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Bill Brennan has been playing gamelan since the `80's and brings along with that experience a unique sensibility as a pianist, percussionist, arranger, composer and improviser. Bill guides Mack through the gamelan and it's various sections.

Dr. Ellen Waterman is the dean of the school of music at MUN. She speaks with Mack Furlong about MUN's aquisition of a rare Indonesian instrument - the gamelan.

Fieldwork is a joint exhibit containing the work of three documentary photographers - Steve Payne, John Haney and Scott Walden - who have a deep and abiding passion for this province. Steve Payne's Front is a collection of photos that capture what you

Memorial University's Music, Media and Place Research Centre's concludes it's 2012-13 lecture series next week with a talk from Dr. Sean Williams, of Evergreen State College. She will present Crossing the Divide: Hinduism and Islam in Sundanese Music. The

CBC's Canada Writes, the online literary destination section of CBC Books, with its partners the Canada Council for the Arts, Air Canada's enRoute magazine and The Banff Centre; has announced the finalists for this year's CBC Short Story Prize. Rod Moody

Philippa Jones, recent participant of the Elbow Room Artist-in-Residence program at The Rooms, has created a wild exhibit as a result of that residency, called MIRIAD. During a series of expeditions that Philippa led to the mythical island of Miriad, mem

Kathleen Hicks chairs the host committee of Provincial Drama Festival 2013, held this year in Happy Valley Goose Bay. The group attending the festival from St. John's is School Zone Productions. They will be presenting Frank Holden's play, Judge Prowse

Jordan Canning is one of the province's most highly regarded young filmmakers. She's won several awards for her short films and continues working on scripts and new projects. Now she's got a gig as a tagger for Netflix; the online, on demand movie busin

Paul Pope has worked tirelessly in the film community of Newfoundland and Labrador since the mid-70's. He runs his own film company, Pope Productions; and has produced work like Extraordinary Visitor, Secret Nation, Above and Beyound, Rare Birds and My L

Shallaway Youth in Chorus likes taking their young singers to places they've never been before ... like Portugal! Kellie Walsh fills Mack in on the trip and a special concert!

Newfoundland singer-songwriter Roy Payne met Stompin' Tom Connors at Toronto's Horseshoe Tavern more than 40 years ago. They played many of the same bars and clubs. They became friends. And they even tried writing a song together. We reached Roy Payne

Sweet is a new exhibit of cupcake-inspired craft at the Craft Council Gallery in St. John's. Mack speaks with Sharon Leriche, the director of the gallery at the Craft Council, and artist Janet Peter in the Annex Gallery.

Actor, writer, director, social and political activist Mary Walsh will have to make more room on the mantelpiece. She's got to hang those doctorates on the wall and shunt aside some of her eighteen Gemini Awards to make room for this latest accolade. Th

Comprised of life-long cousins who were more importantly life-long friends Tim Norman, Perry Murphy and Mike Kelly, Dead Reckoning seemed headed for the headlines. They swept out of their Long Harbour home, took St. John's by storm and headed off to Toro

Louise Moyes is one of the hardest-working and creative people in the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts scene. She has created a unique style of her own - the docu-dance - that blends her skills and talents as a dancer, storyteller, filmmaker, researcher, a