ARTSnews THE FREDERICTON ARTS ALLIANCE February 9, 2012 Volume 13, Issue 5 Serving the Arts in the Fredericton Region Upcoming Events 1. Audio/visual equipment community asset 2. Hoot & Peep Mini Performance Festival Animates Downtown Fredericton Feb 6-11 3. MCAF and NBAA present Black History Month activities Feb 9-23 4. Documentary on pro-anorexia movement in France Arresting Anna Feb 10 5. Folk & Baroque inaugural concert Feb 10 6. Bejewel’s Annual Inventory Sale Feb 10-12 7. Heart's Delight jewellery event at Ingrid Mueller Art + Concepts Feb 11 8. AIA New Brunswick Society presents Illustrated Lecture In search of Plato's Academy Feb 11 9. NB Sports Hall of Fame showcases Portrait Art Feb 11-12 10. Coming up at the Fredericton Playhouse 11. On A Downtown Train: Vino, Vibes And Valentines Feb 12 12. Monday Night Film Series presents A Dangerous Method Feb 13 13. Love Lecture, Ballads and Victorian Valentines at Ste Anne’s Court Feb 14 14. Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Sandra Le Couteur Feb 14 15. Cesar Morales Acustico y Romantnico Valentine’s Day performance Feb 14 16. Figure Drawing Studio at NBCCD resumes Feb 15 17. The UNB Reading Series Presents Poets Nick Thran and Tammy Armstrong Feb 15 18. Beaverbrook Art Gallery Turner Experience Weekend Feb 16-19 19. Steven Peacock and Gerry Van Wart present Two Guitars à la baroque Feb 17 20. The UNB Reading Series presents Anita Lahey and Gerard Beirne Book Launch Feb 21 21. French movie Café de Flore at Empire Theatres Feb 22 22. Fredericton Bel Canto Singers looking for new members Classes and Workshops 1. New 2nd Life Drawing and Portrait Classes Feb 11 at BAG 2. Beginners’ Rug Hooking Class with Elizabeth Bastin begins Feb 14 3. Dance Programs at The Richard J. Currie Center UNB Fredericton Campus 4. 2012 NB Film Co-op Fredericton Film Workshop Program 5. NB College of Craft and Design and edVentures winter courses 6. March Break Art Appreciation for Youth Mar 5-9 7. UNB March Break Musical Adventures camp for ages 7-10 8. Tony’s Music Box website of Fredericton Music Teachers Call for Submissions 1. Deadline for Arts, Culture and Heritage Funding Program Feb 17 2. Nominations sought for 2012 Playhouse Honours 3. Calling Local Talents: Outdoor Summer Concerts 2012 – Moncton 4. Call for Entry: Otherworldly 2012 Exhibition Employment Opportunity 1. Executive Director, New Brunswick Choral Federation (NBCF) 2 Upcoming Events 1. Audio/visual equipment community asset The Fredericton Arts Alliance has acquired a package of audio-visual equipment through a shared asset grant from the City of Fredericton. The equipment, which includes a 42-inch LCD monitor, speakers (suitable for outdoor use as well as indoor), a blu-ray player, receiver, and appropriate wiring, was received through an application supported by the Charlotte Street Arts Centre, UNB Arts Centre, Gallery Connexion, and the NB Filmmakers Cooperative. Cox Electronics also assisted with the purchase of the equipment by offering a significant discount. Currently in use at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre, the equipment is available to non-profit arts organizations in the city to exhibit multi-media artwork and similar installations. For information on using the equipment, please email the Fredericton Arts Alliance: [email protected] 2. Hoot & Peep Mini Performance Festival Animates Downtown Fredericton Feb 6-11 Watch out, Fredericton! It's the Hoot & Peep Mini Performance Festival, live on Queen Street, in the heart of downtown from February 6-11. Performances will be presented live daily in the Owl's Nest Bookstore storefront windows, from 10am-1pm and from 1-4pm, featuring a roster of eight different performance artists enacting a wide variety of provocative scenes, all on the theme of sexuality studies. The Hoot & Peep Mini Performance Festival intends to shake up the snowy downtown streets of Fredericton, and also to raise awareness about the upcoming Salon Connex, a partnership project between the Charlotte Street Arts Centre and Gallery Connexion. Hoot & Peep performers include Jo Griffith, WhiteFeather, Megan MacKay, Amanda Jardine, Candace Mooers, Joe Blades, Shaun Bartone and Cynthia Ryder: • Decolumnization by Amanda Jardine will explore the expected disconnect between theory and sexuality in the academic community by using live creative nonfiction writing (in column form). • Blue Brains by Joe Blades will be a word association performance based on the idea of academic intellectual congestion and notions of attraction and the uncomfortable. • Tempest in a Teapot, an exploration of sexual repression: Under a picture of the Queen, Cynthia Ryder and Shaun Bartone will sip tea while reading passages from banned books. Simultaneously screened in the adjacent window will be the video, Slut: A Drama in One Word, alternating with found films of tea services from around the world. • Foot Worship by Cynthia Ryder is a study of our obsession with brand, style and the appeal of the shoe. • ArteFacts/x-Colonel Williams by Jo Griffith features the police interrogation of Colonel Williams playing continuously while endless nonsensical flow charts are made to document the absence of reason for the crimes. • Lessons in Loyalty/Confessions by Candace Mooers will be the reading of an S&M script without following any of the emotional cues for audio performance, using a voice mixer and homemade radio transmitter. • Inverse Erotica by Megan MacKay points out the absurdity of assigning roles to costume through fantasy. MacKay adopts the moves of an erotic dancer who puts on clothing until she has become a sexless, amorphous blob of fabric. • Fixation Station by WhiteFeather explores obsessive bodily engagement in the form of oral fixation. WhiteFeather’s performance involves lipstick, watercolour paper and sunflower seeds in the shell. HUGE thanks to the Owl's Nest Bookstore for supporting this creative endeavour. 3. MCAF and NBAA present Black History Month activities Feb 9-23 In honour of Black History Month, the Multicultural Association of Fredericton Inc. (MCAF) and the New Brunswick African Association Inc. (NBAA) will organize a series of Black History Month activities throughout the month of February. Thursday, February 9 The Black History Month Film Series II: Remember Africville (1991) by Shelagh Mackenzie. 7pm at Milham room (Room 100) at UNB Harriet Irving Library. Free of charge. 3 Wednesday, February 15 The Black History Month Public Lectures will be held from 7-9pm at Ted Daigle Auditorium at St. Thomas University Edmund Casey Hall. Topics are "French Colonialism and its Legacies" by Dr. Jennifer Lofkrantz, History Dept, STU, and "Africa's prospects in the global economy" by Dr Carolyn Bassett, Political Science, UNB. Free of charge. Thursday, February 16 The Black History Month Film Series III: Black Mother Black Daughter (1989) by Sylvia Hamilton & Claire Prieto will begin at 7pm, Milham room (Room 100) at UNB Harriet Irving Library. Guest Speaker: Wayn Hamilton, Executive Director, Office of African Nova Scotian Affairs. Free of charge. Saturday, February 18 In honour of Black History Month, the Multicultural Association of Fredericton Inc. & the New Brunswick African Association Inc. will host a celebration on Saturday, February 18, 1-3pm, Kinsella Auditorium, St. Thomas University McCain Hall. The celebration includes African dance, drumming and cultural display as well as a guest speaker, Wayn Hamilton, Executive Director, Office of African Nova Scotian Affairs talking about Reflections on our African Heritage. Free of charge. Thursday, February 23 The Black History Month Film Series IV: Black Hands, Trial of the Arsonist Slave (2010) by Tetchena Belange will begin at 7pm, Milham room (Room 100) at UNB Harriet Irving Library. Free of charge. The Black History Month Activities are organized in partnership between the Multicultural Association of Fredericton Inc. & the New Brunswick African Association Inc. in honour of Black History Month. For more information, go to www.mcaf.nb.ca. 4. Documentary on pro-anorexia movement in France Arresting Anna Feb 10 Cinema Politica Fredericton and UNB/STU University Women's Centre present the documentary Arresting Ana on Friday, February 10, 2012, Conserver House, 180 St. John Street at 7pm. Arresting Ana is a film about the potential criminalization of the pro-anorexia movement in France. Arresting Ana is a 26-minute documentary about what some French women are choosing not to do–feed their bodies–and how they could soon become criminals in the eyes of French law for it. Valerie Boyer is a passionate legislator on a mission to restore the health, eating habits and body images of the French. According to Boyer, the uncanny power of French women to stay svelte in the country of foie gras, wine and cheese has fallen victim to globalization and has led to a skyrocketing rise in not only obesity, but in eating disorders too. For National Eating Disorders Week, discussion to be followed with PhD Student Kathleen Pye, a researcher on eating disorders. Cinema Politica screenings are followed by discussion about the film for those who wish to stay. Screenings are free but donations are welcome to pay for Cinema Politica Membership. All are invited. Our complete Winter 2012 schedule is now available at www.cinemapolitica.org/fredericton or become a fan on Facebook! 5. Folk & Baroque inaugural concert Feb 10 Come enjoy the inaugural concert of Folk & Baroque, a series featuring fiddler/violinist Katherine Moller and friends. An evening of Celtic/Old Tyme fiddle and song, with guest Tom Richards, will take place on Friday, February 10. This intimate acoustic concert will be held in room 211 of the Charlotte St. Arts Centre (732 Charlotte St.) and will begin at 7:30pm. Tickets will be available at the door and will cost $15. Seating is limited. For more information, contact Katherine Moller at [email protected] | 440-3123 | www.katherinemoller.ca.