F.A.A. ARTS NEWS THE FREDERICTON ARTS ALLIANCE Serving the Arts in the Fredericton Region April 1, 2004, Volume 4, Issue 13 In This Issue 1. FAA News – Fredericton ArtsVote 2004 2. Theatre UNB Presents Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage And Her Children 3. Musician And Drummer To Team Up With Fredericton Artist 4. Kimono Opening At NBCCD 5. Brigid Toole Grant Exhibition To Open At Gallery 78 6. Lisa Kokin Exhibition And Artist Talk At Gallery Connexion 7. LASS Night 2004 Coming Up April 2 8. UNB Writer-In-Residence To Give Farewell Reading 9. Music For Holy Week At Christ Church 10. Tim Blackmore - St Croix Celebrations Concert - 1604-2004 11. Theatre St. Thomas And Gallery 78 To Present “78” 12. J.P.Cormier Joins Symphony New Brunswick 13. UNB Centre For Musical Arts To Give Final Performance Of Season 14. Leo Furey’s Book Signing At MacPhail’s Tap Room 15. TNB Theatre School Presents Hit Musical Chicago 16. Coming Up At The Fredericton Playhouse 17. Calithumpians Auditions 18. Three Generations Concert With Pianist Ludmila Knezkova-Hussey To Take Place In Bathurst 19. Dinner Concert At St Andrew’s Rossmount Inn 20. Le Trio De Guitares De Montréal At Théâtre du Centre communautaire 21. Lineup Announced For 2004 Excellence Awards Gala Celebration Notices Previews Symphony New Brunswick Joined by J.P.Cormier on April 6th Reviews The Blue Orphan (The Playhouse, March 26) Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton Galleries At A Glance 1. FAA News – Fredericton ArtsVote 2004 Mayoral Candidates’ Cultural Forum The municipal election is just around the corner. Mark Tuesday, April 27th on your calendar when the Fredericton Arts Alliance will host a community forum on arts and culture with mayoral candidates Les Hull and Joel Richardson. The forum will take place at the Monsignor Boyd Centre, 120 Regent Street from 7 – 9 pm. Please take a few minutes and answer the questions on the Arts News Election Special sent out on Wednesday, March 31st. Your participation and vote will help to ensure we have an arts friendly government! For more information call the Fredericton Arts Alliance at 443-9900. 2. Theatre UNB Presents Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage And Her Children March 31-April 3 Theatre UNB takes audiences into the chaotic and disturbing world of war with its final production of the 2003-04 season, Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, which will be performed March 31-April 3 at Memorial Hall on the UNB campus. Written on the eve of the Second World War and produced countless times since then, Brecht's play, widely acknowledged as one of the most important and influential works of the twentieth-century theatre, centres on the hardships and dilemmas experienced by one woman as she struggles to survive the Thirty Years' War, a religious conflict that devastated Europe in the seventeenth century. Anna Fierling, nicknamed Mother Courage, follows the war in her canteen wagon, selling provisions to both sides. Over the course of the play, her close proximity to the conflict, along with her enthusiasm for making a profit from it, spells doom for her three children, who are taken from her one by one, despite her attempts to keep them safely insulated from the fighting. In dramatizing the difficult choices Mother Courage must make between helping others and maintaining her livelihood, the play probes the connections between war, economics, and greed, and questions whether the world we live in is more amenable to selflessness or self-interest. Directed by UNB Director of Drama Len Falkenstein, Theatre UNB’s Mother Courage combines Brecht's political and social commentary with comedy, exuberant music and song, and moments of haunting imagery and staging inspired by Francisco Goya's famed series of etchings The Disasters of War. Mother Courage and Her Children will be performed nightly at 8 pm. Tickets ($6 students, $8 regular) will be available at the door, beginning at 7:30. For more information, call 447-3078 or e-mail [email protected] 3. Musicians And Drummer To Team Up With Fredericton Artist Israel Okeafor an accomplished Ghanaian musician will be in Fredericton from March 31 – April 3, 2004. In partnership with Fredericton artist and drummer Carlos Gomes, Israel will be conducting two public workshops. These workshops are open to beginner hand-drummers as well as to experienced musicians. Bring your own djembe, ashiko, doumbek, congas or bongos. A limited number of extra drums will be available for a small rental fee. Admission to the workshops will be $15 for one workshop or $25 for both. The first workshop will be held on Thursday evening April 1st, 2004 from 7 to 9 pm in the Conference room at Holy Cross House at Saint Thomas University. The second workshop will be held on Friday evening April 2nd, 2004 from 7 to 9 pm in the Tartan Room located in Memorial Hall (the UNB Art gallery). For further information on Israel and his music, please visit www.cdbaby.com/cd/Israel Israel's visit is being supported by the Fredericton Arts and Heritage program, the Amargi Whole Family Centre, UNB, STU, and the Fredericton drumming cooperative. Contact Carlos Gomes at 455-0413 or Doug Rigaux at 472-2758 for more information. 4. Kimono Opening At NBCCD New Brunswick College of Craft and Design's Gallery Downstairs will be exhibiting recent work by 2nd year Surface Design students in an exhibition entitled KIMONO. The opening is Friday, April 2nd, 6-8 pm. The show continues until April 19th. 5. Brigid Toole Grant Exhibition To Open At Gallery 78 Welcome the onset of spring with Either Side of the Window, an exhibition of new watercolours and oils by Fredericton artist, Brigid Toole Grant. Opening reception on Friday, April 2nd from 5 – 7 pm. Exhibition remains until April 25th. Featured Acadian artist - Raymond Martin For information call 454-5192. 6. Lisa Kokin Exhibition And Artist Talk At Gallery Connexion Lisa Kokin, San Francisco based installation artist, returns for the 20th Anniversary year of Gallery Connexion with her exhibition, Secondhand Memories: Sewn Found Photographs. The exhibition opens Friday April 2nd from 7 - 9 pm, and runs until May 6th, 2004. Lisa Kokin will be giving an artist talk on her work on Wednesday, April 7th at 7 pm. Her work in mixed media installation, artist's books and sculpture is about memory and history, both personal and collective. Her work has been in numerous solo and group shows in the United States and abroad. A recipient of a California Arts Council Individual Artist's Fellowship and Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker foundation, Ms. Kokin is represented by The Catherine Clark Gallery in San Francisco. This exhibition marks her second visit to Gallery Connexion. 7. LASS Night 2004 Coming Up April 2 The UNB Latin American and Spanish Society (LASS) will hold its annual Latin Night on April 2nd at the SUB Ballroom. Doors open at 6:30 pm and tickets are only $13 for adults (in advance) and $15 at the door. For children, tickets are only $8 in advance and $13 at the door. A Latin dinner with plenty of choices will be served. The show will have a wide variety of performances, including dances, singing, poetry, comedy and much more. Participants are asked to keep their tickets since prizes will be awarded. Tickets are going fast but are still available at Mazzucas, the Friendship Convenience Store and from any of the LASS executive. You could also e-mail [email protected] and ticket arrangements will be made. Source: UNB E-News 8. UNB Writer-In-Residence To Give Farewell Reading Ken McGoogan, UNB's current writer-in-residence, will read from his work on Saturday, April 3rd. He will be accompanied by Joel Katelnikoff and Barbara Romanik, MA candidates in creative writing at UNBF. The reading which is free of charge and open to the public, will be held at 4 pm at MacPhail's Tap Room, 366 Queen St., Fredericton. An award-winning author and journalist, Mr. McGoogan will read from Ancient Mariner, his second work of creative non-fiction. Fatal Passage, a Canadian bestseller, won three awards including the Writers' Trust Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize. The author of four novels, Mr. McGoogan has also worked as a journalist at three major Canadian dailies. The reading and the writer-in-residence program are sponsored by UNB, the UNBF department of English, the Canada Council for the Arts and the New Brunswick Arts Board. For more information, please contact Edith Snook at 506-458- 7397. Source: UNBF e-news 9. Music For Holy Week At Christ Church Christ Church (Parish) Church Senior Choir will present their annual Palm Sunday concert on April 4th at 7:00 pm. This year’s featured work will be Faure’s Requiem, sung in the original Latin. The choir, augmented by our many “friends”, will also sing The Kontakion by Vancouver composer Rubert Lang. The words to this moving composition are from the Eastern Orthodox burial service “Give rest unto your servant with your saints O Lord”. Dianne Wilkins, director of the acclaimed Fredericton Schoolgirl Choir, will direct the choir. Bass soloist will be David Perritt. The concert includes organ solos inspired by biblical themes played by Peter Waterhouse and Stephanie Burgoyne. The music is by JS Bach, D. Locklair and O. Messiaen. 10. Tim Blackmore - St Croix Celebrations Concert - 1604-2004 Tim Blackmore will be performing at Gallery 78 in Fredericton, Sunday April 4th, 2-4 pm. Included will be selections from his latest CD, a recording of keyboard works by the English composer William Byrd (1540-1623), as well as works by other composers of the period such as Frescobaldi, Sweelinck, Froberger and others.