JUNO Nominated Tara Davidson is releasing her highly anticipated new album ‘View’ and embarks on a cross country tour beginning here in St. John’s.
Find out more at http://wp.me/PIsYB-19H
You can now buy tickets at http://www.wreckhousejazzandblues.com/jazz-blues-events-schedule_.htm
During the fall 2010 granting session of the Professional Project Grants Program (PPGP), the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council (NLAC) awarded $248,200 in grants to 71 artistic projects.
The PPGP supports artistic projects involving creation, production or professional development. The program is open to professional artists, groups, and organizations working in dance, film, multidiscipline arts, music, theatre, visual arts, and writing. Grants are awarded through a competitive application process. Applications are assessed by committees of artistic peers who have expertise in the relevant artistic disciplines.
This session the average grant awarded to new professional artists and groups was $1,854 (maximum available grant $3000); and the average grant awarded to established professional artists or groups and professional not-for-profit arts organizations was $4,444 (with a maximum available grant of $7500). The NLAC received a total of 164 applications requesting $826,613.
“As usual, demand exceeded available funds,” says Reg Winsor, executive director of the NLAC. “These figures show that only 43 percent of applicants received funding, and only 30 percent of the total amount requested was awarded.”
The Professional Project Grants Program has two grant deadlines a year: one in the spring and one in the fall. The next application deadline is March 15, 2011 (for projects starting on or after May 15, 2011.)
To view the full list of grant recipients click this link to open a PDF
A Little Brazilian Carnival history -
Because it precedes Lent, Carnival long ago was conceived as the last chance for 40 days to eat meat, to make love and to live joyously, all forbidden activities during the season when one is supposed to do penance in preparation for a spiritual resurrection at Easter. Thus it was not too hard to see how the Carnival period, from one or two days to several weeks, came to be in the specific time when one purposely set out to break the mold, to determine to do all the things normally impossible or forbidden in everyday life, and perhaps even to fulfill oneself by trying out one or more alternative roles or lifestyles to be for a short time what one could never be in ordinary life. This is the reversal phenomenon so often noted in Carnivals everywhere, wherein regular behavior is reversed, and people choose to do the very opposite of their normal behavior.
Carnival is truly profane since it seeks specifically NOT to be sacred, and indeed to do violence to propriety and respectability by irreverence and even contempt, often made all the more effective through the use of indirection, humour, and irony.
Let’s party!!!!!!!!
Come celebrate Brazilian Carnival with a night of samba, bossa nova, tropicalismo, and tons more!!
with vocalists:
Kelly Ann Evans
Dana Parsons
Jeff Dyer
and band:
Bill Brennan
Brian Way
Glen Collins
Mark Peddle
Scott Mansfield
It’s going to be a GREAT time!!!!
Saturday
Mar. 5th
The Ship
Duckworth St.
10pm
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