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Harvest Music Festival Announces New Site Layout

Harvest Music Festival will be making some changes heading into their 35th anniversary next year.

In a Facebook post the festival announced that they will be combining two of their main tents, the Blues and Mojo, into a new site for the festival that will make use of the new outdoor stage in Officers Square.     

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The MRTI Agency celebrates successful first year of music facilitation

Since 2012, Emma Chevarie has operated Music Runs Through It, a website that provided Frederictonians with weekly listings of all the music events happening in the city and a brand she would eventually promote her own shows under. After 13 years on her own, local radio DJ Rob Pinnock and his partner Krista Touesnard, a

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CHSR News – October 7th, 2024 – New Brunswick Provincial Candidates Discuss Arts Sector

Provincial candidates gathered this weekend at Fredericton’s Charlotte Street Arts Centre for a forum to discuss how their parties will help improve issues in the provinces arts sector, hosted by the Fredericton Arts Alliance. Fredericton Grand Lake NDP candidate Arthur Taylor, Fredericton North Green Party candidate Anthea Plummer and Fredericton North Liberal Candidate Luke Randall

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STU Lunchbox: Make-Up Culture & Legalizing Marijuana

What does make-up mean in culture? And what is happening with the legalizing of medical marijuana? These questions are tackled in today’s pair of documentaries from STU Journalism students Hadeel Ibrahim and Daneel Elliot. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | More

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The Lunchbox Interview: David Perley, Imelda Perley (MWC Powwow)

On March 16, there is an all-day event taking place in the Currie Centre on UNB campus: the 1st Annual Mawio’mi / Siqonawsultipon (Powwow), presented by UNB’s Mi’kmaq/Wolastoqey Centre. My guests today are David Perley (Director, MWC) and Imelda Perley (UNB’s Elder-in-residence).

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STU Lunchbox: Cyborgs & Surveillance

The series of programs produced by the students of STU Journalism continues! This week, Joseph Tunney and Sean McCullum bring us a discussion of our increasing reliance and integration of technology in a piece called “Cyborgs” for the first half, and in the second half they assure you, somebody is watching you, but challenge you

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STU Lunchbox: Cultural Appropriation & Black History Month

STU Journalism presents: The STU Lunchbox! Tune in every Wednesday at noon for a pair of documentary features presented by STU Journalism students. This one: Emma Chapel presents a discussion and debate on the moral conundrum of “cultural appropriation”: what does it imply? Where does it happen? Is it bad, good or something else? And Oscar

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The Lunchbox Interview: Misha Milchenko on Trans Day of Remembrance

Human beings are complicated. This is true in so many ways, but one of the ways that the world is coming to understand more and more is in the area of sexual identity. The binary concept of “male” and “female” has been inadequate to describe the full range of identities, not least of which because it combines

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The Lunchbox: Rae Treyiak of The Maritime Kitchen Party

Looking for a casual place to settle into the party mood? Want to join a kitchen party — even if you don’t have a kitchen? The 20/20 Club is your destination for Wednesday nights with the weekly DJ’ed event called The Maritime Kitchen Party. Rae Treyiak is one of the organizers of The Maritime Kitchen

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The Lunchbox: Interview with Lisa Ross on “Rabbit-Town”

Fredericton has plenty of history, and Frederictonians have a strange way of relating to it. We often talk about a place in this city by what it used to be, more than what it is. We hold fast on rules about appearance of buildings, and yet find ways to innovate. Lisa Ross and Solo Chicken

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The Lunchbox: Interview with Matt Carter & Caleb Marshall on “The Net: A Tragedy of the Sea”

“New Brunswick is a bit like a miniature Canada” is one of the greatest quotes I’ve heard in a long time. That was stated by Caleb Marshall, one of our guests on the Lunchbox today. He and Matt Carter talk about the staging of the translated play The Net: A Tragedy of the Sea, as

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