ARTS NEWS THE FREDERICTON ARTS ALLIANCE Serving the Arts in the Fredericton Region March 3, 2005, Volume 5, Issue 9 In This Issue 1. Belly Dancing In Fredericton 2. Music On The Hill Series Presents 20th Century Greats 3. Royden’s Memories, Mirage Exhibitions Open in Playhouse Galleries 4. Odd Sunday At Molly’s To Feature Poet Hugh Thomas 5. Christ Church Choral Evensong On March 6 6. Coming Up At The Monday Night Film Series 7. Gallery 78 Presents Young At Art 8. Three Exhibitions Opening At Gallery 78 9. Soprano Kate Rogers To Join Andiamo In March 11 Concert 10. Music On The Hill Reschedules Music to the Dance 11. Music On The Hill Series Presents Susanne Yi-Jia Hou, Violin And Robert Koenig, Piano 12. Call For Submissions: Studio Watch: Emerging Artist Series 13. Medium Blend at the UNB Art Centre 14. Public Reading At UNBF By Dave Cameron and Zachariah Wells 15. Community Events At The Beaverbrook Art Gallery 16. Coming Up At The Fredericton Playhouse 17. The Maritime Writers’ Workshop Announces the 30th Birthday Edition! Reviews The Crucible The Black Box, February 23-26 Theatre Saint Thomas By Russ Hunt The End of Civilization Memorial Hall, February 23-26 Theatre UNB / NYR COSTLEE Productions by Russ Hunt Galleries At A Glance 1. Belly Dancing In Fredericton Beginner classes in Middle Eastern Dance (belly dance) start Sunday, February 27 upstairs from the Victory Meat Market on King St. in theWu T'ai Chi Academy. Classes run for six weeks, and go from 3:30-5:00. Classes will be taught by Lynsey Welling, Kathryn Assaff,and Shantell Powell, and are $60 for six weeks, or $12 per class. There will be no class on Easter weekend. Intermediate/Advanced classes begin Sunday, February 27 at the samelocation. Classes run from 1:30- 3:00. Classes are taught by ShantellPowell and are $60 for six weeks, or $12 per class For more information, contact Shantell at [email protected] or 455-7426, or Kathryn at 454-1049. On March 21, a multicultural fair will be held at the Boyce Farmers' Market. Admission is free, and performers from all around the world will be in attendance. 2. Music On The Hill Series Presents 20th Century Greats Thursday, March 3, 2005, 8 pm- Memorial Hall, UNB Join pianist Peter Allen as he takes us on a tour through some of the greatest music of the 20th century, 2 including works by Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Mussorgsky and Michael Miller. Admission is $20/adults, $18/seniors and $6/students. Tickets are available at the door. For more information, please call 453-4697 or email [email protected] 3. Royden’s Memories, Mirage Exhibitions Open in Playhouse Galleries March 4 – 31 Royden’s Memories Michael J. McEwing's latest body of artwork, Royden's Memories, will be showing at the Fredericton Playhouse, West Gallery. Royden's Memories is a series of large conté drawings based on a collection of old black & white photographs belonging to the artist's grandfather, Royden D. Morgan [1903-1999]. These drawings celebrate memories of New Brunswick life during the Depression era. There will be an informal opening reception on Friday, March 4 from 7 to 9 pm in the West Gallery of the Playhouse. All are welcome to attend. For more information, please call 459-3964 or visit the website, www.mcewing.ca. MIRAGE Photography Exhibition by Moncton Artist Maurice Henri "Every artists was first an amateur." - Ralph Waldo Emerson While choosing isolation to try to create this project, I wanted to avoid the constraint order of professional practices and revisit the excitement of photography as "an amateur". The word "amateur" draws from the Latin saying "for the love of". I love photography and I am fascinated by the landscape, rural and urban. My desire is to specialize in the photography of nature in it's purest of simplicity. The insulated and expressive impact of nature attracts me. For this exhibit, I worked in 24x36 for its handiness, transparency film (ISO 100) for it's pin-point exposure accuracy, vibrancy, colour rendition and fine grain. I combine under-exposure to modify contrasts of colour, wide-angle lenses to accentuate the dynamics of the creeping distances and telephoto lenses to crush the plans of perspective, multiple exposures to mimic the impressionistic serenity of a painting and finally, movement combined with shutter speeds to marry the merging of lines and tones. 4. Odd Sunday At Molly’s To Feature Poet Hugh Thomas Poetry reading: Hugh Thomas featured at Odd Sundays at Molly’s, Fredericton’s longest running semimonthly poetry reading series. (We’re so sharp we are licensed.) 1st Sunday of the month, March 6, 2005, 2 pm Molly’s Coffee House 554 Queen Street, Fredericton Featured reader, Hugh Thomas, grew up in Winnipeg, and then got a few degrees in math, a subject he now teaches at UNB. His poems have appeared in Queen Street Quarterly, This Magazine, fhole, and Chiaroscuro; as well as in broadsheet with red iron press. Book Thug published his chapbook, Mutations, in December 2004. Sometimes dark, always entertaining, Thomas draws on a quirky brilliance to make intelligent, crisp poetry. Open Set: Bring lyrics, drama, fiction, or music, to present in the open set. If it is created from words, we want it. Prize: a beer and instant fame will be awarded to the open set player who has the quirkiest piece. Join us at 2 pm on March 6, at Molly’s Coffee House, for an afternoon engaged with the literary arts. For information: [email protected] or 459-1436. New Brunswick: Canada’s poetry province! 3 5. Christ Church Choral Evensong On March 6 Christ Church Cathedral will hold a service of Choral Evensong on Sunday March 6 at 4 pm. The Cathedral Choir, directed by Michael Capon, will sing music by Gibbons, Shephard, and Paul Murray. Visitors most welcome. For more information, call the Cathedral office at 450-8500 or visit http://www.christchurchcathedral.com . The Cathedral is at the corner of Church and Brunswick streets. 6. Coming Up At The Monday Night Film Series Mar 7, 2005 A Very Long Engagement France, 134 min French w/English subtitles http://wip.warnerbros.com/avle/ Five desperate men shoot themselves in order to be relieved from the horrifying frontline at the Somme, in WWI. A court-martial decides to punish them by leaving them alone in no-man's land, to be killed in the crossfire. Then all hell breaks loose and they all die. Or not? One of these men's fiancée, a young girl who can't walk since age 3, receives information that makes her suspect his boyfriend might have gotten away alive. So she embarks in a painful, long and often frustrating ordeal to find out the truth. Tickets and memberships for the Monday Night Film Series are available at the door, Tilley Hall, Room 102. Regular admission is $7 per screening, $3 for members. Regular half-year memberships are available for $20; students, seniors and NB Film Co-op members for $12. If you are interested in becoming a Film Series Member call: 455-1632 or email: [email protected] Check out the new Monday Night Film Series website at: www.nbfilmcoop.com/FS.htm 7. Gallery 78 Presents Young At Art …or why viewing a work of art is like choosing a pizza Thursday , March 10, 5 - 7 pm. An introduction and initiation for young professionals, (between the ages of 20 and 40), into art appreciation and collecting. (ID 's will not be checked at the door) Unfortunately, art galleries can be intimidating places for many people, old and young alike. In this brief informal introduction to Atlantic Canadian art, Gallery 78 aims to make a gallery visit as comfortable and enjoyable as a visit to the local pizzeria or pub. All who are young at heart are welcome to attend. Sponsored by Picaroons Traditional Ales, Greco Pizza, Pizza Hut, Jack’s Pizza and Pizza Delight 8. Three Exhibitions Opening At Gallery 78 March 11 - April 2 Opening: Friday, March 11, 5 - 7 pm. Award Presentation: March 18, 5:30 pm. Alexandrya Eaton - Fresh Fruit and Flowers Anna Torma / Istvan Zsako - Textile Drawings and Bronze Idols Hawkes Juried Silver Award Alexandrya Eaton - Fresh Fruit and Flowers What better way to speed up the thaw than with these sizzling hot new artworks by Fredericton's own Alexandrya Eaton. Whether she is working in acrylic, oil or watercolour, this artist's work is always fresh, sophisticated, gloriously colourful and life affirming. In this exhibition of vibrant acrylic paintings, she is expanding on her traditional floral still life subject matter with the introduction of fruit. Anna Torma / Istvan Zsako - Textile Drawings and Bronze Idols Zsako and Torma are husband and wife artists originally from Hungary with extensive international reputations now residing in Baie Verte, New Brunswick. Torma is well known for her colourful large scale 4 hand embroidered wall hangings. Influenced by primitive, outsider and children's art, they have strong narrative content, often including text and figurative elements. The artist is fascinated with the challenge of introducing contemporary meaning into the age old and labour intensive technique of hand embroidery and enjoys the combination of cultural tradition with issues from contemporary art practice. Istvan Zsako’s figures are modern time idols, playful variations of sexuality and love. He casts his surrealistic, playful figures from bronze, first forming small figures from wax, and then making enlargements in plaster. Each piece is individually patinated or painted to make it unique. They range in size from a few inches to almost seven feet tall.