February 7, 2012

Car Rental St. John’s Newfoundland

Renting A Car in St. John's, NL Here's your tip: BOOK EARLY!! Renting a car in Newfoundland in the summer can be frustrating. St. John's Airport Avis Rent A Car - St. John's Airport rodpike@nf.aibn.com +1 (800) 879 2847 View Website Budget Car Rental mcampbell@budgetnf.com 1 (800) 268 8900 View Website Hertz Car Rentals - St. John's Airport 1 (800) 263 0600 Near the … [Read more...]

Scorched Starts Feb 2 at the A&C

Scorched postcard - by Beothuck players St. John's

Presented by the Beothuck Street Players, directed by Clar Doyle  -  Wajdi Mouawald’s multi award-winning Scorched. St. John's Arts and Culture Centre from Wed., Feb 2nd - Sat. Feb. 5th. “Scorched is a gift that will touch your heart.” “This haunting work may be the best piece of theatre this country has produced this millennium.” “Intelligently stimulating, politically … [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...]

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...]

Creative Cursing – Just One More Thing Newfoundlanders Do With Style

WARNING: ADULT CONTENT, NOT FOR THE TIMID!!! As if I had to warn you. Have you heard about the new book in production yet called "A String of Oaths: Creative Cursing in Newfoundland & Labrador" You just might have as this week the book had a string of publicity. The entertainment section of the Thursday May 8, 2009 edition of The Telegram had a huge front page article featuring the … [Read more...]

Artistic Fraud Performs AfterImage in Toronto

photo from AfterImage adapted from Michael Crummey

It's the World Premiere of St. John's hot theatre group Artistic Fraud's performance entitled AfterImage. Adapted from a story by author Michael Crummey, it will be performed as part of Harbourfront's World Stage. The story is set in the Newfoundland mining town of Buchans and revolves around a family created and devastated by an accidental electrocution and unexpected adoption. And make no … [Read more...]

Moovy.ca Has Launched

Moovy.ca is the latest greatest baby by the St. John's International Women's Film Festival team. The site which launched in beta this Wednesday is an online community for emerging and established filmmakers of Newfoundland - and soon all of Canada - and is all about supporting and growing this vibrant and productive and successful community of artists, storytellers and craftspeople. Check … [Read more...]

Down To The Dirt At The Toronto Film Festival

Newfound Films are the Producers of Downt To The Dirt.

Down to the Dirt - the feature film based on the novel by Joel Thomas Hynes is screening at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Now that's a big deal folks. TIFF as it's called [rhymes with SJIWFF ;) } is one of the most important festivals there is, and is perhaps the hottest marketplace for film. To have your film screen at TIFF is HUGE!!  Competition is stiff - everyone wants … [Read more...]