and quality of contemporary New Brunswick visual art through the Know Your Own Artists series. (506) 643‐2300 or 1‐888‐268‐9595 www.nbm‐ mnb.ca **Temporary Exhibition Dates subject to change.** Contact Phone: (506) 643‐2300 Until Jan 04 HERZL KASHETSKY ‐ SOLO EXHIBITION. City of Saint John Gallery, 20 Hazen Avenue. Tue‐Sat, 9 am‐5 pm. The exhibition "A Thousand Words are Worth a Picture" featuring word drawings/paintings by prominent Saint John artist and Strathbutler Award recipient, Herzl Kashetsky. This is the first time in over 30 years that an exhibition of calligraphic works has been exhibited by Herzl Kashetsky. Show continues through January 4th, 2013. Don't miss this amazing show! Note: Gallery will be closed Sat, Dec 21 thru Tue, Jan 02 for the Holidays. Until Jan 04 EXHIBITIONS: SAINT JOHN ARTS CENTRE. Saint John Arts Centre, 20 Hazen Avenue. Viewing Hours: Tue‐Sat, 9 am‐5 pm. Featured exhibits are a traveling show of works by New Brunswick children from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, photographs by Stephanie Gardner, and two shows of works by resident talent, fiber arts by our Carnegie Rughookers and drawings by students in our Life Drawing class. The City Gallery also presents an exhibit by Herzl Kashetsky entitled "A Thousand Words are Worth a Picture." For more information, please call us at (506) 633‐4870 or visit us online: www.saintjohnartscentre.com Note: The Centre will be closed Sat, Dec 21 thru Tue, Jan 02 for the Holidays. Contact Phone: (506) 633‐4870 Until Jan 22 SAINTS, SOULS & STARS EXHIBIT. The New Artisan Studio, 87 Germain Street. Featuring: Fabric artist Sandra Betts, sculptress Karen Knight, photographer Bill Lapp, and artist Nina Elyse Savoie. Show continues through Jan 22, 2013. http://www.newartisanstudio.com/ Contact Phone: (506) 646‐0655 Dec PROGRAMS FOR ADULTS ‐ EAST BRANCH LIBRARY. East Branch Library, 545 Westmorland Road. Seniors’ Cafe Wed., Dec. 19th: 10:30 am. Refreshments provided at our casual conversational hour. Cookies & Hot Cocoa Hour on Fri., Dec. 14th: 2:30 pm. Just because! Free Classic Movie Night: Free popcorn and pop! Curtain rises on Tues., Dec. 18th: 6:30 pm. Girls Night Out View a Chick Flick on Wed., Dec. 12th: 6:30 pm. We bring the popcorn and pop; Bring your friends! Collecting Toys & Treats for our four‐legged friends at the SPCA. Please donate to help provide a better Christmas for our furry friends! Graphic Novel Club will meet on Sat., Dec. 15th at 11 am. Selection is Captain America: Winter Soldier Vol 1‐2 by Ed Brubaker. Artist of the month: Lana Langille‐Doucette will display her picturesque winter scenes for viewing. Computer tutorials Basic computer tutorials are offered at the library. Pre‐ registration required. Computer fundamentals, Basic Internet Searching, Facebook and Kijiji for Beginners, Microsoft Office Basics, Creating Free Email Accounts and Learning How to Search the Library’s Catalogue are among our popular sessions. Seasonal Draw Enter your ballot for a chance to win a wonderful holiday gift. Enter each time you visit the library. Drop in to view our lovely mural of the month which will be “Snowy Seasonal Fun”. Contact Phone: 506‐643‐7250 Dec UPTOWN'S MAGICAL GINGERBREAD TRAIL. Various Uptown Businesses. Uptown Saint John presents The Gingerbread Trail, a new, sweet fundraising event whereby participating uptown businesses will create and display gingerbread houses (or other designs) to be raffled off the weekend before Christmas. The event is intended to welcome the public to stroll through Saint John’s charming city streets and stop at the participating shops. Proceeds from the raffle will go to the kids at The Joshua Group and Gala Ballet Productions, a non‐profit organization that stages The Nutcracker at Imperial Theatre each December. Beginning November 30, Gingerbread Creations will be on display at 21 shops and businesses along the Gingerbread Trail in uptown Saint John with raffle tickets on the gingerbread creations available until draw time on December 22, 2012. (Tickets are $2 each or 3 for $5). A map showing the locations of the creations will be distributed by local businesses and is available online at www.uptownsj.com and http://blog.crosbys.com/ In early December photos of each creation will also be posted to the Crosby’s blog. Cash prizes, sponsored by Crosby Molasses Co. Ltd., will be awarded to best Gingerbread Creations on the trail. Contact Phone: (506) 633‐ 9797 Dec PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN: CENTRAL LIBRARY. Saint John Free Public Library, 1 Market Square. Programs for children and families in December at the Central Library in Market Square: PRESCHOOL STORYTIME: Wednesdays and Saturdays from 10:30‐11 am. Theme‐ based stories, songs, fingerplays, and lots of crayons too! For children ages 3‐5. Younger children are welcome with an adult. **PLEASE NOTE** The last storytime of the year will be on Saturday, December 22. Storytimes will resume on Wednesday, January 9, 2013. TODDLER TIME: (continuing from November). Thursdays, December 6 and 13 at 6:30 pm. If you are between 18 and 36 months old, bring your favourite adult for 30 minutes of fingerplays, rhymes, songs, and stories. Please pre‐register by calling 643‐7239. HACKMATACK BOOK CLUB: This book club for strong readers in grades 4, 5, and 6 will have it's next meeting on Friday, December 14th at 3:45pm. Please call 643‐ 7239 for details or to register for the club. FAMILY DROP‐IN: Children and their parents/caregivers can enjoy books and activity sheets based on a theme that changes weekly. Available anytime the library is open. CHESS: Every Saturday afternoon at 2 pm. All ages and skill levels meet in the Teen Zone. **PLEASE NOTE** The last meeting of the chess club for this year will be on December 15th. Chess will resume on January 12th, 2013. Contact Phone: 506‐643‐7239 Dec 06 & 07 BEHIND THE SCENES. New Brunswick Museum, 1 Market Square. 1:00‐3:00 pm. Behind the Scenes: Conservation of Miller Brittain's mural drawings for the Saint John Tuberculosis Hospital (1941‐1942). Until December 2012, visitors at the NBM can go behind the scenes with NBM post‐graduate paper conservation intern, Jeanne Beaudry Tardif. Jeanne continues the NBM conservation of Canadian artist Miller Brittain’s larger than life chalk drawings, removing decades‐old tape inch by inch and making repairs using stable materials. The sketches, made for a proposed mural for the walls of the Saint John Tuberculosis Hospital in 1941‐1942, depict people suffering from tuberculosis, the treatments of the time and the hope for a cure.