Taking the first step into Mark Chilton’s exhibit is like stepping into another world; figures draped in textured swaths hang from the ceiling, red balls of cloth and floral textiles suspended above their forms, disconnected from their bodies, while the photographic portrait of a man, a solitary male figure, stands adjacent: a humanistic pairing to the designs. This world is one that connects the viewer to an era that merged two times: the past, tradition and human creation, and the modern, edge and manufactured substances. Continue reading Mark Chilton: Design In Translation
The Art of War: The 2015 Faces of Fusion Art Battle Participants
The 2015 Faces of Fusion Art Battle is upon us! We shall wade through acrylics, and drape ourselves in the canvases of our enemies! We shall feast upon the flesh of whatever catering brings us! Needless to say, everyone here at The East are excited to be part of the event, especially with the very talented artists that will be participating. Here’s a little primer to let you know who to look for.
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Lily Lake’s Pavilion Cup ‘Nothing Better Than Playing Hockey On The Ice’
Canada’s love for hockey is so widely accepted that many will say it borders on cultural cliché. From coast to coast and abroad, even the most uninitiated non-hockey fan has probably found themselves gathered in a pub, or huddled around a television, to watch an Olympic or World Junior final. There are also those of us who spend many years sitting in freezing rinks to watch sons, daughters, nieces, or nephews skate their way through pee-wee, to bantam, and beyond! I’d bet a nickel that many of these people found themselves overcome with so much national pride and fervor of competition that any passer-by would mistake them for a seasoned hockey expert. Continue reading Lily Lake’s Pavilion Cup ‘Nothing Better Than Playing Hockey On The Ice’
The LaFleur Tales: Chaucer Reimagined
It’s a cold Sunday afternoon and I am sitting at the Roxstone Café, in Fredericton, NB. Leo LaFleur, Saint John resident, songwriter, vocalist, and musician, walks into the café and I wave him over. He is wearing a hoodie, t-shirt, jeans, pea coat, and boots; certainly not screaming time-travelling musician to me, but his music precedes him and introduces him as an artist caught between two temporal fields: that of modernity and of the middle ages. It draws his audience in, connecting that past to familiar modern themes. Continue reading The LaFleur Tales: Chaucer Reimagined
FROSTival 2015: The Winter Capital
To those of us in Fredericton, winter is nothing new. Try as we might, kicking and screaming for it to go away, it comes every year just the same. While it’s tempting to stay inside and curl up with the new season of whatever on Netflix, here’s a suggestion of something you can do instead: how about checking out Fredericton FROSTival? It’s Atlantic Canada’s largest winter celebration and saying that it has something for everyone is no exaggeration. Continue reading FROSTival 2015: The Winter Capital