Olá de Lisboa!

May 2024

NQ is travelling – watch this space for our interview with a celebrated NL artist, who just happens to be here, doing her fabulous stuff (on tour with an acclaimed production). And we’ll see what else captures our attention on this side of the pond …

(Apologies by the way for this page being offline for a few days. Gremlins have been located and banished 🙂 )

Photo: exhibition, Museu Nacional do Azulejo

Tara Bryan: The air in Newfoundland is tangible

Bryan’s background was multi-faceted: along with her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she also earned a BA in Music Theory and Composition from the University of New Mexico; she…

The Healers

BY Shannon Webb-Campbell

While I was home in Newfoundland this past summer, I was given a copy of a series of graphic novels by David Alexander Robinson dubbed Tales from Shadow River, illustrated stories about Indigenous people (Highwater Press). The Healer: Mary Webb, retells the life of my paternal great-great-grandmother, Mary Webb, a Mi’kmaq healer and midwife to 700 babies around Bay St Georges on NL’s west coast.