Since 2014, Festival Inspire has been delivering colour to the streets of Riverview, Dieppe and Moncton in an annual week-long event. This year’s festival brought a total of 13 new murals to these streets and continued toward Festival Inspire’s goal to turn Greater Moncton into a visual wonderland for all to enjoy.
While every mural and art piece created at Festival Inspire this year demonstrated outstanding talent, we chose some of our favourite murals to highlight for those who may have missed out on the action.Continue reading Our Favourite Murals From Festival Inspire 2017→
Last weekend Big Axe Craft Brewery kicked off the largest outdoor Craft Beer Festival in New Brunswick. The sold-out event in Nackawic brought people out to sample some of the best beer anywhere from brewers around Maritimes and even south of the border. Here’s a list of what appealed to our senses this year, and let us know if there’s anything you feel we should have included! Continue reading Five Beers We Loved From The Big Axe Craft Beer Festival→
How do you know that summer has arrived in Nova Scotia? That you can finally put away those snow boots? The simple answer: the weekend after June 21 is coming up and you’ve got FULL CIRCLE FESTIVAL written in your calendar. If you’ve bought some tickets. Bought them way beforehand, because, baby, this festival sells out faster than cheese for half price at a Halifax supermarket. Continue reading Full Circle Festival 2017: Bonfires, Mudslides & Mayhem→
Grand Manan is a curious place. It’s the kind of spot you’d live in if you enjoy organizing your day around the tides and/or ferry schedule, have ever considered opening a care home for retired pirates, are completely indifferent to the ripeness of avocados, and don’t mind the occasional bit of vigilante justice. So logically it’s the perfect place for a music festival (except for that bit about the avocados).
Now in it’s 8th year, Summer’s End Folk Festival is the appropriately curious music festival designed to bolster the arts community in just such an equally curious place.