Gerry Porter was a talented visual artist, designer, and humorist who made an indelible impact on the St. John’s arts scene.
He died in 2016, and on Sunday December 1st, a website of his work is being launched at The LSPU Hall, from 4 pm to 6 pm.
The website contains hundreds of Gerry’s cartoons, comics, posters, memes, and for his on-line followers, an archive of his twitter feed and news haikus.
Tell me about the upcoming publication. Aptly titled, Best Kind collects twelve pieces out of the creative non-fiction workshops we run in MUN’s creative writing programs. Some of the authors…
Can you tell us a little about yourself? I was born in Jamaica, and have lived in St John’s for almost two decades. I love to bake, cook, write, read,…
I was born in the year of the Water Pig. A few days after my arrival, my family brought my stars of conception and birth to a soothsayer who calculated…