ARTSnews SERVING THE ARTS IN THE FREDERICTON REGION April 14, 2016 Volume 17, Issue 15 In this issue *Click the “Back to top” link after each notice to return to “In This Issue”. Upcoming Events 1. Fredericton Mayoral Candidates to Debate the Arts at the FAA’s Public Forum Apr 19 2. Tickets on Sale Now: The Capital Complex presents Radio Radio Live Jun 3 3. UNB Art Centre presents Supplemental Events related to Pieces of the Past Exhibition Apr 7 – May 7 4. NBCCD’s Annual Jewellery & Metal Arts Exhibition: Sterling Apr 8-May 27 5. Final Qwerty Reads Event at Wilser’s Room Apr 14 6. Music Runs Through It presents Jared Lutes at Corked Wine Bar Apr 14 7. The George Fry Gallery opens GeneratioN Apr 14 8. Out of Bounds Opening Reception in The Charlotte Glencross Gallery Apr 15 9. Silk Perception Opening Reception in the Penny Gallery at the CSAC Apr 15 10. World premiere Tour of Sleeping Beauty Ballet visits The Playhouse Apr 15 11. NBCCD 18th Annual Fashion Show at the Fredericton Convention Centre Apr 16 12. The Fredericton Concert & Marching Band presents Spring Concert: Spirit of the Olympics Apr 16 13. Cineplex’s Met Opera Live presents Donizetti's Roberto Devereux Apr 16 14. Clip!: A Clown Show for the Entire Family at the CCSA Apr 17 15. Music on the Hill Children’s Series presents Bedtime Stories Apr 17 16. odd sundays at Corked Wine Bar featuring Corrine Wasilewski & Chuck Bowie Apr 17 17. 69th Annual Fredericton Music Festival Apr 18-28 18. NB Film Co-op's Monday Night Film Series presents The Legend of Barney Thomson Apr 18 19. Parisian Chamber Choir Soli-Tutti at Wilmot United Apr 20 20. The NB Film Co-Op Celebrates National Canadian Film Day Apr 20 21. Passes Available for Flourish Festival 2016 Apr 21-24 22. Classic Albums Live performs Creedance Clearwater Revival: Chronicle at The Playhouse Apr 22 23. Saints & SInners Burlesque presents A Little Broadway/A Little Burlesque Apr 22 & 23 24. Collectif9 performs Classical Music with the Power of Rock Concert at The Playhouse Apr 23 25. Cineplex’s National Theatre Live presents Shakespeare’s Hamlet Apr 23 26. Live Stand-Up Comedy presents Jon Forward & Friends Apr 23 27. Charlotte Street Art Centre Community Meeting Apr 25 28. Centre JMC-Fredericton presents Roméo and Juliette Apr 26 29. Spotlight Series Presents 6 Guitars at The Playhouse Apr 27 30. Entertain to Sustain: An Evening in Support of the Gaia Project Apr 28 31. I Set My Friends On Fire with Dumpster Mummy All Ages Show at the Kinsmen Centre Apr 28 32. Zita Cobb Lecture & Film Screening of Strange & Familiar at the Fredericton Playhouse Apr 29 33. Cineplex’s Met Opera Live presents Strauss’ Elektra Apr 30 34. We are Characters Incorporated Fundraising Campaign 35. Fredericton Playhouse 2016-2017 Kidstage Series features Three Captivating Performances 36. Theatre New Brunswick Name their New Venue: Open Space Theatre Workshops | Classes | Art Camps 1. Upcoming Art Classes with Kathy Tidswell 2. One Day Rug Hooking Course Apr 16 3. Coptic Bookbinding Workshop with Denise Rowe Apr 16 4. UNB’s College of Extended Learning’s Leisure Learning Courses 5. edVentures Fredericton Summer Workshops 6. MacLean School for Early Childhood at the CSAC ARTSnews April 14, 2016 2 Volume 17, Issue 15 Auditions | Call for Artist Submissions & Awards 1. Nominations sought for The Playhouse Honours 2016 2. NotaBle Acts Theatre Company’s Fifteenth Annual Province-Wide Playwriting Competition 3. Call for Submissions: To-kĕn Digital Gallery 4. NB Crafts Council Spring Jury 5. Studio Space for Rent at Studio4ward For arts and culture events in other areas of NB visit ArtsLinkNB: Click Here ARTSnews April 14, 2016 3 Volume 17, Issue 15 1. Fredericton Mayoral Candidates to Debate the Arts at the FAA’s Public Forum Apr 19 The arts, in all their rich variety, form an important part of the Fredericton community and of its economy. The city’s government has a significant role to play in encouraging and supporting the arts in the city: music, writing, dance, visual arts, drama, film, and rich combinations of all of them. That’s why the Fredericton Arts Alliance has organized a public forum at which the candidates for mayor are invited to present their views and answer questions. The forum will take place on Tuesday, April 19 from 7 to 10pm in the Charlotte Street Arts Centre Auditorium. The city’s official culture plan, approved in July 2014, has five objectives: 1. Highlight the value of culture to the social and economic fabric of Fredericton; 2. Motivate the City and its stakeholders to a plan of action; 3. Set a framework of goals and specific actions for the City that unlock organizational, individual, and financial capital; 4. Guide civic decision-makers and cultural stakeholders in operational changes and investments, and link cultural initiatives to wider City planning; 5. Improve the lives of Frederictonians Where do the candidates stand on achieving those objectives? Susanne Alexander, the publisher of Goose Lane Editions will moderate the discussion. Both candidates, Mayor Brad Woodside and Councillor Mike O’Brien have confirmed their intention to participate. Light refreshments will follow the forum. For more information contact Katie FitzRandolph, President, Fredericton Arts Alliance at 478-8045 or [email protected]. Back to top. 2. Tickets on Sale Now: The Capital Complex presents Radio Radio Live Jun 3 The Capital Complex is pleased to announce Radio Radio live at The Capital on Friday, June 3 as they tour their new album, Light The Sky. Since their first releases Télé Télé EP (2007) and Cliché Hot (2008), New Brunswick’s Gabriel Louis Bernard Malenfant and Nova Scotia’s Jacques Alphonse Doucet have impressed journalists and the public alike with their catchy hip-hop/electro-flavored hooks. Their second album Belmundo Regal was short-listed for the 2010 Polaris Music Prize and the duo won a slew of other awards such as an Independent Music Award for Rap/Hip Hop Album (2011), a Miroir for Best Hip-Hop/Urban Performance at the Festival d'été de Québec, a Révélation Musique 2010-2011 Radio-Canada title, as well as a Félix for Hip-Hop Album of the Year for their third full-length, Havre de Grâce (2012). Having grown up in an environment where Anglophones rub shoulders with Francophones on a daily basis, the Acadian duo then offered their first album entirely in English Light the Sky in February 2016 which they are currently touring across Canada. The music on this latest album was produced by Shash’U, DJ Champion, J.u.D. and Alex McMahon. Over the past few years, Radio Radio have become a must-see act, having performed at several top notch music festivals including, FrancoFolies de Montréal, the Festival d'été de Québec, the Festival International de Louisiane, SXSW, and the CMJ Music Marathon, including several festivals in France and Belgium. Tickets are on sale now, and are $20 Incl HST and fees, or $25 at the door. Use promo code: DANCEFLOOR and save $3 online at https://goo.gl/5LMwHQ or in person through the Etixnow kiosk located in the lobby of Isaac’s Way Restaurant, located at 649 Queen St (across from the Playhouse). Doors open at 9pm, and the show begins at 10pm. Back to top. 3. UNB Art Centre presents Supplemental Events related to Pieces of the Past Exhibition Apr 7 – May 7 The UNB Art Centre is proud to announce a series of upcoming events related to our current exhibition, Pieces of the Past (running until May 13). In conjunction with this exhibition, we will be hosting a theatrical performance, a book reading, a film screening, and an “antiques roadshow” style show-and-tell afternoon. ARTSnews April 14, 2016 4 Volume 17, Issue 15 First, on Friday April 8 at 7:30pm, in the Memorial Hall auditorium, Fredericton-based actress Maria Bourgeois will stage a performance of To Live Dangerously. Part séance, part play, this performance will call forth the spirit of Lucy Jarvis, and bring her back to the UNB Art Centre once more! Through conversations with Lucy Jarvis’ remaining relatives and extensive research, Maria has been channelling Lucy’s energy, emotions, and creativity as she creates her one-woman show. In the story-telling tradition of her native Newfoundland, Maria Bourgeois uses theatre to tell stories about people and their history. To Live Dangerously explores Lucy Jarvis’ connection with the UNB Art Centre, and the spark of danger she felt as she fell in love with art for the first time at the age of 8. The UNB Art Centre gratefully acknowledges support for this project from the City of Fredericton. On Wednesday, April 13 at 12pm, author Roslyn Rosenfeld will read from her newly launched book Even Stones Have Life. Co-published by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and Goose Lane Editions, this book is an examination of Lucy Jarvis’ considerable body of creative work – the subjects of her paintings, her choices of medium and expression. Rosenfeld’s book celebrates the contribution Lucy Jarvis (and her colleague Pegi Nicol MacLeod) made to the burgeoning Fredericton art community through the UNB Art Centre. In the time before major institutions like the Beaverbrook Art Gallery or the Fredericton Playhouse opened, Jarvis and McLeod helped launch the Fredericton art scene by making creativity available to all. On Wednesday, April 20, at 12pm the UNB Art Centre will screen the film Something Dancing About Her (National Film Board of Canada, 2005), celebrating the life and art of Pegi Nicol MacLeod.