Category Archives: Arts and Culture

For Marcia Dysart and Ginny Steeves, dance is more than just competition. It’s technical training, injury prevention and performing for the love of it. “There’s a lot of opportunity to dance in competition and that’s great for whoever wants to do that. However, there isn’t any opportunity for students who just want to dance toContinue reading “Youth Dance Fest East brings dancers to Fredericton to showcase their work”

Katey Day-Reick took to the Canada’s Got Talent stage with a simple message: to let other survivors of abuse know that it’s OK to be happy. Day-Reick, who uses the stage name Anica, sang Unstoppable by pop singer Sia, which she says resonated with her story. “You have to be unstoppable, at least within yourself,” the singer from Grand-Barachois, a smallContinue reading “N.B. singer gets golden buzzer on Canada’s Got Talent, has message of hope for abuse survivors”

An acclaimed New Brunswick youth choir is exploring all that New York City has to offer this week, including a trip to Carnegie Hall. But unlike most tourists, this group won’t be sitting in the audience. Les Jeunes Chanteurs d’Acadie, the well-known Dieppe group of 11-18-year-olds directed by Nadine Hébert, will be performing in Canada at Carnegie under conductors CarrieContinue reading “Renowned Acadian youth choir to take the stage at New York’s Carnegie Hall”

Bright colours and smiling faces adorn a giant set of steps inside the Hanwell Park Academy, a new kindergarten to Grade 8 school about 15 kilometres southwest of Fredericton. Artist Laura Forrester is putting the finishing touches on a mural that covers the front of the “learning stairs,” as they are called, in the cafeteria space. This projectContinue reading “Colourful mural nears completion at Hanwell Park Academy near Fredericton”

When Charlie Rhindress was asked to write the script for a new play based on the COVID-19 pandemic, he asked himself, “Does anyone really want to see a play about COVID?” But as he delved further into the process, he realized something special. “It’s this collective experience … it’s global, which is so unusual,” saidContinue reading “Tales from 2020: New play portrays Atlantic Canadians’ pandemic experiences”

Women in traditional Chinese dress danced across the stage at the Fredericton Playhouse on Sunday as they rehearsed for their first in-person Chinese New Year gala in two years. Jenny Zhang, the chair of the Chinese New Year gala committee, said the theme of this year’s gala is “melodies from the past” because there willContinue reading “Fredericton Chinese community aims to share their culture through annual new year gala”

What is home? It’s a question that Saa Andrew Gbongbor explores in his new production at St. Thomas University in Fredericton. Gbongbor, originally from Sierra Leone, is the New Brunswick university’s artist-in-residence. He’s been working on a show called Fofana Kingdom. He said the story is of life before globalization in Africa.  “People start moving to different otherContinue reading “‘Where is home for me?’ N.B. artist from Sierra Leone looks for answers in new production”