2021 Music PEI Award Nomination Announcement
Music PEI is proud to announce the nominees for the 2021 Music PEI Awards. Catherine MacLellan leads the way with 9 nominations for her latest al...
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Holiday Wishbook 2020
Discover Charlottetown Launches Holiday Wishbook to Inspire Shopping Local This Christmas
In the midst of the pandemic, it feels more important than ever to support our friends and neighbours before we go Christmas shopping at big box store...
Montreal Massacre memorial online
Join with others at noon on December 6 for Support Survivors: An online viewing of the Montreal Massacre Memorial Service commemorative video to honou...
No fiddle on Sunday
Musician Danny Drouin has a new passion: recording
Local musician Danny Drouin was trying to coordinate a jam recently when someone said, “Well, there’ll be no fiddle on Sunday or no bass on Saturd...
Plant publications
When learning about plants and plantings, it is always useful to have information that targets native species in your locale. I’m happy to announce ...
Before Grindr
Gay and lesbian history of PEI series launches December 1
Before Grindr: The Secret Social History of Gay & Lesbian PEI, a six-part interview series, will launch online December 1. The series begins the p...
Revenue streams for musicians
IGNITE Your Music Career, a new subscription-based, on-demand service is available for musicians and songwriters of all genres who are interested in i...
PEI Newcomers awards
Each year, the Prince Edward Island Association for Newcomers to Canada (PEIANC) honours those who work to support the growing newcomer communities in...
The root of it all
Seeing healthy trees that you have planted is a great legacy. Lately, though, I’ve been rethinking the whole idea of treeplanting. In 2019, Justin...
Drop the mic
Island poet Julie Bull offers online spoken word workshop
Interdisciplinary researcher, ethicist, educator, poet, and spoken-word artist Dr. Julie Bull will be facilitating an online workshop series on spoken...
A gentler pace
Z & G’s Specialty Fusion Cuisine offer a new experience
Visitors are warmly welcomed by owners Zenaida and Glenn upon entering Z & G’s Specialty Fusion Cuisine Restaurant—a space full of exciting ar...
The old with the new
David Sisam’s contemporary design aims to compliment
Indian River Festival has relied on a simple, time-tested strategy for their audience: the old with the new. Sitting under the vaults of Historic St. ...
New GM of Theatre
Andrea Surich takes new position at Confederation Centre
Over the next few months, Andrea Surich will be sharing her time between Watermark Theatre in North Rustico and Confederation Centre of the Arts (CCOA...
Ghouls in them hills
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” —Hamlet (1.5.167-8) When I first started exploring...
Behind the counter
Forty three years on Main Street, Alberton for Jerry Saunders
Saunders Variety on Alberton’s Main Street recently celebrated its 43rd anniversary. I sat down with owner, Jerry Saunders, to find out about the ma...
The spice of life
More than ever, people are starting to realize the importance of pollinators. They used to be just pesky bees and wasps interrupting our outings that ...
Gary Schneider is award finalist
Gary Schneider, Director of the Macphail Woods Ecological Forestry Project, is one of four nation-wide finalists for the Canadian Museum of Nature’s...
A dash of science
Sheldon Clohossey is the Prince County bakery man
“Cooking is an art, baking is a science,” baker Sheldon Clohossey told me at the Summerside Farmers Market recently. He managed to squeeze in the ...
Fascinating orchid
There is something very special about orchids, whether they are domestic ones that grow indoors or native species that can thrive in our Maritime clim...
Beautiful dogwood
PEI is graced with four native dogwoods. The smallest is a common woodland wildflower called bunchberry. Like all dogwoods, the veins in the leaves ru...
Art in the Open 2020
Open-air contemporary art reimagined
As one of many events that contributes to the active cultural ecosystem on the Island, Art in the Open (AITO) has always embraced public art in spacio...
Mind, body and soil
Summerside residents tend their community plots
Throughout the scorching summer heat, 21 faithful Summerside gardeners lovingly tended their plots at the corner of West and North Drives. The 180’ ...
Île Saint-Jean
Celebrating a tricentennial, 1720–2020
This year marks the tricentennial of the founding of the French colony of Île Saint-Jean—the 300th anniversary of the arrival of the first French a...
Pounding pavement
Fringe Festival organizers amplify fringe artists—Aug 12–14
Island Fringe Festival organizers shifted their focus to a new production, Pounding the Pavement: Celebrating and amplifying artists from the fringe, ...
Destination Georgetown
Kings Playhouse gives plenty of reasons to visit this summer
Kings Playhouse in Georgetown is bringing stories to life in a different way this summer with creative opportunities to enjoy local art, share a treat...
Creative Obsessions
Contemporary craft in PEI exhibit—Aug 8 to Jan 3
A new exhibition titled Creative Obsessions: A Look at Contemporary Craft in Prince Edward Island will be showing August 8 to January 3, at the Confed...
Funding women and girls
Six community organizations will receive funding support to help empower Island women and girls to live safer, better and healthier lives. Funding is ...
Postcards from the Island
New 12-part online series broadcasts every Thursday
CIBC Confed Centre Presents is set to deliver Postcards from the Island, a weekly online series featuring a rich depth of creative pioneers and local ...
New ED at PEI Writers’ Guild
The PEI Writers’ Guild (PEIWG) recently announced the appointment of Executive Director, Mo Duffy Cobb. This is the first time in the Guild’s 30-y...
Architectural sounds
Historic St. Mary’s reopens to the public
The 2020 Indian River Festival may have been cancelled but that doesn’t mean Islanders won’t be able to experience the architectural wonder of His...
Comhaltas
PEI branch hosts traditional music and dancing classes
A group of musicians on PEI got together in February to express their interest in setting up a branch of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann and now they h...
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