Spring Cleaning

BY NQ

May 2021

Time for a little spring cleaning ☺

We’re getting ready to do our next prize draw for an original J.C. Roy painting (Martin’s Point near Sally’s Cove.)

Details to be posted soon, via Facebook & Instagram

New online content resumes next month.

Stay safe & hold fast!

Costume Banks and Conjured Worlds

BY Eva Crocker

As we weave through the racks she tells me the history of specific pieces, like a donated Sherlock Holmes’ style cape and deerstalker hat that was worn during the Boer War. Each costume is a talisman for transformation and picking the right one can help summon a character, conjure a world.

Alan Doyle Brings Us All Together: Part 1

Musician Alan Doyle has just released his third book, All Together Now, a follow-up, of sorts, of his two autobiographical volumes chronicling his growing up in Petty Harbour and first…

POWER/GRID: Graphic Depictions of War

BY Andrew Loman

“I chose a grid-system rather than free-form because it was a history. To me there’s something very stable about the nine-panel grid and I wanted that feeling for it.” So said the St John’s cartoonist Wallace Ryan, explaining the page design he has chosen for The Narrow Way, a graphic memoir about his grandfather’s experiences as a soldier in World War 1.