Bideford artist Nan Ferrier accepts an unusual commission

by Sue Gallant

It’s not easy painting a work of art outdoors, onto the concave surface of a large, tall, disused, satellite dish. The job is made even more challenging with a pot-bellied pig hanging around at the base of your ladder, passing the time by using the structure upon which you are precariously balanced as a convenient
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Memorial to the late Joseph-Henri Gaudet installed in Tignish

by Sue Gallant

A permanent memorial and tribute to the life and work of the late, great, Joseph-Henri Gaudet, has recently been installed within the Tignish Cultural Centre.

Gaudet was an outspoken, colourful, controversial and deeply spiritual man, who worked tirelessly to preserve his region’s history for prosperity. He received
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Memories of the Rat Pack

Review by Sue Gallant

They set the style and pace for 1950’s America. They were known collectively as The Rat Pack. They were: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop. A live musical tribute to the first three and most famous members of The Pack, delighted audiences at the Harbourfront Jubilee Theatre in Summerside this July and
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US and Canadian visual artists explore shared exhibition theme

by Sue Gallant

A definition of the word edge, when used as a noun, is the line where something begins or ends. It’s a definition recently explored in great creative detail by five Maine, and nine Island visual artists. The result is an impressive combined exhibition at the Cultural Centre in Tignish.

The Edge: where land and water
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Island ship-building history created in newspaper and home-made glue

by Sue Gallant

Loretta Ross of Bideford proudly shows her papier-mache model of the Meteor, made in ten weeks at Ellerslie Community School this year.

Her name was the Meteor. She was one of the last, magnificent, wooden sailing ships to be built and launched from the Bideford wharf in Western PEI, in 1892.

The story of the
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Moncton artist Finton Wade opens exhibit at Musée Acadien

by Sue Gallant

Finton Wade of Moncton is a man who quite obviously enjoys life. He smiles and laughs a lot. The man’s sunny disposition is utterly contagious. Wade is a proud Acadian; a retired elementary school teacher; a musician; singer/songwriter; and a visual artist with an undisguised passion for Acadian history.

An exhibition of
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Video production workshop series presented in Tyne Valley

by Sue Gallant

Wannabe film directors are getting a chance to learn the craft at Tyne Valley Opportunity Centre & CAP Site. The first in a series of film-making workshops is currently underway there, with a second scheduled for April.

Over a period of four, three-hour, workshops, participants each make three, one-minute
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by Sue Gallant

The Chairman of the Board of the soon-to-be-established PEI Folk Music Centre, says he anticipates the new facility will open its doors in late Summer 2004, and be in full-fledged operation by 2005. “Once complete, this new Centre will be a popular destination for our many visitors and for Islanders themselves,” says Myles Ellis.

The PEI Folk Music Centre will be housed in the
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Nan Ferrier illustrates section of PEI highway, Route 225

by Sue Gallant

A unique piece of artwork has been under construction this summer, at the West Island Art Gallery Co-operative in Bideford.

The piece began life as a roll of drawing paper: a very long, twelve inch wide roll of drawing paper; given to folk-artist, Nan Ferrier. What use to put said roll of paper to? Ferrier found the
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The Best Thing
by Sue Gallant

The best thing? I can pick only one? That's not going to be easy. I shall choose my younger brother's visit to my home here on PEI, accompanied by his charming wife and two children.

I left England in 1995 and have not been back since. I have wonderful friends here on PEI but it gets lonely sometimes when most everyone you meet comes from the biggest extended family
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An Old Maid to Marry

Review by Sue Gallant

On the evening I visited Le Village de l'Acadie to review the Acadian dinner-theatre presentation, La Cuisine à Mémé, the cast seemed to be enjoying themselves as much as the audience, and the standing ovation eventually awarded the beaming actors up on stage taking their final bow, was justly deserved. They worked hard for a solid three hours or
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Barachois

Review by Sue Gallant

If you don't know anything about the tradition of Acadian music; if you've been living on another planet and have never heard of Barachois; you would still live to regret not booking tickets to see this awesome foursome perform for the last time this summer on PEI.

Barachois are taking their final bow this year after nine years together. Their high energy
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