31 December 2009

Maritimes Artist? Join CARFAC Maritimes

Canadian Artists’ Representation/Le Front des artistes canadiens (CARFAC) is incorporated federally as a non-profit corporation that is the national voice of Canada’s professional visual artists. As a non-profit association and a National Art Service Organization, our mandate is to promote the visual arts in Canada, to promote a socio-economic climate that is conducive to the production of visual arts in Canada, and to conduct research and engage in public education for these purposes.

CARFAC was established by artists in 1968 and has been recognized by the Status of the Artist legislation. CARFAC is guided by an active Board, elected by the membership.

We believe that artists, like professionals in other fields, should be paid for their work and share equitably in profits from their work. As the national voice of Canada’s professional visual artists, CARFAC defends artists’ economic and legal rights and educates the public on fair dealing with artists. In doing so, CARFAC promotes a socio-economic climate conducive to the production of visual arts. CARFAC engages actively in advocacy, lobbying, research and public education on behalf of artists in Canada.


Mail your form and payment to:

CARFAC Maritimes
239 George St
Fredericton NB E3B 1J4

Email should be sent to: carfac.maritimes@ciut.fm

We appreciate your interest in CARFAC Maritimes and look forward to your continued support.

Sincerely, Sarah Petite
Secretary and membership coordinator
CARFAC Maritimes

29 December 2009

>Ashes, Paper & Beans: 29 12 2009

CHSR logoAshes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton’s Writing & Arts Show
Producer–Host: Joe Blades
Tuesdays, 7–8 PM
CHSR 97.9 FM, www.chsrfm.ca
Fredericton, NB, Canada

Lord Torvald Torgarson: Three Viking Ships

Joe Blades: Intro to Perfect Road

Valerie Mason-John: Perfect Road

Lord Torvald Torgarson: God Save Us from the Vikings

Amy Campbell: Metanoia (live)

Swifty Lazarus: West of an Idea

Allen Ginsberg: Howl

15 December 2009

Ashes, Paper & Beans: 15 Dec 2009

CHSR logoAshes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton’s Writing & Arts Show
Producer–Host: Joe Blades
Tuesdays, 7–8 PM
CHSR 97.9 FM, www.chsrfm.ca
Fredericton, NB, Canada

Antonia Francis reading The True Meaning of Crumbfest, written by David Weals; audio book published by Rattling Books.

Clive Holden "Trains of Winnipeg"

Evalyn Parry "14 (for December 6)"

Lord Torvald Torgarson "Ragnarok almost Rolled"

Unsilent Night 2009

Unless I get caught in the squeeze play of a presentation and two new books’ delivery by Midland from the printer, I intend to participate in Unsilent Night’s 2009 performance parade in downtown Fredericton. I walked in last year’s performance. This year, my post-fire purchased new portable CD+cassette player is on the living room desk with the necessary C-cell batteries.

Gallery Connexion, Motion Ensemble and NBCCD present

Unsilent Night

an open procession for an unlimited number of boomboxes
by New York composer Phil Kline

FREE

Thursday, December 17 2009 meet at 3:30 sharp
at The Gallery of New Brunswick College of Craft and Design
457 Queen Street, Fredericton

A beautiful, mobile piece of ambient public art, UNSILENT NIGHT can be compared to a holiday caroling party—except that participants don’t sing. Instead, each carries an ordinary boombox playing a separate cassette or CD that becomes part of the piece.

In effect, the individual participants become single elements in a huge, moving sound system. Performed within the confines of city streets, Unsilent Night reverberates off the cars and buildings, resulting in a magnificent, drifting cloud of shimmering, echoing sound. The 43-minute piece includes sounds of chiming bells, choral voices and various electronic effects. (Kline cites Brian Eno and Charles Ives among his influences.) Kline has performed Unsilent Night in New York City every year since 1992. In San Francisco in 2006, some 400 people took part.

INFO
http://www.unsilentnight.com/
http://www.motionensemble.com

Bring your boombox!
Bring batteries!
Bring your iPod and speakers!
Dress for the weather!

CDs and cassettes will be provided
OR
To find out how to get free downloads, contact info@motionensemble.com

“Phil Kline’s boom box-chorale parade has become a bona fide holiday tradition. His luminous, shimmering wash of bell tones is one of the loveliest communal new-music experiences you’ll ever hear and it's never the same twice" Time Out New York

t: grey
loc: broken mapp desk
temp: -1°C
sound: The Flaming Lips Transmissions from the Satellite Heart

08 December 2009

Ashes, Paper & Beans: 8 Dec 2009

CHSR logoAshes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton’s Writing & Arts Show
Producer–Host: Joe Blades
Tuesdays, 7–8 PM
CHSR 97.9 FM, www.chsrfm.ca
Fredericton, NB, Canada

22 Nov 2009 Joe Blades interview with poet Catherine Owen.

Andrea Gibson from her 12 Nov 2009 UNB–STU Student Union Building Ballroom performance:

t: "Moose" by Red Crane
loc: CHSR MCR
temp: -8C
sound: Ashes, Paper & Beans

02 December 2009

Broken Jaw Press blog


as if i don't have more than enough else on my plate/table i've started writing a promotional Broken Jaw Press blog to chat up the publications and the activities of our authors and artists.

Broken Jaw Press blog

01 December 2009

Ashes, Paper & Beans: 1 Dec 2009

CHSR logoAshes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton’s Writing & Arts Show
Producer–Host: Joe Blades
Tuesdays, 7–8 PM
CHSR 97.9 FM, www.chsrfm.ca
Fredericton, NB, Canada

Andrea Gibson: "Wells to Fill", "Rush Hour", "See Through", & "The Moon Is A Kite"

Fredericton launch reading by Capítulo de Fredericton de la Academia Iberoamericana de Poesía for Poetic Voices Without Borders 2 (Gival Press) edited by Robert Girón and published in México in 2009.

Fredericton launch reading by Capítulo de Fredericton de la Academia Iberoamericana de Poesía for Speaking desde las heridas, edited by Claire Joysmith and published in 2009 with the support of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, CISAN, Monterrey Tech & Whittier College.

Fredericton Arts News

luddites: "fireworks"

shirt: dk blue undershirt
loc: post-APB
temp: -6 C
sound: NCIS

day w/o Art