Shining Lights
December 2017
The lights along Prince Philip Drive are shining.
Brightness against the dark- whatever you’re celebrating this holiday, we wish you love, peace, and togetherness.
Sincerely,
The NQ team
One Point, Two Points, Three Points Mi’kmaq
BY Shannon Webb-Campbell
THE SAME WEEK I received a rejection letter from Indigenous and Northern Affairs declaring I was no longer recognized as Qalipu Mi’kmaq First Nation, my back gave out.
Seeing Through Glass, Plastic and Ice
BY Matthew Hollett
When I signed up for my first photography class in art school, my dad rummaged around in the basement and placed a heavy leather case in my hands. I unbuckled it to find his old 35mm camera, a Zenit EM. It had an enormous dent above the lens, as if it had deflected a bullet, and its selenium light meter, mysteriously, did not require batteries.
The Museum at the End of the world
BY Elizabeth Whitten
On the northeast coast island of Fogo lies a place of incredible geographical importance: one of the corners of the flat Earth. Long suspected by locals, the significance of the…