Gerry Porter: Cautiously Pessimistic

BY NQ

November 2019

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 1^st, 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.

Q & A

Q&A with Jordan Patterson

BY NQ

In tandem with NQ’s Wiki-edit-a-thon, Jordan Patterson guides us on a brief tour of the wonderful world of Wikidata. Can you tell us a little about yourself? I’m a cataloguing…

Books Essay

Good Country

BY Sharon Bala

Sharon Bala’s debut novel, The Boat People, exploring the experiences of a father and his son arriving in Canada on a migrant boat from Sri Lanka, was published this month….

Events

All Hands

By Janet Harron All hands on deck is a traditional nautical command for all sailors of all watches to muster on deck of the boat to help navigate through…