May 19, 2012

Whale Watching Newfoundland

Whale Watching Newfoundland

Including Whale watching videos! photo credit: cgreb I am finally going whale watching this year. I have a car and I can almost drive it. Please note, driving a standard in the hilly town of St. John's is mighty scary. Please stay back if you see me. I know nothing about whales, but this is what I have gathered from all the literature I am reading, or by talking to people I have met and … [Read more...]

TeD Talk: How We Wrecked The Ocean

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You can't live in Newfoundland without thinking about overfishing. In this TED video the truth about it is driven home - it's bad news. Coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson lays out the state of the ocean today: overfishing, pollution, habitat destruction and ocean warming have fundamentally changed marine ecosystems and led to "the rise of slime," and it'll only get worse. For example: a … [Read more...]

Road Map Dance Project Rolls Out Across the Province

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Are you involved in dance activities in Newfoundland and Labrador? If so, DanceNL is looking for you with the innauguration of the Road Map project. This project aims to bring the Newfoundland dance community together. You can participate in the Road Map by visiting www.dancenl.ca and filling in the online form, or by e-mailing info@dancenl.ca. The DanceNL Road Map document and website will … [Read more...]

Newfoundland Theatre Companies

Theatres in St. John's, Newfoundland Resource Center for the Arts Theatre Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland PO Box 23193, Churchill Square St. John's, NL, Canada A1B 4J9 artisticfraud@nf.sympatico.ca 709-693-0224 Shakespeare By The Sea Festival (Saint John's) Wonderbolt Productions (Saint John's) Wonderbolt is an innovative, critically acclaimed, and unabashedly entertaining … [Read more...]

Everyone is Talking About Republic Of Doyle

One thing I actually like about living in my new small city is that when you walk downtown, you will always bump into people you know. This I actually find very uplifting now that I have learned it's impossible to just sneak out to the corner store and make sure that I am sufficiently unstinky and out of egg-stained pyjamas. This past week, when bumping into buddies, there was one topic of … [Read more...]