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Leisure Learning

If you love writing, then you’ll love a weekend packed with great tips and advice in this online course: How to Edit Your Own Novel, Sat. and Sun., Dec. 9 & 10. Whether you plan to self-publish or take the traditional route, ensure that your manuscript is ready for submission to an agent, editor or publisher. Ready, set, go!

Upcoming Winter 2024 Courses

Enjoy the wonder of winter! Registration is now open for the 60+ exciting 2024 winter classes and workshops. There’s so much to choose from! Here’s five NEW courses:

Looking for something thrilling? Experience the joy of Bharatanatyam. This beautiful classical dance form originates from South India and is used to narrate stories with its unique footwork, hand gestures, facial expressions, and eye movements. Don’t miss this four-week in-person class!

 

Parlez-vous français? Take your French skills to the next level from the comfort of home! If you have the basic grammar and want to improve your speaking skills, then Conversational French - Intermediate is for you! Each week, the instructor leads the conversation on a themed topic, in a relaxed and supportive environment. This fun and educational class builds new vocabulary and increases your confidence when speaking in French. Voilà!

 

If you like to travel (even from an armchair!), try Mandarin Beginners Level 1 and Level 2. Immerse yourself in the richness of one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. You’ll learn basic Mandarin Chinese pronunciation and grammar, as well as Chinese cultural tips.

 

If the idea of writing a novel is daunting, but a short story is limiting, try the in-person eight-week course, A Novella Challenge. With the support of like-minded writers, you’ll complete a novella by the end of this in-person class!

So much to look forward to! Check out the full Winter 2024 course listing

Sign up early & save! Register two weeks ahead for any Leisure Learning course and receive a 15% discount!* *Discount does not apply to French or one-on-one courses.

 

Design Works

March Break Camps

 

Design Works March Break Camps, Now Open for Registration!

Be creative, make friends, and have fun at Design Works March Break Camps. Registration is open for March 4 – 8. Buy as a gift or sign up early!

Choose from three exciting camps:

• Steal the Stage (ages 8-12)
• The Magical World of Harry Potter (ages 6-10)
• Out of this World Art (ages 8-12)

Camps are taught by talented professionals. Security and safety are paramount; all camp staff receive training and have vulnerable sector checks.

Join the fun this March Break!

 

Gift of Learning

Looking for the perfect gift for that special someone? This holiday, consider the Gift of Learning! Choose one of the many exciting online or in-person adult or youth Leisure Learning courses or a fun and educational Design Works Camp for children (ages 6-12).
 
The Gift of Learning is an experience that they’ll always remember!

 

UNB Art Centre

Come and enjoy the exciting installations Cirque de Vice and Lifeboat: An Unnatural History, by Fredericton-based sculptor Kim Vose Jones on display until Dec. 14. The installations spring from the artist's desire to explore complex social issues and the implications of humanity's effect on the planet.

Cirque de Vice is a contemporary take on the medieval allegory of the seven deadly sins. Using the background of the decadence and pleasure associated with a circus, the artist explores human transgression.

Lifeboat: An Unnatural History presents an unstable and ghostly vessel filled with sculpted animal forms. These diverse occupants show their own degrees of vulnerability, while struggling together to reach a distant shore.

Cirque de Vice and Lifeboat: An Unnatural History are on display until Dec. 14. The galleries are open 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. weekdays and during special events. Admission is free to members of the public. Memorial Hall is located at 9 Bailey Drive on the UNB Fredericton campus. For more information, please call 506-453-4623.

From the UNB Collection

Jennifer Pazienza, Winter’s Sky, 2010, Oil on Canvas, 243.84 cm x 182.88 cm

To celebrate the arrival of winter, this month's newsletter features Jennifer Pazienza's Winter's Sky. This large oil on canvas was part of a series that was featured in the exhibition Landscape-Love and Longing held at the UNB Art Centre in 2010.

In her works, Pazienza meditates on the view of the surrounding country from her home and studio on Keswick Ridge. She follows the light of the day as it wanes and the seasons as they change. In works like Winter's Sky, Pazienza challenges the traditional idea of landscape.

Rather than focusing on the land itself, she compresses it, squeezing it into the very bottom of the canvas. Here it becomes a mere suggestion rather than a detailed perspective. In these landscapes it is the sky that dominates providing a calming space that invites the viewer into a contemplative reverie. These lyrical skyscapes capture recurring themes in Pazienza's work that question the concept of home and identity.

Jennifer Pazienza, now retired, was a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, NB. As an accomplished academic, she has published many scholarly articles related to her interest in the intersection between visual arts, and critical analysis, contemporary theory and art education. She has worked as a visual arts research consultant at the Getty Centre for Arts in Education in the US, the Royal Kingdom of Bhutan, and the Canadian Museum of History in Ottawa. She received her early training as an artist working in a variety of media, including blown glass, photography, oil painting and ceramics. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery (2007), and at Artigianato del Sole, Misterbianco, Sicily (2002). She has exhibited locally as well as at the University of Maine and throughout the United States.

You can view Jennifer Pazienza’s most recent works in the exhibit Vision and Dialogue: Jennifer Pazienza and Paul Édouard Bourque at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery until Dec. 31, 2023.

Wishing you and yours a happy, healthy and safe holiday season!

 

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