News & Events
Writer-in-Residence 2010
The Landfall Trust is pleased and honoured to announce the selection of Marie Wadden, national award winning broadcaster, journalist and author from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador as the Trust’s second writer-in-residence for September, 2010.
Marie has been travelling the Labrador Coast since 1977; she won the 2005 Atkinson fellowship in Public Policy writing about addiction in aboriginal communities across Canada in a series of articles for the Toronto Star. This research generated her second book about aboriginal issues, the highly acclaimed Where the Pavement Ends: Canada's Aboriginal Recovery Movement and the Urgent Need for Reconciliation, recently released in paperback. With an M.A. degree in Journalism from the University of Western Ontario, Marie has worked as a broadcast journalist for over 30 years, in both TV and in radio and has an extensive list of national and international literary and journalistic achievements and honours to her credit.
We are privileged, therefore, to host Marie as she launches into the creation of her first work of fiction which will be based amongst the Conception Bay communities and we look forward to her residency fueling much creativity for this highly anticipated work.
Artist-in-Residence 2010
In partnership with the Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, the Landfall Trust is very pleased to announce its 2010 artist-in-residence, Christy George. Raised in Houston, Christy received a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute, and an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art. She is now embarking upon a nautical-based body of sculpture, Nautical Body, which “began with a year of researching maritime history and culture to actualize a modern relationship to stories, lore, and tricks and trades of explorers, pirates, fishermen, ‘old salts,’ and anonymous sailors” influenced by her experience living and working on tall-ships.
She has exhibited widely, and been granted residencies from Vermont Studio Center, Boston’s Berwick Research Institute, the Roswell AIR program, the MacDowell Colony, the Fine Arts Work Center, Sculpture Space, Pouch Cove, and the Centre des Arts Ross Creek. Solo exhibitions include the Contemporary Artists Center in North Adams, the Roswell Museum, Gettysburg College, and University of Massachusetts at Lowell. She is a 2006 recipient of a Sea Grant from the University of Rhode Island.
With this background, Christy should blend in well with the Landfall environment and we look forward to welcoming her as our 6th artist-in-residence.
Past Events
Bowdoin, outbound from Brigus as seen from Landfall, participated in the Bartlett 2009 Celebrations visiting 12 Newfoundland and Labrador communities. Photo by A. Crichton.- June 2009: The annual Landfall Open House was held in conjunction with the Bartlett 2009 Celebrations.
- September 2008: well known Newfoundland artist, Gerry Squires gave a captivating illustrated presentation to a full house at The Rooms, St. John’s featuring works completed during his residencies at Landfall over the past two years.
- September 2008: Kevin Major undertook a writer’s residency in late September when he worked closely with students and staff at Amalgamated Academy in Bay Roberts. He and his wife, Anne Crawford, completed valuable work while at Landfall leaving examples behind as well as intriguing Rockwell Kent memorabilia.
- In July 2007: writer, broadcaster, and popular host of CBC Radio’s “Writers and Company”, Eleanor Wachtel, gave a sold-out presentation at Memorial University in St. John’s, “The Lives of Writers”.
Other Activities of Landfall Residents since opening in 2005:
- Work of 2008 Rooms Artist-in-Residence, Temma Gentles, visual artist; see Gallery.
- Activities of Robert Tombs, 2007 Rooms Artist-in-Residence, see poster for Teen Workshop.
- 2006 Rooms Artists-in-Residence Cecil Day and Sylvia Bendzsa, visual artists, see Cecil and Sylvia.
- Scott Walden, photographer, the first Rooms Artist-in-Residence, see Scott.