The New Brunswick Summer Festival, August 11 - 23 in Fredericton, features classical chamber music performed by some of Canada's finest professional musicians, including Juno nominated violinist Jasper Wood.

Besides evening concerts, the Festival will be showing the film, “The Maritime Violin of Jasper Wood,” which won five Silver Wave awards in 2007.  The film will be shown Thursday, August 21 at 6:15, Memorial Hall, UNB Fredericton campus.  The screening is free and is followed by a ticketed concert at 7:30.

“The Maritime Violin of Jasper Wood” is an inspirational performance narrative.  The film is an entertaining blend of classical violin and folk fiddling performances, folklore storytelling, and intimate conversations. “The Maritime Violin of Jasper Wood,” is an ode to past, present and future musicians.

Admission to the film is free, but tickets for the evening concerts can be purchased at the Festival office, Memorial Hall, UNB Fredericton, Westminster Books, or the UNB Campus Shoppe or buy on line with PayPal at cel.unb.ca/music/summerfestival/

For more information call 458-7836.

Visit the website for the complete Festival schedule.

http://cel.unb.ca/music/summerfestival/index.php

NOTICE OF CONSTRUCTION
August 12, 2008

University Avenue / Alexandra Street


The City of Fredericton Engineering and Public Works Department wishes to advise motorists that beginning Tuesday morning, August 12th, University Avenue will be closed to through traffic between the intersections of Beaverbrook Street and Lansdowne Street.  Also, Alexandra Street will be closed to through traffic.  These closures are necessary to upgrade the City’s infrastructure.  This closure is expected to be in place for (6) weeks.

All traffic will be required to detour around University Avenue using Waterloo Row and Shore Street. Construction and detour signs will be in place to warn motorists of the closure and to guide motorists through the detour route.  Also, traffic control persons will be stationed at key locations to help direct motorists.

The Department wishes to thank motorists for their patience and cooperation in this matter.  For more information on road closure announcements, visit www.fredericton.ca or telephone 506-460-2038.

Note: Forest Hill Road and Beaverbrook Street are now opened

Fredericton Presents Six NB Day Merit Awards


Fredericton, NB – The City of Fredericton presented six NB Day Merit Awards as part of New Brunswick Day celebrations at Old Government House on August 4, 2008.  Individuals were recognized in the Business, Environment, Community Leadership, Sport, Recreation and Active Living, and the Volunteer Services categories.

Joe Dobbelsteyn, owner of Dobbelsteyn Maintenance and Service, was recognized in the Business category.  Long time social activist, Pat Carlson was the winner in the Community Leadership category.  Peter Corbyn, a climate change messenger for Al Gore, was recognized in the Environment category.

Malcolm and Nancy MacAfee, supporters of rugby in Fredericton, were recognized in the Sport, Recreation and Active Living category.  Noella LeBrun, an active volunteer most recently with the Kiwanis Club, was recognized in the Volunteer Services category.  Jeanie Whitehead, a long-time volunteer with the Fredericton SPCA, was also recognized in the Volunteer Services category.

"These are outstanding individuals dedicated to service in our community," said Fredericton Mayor Brad Woodside.  "They work tirelessly and often quietly to make Fredericton a better place to live.  We thank them for the contribution."

The NB Day Merit Awards is a program of the New Brunswick Provincial Capital Commission and is delivered locally through the Office of the Mayor and NB Day organizing committee.

The award allows municipalities to honour their unsung heroes and recognize achievement in six fields of endeavour, including arts; business; community leadership; environment; sport, recreation, and active living; and, volunteer service.

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Media Contact: Wayne Knorr, Communications Coordinator, City of Fredericton, 506-460-2181 / 474-3389 (cell).

Fredericton, NB – The City of Fredericton reminds residents living along the St. John River, Naswaak River, and other area waterways to be watchful of rising waters due to recent heavy rains.

This is further to the advisory sent out by the New Brunswick Emergency Measures Organization on Sunday, August 3, 2008 concerning increased water flows along New Brunswick waterways.  (Direct link:  http://www.gnb.ca/public/english/2008-0123e.htm.)

With the flood waters from upriver and more rain expected today, the level of the St. John River in the Fredericton area is expected to rise.

Water levels increases will be of particular concern to farm operations in low lying areas adjacent to water courses and to operations on any of the islands along the St. John River.

Boaters, fishers and other persons in close proximity to water courses should exercise extreme caution as water flows will increase beyond normal summer levels.

Docks and other property near the shore line should be secured to avoid being lost.

Please refer to the latest public forecasts issued by Environment Canada for weather information.

The City of Fredericton will work with the New Brunswick Emergency Measures Organization to provide updates as necessary.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 31, 2008
Media contact: Nancy Reid 506-458-7836


Jazzy Kids, Classy Kids, Tunes & ‘Toons: Summer Music Festival hosts free family talks and performances

The New Brunswick Summer Music Festival in Fredericton, now in its fifteenth year, is known for its two-week offerings of classical music performances, but this year, organizers are expanding their program to include more family and youth oriented activities.

The Festival is hosting a three-part series of informal talks and live performances aimed at exposing kids to music. With the financial support of the City of Fredericton’s Arts Culture and Heritage program and the Fredericton Community Foundation, organizers are able to offer the workshops for free.

Called Jazzy Kids, Classy Kids, Tunes & ‘Toons, the workshops will be held over a three-day period, August 11, 14 and 18th, at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre..

“Even though our focus has always been classical chamber music, we launched a workshop program last year with a focus on the history and construction of jazz,” said Festival coordinator Nancy Reid.  “We had such a great response, especially from children and youth, we knew immediately that we wanted to offer an expanded program again this year.  Our goal with these free events is to create a family-friendly and fun atmosphere that gently educates kids about music and hopefully encourages them to explore our other more formal Festival concerts.”

“This year we are going to explore some of the lighter aspects of jazz, brass and film,” Reid said.  “We have a dynamic music educator who absolutely held our audience spell bound at last year’s jazz talks.  Nationally known jazz saxophonist Scott Marshall will join us again to lead the first workshop.  Kids seem to immediately ‘get’ jazz when Scott is explaining and demonstrating it,” she added.

Know as the Team Canada of Trombones, the brass quintet I Tromboni will present a noon hour performance on Fanfares and Flourishes for the second event in the series.  “I Tromboni is about the most fun you can have with a trombone,” said Reid.  “Expect to hear everything from Ravel to the theme song from the Simpsons; Copeland to Star Wars in a riotous show the kids will love.”

The final workshop looks at the role of music in film and in animation or cartoons and will feature the work of prolific Canadian film composer, Lou Applebaum.  Applebaum did a large body of work for the National Film Board and some of those films and animations will be featured.  This talk will be led by musician and educator Richard Hornsby.

The three events in this series are free and open to all ages.

For more information on the Jazzy Kids, Classy Kids, Tunes & ‘Toons talks and shows or the Summer Music Festival program, contact the Festival office at 458-7836.

The Summer Music Festival’s Main Series tickets and schedule information can be found on-line at http://cel.unb.ca/music/summerfestival

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PRINT media:  publication quality photos available (colour, b & w, jpegs)
BROADCAST media:  music selections available
ALL media:  artist interviews arranged


SCHEDULE
Jazzy Kids, Classy Kids, Tunes & ‘Toons - August 11, 14, 18.
– a set of three free family talks and performances at the Charlotte St. Arts Centre in a relaxed and informal setting. Jazzy Kids, Classy Kids, Tunes & ‘Toons: Talks & Concerts for Families. These events are free but donations are always welcome.
Jazzy Kids - Aug. 11, 11am - 1:00pm:  Simple enough for older children and engaging enough for even the ardent jazz fan, Scott Marshall’s workshop combines live performance with classic recordings and diagrams to explain the wonderful world of jazz.
Classy Kids - Aug. 14 - noon: Maybe we should call this “Brassy Kids, as I Tromboni presents “Fanfares & Flourishes. Brass instruments are renowned for their ability to begin any event with a flourish!  This I Tromboni program will be an upbeat and up-close look at the idea of fanfares and all ages are welcome to come and enjoy the show.
Tunes & ‘Toons - Aug 18 - 11am - 1pm:  Tunes and ‘Toons: Spend a few hours with musician and educator Richard Hornsby watching and listening to the work of Lou Applebaum, one of Canada’s most prolific film composers.  We’ll look at film shorts and excerpts of documentaries as we learn how music is used to enhance the film genre.

Information Release
July 30, 2008

NOTICE OF CONSTRUCTION:  Forest Hill Road Culvert Replacement

The City of Fredericton Engineering and Public Works Department wishes to advise motorists that weather dependant beginning Saturday morning, August 2nd, Forest Hill Rd will be closed to all traffic between Forest Acres Court and the Waterloo Row / Beaverbrook Street intersection. This closure is necessary to replace a large culvert in the area.

Motorist travelling on Route 8 and wishing to travel to the down town area, will be required to detour via Regent Street.  Motorist wishing to access Skyline Acres area will be required to detour via Lincoln Road.  Construction and detour signs will be in place to warn motorists of the closure and to guide motorists through the detour route.

This closure is expected to be in place for (7) days.

The Department wishes to thank motorists for their patience and cooperation in this matter.  For more information on road closure announcements, visit www.fredericton.ca or telephone 506-460-2038.

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Communiqué de presse
le 30 juillet 2008

AVIS DE CONSTRUCTION : Remplacement de ponceau sur le chemin Forest Hill

Ingénierie et travaux publics Fredericton informe les automobilistes que, le samedi 2 août au matin, si la météo le permet, le chemin Forest Hill sera fermé à toute circulation entre cour Forest Acres et l’intersection allée Waterloo – rue Beaverbrook. Cette fermeture est nécessaire afin de remplacer un gros ponceau dans le secteur.

Pour aller au centre-ville à partir de la route 8, les automobilistes devront passer par la rue Regent. Pour aller à Skyline Acres, il faudra prendre le chemin Lincoln. Des panneaux de construction et de déviation seront installés pour informer les automobilistes et les guider.

Cette fermeture devrait durer sept (7) jours.

Ingénierie et travaux publics remercie les gens de leur patience et de leur collaboration. Pour en savoir plus sur les fermetures de routes, consulter le www.fredericton.ca ou téléphoner au 560-460-2038.


Wayne Knorr
Communications Coordinator
City of Fredericton
PO Box 130, (1st Floor, City Hall)
Fredericton, NB  E3B 4Y7

Tel:       (506) 460-2181
Fax:      (506) 460-2134
E-mail:  wayne.knorr@fredericton.ca
Web:    www.fredericton.ca

The 2008 NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival opens July 22 and runs through August 2 at four venues in Fredericton. This year’s festival features thirteen new plays by New Brunswick dramatists, including three main stage productions, free daytime street theatre, and free public readings of new works in development.

Opening the festival on July 22 and running nightly through July 26 at 8 PM at the Black Box Theatre, STU, is Chapel Arm by Step Taylor. Chapel Arm is a darkly complex and challenging drama, surprising both in its philosophical scope and emotional resonance. Dodi, a lawyer living in Toronto, returns to her childhood home of Chapel Arm, Newfoundland, only to discover her ex-boyfriend engaged to a brutish woman. To make matters worse, her favorite uncle has burnt her family’s old house to the ground. Feeling more than a little estranged, Dodi tries to understand how the town still seems to hold such a strange power over her, one that makes her remember, one that makes her unable to leave.

Chapel Arm is directed by Montreal-based Rose Plotek, recent graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada directing programme, and stars Fredericton actors Robbie O’Neill, Marissa Robinson, and Leah Holder, along with Montreal’s Greg Gale.

The festival’s second week stages the winners of this year’s NotaBle Acts playwriting contest. Acting Out, a double-bill of the two winners of the one act category of the contest, takes the stage at Memorial Hall, UNB, July 30-August 2, featuring Our Mouths Are Filters by Kathleen Brown and Someone Else’s Dream by Jeff Lloyd. Taking It To The Streets stages the five winners of the festival’s ten minute play contest as an hour of free lunchtime theatre. Taking it to the Streets runs daily at noon in downtown Fredericton’s Barracks Square July 28-August 1 and features plays by Chris Campbell, Jordan Dashner, Jeremy Gorman, Chris Nyarady, and Brad O’Donnell. And Play Out Loud, running at 8 PM at Brewbakers Restaurant July 28 and 29, will feature free public readings of five new plays.

Tickets for main stage shows are $15, $10 for students. For full schedule and ticket information, visit www.nbacts.com or call (506) 458-7406.

St. Thomas University Media Release - St. Thomas University Establishes New Holocaust Centre

St. Thomas University is establishing a Holocaust Centre to raise greater awareness of the plight of Holocaust victims during the Second World War, as well as other genocides throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century. As part of its education and research program, the new centre will support the Ripples Internment Camp project, the only camp in North America that housed Jewish internees during the Second World War.

“Our centre will be distinct in content and mission. It will educate young people about the tragedies that transpire when prejudice, racism, and hate target groups in society,” said Dr. Michael McGowan, professor in Human Rights and director of the new centre. “People learn to hate and they can learn to stop hating by knowledge, understanding and engagement with others.”

He said the centre will give recognition to the significance of the SHOAH as a means to develop leadership to prevent similar atrocities. “We want to bring students together from across Canada and around the world to increase their knowledge of genocide and equip them to become leaders in their work for peace, understanding and respect.”

The Holocaust Centre will deliver educational programmes for students and professional groups, provide scholarships, organize seminars and conferences, and sponsor public lectures by scholars. The new centre will co-operate with other organizations such as the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews, the Canadian Centre for Diversity, and Yad Vashem.

Three outreach activities are already planned for the year – a study mission to Germany and Poland, a summer institute on diversity and respect, and interviewing surviving Ripples Camp internees. A fund-raising campaign will be launched for the Endowment Fund of the St. Thomas University Holocaust Centre, and a new advisory board will guide the centre’s activities.

At its Summer Convocation held today, St. Thomas University awarded an honourary degree to Philip Riteman, a Holocaust survivor. Born in Poland, Riteman and his family were sent to the Pruzhany ghetto in 1941 and the following year, they were packed into boxcars for a week’s journey to the Auschwitz-Birkeneau extermination camp. Tattooed as prisoner 98706, he would be the sole survivor of his extended family. After forty years of silent mourning, Riteman first spoke of his experience as a Holocaust survivor in 1989 to give voice to the millions who died and to silence Holocaust deniers.

St. Thomas University (www.stu.ca ), located in Fredericton, New Brunswick, is Canada’s only exclusively liberal arts university. Its cornerstone Bachelor of Arts programme encompasses 25 fields of study with numerous interdisciplinary options including an innovative Human Rights programme. St. Thomas is home to many research centres including the Atlantic Human Rights Centre. Both the Human Rights programme and the Atlantic Human Rights Centre seek to educate and train young leaders.

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The NotaBle Acts Theatre Company unveiled its 2008 Summer Theatre Festival lineup in a launch held today at the new Barracks Square Tent in Fredericton.
The company will stage thirteen new plays by New Brunswick writers at the festival, slated for July 22-August 2 in Fredericton.

Opening the festival is Chapel Arm by Step Taylor, which will run at the Black Box Theatre, STU, July 22-26. An emotional and unconventional homecoming story set in rural Newfoundland, Chapel Arm is the latest of several of Taylor’s plays to debut at the festival, but the first to appear on the festival’s main stage. The play was chosen for the distinction, making Taylor the youngest playwright to open the festival, following a successful public reading of an earlier version of the play at the 2007 festival.

Chapel Arm will be directed by recent National Theatre School directing program graduate Rose Plotek and will star Fredericton actors Robbie O’Neill, Leah Holder, and Marissa Robinson, along with Montrealer Greg Gale.

The festival’s second main stage production will be Acting Out, a twin bill of the two winners NB Acts’ province-wide one-act playwriting competition. Acting Out will run July 30-August 2 at Memorial Hall, UNB, and will feature plays by Moncton’s Jeff Lloyd and Fredericton writer Kathleen Brown. Lloyd’s play, Someone Else’s Dream, is a slice of rural New Brunswick realism set at a bachelor party where four friends poignantly ponder their life choices, prime among them the ongoing conflict between the pull of home and the lure of greener pastures elsewhere in the country. Brown’s Our Mouths Are Filters: Documenting in the Brink, set in the Canadian high Arctic, is a poetic and imagistic meditation on conquest, heroism, and the clash between human and natural ecology in a landscape threatened by global warming.
From July 29-August 1, Barracks Square in Fredericton will play host to Taking It to the Streets, NB Acts’ annual staging of the five winners of its contest for plays ten minutes and under. The plays are presented together daily as an hour of free outdoor lunchtime theatre, starting at noon.
Comedy is at the top of the menu at this year’s Taking It to the Streets, with a lineup heavy on laughs. This year’s five winning plays are Rock It Science by Christopher Campbell, Socially Correct by Jordan Dashner, Doommates by Jeremy Gorman, The 5th Wall by Christopher Nyarady, and Our Day in the Sun by Bradley O’Donnell.
Rounding out the festival lineup will be two nights of public staged readings of new scripts in development, July 28 and 29.
NotaBle Acts is also co-producing Shakespeare’s As You Like It, set to run June 19-29 in Fredericton as the third annual Bard in the Barracks.
Festival Co-Artistic Director Len Falkenstein is excited about this year’s lineup: “We have possibly our best festival ever shaping up with strength across the board in all our scripts. We’re seeing more and more incredible work by playwrights in this province.”
Founded in 2001, NotaBle Acts is dedicated to developing and producing new plays by New Brunswick dramatists. All seven of the winning entries in the company’s 2008 playwriting contest will undergo intensive workshopping before the plays are produced at the festival, and audience feedback sessions take place for all the plays.
For more information on NotaBle Acts, visit www.nbacts.com or call 458-7406.

The committee wanted to send one last final reminder to everyone about Lobster on the Lawn taking place this Sunday at the Crowne Plaza. No time to pick up tickets?! That's okay!! We will be delivering tickets today and tomorrow. OR, you can call your payment into the United Way office and have your tickets waiting for you. Contact us at 459-7773. Cash, cheque, Visa, MasterCard & AMEX are accepted.

CIBC Wood Gundy presents the 5th Annual Lobster on the Lawn in support of the United Way and the Forever Fund.
This is the must-go-to event to kick off the summer.
It will be a fun-filled afternoon offering live entertainment, live auction, silent auction, delicious lobster delicacies uniquely prepared by the Executive Chef at the Crowne Plaza, as well as beverages generously supplied by various local representatives.

Takes place this Sunday, June 1st, 2-4:30pm in the Crowne Plaza courtyard (ballroom if raining).

Over $10,000 in Auction items to be won!!
~~Live Auction Items valued at over $7,500 and over 50 items in the Silent Auction valued at over $2,500~~

Steph Fox, BBA
Campaign Director
United Way/Centraide Central N.B. Inc.
Tel: (506) 451-7791
Fax: (506) 451-1104
www.unitedwaycentral.com