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Aged discoveries
After making a quick introduction and exchanging brief pleasantries at Jim VanWart's red-brick home in the Edmundston suburbs, the interview proper starts at the junkyard.
Communities that inspire, nurture artists
While we were vacationing in Maine, we went to a Portland Museum exhibition, Art of the Cranberry Isles, curated by Susan Danly and illuminated by Carl Little's lecture. I was introduced to a whole miniature art world: two island sanctuaries with their landscapes and communities of artists.
Romeo Savoie
Artist, architect, writer says his favourite works of art change as time flies. 'Right now I would pick a painting from Anselm Kiefer.'
Common courtesy as a daily practice
Do you ever feel like you don't have the time or energy to be available to others as readily you would like to be? It happens to me more often than I care to think about.
Play on whimsy
When Hampton artist Amy Ash makes a list of supplies, they aren't typically items that can be picked up at the art shop, but at a hardware or grocery store.
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Fiddle camps at UNB-Fredericton
The fifth annual New Brunswick Fiddle Camp will be offered at Memorial Hall on the UNB Campus in Fredericton from July 13 to 24. The series provides fiddle as well as guitar and piano accompaniment instruction.
Sing it, Dance it, Rock it!
The Imperial Theatre presents its Performing Arts Summer Schools that provide students with training under the tutelage of professional instructors dedicated to nurturing creativity, passion and talent in youth.
When enough light shines in
In the thick of depression, it's not always possible to read. But when the windows open, enough to let in light to read by, there are some wonderful books that can be a resource and comfort during various stages of the recovery process.
Beaverbrook offers host of edVenture workshops and lectures
The Beaverbrook Art Gallery presents a series of workshops and lectures organized in association with City of Fredericton Tourism. Fredericton's edVentures summer program is Atlantic Canada's largest and most diverse vacation learning program in craft and culture.
Agenda
Agenda is Salon's weekly look at what's going on around the province.
Salon in Pictures
Capturing character
Brian Atkinson has travelled to more than 60 countries in his 20-plus years as a professional photographer. Still, he can get just as excited shooting people who live little more than an hour's drive from his home near Woolastook Park, outside of Fredericton, as he can for an assignment in rural Nicaragua or at a refugee camp in Ethiopia.
Carol Collicutt
Fredericton artist is seduced by the colours and patterns of rocks. They are like 'pieces of a giant cosmic puzzle one must fit together.'
Just cause for an adjective or adverb
This could be titled "in defence of the adjective and adverb." Or maybe "musing about two maligned parts of speech."
Art of refuse
A simple household mishap set Sheila McFee's art practice on a new path.
Exercise mindful consideration on vacation
Last weekend we celebrated Father's Day and heralded in the summer of 2009 with a lot of rain, producing healthy, young vegetable plants as well as the odd washed-out driveway (mine included).
Call for musicians
Sessions Café, in Rothesay, has recently announced it will close on July 25.
Saint John Arts Centre appoints Heather White Brittain as new director
The board of directors of the Saint John Arts Centre announced Wednesday the appointment of Heather White Brittain as executive director. Brittain will begin in her new role on July 6.
NB Foundation for the Arts embarks on new direction
The New Brunswick Foundation for the Arts (NBFA), announced in Fredericton, Wednesday, the launch of the Arts and Cultural Endowment Incentives Program for New Brunswick, as well as the NBFA's future initiatives and the foundation's new logo and website.
Gripping tale despite dubious details
In Lisa Unger's Die For You, the devil is in the details. "Lies lived in the little things, the details people threw in to make their stories sound truer," muses a police detective during an interrogation.
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Agenda is Salon's weekly look at what's going on around the province.
Early-bird deadline Tuesday for SJTC subscribers
When it comes to Saint John Theatre Company's 2009-10 season, the early subscriber bird gets the theatre prize worm.
Discovered gems
In spring, Peter Augustine searches for arrowheads unearthed when chunks of ice, pushed by the wind, scrape against the banks of the Richibuctou River.
Journeys to places unknown through language
Twenty years ago I was delighted when I came upon these sentences in Annie Dillard's The Writing Life: "When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a woodcarver's gouge, a surgeon's probe. You wield it, and it digs a path you follow.
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