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The Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador continues celebrating its 25th year of operation on the literary front by joining forces with the Newfoundland Quarterly in creating a Postcard Story Contest. Leslie Vryenhoek and Andy Jones are the j

It must be the end of budget year and businesses are cleaning out their accounts. CBC, Fortis, Cox and Palmer and Memorial University announced support for the Arts Council Awards. The Bruneaus fork over a million bucks to the School of Music, and the R

Drs. Jean and Angus Bruneau have donated one million dollars to the School of Music at Memorial University. The funds will enable the school to establish the Bruneau Centre for Excellence in Choral Music. The Bruneaus have a history of philanthropy at

Grenfell announced this week that Whitney is this year's winner of the Art Dealer's Association of Canada Foundation art scholarship, worth two thousand dollars. The foundation chooses a school of art from a different region in the country each year and s

Acclaimed poet Carmine Starnino, author of four collections of poems, has won the A.M. Klein Award for poetry - twice! -, the Canadian Authors Associate Prize and been nominated for the Governor General's award. He is also a critic and an editor - he edi

The Writers Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador has spawned a new editors' group in St. John's - ETS (Editors Talk Shop). T his group is getting active by presenting a workshop this coming week, but it ain't about editing. MONEY AND THE SELF-EMPLOYED

The fourth annual SPARKS Literary Festival takes place next weekend in St. John's at Memorial University. Although situated in the capitol city, the festival honours the province's writing community and goes out of its way to include students and graduat

Guests were Donna Butt, Berni Stapleton, and Jim Payne. Rising Tide Theatre Pokes Fun at 2012 with Revue Tour The cast for Revue 2012 includes: Rick Boland, Jim Payne, Michael Power, Tina Randell and Berni Stapleton. The performance is full of ener

Beginning tomorrow in St. John's, and showing for four nights at Empire Theatres, People of A Feather hits the screen. This film has won awards in San Francisco, Vancouver, New Zealand, Korea, Estonia and New York. The blurb for the film says in part: "F

Prizes were won; authors were feted; publishers took chances; and 2012 looks like it was a good year for many writers and their publishers. Chad Pelley is the Interim Executive Director Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador and Elisabeth de Maria

Laura Churchill and Dorian Rowe work with the Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corporation - they know where film went in 2012, and where it's bound to go in 2013.

More musicians from this province touring farther and selling more cds, digital downloads and vinyl than ever. Denis Parker from MusicNL and Steve Hussey from Fred's Records tell us about 2012 in the music business.

2012 seems to have been a year where there was something or someone new on stage somewhere in the province - from Labrador down the Great Northern Peninsula, up and down almost every arm and bay of the province, all the way to the Avalon. But was it a

Dave Andrews is the executive director of VANL - Visual Artists Newfoundland and Labrador - he has his finger on the pulse of the body that is the collection of visual artists in the province.

2012 was a hop, skip and a jump for the dance community in the province. Kristin Harris Walsh of DanceNL is my to talk about both the past and the future.