Format: Review
A Look Inside Our Spring Issue
One of my all-time favourite Ted Talks is the late, great Sir Ken Robinson’s 2006 lecture, “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” For a few years, this moving speech was required viewing…
All I Ask: Review
BY Paul Chafe
All I Ask by Eva Crocker House of Anansi 320 p $22.95 Reflect for a moment on the title of Eva Crocker’s first novel, All I Ask. It is a…
St. John’s International Woman’s Film Festival: Part 2
BY NQ
It was lights up on the 30th St John’s International Women’s Film Festival last night, and the next days and nights into Sunday are packed with screenings – both features…
Union House Arts Opens in Port Union
BY Heather Nolan
Saturday, June 22, saw the Grand Opening of Union House Arts, a community art space in Port Union established under the Sir William F Coaker Heritage Foundation. The building is…
Beardmore: The Viking Hoax that Rewrote History by Douglas Hunter
BY Edward Roberts
When all was said and done, the Beardmore Hoax was just another instance of an all-too familiar tale. A handful of rusted man-made iron – two pieces of a broadsword,…
Volatile Vulnerability in Pepa Chan’s Brush
BY Eva Crocker
Pepa Chan’s Brush is installed in a secluded corner of The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery. The small gallery suits the exhibition, which uses the act of hair brushing to explore…
Emma Hooper’s Our Homesick Songs
BY Paul Chafe
I do see the beauty in Emma Hooper’s Our Homesick Songs, I do. But I have been hearing these sad old tunes my whole life and I am just about ready to throw the accordion into the ocean.
Teresa Connors’ Immersive Audio-Visual Installation Currents at Sound Symposium XIX
BY Eva Crocker
Suddenly ripples started appearing on the large screen, like you see on the surface on of a pond at the beginning of a downpour. On two of the smaller screens the tide tugged unfurled waves back out into the bay; another showed mint-coloured lichen on a grey rock; a third played water gurgling in and out of a tide pool. I could feel the bunny-rabbit thump of blood coursing through my heart and it was correlating with the steady tick in the soundscape.
Working the Rock: Newfoundland and Labrador in the photographs of Edith S. Watson, 1890-1930
BY Andreae Callanan
““Delicate creatures of decoration” Watson’s women are not. These are hard-working matriarchs and daughters of fishing families.”