“Gifts of St Vincent’s” by Kathryn Welbourn. Winner of the 2024 Arts and Letters Awards.   ST. JOHN’S, NL – The 2024 Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters competition winners were announced on April 19, 2024 and the awards ceremony at The Rooms in St John’s. An exhibition of winning entries will be on display at The Rooms April 20the-May 19, 2024. You can all see a full list of the winners and their work on the Arts and Letters website. Kathryn Welbourn with her painting Gifts of St Vincent’s. Photo by Leah Curnew Kathryn Welbourn, a winner in the Senior Visual Art Category, with her ..read more

Photo by Dennis Minty   March 14, 2024 (St. John’s, NL) Holly Hogan is the winner of the 2023 BMO Winterset Award for her book, Message in a Bottle: Ocean Dispatches from a Seabird Biologist. The award, which celebrates excellence in Newfoundland and Labrador writing, was presented today at a ceremony at Government House in St. John’s. Message in a Bottle: Ocean Dispatches from a Seabird Biologist (Knopf Canada, ON) is one of 49 works by Newfoundland and Labrador authors (either native-born or resident) that were submitted by publishers from across the country. Books in any genre, publis ..read more

March 1, 2024 (St. John’s, NL) – ArtsNL is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2023 BMO Winterset Award, celebrating excellence in Newfoundland and Labrador writing.  Readings by the finalists will take place at The Rooms Theatre on Wednesday, March 13, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. The winner will be announced on March 14 at Government House.   The three finalists are:               Michael Crummey The Adversary (Knopf Canada, ON)               William Ping Hollow Bamboo (HarperCollins, ON)       &nbs ..read more

**. Photo by Greg Locke © 2017. Congratulations to Sarah Comerford on her 2024 Juno nomination in the Musicounts Teacher of The Year category.  Sarah is a music educator who leads by example and does it all. She runs six different ensembles at her school, MacDonald Drive Jr High, plays in the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra, and has elevated the Newfoundland and Labrador Band Association to a national level. The post Juno nomination for Sarah Comerford. first appeared on Arts Newfoundland ..read more

September 16, 1942 – February 1, 2024 Legendary Newfoundland and Labrador actor, writer and theatre teacher died on February1 , 2024 leaving a big hole in the heart of the Newfoundland arts community. A a theatre teacher he is the person who most Newfoundland actors can point to as an earliest influence. Photo by Greg Locke © 2024 The post Kevin Lewis leaves the stage first appeared on Arts Newfoundland ..read more

The amazing Mary Pratt painting the “Birthday Cake” in her studio in St John’s.  Photographed by Greg Locke. The post Mary Pratt and The Birthday Cake first appeared on Arts Newfoundland ..read more

On this date in 2015 Newfoundland and Canada lost one of its greatest songwriters. A few years before I had spent a week chasing Ron Hynes around the bars and music halls in downtown St John’s for a magazine story. Photographed here at the historic LSPU Hall. It was an enlightening experience and a story of a much beloved and complicated genius. Ron Hynes. 1950 – 2015 …gone to Cryers Paradise. “Does the darkness grant release?”  Photo by Greg Locke The post Ron Hynes 1950 – 2015 first appeared on Arts Newfoundland ..read more

ST JOHN’S, NL – We’re suckers for guidebooks. The best are far more than a tourist guide and offer history, journalism and story telling along with the travel tips and advice. Before Lonely Planet there was Fodor’s and Fielding Worldwide that were well crafted and thorough travel journals. They can be a simple and mundane as a European city or off the wall as a tour of the world’s war zones. In their heyday, before mass travel and tourism they were the go-to for people travelling to new and exotic places but were good adventure reads in their own right. Hidden Newfoundland by Scott Osmond, fr ..read more

Loder Homestead was first settled by John and Mary Ann Loder around 1850 when the couple moved their growing family from the area of Gilliams/Meadows to become Summerside’s first permanent residents. Photo – Heritage NL 26 January 2022 ST JOHN’S, NL –  Heritage NL has designated four new properties as Registered Historic Structure in Newfoundland and Labrador. The four historic properties in Cartwright, Pouch Cove, Fortune Harbour, and Summerside include a Hudson Bay Company building, a historic community lodge, and two family homes. Hudson’s Bay Company staff house in Cartwright, Labrado ..read more

Philippa Jones’ installation at the Alexander Mortuary Chapel of All Souls in Bonavista for the 2021 Bonavista Biennale . Photo by Greg Locke © 2021. BONAVISTA, NL – On this cold winter covid day lets take a look back on the wonderful Bonavista Biennale 2021 and our brief reprieve from the pandemic and enjoy this delightful little festival on the remote rocky seaside of Newfoundland. A bi-annual exhibition of contemporary visual art by Indigenous, Newfoundland and Labrador, other Canadian and international artists on the Bonavista Peninsula. The Bonavista Biennale is an innovative, rural-based ..read more