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Leisure Learning - A New Year & New Beginnings

Learn something new

Start the new year off with an exciting Leisure Learning course...there are over 60 fantastic 2024 winter classes and workshops to choose from–online and in-person!

Check out the full Winter 2024 course listing.

Always wanted to paint? Try Introduction to Acrylic Painting without leaving home. Designed for beginners, you'll learn basic techniques and gain an understanding of the elements of art with artist Ameesha Tirmazi as your guide, Monday evenings, starting Jan. 29.

Getting ready for your trip to Italy (or dreaming of going)? Learn the basics of this romantic language with Italian Beginners 1 (levels 2 & 3 also available). Emphasis is on developing simple conversational skills to ask for such things as food, shelter, and directions. Fantastico!

Create an illustrated travel journal with Watercolours on the Go. Taught by Fredericton artist Katie FitzRandolph, you'll produce drawings that evoke a mood, a day, a location. All painting levels are welcome.

Early Bird Special! 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.

UNB Design Works March Break Camps

March 4 to 8, 2024!

It's almost here! Have a blast, be creative, and have fun at our 2024 March Break Camps.

Choose from three fabulous camps:

• Out of this World Art (ages 8-12) *NEW*
  Bring other worlds, creatures, societies, and unimaginable buildings to life in this fun, new camp.
   
• Steal the Stage (ages 8-12)
  Here's your chance to help create a script, develop your acting talents, and bring your characters to life.
   
• The Magical World of Harry Potter (ages 6-10)
  Spend the week with other wizards and witches making your magical creations.
   

Camps are taught by talented professionals and security and safety is paramount. All camp staff receive security training and criminal record checks.

Sign-up early for your favourite camp.

See you this March Break!
 

UNB Art Centre

Rediscovering the Roots of Black New Brunswickers Exhibit and Film Series

The UNB Art Centre is pleased to present Rediscovering the Roots of Black New Brunswickers, a program of exhibits and films designed to showcase and honour the everyday experiences of Black New Brunswickers. The exhibition runs Jan. 15 through March 1, with the opening on Friday, Feb. 9 at 5 p.m. This exhibit is a project commemorating Black History Month, a time set aside to celebrate Black achievement and to acknowledge that the struggle for recognition and equality happens every day.

This collection of portraits and biographies has been an ongoing project for the UNB Art Centre. This year nine new portrait panels have been added and now include Carol Howe, David Peters, Carl Howe, Terry Dymond, Chester Eatmon, Gabriel Johnson, Randolph George Hope, Dexter Noel, and Carl White.

Additionally, banners highlighting some of the individuals honoured in the panels will be on display along Regent and Westmorland Streets in Fredericton throughout February again this year.

This year’s film series, presented in partnership with the New Brunswick Black Artists Alliance, is every Tuesday in February at 7:30 p.m. in room 261 of Marshall d’Avray Hall on the UNB Fredericton campus.

Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024

• "Oscar" (2016) directed by Marie-Josée Saint Pierre (12 mins)
• "The World is Ours" (2023) directed by Nadia Louis-Desmarchais (21 mins)
• "Bonum" (2017) directed by Sabrina Naz Comănescu (12 mins)
• "Speakers for the Dead" (2000) directed by David Sutherland & Jennifer Holness (49 mins)

Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024

• "I Made a Vow" directed by Juanita Peters (51 mins)
• "Portia White: Think on Me" (2000) directed by Sylvia Hamilton (50 mins)

Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024

• "Two Friends" directed by David Dairo-Singer (3 mins)
• "Blowies" (2006) directed by Brian Carty (17 mins) 
• "Pugilist Pride: The Story of Faryad Azizi" directed by Gary Weekes (18 mins)
• "Echoes in the Rink: The Willie O'Ree Story" directed by Errol Williams (26 mins)

Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024

• "Triggered" directed by Carlos Anthony (25 mins) 
• "John Ware Reclaimed" (2020) directed by Cheryl Foggo (73 mins)

A discussion will take place after the screening. Rediscovering the Roots of Black New Brunswickers can also be viewed online.
 

From the UNB Collection - Roméo Savoie

Venezia was painted in 2003 and was acquired for the UNB Permanent Collection in 2013.

On Oct. 14 last year, New Brunswick lost one of its pioneering Acadian artists and one of the preeminent abstract painters in Canada with the passing of Roméo Savoie. While Savoie's early training was in architecture, he turned to painting after an influential trip to Europe in the 1960s. He claimed that a small red abstract painting in the window of a shop in Paris caught his eye and changed his perspective on art forever. Savoie was one of the first Abstract painters in the Maritime region to challenge the Magic Realism of artists like Alex Colville, Christopher Pratt, and Tom Forrestall from the English-speaking regions. Savoie received his BA from Collège Saint-Joseph in Memramcook (1950) and received his MA in Visual Art from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1988. He taught fine art at the Université de Moncton from 1973-1981.

Savoie was a multi-dimensional artist who painted, composed poetry and worked tirelessly for the cultural community. He was passionate about the development of Acadian culture and was a founding member of Galerie sans Nom and Galerie 12 at the Aberdeen Cultural Centre in Moncton. He was curator of the retrospective exhibit Les arts visuels en Acadie held in Bouctouche during the 1994 World Acadian Congress, which featured over 200 works by Acadian artists.

Roméo Savoie, was a member of the Order of Canada for his valuable contributions to painting, architecture and literature (2009), the recipient of the Lieutenant-Governor's Award for High Achievement in the Arts (2009), an Éloise Award (1998), the Strathbutler Award (1998) and the Miller Brittain Award (1994). He also held an Honorary Doctorate in Visual Arts from the Université de Moncton (1999).

The UNB Art Centre (506-453-4623) is located at Memorial Hall, 9 Bailey Drive, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. The galleries are open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays and during special events. Admission is free to members of the public.

 

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