Culture Days 2013

Culture Days at the Hall – September 28, 2013

On Saturday September 28, Resource Centre for the Arts invites you to stop by the Hall to celebrate Culture Days. On the Gazebo outside and in the Cox & Palmer Second Space there’s a full slate of performers from all different disciplines lined up to show off the best of Newfoundland and Labrador culture. Performers include: RCA Theatre Company, c2c Theatre Company, Patrick Warner, Carmelita McGrath, Agnes Walsh, Joan Sullivan, Folk Arts Society, Amy House, Ken Pieroway and many, many more! The bar will be open and the BBQ will be fired up.  For more information, call the Hall at 753.4531 or check out the Culture Days website: http://nl.culturedays.ca/en

Gazebo, LSPU Hall (In the case of rain the Gazebo line up will be cancelled along with the BBQ)

2pm RCA Theatre Company announces their 2013-2014 season.

2:30 Reading from local poets Patrick Warner, Carmelita McGrath & Agnes Walsh from The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry

3:00 Joseph Coffin and Michaelea Silver. Youth performers from the Folk Arts Society of Newfoundland.

3:30 Actors perform recitations of poetry from recent editions of Riddle Fence: Doug Boyce will recite Cat Burial by Matthew Sweeney and By a Ruin Near Drogheda by Patrick Cotter, Ian Campbell will recite 9. On Togetherness from Chase Sequence by Stewart Cole and Paid Training by Danny Jacobs, Jenn Deon will recite Affirmations by Karen Solie and The Physical Impossibility of Living in the Mind of Someone Dead by Jeramy Dodds, Antoinette Fekete will recite What normal people do by Billy Ramsell and Rental Car by Karen Solie

4:00 Joan Sullivan reads from In The Field, winner of the 2012 Rogers Communication Prize for Non-Fiction. Part history, part documentary, part ghost story, In The Field tells the true story of Newfoundland Regiment Lieutenant Steven Norris.

4:30 Amy House performs a monologue from The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays

5:00 Sam Sheppard’s Fool for Love – Joint Productions. Reading of selected scenes from Sam Sheppard’s Fool for Love, in advance of Joint Productions November production of the show. The show features actors Eddie Penney, Melissa Ralph, Simon Alteen, and David Hallett, and is being directed by Alix Reynolds.

5:30 Leslie Amminson and Esmee Gilbert. Youth performers from the Folk Arts Society of Newfoundland.

6:00 St. John’s Ukulele Orchestra

Cox & Palmer Second Space, LSPU Hall (In case of rain, RCA Theatre will be announcing their line up starting at 12:30 in the Cox & Palmer Second Space.)

1:00 Ken Pieroway talks about his new book Rails Across the Rock and the impact of the railway on Newfoundland History

1:30 Accent Workshop by David Hallet from Joint Productions. Actors will offer to read scenes with members of the public who drop-in, and will focus on helping them to read the text with the southern accent that brings this script to life. Cast member David Hallet, who is also an English professor at Mun, has particular expertise on the appropriate accents for this script and how to create them. Because of the drop-in nature of this workshop, it could run 30 minutes or 1 hour, depending on what would work best for your schedule that day. This one probably would work better inside.

2:30 Videos installation by Louise Moyes and DOCUDANCE

3:00 Debke (Middle Eastern Dance Workshop) with Ainsley Dicks  from DanceNL. DanceNL is proud to present the first NL Moves of the 2013-14 season – all are welcome to participate in this free Debke workshop with Ainsley Dicks. Debke is a folk dance that’s done by people of all ages in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, and Iraq. The movements consist mainly of steps, hops, kicks, and stomps, and dancers follow a leader in a line or a circle. This proud and joyful dance is done at weddings, parties, plays, and even social protests. Ainsley Dicks will be leading this free workshop in association with the Resource Centre for the Arts and Culture Days. All are welcome to participate, free of charge. Dancers should wear comfortable clothing and shoes. Pants are preferable to skirts.

Culture Days raises the awareness, accessibility, participation and engagement of Canadians in the arts and cultural life of their communities. With the support of volunteer groups at the national, provincial and local levels, hundreds of thousands of artists, cultural workers, organizations and groups, volunteers and supporters self-mobilize to host free participatory public activities that take place in hundreds of cities and towns throughout the country over the last weekend of September each year.