Date: Sep 25
7:00 pm
- 8:00 pm
Where: Harbour View Room
Beyond the Unknown: What’s Remembrance All About, Charlie Brown?
Dr. Dean Oliver will examine the patterns and opportunities within remembrance projects, examining how they do—and don’t—differ from commemoration. He will also discuss how major events and sites of memory can both enhance and complicate our understanding and appreciation of the past.
Tickets: $12 plus HST. Free for Rooms Members. Get your tickets online or by calling (709 )757-8090.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Oliver is a distinguished Canadian scholar and executive with more than 25 years of experience working in major museums and post-graduate institutions. Recognized as a leading public historian in Canada, he was most recently acting Director General and Vice President at the Canadian War Museum, on secondment from his post as Senior Director of Research at the Canadian Museum of History. Dr. Oliver, who joined Know History in September 2023, oversees museum and virtual exhibit projects while supporting colleagues in related initiatives.
In Conversation: Marlene Creates and Anne Pickard
Works from Blast Hole Pond Road
A conversation with environmental artist, Marlene Creates and art educator, Anne Pickard, followed by an engaging question-and-answer.
Marlene is an accomplished and beloved artist who has helped build the arts community in our province since the 1980s. Among many honours, Marlene was invested into the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2021, she was the recipient of a 2019 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts for “Lifetime Artistic Achievement”, and she received an Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) from Memorial University in 2024.
Underlying all Marlene’s work has been an interest in place—not as a geographical location but as a process that involves layers of memory, multiple narratives, ecology, language, politics, emotions, and both scientific and vernacular knowledge. For the past 22 years she has worked with one specific place—the six-acre patch of old-growth boreal forest where she lives in Portugal Cove.
This is a free event but a ticket is required. Please reserve your free ticket online or by calling (709)757-8090.
Presented with PictureNL, we’re shining a spotlight on some of Newfoundland and Labrador’s superb films and filmmakers! Each month we’ll present a different local feature film on our big screen. Gather with friends and film buffs to celebrate home-grown talent.
Next up:
Hammer featuring Will Paton and Mark O’Brien; Directed by Christian Sparkes.
A father faces a personal crisis when he discovers his estranged son fleeing a botched drug deal. The two men embark on a violent odyssey that grapples with themes of fatherhood, family and fate.
2019 (82 minutes)
Join us for a Q&A following the film presentation with Christian Sparkes (director) & Allison White (producer).
Tickets: $12 plus HST. Get your tickets online or by calling (709)757-8090.
This year-long monthly series is presented by PictureNL in partnership with The Rooms as part of Year of the Arts celebrations.
Stay tuned as monthly screening dates are announced!