Canadian Folk Music Awards 2021
The Canadian Folk Music Awards are excited to announce the full line-up and programming schedule for the 2021 Awards Week, featuring 6 virtual shows i...
Author: Greg Webster
Piping hot summer
Three new shows to enjoy in Summerside this year
The College of Piping’s Celtic Performing Arts Centre in Summerside will stage three new shows this summer—Pendy’s Pub, Richard Wood: Through th...
Watermark season
Lineup for the summer features theatre, comedy and music
Watermark Theatre in North Rustico announced their 2021 summer season with a lineup that includes an outdoor performance of Mi’kmaq Legends by the M...
Single release: On The Low
by Nadia Haddad
Nadia Haddad released her new single “On The Low” in March, introducing her to the music world. “I wanted to explore my words, feelings and mus...
Single release: Fine
by Emmet MacLellan
Emmet MacLellan released their debut single “Fine” in March. Co-written with the song’s producer, Adam Gallant, “Fine” is MacLellan’s int...
Album release: Oceans EP
Kierrah Celeste’s debut album Oceans is an EP exploring the struggles with mental health, insecurities, self-love, and purpose. In Oceans, Kierrah ...
Album release: The Plague Doctor EP
by Spivey
Locally based hip-hop artist Spivey released his debut album The Plague Doctor EP on March 19. The album features eight songs, five of which were prev...
Album release: Trustfall
by Vince the Messenger
Rapper Daniel Butterfield—aka Vince The Messenger—has released his highly anticipated second album, Trustfall, which picks up where his debut, Sel...
Album release: The Grass Is Always Greener on the Other Side
by Dennis Ellsworth
Dennis Ellsworth leans into the referential on his new full length album, The Grass Is Always Greener on the Other Side, released March 5. The album i...
Canadian Folk Music Awards
Catherine MacLellan and The East Pointers to perform
This year, the 2021 Canadian Folk Music Awards (CFMA) is hosting its awards celebrations online April 10 and 11. The virtual awards performance schedu...
2021 JUNO nominees
Some Island pride as the nominees have been announced for the 50th Annual JUNO Awards. PEI-born and raised, Halifax-based Rose Cousins is nominated f...
Kitbag Theatre Company
New PEI company makes “theatre you can carry with you”
PEI’s newest theatre company, Kitbag Theatre, is co-founded by Island theatre professionals Jacob Hemphill, Melissa MacKenzie and Rebecca Parent. Th...
What bird is that?
There are some fantastic books around on bird identification. Yet though I love books, I’ve never been particularly adept at leafing through field g...
Comic book award winners
Brenda Hickey and Sandy Carruthers are fan favourites
The Sequential Magazine Awards are a hybrid juried and fan voted awards program with the goal of promoting and celebrating the best independent comic ...
Island Lecture Series celebrates Poetry Month
Laurie Brinklow and Bren Simmers in conversation with Richard Lemm
The April session of the Island Lecture Series will celebrate Poetry Month and will feature Island poets Laurie Brinklow and Bren Simmers in convers...
Book release: Island Wings
by Geoff Hogan | Illustrated by Connie Gaudet
Nature PEI is providing a new opportunity for families to learn more about the birds around them and have fun doing it. Island Wings, a colouring book...
Book release: My island’s the house I sleep in at night
By Laurie Brinklow
“Being an islander means that you aren’t like everyone else,” writes Laurie Brinklow in her new book, My island’s the house I sleep in at nigh...
Penny’s Point protected
Island Nature Trust acquires iconic Island coastline
Island Nature Trust (INT) recently acquired their first Natural Area in 2021: Penny’s Point Natural Area in Fortune Bridge—a small but ecologicall...
New ED at Island Nature Trust
Bianca McGregor has been appointed the new Executive Director for Island Nature Trust (INT). Incumbent Executive Director, Megan Harris has now moved ...
Hidden SymMeTrees
New Sixty Days of Fame series exhibit by Trisha Clarkin
Love’s Hidden SymMeTrees is the new spring art exhibit for Culture Summerside’s Sixty Days of Fame series. It will feature the work of Patricia Cl...
The Time of our Lives
Seniors College group art show at The Guild
The Time of our Lives featuring the artwork of Seniors College students and instructors will be on view at The Gallery @ The Guild in Charlottetown fr...
Colonel Gray student art
Works from 2020 and 2021 International Baccalaureate program at The Guild
TRIAD in the Key of IB, a collection of artwork completed by graduating visual art students from Colonel Gray High School’s 2021 International Bacca...
Community Theatre Fest
ACT’s annual presentation at The Fox and Crow—Apr 24
ACT’s annual Community Theatre Festival will return April 24 at UPEI’s The Fox and Crow in Charlottetown. The Festival will look a little differe...
Last call in the gallery
Winter exhibitions making way for spring and summer
With new spring and summer exhibitions on the horizon, it’s the last chance to take in four exhibitions at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in C...
Virtual opening
Remote Transmissions group art exhibit—Apr 9
Peake Street Collective and this town is small invite the public to a virtual opening for the group exhibition Remote Transmissions, on view at Receiv...
New Director of Philanthropy
The Confederation Centre of the Arts welcomes Nadine Haddad to the Senior Management group as the Centre’s director of philanthropy. Haddad joins t...
New ED at Indian River
Lindsay Connolly enthusiastically assumes the role
The Board of Directors of the Indian River Festival has selected Lindsay Connolly as their new Executive Director. Connolly is a PEI-born musician an...
Meat N’ Badaydas
Culinary showcase at restaurants across PEI—April 1 to 30
The PEI restaurant scene is getting an extra boost this April with the announcement of Meat N’ Badaydas, a month-long celebration that has chefs and...
Music PEI Week
Music PEI kicks off Credit Union Music PEI Week 2021 Friday March 26 with 2 diverse shows. Diggin' Deep Roots is a mix of roots music styles and will...
Exhibits
Confed Centre Art Gallery On view: Eye Candy to April 6. Give me Shelter to April 6; The Drive to May 2; and Gerard Clarkes: A Haunted Land to May 9....
2021 East Coast Music Awards Nominees
25 Nominations for Islanders
The East Coast Music Association (ECMA) has announced the 2021 East Coast Music Award nominees. Classified leads the pack with 8 nominations, while Ro...
New vision at Watermark
The Watermark Theatre in North Rustico has produced classic and modern classic plays for the last 13 years. Artistic Director Robert Tsonos recently a...
Islanders involved in Halifax Homicide
PEI actors featured in new true-crime documentary
Filmed in Lower Sackville, NS with an entirely local crew, Halifax Homicide focuses on major crime in the Halifax Regional Municipality and tells thre...
Queer film classics
First public Island screening for many titles at City Cinema
Out of the Closet and Onto the Screen is a new initiative of Pride PEI that brings six queer film classics to City Cinema in Charlottetown for their f...
Quills, Ash, and Bone
Exhibition by Mi’kmaq artists extended at Eptek Centre
Quills, Ash, and Bone: Current perspectives on traditional Mi’kmaq art has been extended to the end of March at Eptek Art & Culture Centre in Su...
Art exhibits at The Guild
Alyse Mercey paintings and David D’Aubin restrospective
The Gallery @ The Guild in Charlottetown will present two new art exhibitions in March. At Play by Alyse Mercey and David D’Aubin: A Retrospective. ...