Q and A (Woody Point Edition) with Elizabeth Hay
BY Joan Sullivan
Elizabeth Hay is a novelist and short-story writer whose works has been nominated for the Governor- General’s Award and the Giller Prize; she lives in Ottawa. The Writers at Woody…
Q & A (Woody Point Edition) with David Ferry
BY Joan Sullivan
David Ferry is an actor and Dora Award-winning theatre director. He’ll present Short Waves/Short Stories a radiophonic adaptation of a short story on Sunday August 19, 10:30am an 11:30am, at the Heritage…
Q & A with Michelle Myrick-Olsen
BY Joan Sullivan
Michelle Myrick-Olsen was born and raised at Cape Pine Lighthouse in St Shott’s. A self-taught musician and visual artist, Michelle has visited over 40 countries, living and working in Saudi…
A Grand Time: NL Music at the Irish Traditional Music Archive in Dublin
BY Marie Stamp
“O’Hara would eventually make hundreds of recordings of the stories and songs of the people he met in Newfoundland. He did not have to insist too much to coax them to take the mic. “Sing a song or hum a tune, do a dance or leave the room! That’s what they used to say,” he remembers of his time in Branch.”
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.
Joey the Carver
BY Renee Fancey
Joey sits in soft focus. Behind him, blue skies and bright murals paint a backdrop easily mistaken as exotic. Festival flags rally. Paving stones undulate drunkenly up the lane. Streetlamps, tagged out to the sun, sleep off their graveyard shifts. A canopy of shadows waves like a palm tree.