Local Artist Features at Screening Tonight
From the Ground Tier to a Sparrow Batch: A Newfoundland Treasury of Terms for Ice and Snow, Blast Hole Pond River, Winter 2012-2013
Join us for a free screening of the award-winning documentary video-poem by Marlene Creates
Wednesday May 11, 2016
8:00pm
The Wessex Society of Newfoundland
Hampton Hall
Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University
Ridge Road, St. John’s, NL
Copies of the book Brickle, Nish, and Knobbly: A Newfoundland Treasury of Terms for Ice and Snow, an adaptation of the video-poem published by Boulder Publications, will be available.
“I hope this book and the video-poem can help keep some of these wonderful terms active. They’re precise, practical, evocative, sonic, and lyrical. Knowing them helps us actually see different phenomena, instead of winter being just a cold, white blur.” – Marlene Creates