The PEI Crafts Council’s next jury will take place September 21. Visit their website to fill out t [ ... ]
Canada Homestay Network has a number of homestay hosting opportunities in September 2018. Welcome an [ ... ]
If I’m driving through the country and my eyes fall on an abandoned house or a farm that has long since fallen into disarray I can’t help but wonder who might have lived there.
What kind of lives did they lead?
Was it place where people lived full, happy lives, a place where music and laughter were heard, or one where sadness dwelled and life was just a
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Perhaps the word ‘crisis’ should have more positive connotations, at least within a personal context. Directed by Islander, Charlotte Gowdy, Myth of the Ostrich, playfully illustrates the dysfunction caused by avoiding threatening realities. When branches of distortion are finally torn away in a painful pruning, a more fruitful existence is possible. That sounds so
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Most years at the Island Fringe, I can narrow my favourite show down to one or two contenders by the end of the festival. This year, three shows were pretty much neck-and-neck in my affections come the end: Cardboard Countess, Half a Star and Wild Card.
All three plays have something in common beyond quality entertainment: they’re either two-handers
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Like some of the other shows at this year’s Island Fringe Festival, Realizations is dark, brave and quasi-autobiographical. Staged by Small Town Queer Menace Productions, this play explores issues regarding rape culture and forging one’s own sexual identity, as written by Kandace Hagen and directed by Rory Starkman. Based in part on incidents
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Your crumbling correspondent somehow made it through the Island Fringe Festival’s newly supersized slate of ten shows in one humid, tiring-yet-fun August weekend. Limits imposed by my old nemeses time and space mean a few shows (Cardboard Countess, Half a Star, Realizations and Wild Card) are featured in expanded reviews while the rest of the
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Anne of Green Gables returned to the stage of the Charlottetown Festival to find she is still P.E.I.’s most welcome summer visitor.
More than 50 years after the curtain first rose on an orphaned girl with red hair and freckles waiting at the train station to begin a new life with a new family in Avonlea the desire to be part of her journey has never
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Written, directed, choreographed by
Sheila O’Brien
Performed by
Brad Simkulet, Miloš Simkulet, and Eric Pidgeon.
Live band
Director Peter Gallant, Christine Gallant, Max Gallant and fiddler, Gilbert Arsenault. Faculty and students of the College of Piping, Head Piper, James MacHattie, Dance Instructors, Samantha MacKay and Daniel Carr
The Story
Led
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Performers
Chad Matthews (Tom Connors), Alyssa Harper (Sam Doyle), Paul Shea (Bernadine Doyle), Helen LeClair (Eileen Doyle), Brayden McGuigan (Hubey Keefe)
Directed by
Cheryl Doucette
Written by
Erin Dunn Keefe
The show
The show begins with the final song from Stompin’ Tom at a Prince Edward Island concert. We move to a house party in Skinner’s Pond that was
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Island Nature Trust is seeking nominations for the 2018 Hon. J. Angus MacLean Natural Areas Award. T [ ... ]
September 13–16
Charlottetown
Oysters, mussels and lobster take centre stage during a celebration [ ... ]
The Life and Music Of My Father, Gene MacLellan
Mondays | Tuesdays | Wednesdays
PEI Brewing Company
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Profile: Brielle Ansems by Jane Ledwell When Brielle Ansems plays the role of Josie Hogan in A Moo [ ... ]
by Richard Vickerson The windows of my studio open onto a few old maple trees. They were once part [ ... ]
The Law Foundation of Prince Edward Island announced its grant funding for 2018 recently. Among the [ ... ]
