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Brickle, Nish, and Knobbly: A Newfoundland Treasury of Terms for Ice and Snow
June 29, 2015 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Free Event
Monday June 29, from 5-7 pm
with a screening of the award-winning video-poem at 5:30 pm
Cox & Palmer Second Space
Resource Centre for the Arts, LSPU Hall
3 Victoria Street, St. John’s
Brickle, Nish, and Knobbly: A Newfoundland Treasury of Terms for Ice and Snow by Marlene Creates covers 80 terms in the Newfoundland dialect for ice, snow, and winter weather.
The first part of the book is an adaptation of Creates’s award-winning documentary video-poem From the Ground Tier to a Sparrow Batch: a Newfoundland Treasury of Terms for Ice and Snow, Blast Hole Pond River, Winter 2012-2013 (26 minutes). The video will be screened at 5:30 pm.
The second part of the book documents various forms of sea ice in Conception Bay. The winter of 2013-2014 was so cold that, by March, the bay itself had frozen for the first time in decades.
Marlene Creates says, “I hope this book and the video-poem can help keep some of these wonderful terms active. They’re precise, practical, evocative, sonic, and lyrical. Knowing them helps us actually see different phenomena, instead of winter being just a cold, white blur.”
With special thanks to the Newfoundland & Labrador Arts Council and The Canada Council for the Arts.