My first introduction to Greg Hemmings wasn’t a handshake at some conference for young professionals, or even seeing one of his documentaries. It was a photograph belonging to a friend, where he and Greg, and two or three other guys, were participating in some male bonding by posing on the edge of a river, naked as the day they were born, bits concealed in hand, and cheeky grins across their faces. The photo was just one in a series that belonged to something of a ritual while filming on the road. It was taken more than a decade ago, a folly of youth, and today Greg is CEO of Hemmings House Pictures, a film production company that operates on a global scale promoting the social values of change and responsibility, but at the heart of the operation is still Greg’s youthful sense of openness and adventure. Continue reading The House That Hemmings Built
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Lynn Wigginton: Saint John & The Drama Of The Door Knob
Lynn Wigginton is known for her painting series on the doors and windows of Saint John, and her vivid New Brunswick landscapes have made her one of Saint John’s most prominent painters, but she had originally intended to have a very different career path. Continue reading Lynn Wigginton: Saint John & The Drama Of The Door Knob
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