The Blue Castle

01/16/2018

Guess what?! It's our 10th season! I know, we can hardly believe it, either. Since October 2008, we've hosted 50 different events - from formal presentations to interactive debates and music recitals - about women, culture, and the spaces of the imagination.

Get your agendas out! We're busily planning this winter's series, and here's what's coming up:

PERFORMING CANADA FOR CANADA:
REFLECTING ON 'CANADA: IT'S COMPLICATED'
Tues., Feb. 6 at 7 pm, MMaP Gallery, Arts and Culture Centre
Over a 3-month period in 2017, St. John’s-based actor, Jamie Pitt toured Canada as part of Mary Walsh’s new show, Canada: It’s Complicated, which considers the good, the bad, and the ugly of Canada, all delivered with Walsh’s signature biting wit and stinging humour. In this presentation, Jamie reflects on the production, the tour, audience responses, and the complexities of performing Canada for Canada.

THE THINGS WE KEEP:
CONVERSATIONS ON MIGRATIONS, MEMORIES & STORIES
Thurs., March 8 at 7 pm, MMaP Gallery, Arts & Culture Centre
We invite you to be part of our conversation about the things we keep. When we travel we leave bits of ourselves behind at every turn. But we also bring bits of ourselves along with us on our journeys. What things do you keep close at hand when you move? And what things have you left behind in the various places you’ve called home? We'd love to hear your stories.

DANCING TOGETHER:
CREATING A DANCE WORKSHOP FOR INCARCERATED WOMEN
Thurs, March 22 at 7 pm, MMaP Gallery, Arts & Culture Centre
We welcome Amy Sheppard, social worker and MUN PhD student, who will share her ethnographic experience of offering a dance workshop to women living in prison. The purpose of the workshop was to provide women in prison with an opportunity to discuss body image, embodiment, and the impacts of prison on the body. She will focus on the process of creating the workshop and the lessons she learned as a result of dialoguing and dancing with women in prison.

And more to come in April (and possibly May!)

05/13/2017

Some pictures from last night's Blue Castle event: From the River to the Ocean's St. John's premiere with Rozalind MacPhail

05/08/2017

This Friday, we welcome ECMA winner, Rozalind MacPhail in the St. John's premiere of From the River to the Ocean!

Friday May 12 at 7 pm
Sunoco Energy Hall, School of Music
Free parking in Lot 15B

Read Rozalind Macphail's Facebook post of gratitude to the people she met in New Brunswick during the East Coast Music Awards last weekend, and you might think it's a little intense.

05/01/2017

And now our featured performer isn't just an ECMA nominee, but an ECMA winner! Congratulations Rozzie Rosbourne - Electronic Recording of the Year!

.... and you can hear it live in its St. John's premiere on May 12!

The St. John's premiere of composer-performer Rosalind
MacPhail's film and music project, From the River to the Ocean. takes place May 12 in Suncor Hall at Memorial School of Music.

04/21/2017

From the River to the Ocean is about memories and how we capture and share them....

02/03/2016

11/24/2015

Missed our Women and Politics event before the federal election? One of our presenters, Amanda Bittner, just published an article in The Independent that deals with many of the issues she spoke about at our October event!

Food for thought as we all go to the polls again next week.

We've achieved gender parity in our federal cabinet, but will we see the same in N.L. following next week's provincial election?

05/23/2014

Photos from our book launch event, courtesy of audience member, Gina Snooks! Thanks, Gina!

04/17/2014

Our next event is coming up on May 21 and it's a book launch for a new collection of essays about women's lives in early twentieth-century St. John's!

CREATING THIS PLACE: A BOOK LAUNCH
Wednesday, May 21 from 7-8:30 pm
The Rocket Room, The Rocket Bakery

Join Linda Cullum and Marilyn Porter to celebrate the launch of Creating This Place! Reading, nibbles, conversation and your chance to meet all the authors!

02/28/2014

Mark your calendars!

Celebrated author, Lisa Moore, joins us on March 25 for a talk about two of Canada's creative icons: visual artist Mary Pratt and author, Alice Munro!

Tuesday, March 25 at 7 pm
The Rocket Room
Upstairs at the Rocket Bakery

11/03/2013

Are you close to your radio? At 9:10, Nancy Martin will be speaking with Angela Antle on CBC about this week's
Blue Castle event!

11/25/2012

Our next event coming up on December 4! Reproducing Women: A Book Launch - come and learn about the reproductive lives of three generations (and 24 families) of Newfoundland women (with Marilyn Porter and Diana Gustafson)! December 4 at 8 pm at The Ship