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Aaron Powell's musical project is gaining attention around the world, reports Andrew Sampson

Dean Burry - head of the Canadian Children's Opera Company. Dean speaks to Angela about a play he wrote called "The Mummers' Masque".

John Steffler has just launched a new novel called: German Mills: A Novel Pertaining to the Life and Times of William Berczy. Born in Germany, Berczy's life paralleled the move towards individual freedom in the 18th century and he took part in the coloniz

In it, the NSCAD professor traces the evolution of the film and television industry here in the east and how film co-ops have paved the way for much of the growth. he opens the book with a shocking statement from an Ontario based academic who articulates

Excerpts from the Ron Hynes Funeral.

The founders of the Labrador Creative Arts Festival are Tim Borlase and Noreen O’Brien Heighton. They were both in Happy Valley goose Bay to celebrate the festival’s 40 year anniversary.

Heather Igloliorte is an Inuk curator and art historian from Labrador who created the show SakKijâjuk: Inuit Fine Art and Craft from Nunatsiavut, which opened in Happy Valley Goose Bay during the Symposium and will tour the country.

Kat Baulu is a producer with the National Film Board. She’s working with filmmaker Isabella Rose Weetal-uk-tuk on a film about life in the north. Angela Antle spoke with them about the project, an artist they are working with from Nain and the NFB's new p

The keynote speakes for Newfoundland and Labrador’s first indigenous arts symposium are curators Ryan Rice and Carla Taunton. Ryan Rice is the Delaney Chair of Indigenous Visual Culture at the Ontario College of Art and Design University. Carla Taunton is

Newfoundland writer Michael Crummey won the inaugural Writers' Trust Fellowship this week, pocketing $50,000 and a two-week residency at the Banff Centre. The jury called Crummey "a poet of tremendous skill and a novelist of truest heart." Angela Antle i

On the morning of July 1, 1916, at Beaumont-Hamel, the men of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment climbed out of their trenches and advanced into no man's land. Eric Mackenzie Robertson went over the top on that fateful day and survived. Almost unbelievably,

Gilbert Fowlow is 94 years old. He grew up in Trinity East and fought in World War Two with the 59th Newfoundland regiment as a signaller. Gilbert fought in Normandy and it was his work to liberate France that saw him receive the Legion D'Honneur medal a

Maria Jesus Hernaez Lerena is the editor of Pathways of Creativity in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador. The book contains interviews with artists and 12 essays about Newfoundland literature, visual art, film, and theatre.

The three nominees for the NLCU Fresh Fish Award this year are: Sharon Bala - for her novel, The Boat People, Eva Crocker - for her collection, Barreling Forward and Other Stories and Susie Taylor - for her novel, Dispelling the Myths. I had all three

She's written a new story called The Dragon's Song. Together with her daughter Jennifer who is a talented printmaker, She's created a hand set picture book for grown ups, with a story that ranges from Coley's Point to the Yangtsze River. I invted them i