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Agenda is Salon's weekly look at what's going on around the province.

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Courtesy Pop Goes the City

Canadian new wave icons the Spoons are among the bands at Saint John’s first retro ’80s festival, Pop Goes the City. They play tonight along with Blue Peter under a big tent in the parking lot of the Blue Olive in Saint John.

Pick of the week: Bernard Riordon, Director and CEO of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, will give a talk titled Enriching Life Through Art at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, Thursday, 7 p.m. He will explore the ways that the visual arts impact our lives with specific reference to Lord Beaverbrook and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. How art institutions can work with the community to bring art and people together, and the social and economic benefits of the visual arts in our community will be discussed. For further information www.beaverbrookartgallery.org.

Today: Local professional artists and fine craftspeople are setting up one- to two-week studios in the Soldiers Barracks Casemates, (on the corner of Carleton and Queen) in the heart of Fredericton's art district. Photographer Oliver Flecknell and filmmaker, photographer and musician Chris Giles are on site Aug. 23-29. The Casemates are open daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday, and noon to 5 p.m. on Sundays.

Saint John's first retro '80s festival, Pop Goes the City, will be held Aug. 21-23 on Rothesay Ave. More than a dozen bands will be featured under the big tent with headliners P.E.I.'s Haywire, Montreal's The Box, Toronto's Blue Peter and Canadian icons The Spoons, also from Toronto. A video dance party, barbecue, beer garden and a few other surprises are in store. For tickets, call 634-3183. For more information visit www.popgoesthecity.com

The Tides Institute and Museum of Art in Eastport, Me., opens a one-person show of work by one of eastern Canada's foremost printmakers, Dan Steeves. The exhibition opens today and will be on view through Sept. 21. Opening reception today, 5-7 p.m. Dan Steeves was born in Moncton and currently lives in Sackville where he is printmaking instructor at Mount Allison University. Also on view until October is an oil painting by N.C. Wyeth titled, 'The Little Cockle.' The Tides Institute is open Wednesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. For more information contact the Tides Institute at (207) 853-4047, email: tides@tidesinstitute.org or visit the website at: www.tidesinstitute.org.

The Saint John Theatre Company will be holding open auditions for the musical 'Chicago' Aug. 21-24. Anyone over the age of 18 are welcome to audition; no experience is necessary. All auditions will be held at the Saint John Theatre Company's new building at 112 Princess Street. Everyone will be required to attend one dance audition and one voice audition. Women should be familiar with the song 'Funny Honey,' men with the song 'Razzle Dazzle.' Today, voice auditions at 12:30 p.m. and dance auditions at 2:30 p.m. On Sunday, dance auditions at 12:30 p.m. and voice auditions at 3 p.m. 'Chicago' will be staged at the Imperial Theatre November 20-22.

An old-fashioned agricultural fair will be re-created at Kings Landing Historical Settlement on Aug. 23-24. Enjoy games of skill and chance, a lumberman's competition, hay rides, corn-husking and corn-eating contests, horseshoe games, equipment displays, exhibitions of needlework, knitting, cooking, woodworking and much more. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday.

Sunday: Under the Stars Classic Film Series. Enjoy a nostalgic movie night every Sunday night in Barracks Square, Fredericton. Aug. 24, 'Houseboat' (Cary Grant, Sophia Loren), 1958 comedy/romance. Feature follows a film short by a local filmmaker. Film starts at dusk, approximately 8:15 p.m. For more information: www.tourismfredericton.ca.

Tuesday: Fredericton Tourism presents the Outdoor Summer Concert Series in Officers' Square. Free entertainment every Tuesday and Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 26, 8 Track Mind ('70s/R&B), rain date, Aug. 27, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 28, Society of St. Andrews Pipe Band (Highland Pipes), rain date, Sept. 1, 7:30 p.m. Note: The Aug. 28 concert will be moved to Barracks Square.

Wednesday: The Chinese Cultural Association of New Brunswick presents 'Eastern Legends' at 7 p.m. at the Fredericton Playhouse. Eastern Legends is Chai Found Music Workshop's latest choreographed music performance on a large scale. It fuses traditional Chinese music and instruments with popular music of today. The ensemble includes a rich line-up of Chinese instruments including the Suona (Chinese reed instrument), Erhu (Chinese fiddle), Pipa (Chinese lute), Ruan (Chinese banjo/guitar), Di (Chinese bamboo flute), Guzheng (Chinese zither), and the Yangqin (Chinese dulcimer). Tickets: $14/adults and $10/students and seniors, available at the Playhouse box office, 686 Queen St., Fredericton; by phone 458-8344; or online at www.theplayhouse.ca.

Business Fredericton North Concert Series: The Main Street Concert Series continues every Wednesday night at the Nashwaaksis Commons Amphitheatre. Garaj Mahal, blues, 7 p.m. Rain date: Sept. 1, 7 p.m. Free admission. 459-8689.

Guard House Concert Series. Enjoy free outdoor noon hour concerts in Barracks Square, Fredericton. Our last outdoor concert will feature Al & Eileen (folk), 12:30 p.m. No rain date.

Summer music at St. Dunstan's. Enjoy an evening concert at St. Dunstan's every Wednesday at 7 p.m. On Aug. 27 enjoy Kathrin Welte (soprano) and Dianne Roxborough-Brown (piano). 444-6001.

Thursday: UNBSJ Summer film series, 7 p.m., Mary H. Oland Theatre, New Brunswick Museum, One Market Square, Saint John. Aug. 28: 'Infest Wisely,' a Canadian DIY sci-fi film, written and shot by multiple directors, about the trappings of "new and improved" technology (2007 - Rated 18A). This is the last film of the series. Free. Presented by UNB Saint John. 643-2300. 1-888-268-9595 www.nbm-mnb.ca.

Friday: Aug. 29, noon, is the deadline for artist's submissions to Art Trek, a studio tour Oct. 17-19 in Fredericton. Artists wanting to participant will attend the official opening on Oct. 17 and open their studios on Oct. 18- 19. To download an application form, please click: http://frederictonartsalliance.ca. For further information, please contact the Fredericton Arts Alliance at frederictonartsalliance@yahoo.ca or call 443-9900.

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