This week we introduce our new weekly blog series: “What’s on at the Festival,” profiling an event or series of events for you, your friends and family to enjoy at the Northumberland Festival of the Arts, September 16 – October 2, 2022, taking place in Northumberland County’s picturesque towns and beautiful countryside. Sixteen days of…
Tag: Cobourg
Summertime Poets by Wally Keeler
Film Access Northumberland recently hosted the 2nd annual Eye2Eye International Film Festival in the grand Concert Hall in Victoria Hall in downtown Cobourg. A full roster of all genres of film was presented, all under the theme umbrella of “What Unites Us.” Summertime, directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada, is a film that is hectic frantic…
2019 Festival Highlights: Allan Briesmaster
As we confirm the program for NFOTA’s upcoming festival, to be announced soon, we look back on previous festivals. Here is poet Allan Briesmaster reading at Words on a Wire 2019. About Allan: Poet Allan Briesmaster is a frequent visitor to Cobourg, where he has read at various poetry events over the years. He has…
What’s Your Take: A Realistic Brookside Future by Dimitri Papatheodorou
In this series, Northumberland artists share their views on issues related to the arts. This time, Dimitri Papatheodorou and Doug Syrota share fascinating ideas on how the arts and housing can live side-by-side at a unique property in Northumberland County. “If we build something beautiful, then Cobourg can become a leader in healthy housing strategies…
What’s Your Take: The Community of Art by Douglas Syrota
In this series, Northumberland artists share their views on issues related to the arts. This time, artist Douglas Syrota shares his ideas for a Community Arts Centre at Brookside in Cobourg, while architect Dimitri Papatheodorou will give his own take on how to develop Brookside for housing and the arts. “Arts and culture can uplift…
Auditions for One-Act Plays, online May 31, 7 PM
Northumberland Festival of the Arts will take place across Northumberland County from September 16 – October 2, 2022. Northumberland Festival of the Arts is a volunteer-run not-for-profit arts organization. To volunteer for NFOTA, please contact info@festivalofthearts.ca To help support our events, please send your donation by Interac to fundraising@festivalofthearts.ca
Get Ready for Drama! by Jessica Outram and Felicity Sidnell Reid
The NFOTA Drama Project Committee is delighted to announce the names of the three one-act plays chosen for presentation as staged readings during the Festival. Congratulations go to Donald J Anderson for his play Screwed, Christopher Cameron for Nail Polish and Karen Palmer for Wind on Weller’s Bay. Eighteen local playwrights submitted, and an independent…
Northumberland Art Lovers: Sarah Jacob and SMM Law
“It’s just very exciting to be around people who are using their energy to create, so you’re seeing things that are coming out of their imagination, out of their experience, out of who they are as people. There’s often something that matters intensely to them in their work.” Sarah Jacob Sarah Jacob, art lover, NFOTA…