What’s happening this week
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MONDAY, JUNE 25 Children 10 a.m. The Wiggles
Tickets go on sale today at 10 a.m. for the upcoming The Wiggles’ “Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle!” tour coming to Holy Heart Theatre September 25 at 6:30 p.m. Tickets to see the world’s number one preschool entertainers can be purchased online at www.holyhearttheatre.com, at the Holy Heart Theatre box office, and by phone at 579-4424. Tickets are $40 except children under 12 months can attend for free. A $3 group discount is available for parties of eight or more.
Classes 7:30 p.m. Aikido
Aikido is an effective martial art with an ethical approach: use the aggressor’s energy against them without harming them. Get fit and focused while having fun. Aikido is offered by the Fudoshin School of Aikido at St. Theresa School (100 Mundy Pond Rd.). It’s a welcoming place for everyone. It is a non-profit with a low monthly membership fee; no one is turned away for financial reasons. Come try it out! For more information, visit: www.2017.fudoshinaikikai.ca.
Fundraiser Upcoming
Fish Fry at the Fluvarium
Save the date: on July 31 our Red Seal chef, Antoine Harding, will prepare a delicious three-course fish dinner for the Fluvarium’s annual Fish Fry Fundraiser. All proceeds go toward children’s environmental education programs. Call 754-FISH (3474) for tickets. Tickets are $40 for adults and $20 for children 12 and under.
Health 7 p.m.
What’s on your plate?
Looking for tips to improve your family’s diet? Do you have high blood pressure? Do you have diabetes? Join the Kidney Foundation of Canada at the Dominion Community Room in Mount Pearl for a free public nutrition class with registered dietician Heidi Murphy. A family-friendly event — all ages welcome. Session will include recipes and information to take home. Learn how to make small dietary changes, read labels, modify recipes, and more. This event runs from 7-8:30 p.m. Space is limited. Reserve your spot by calling Jackie Dolomont at 753-8999 or emailing jackie.dolomont@kidney.ca.
Live Music
6 p.m. Dave White Performing at Green Sleeves. 10 p.m. Damian Follett Performing at Green Sleeves. 10:30 p.m. Larry Foley Performing at O’reilly’s.
Ongoing
NSO welcomes The Tenors The Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra (NSO) is happy to announce that tickets are on sale now for the NSO Exxonmobil Big Ticket, the NSO’S annual fundraiser. The concert will take place on Oct. 11 at Mile One Centre and will feature The Tenors, backed by the NSO. A decade after forming in their native Canada, The Tenors are an international success story. With their robust singing and seamless blend of classical and contemporary pop textures, Victor Micallef, Clifton Murray and Fraser Walters have scored multi-platinum sales, performed for the likes of Oprah Winfrey and Queen Elizabeth II, and shared stages with superstars such as Paul Mccartney and Justin Bieber. Tickets, including a limited number of VIP meet-and-greet packages, can be purchased through the Mile One Centre box office, by phone at 576-7657 or online at www. mileonecentre.com.
Survey
Ongoing
2018 Community Sector Pulse Survey Please visit http://bit.ly/cscnlpulse to take the survey or call the Community Sector Council of Newfoundland and Labrador at 1-866-753-9860 if you have any questions.
TUESDAY, JUNE 26 Entertainment
6:30 p.m. Fishcakes & Accordions Experience O’brien’s Music is partnering with Rocket Bakery to offer a unique hands-on experience with the quintessential Newfoundland folk instrument: the button accordion. Visit Rocket Bakery to find out all about how the instrument works and we’ll even help you try your hand at playing a tune. While you listen to traditional Newfoundland tunes played on a variety of different instruments, you’ll learn about how the button accordion came to be so popular in Newfoundland and you’ll enjoy Rocket Bakery’s take on a traditional fish cake dinner featuring two of Rocket’s special kitchen party fish cakes, salad, dessert and tea or coffee. Beer and wine available, too. $45 per person. Event runs 6:30-8 p.m.
Games
7 p.m. Crib The weekly crib game in support of Ronald Mcdonald House continues every Tuesday in the basement of St. Teresa’s Church. Admission is $5 with a prize awarded to the winner. The event is open to everyone. Contact Andrew Walsh at 726-3935 for more information.
Groups
7:30 p.m.
Inner Healing Ministry Do you need to find time for you? The Inner Healing Ministry meets every Tuesday evening at the Wesley Church basement on Patrick Street. It is an hour of spiritual music, quiet time, and also a chance to meet new people from all denominations. Open to everyone. Come and see if it’s for you! For more information, call Roger at 895-3499.
Live Music
12:30 p.m.
Trad Tunes at Rocket Bakery Enjoy some of Newfoundland’s best as they gather and play a selection of traditional Newfoundland music at Rocket Bakery from 12:30-1:30 p.m. This is a free event. 6 p.m. Andrew Rodgers Performing at Green Sleeves.
10 p.m. Dave White
Performing at Green Sleeves.
Open Mike Night
At O’reilly’s.
Poetry
8:30 p.m.
Alden Nowlan in Twelve Voices Come on down to The Ship Pub, where twelve readers will read from the “Collected Poems of Alden Nowlan” with host Brian Bartlett. Featuring readers: Boyd Chubbs, Mary Dalton, Stan Dragland, Robin Durnford, Reuben Canning Finkel, Michelle Butler Hallett, Joel Thomas Hynes, Don Mckay, Kevin Pittman, Katie Vautour, and Alden Nowlan himself on a recording from 1971. This is a free event. All are welcome. Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Broken Books.
Training
9 a.m.
Seasonal staff workshop This workshop is open to everyone and will train museum staff and volunteers in orientation methods and interpretive planning in order to assist them to perform daily museum functions. The workshop will help museums to create staff policies covering such topics as: staff duties and responsibilities, operating procedures, visitor experience, care of collections, care of exhibitions, and public safety. The instructor is Ken Flynn, executive director with the Museum Association of Newfoundland and Labrador (MANL). Registration fee is $85 for MANL members, $110 for non-members. Space is limited. Pre-registration is required. For more information about this program, please contact MANL at manl@ nf.aibn.com or 722-9034. Located at 200 Military Rd.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27 Cinema
7 p.m.
Wide Awake Indigenous Cinema Tour This free event (free tickets available through the box office) at the St. John’s Arts & Culture Centre begins with a conversation with filmmakers Alanis Obomsawin and Marie Clements in the Pinafore Room on the main floor with moderator and local filmmaker Latonia Hartery. Following the conversation, please stay for a special screening of Obomsawin’s film “Our People Will Be Healed” in the main theatre. This is Obomsawin’s 50th film. It reveals how a Cree community in Manitoba has been enriched through the power of education. In addition to teaching academic subjects, the school reconnects students with their ancestral culture. The film adopts an optimistic tone without denying a dark past. It bears witness to the tragedies that have befallen the Plains Cree, such as being confined to reserves, forbidden to practice any cultural ceremonies, including the Sun Dance, and sent off to residential schools. But first and foremost, the film conveys a message of hope: that in an appropriate school environment, one that incorporates their people’s history, language and culture, Indigenous youth can realize their dreams.
Classes
10 a.m.
Boxing to Beat Parkinson’s Specialized exercise program at Boxfit, 878 Topsail Rd., for Parkinson’s patients using boxing techniques. Classes are free. Call 754-4428 for details.
5 p.m. Fishcraft
Join Fishing for Success at Rocket Bakery from 5-8 p.m. for a familyfriendly evening of hands-on activities that are all about fish and fishing. Learn ancient skills of weaving rope and knitting net — but with a modern twist all your own. Make your very own souvenir to keep. Learn skills that have been handed down through Newfoundland and Labrador families for generations.
7:30 p.m. Aikido
Aikido is an effective martial art with an ethical approach: use the aggressor’s energy against them without harming them. Get fit and focused while having fun. Aikido is offered by the Fudoshin School of Aikido at St. Theresa School (100 Mundy Pond Rd.). It’s a welcoming place for everyone. It is a non-profit with a low monthly membership fee; no one is turned away for financial reasons. Come try it out! For more information, visit: www.2017.fudoshinaikikai.ca.
Groups
7:30 p.m. Overeaters Anonymous Regular weekly meeting held every Wednesday at St. James United Church on Elizabeth Avenue. For more information, call 738-1742.
Information
6:30 p.m.
Wills and estate planning A free information session hosted by the A.C. Hunter Library in the library’s Community Room. Presented by Kellie Cullihall of Gittens & Associates. Please register with your library card at 737-3950.
Live Music
6 p.m. Dave White Performing at Green Sleeves. 7 p.m. Chris Hennessy Performing at O’reilly’s. 10 p.m. Damian Follett Performing at Green Sleeves. 10:30 p.m. Heel N Toe Performing at O’reilly’s.
Museums
9 a.m. Introduction to Exhibit Development workshop This course is open to everyone and provides a general introduction into the function and development of museum exhibits. Through this course, participants will explore the purpose of exhibits, exhibit planning and concept development, exhibit design techniques, exhibit resource and budget development, the role of various media formats and interactive features in exhibition design, programming for exhibits, hiring and working with exhibit contractors and specialists and exhibit evaluation. Course instructor is Jane Severs, an interpretive planner and exhibit designer. Registration fees: $130 for MANL members, $155 for nonmembers. Space for this program us limited. Pre-registration is required. For more information about this program, please contact MANL at manl@ nf.aibn.com or 722-9034. Located at 200 Military Rd.
Radio
7:30 p.m.
VOWR guest interview
Barbara De Land speaks with Maureen Lymburner, director of development of the Home Again Furniture Bank, about the bank, how it works, and how much it benefits both donors and recipients, who receive much-needed, gently used furniture and housewares. Tune in on VOWR AM 800, online at vowr.org, cable radio Rogers 945, or Bell Aliant 756.
Trivia 7:30 p.m.
Trivia Night fundraiser
Round up your favourite feminists and bring your fiercest, funniest facts to our fundraiser! A night of general trivia at Bitters Pub with a few woman-focused categories. Hosted by Lori-lydia Loveless, with proceeds going to benefit the work of Persistence Theatre. Help us raise funds for another year of great theatre! Get your tickets now at www. persistencetheatre.com.
Thursday, June 28
Art Ongoing Brushes with Nature An exhibition of works by Monday’s Company at Memorial University Botanical Garden, 306 Mt. Scio Rd. Monday’s Company have been painting with Diana Dabinett for 25 years. The exhibition runs from June 8 to July 12. As the room is sometimes in use, phone ahead to make sure the exhibition is open. Call 864-8590.
Children
5 p.m. Game of Gnomes They’re back! Our trusty gnomes had so much fun in the limelight last year, they’ve set-up house again. In fact, more have moved in. Come for a race around Memorial University’s Botanical Garden (306 Mt. Scio Rd.) to see how many gnome doors and houses you can find! General admission rates apply. Cinema 7:30 p.m.
Wide Awake Indigenous Cinema Tour Screening “The Road Forward” at the Arts and Culture Centre followed by a Q & A with filmmaker Marie Clements, moderated by Mary Walsh. A free event (free tickets available at the box office). This musical documentary connects a pivotal moment in Canada’s civil rights history—the beginnings of Indian Nationalism in the 1930s—with the powerful momentum of First Nations activism today. Clements paints an electrifying picture of how a tiny movement, the Native Brotherhood and Native Sisterhood, became a powerful voice for social, political and legal advocacy, eventually effecting profound change at the national level. “The Road Forward” has stunningly shot musical sequences, performed by an ensemble of some of Canada’s finest vocalists and musicians, and seamlessly connect past and present with soaring vocals, blues, rock, and traditional beats. A rousing tribute to the fighters for First Nations rights, a soul-resounding historical experience, and a visceral call to action.