MMaP Releases Videos from the Global Spirit Concert of Indigenous Music

In 2008, MMaP and the International Council for Traditional Music organized a four-day colloquium on Indigenous song and dance as cultural property. Indigenous and other scholarly participants came from Canada and the US, as well as Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, and Finland. The culminating event in the colloquium was a concert featuring Indigenous artists. Videos of these extraordinary performances are now available in the Special Events section of MMaP’s YouTube channel.

MMaP Presents "Good as a Concert": A Festival of Traditional Story and Song

On October 19, 2019, MMaP partnered with singers Eleanor Dawson and Jim Payne to present a daylong festival celebrating Newfoundland and Labrador’s rich folk song and narrative traditions. Morning and afternoon events took place in the MMaP Gallery (second floor, St. John’s Arts & Culture Centre) and included thematic sessions on “Captains and Ships” and “Ghosts and Gallows,” as well as a traditional song circle. The festival concluded with an evening concert in Suncor Energy Hall (Memorial University School of Music) featuring performances by prominent local folk singers and musicians. You can find out more about the event here.

Launch Event for "The Music of Our Burnished Axes: The Songs and Stories of the Woods Workers of Newfoundland and Labrador"

Launch Event for "The Music of Our Burnished Axes: The Songs and Stories of the Woods Workers of Newfoundland and Labrador" by Ursula A. Kelly and Meghan C. Forsyth and a museum exhibit titled The Songs and Stories of “The Forgotten Service,” also by Kelly and Forsyth.

The launch took place 4 p.m., September 11, 2018 at the MMaP Gallery, located upstairs at the Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media, and Place in the Arts and Culture Centre in St. John's.

Film Screening "Music of Survival"

MMaP Screening of the film Music of Survival

Watch the interview with director Orest Sushko on our Youtube channel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS6RfAlwxo8

Originally aired on: Thursday, November 3, 2016 (7:00 pm)

Dr. Beverley Diamond "On Record" at the Newfoundland Historical Society - May 1, 8pm

Dr. Diamond will be this month's lecturer for the Newfoundland Historical Society.

"From Outports to Netports: Community Media and Shared Identity in Rural Newfoundland and Beyond."

Ivan Emke (Social and Cultural Studies, Grenfell).

Thursday, January 9, 7:30 p.m, MMaP Gallery (Arts and Culture Centre, 2nd floor).

Dr. Line Grenier: "Moments of Music in Action: Exploring the Effectivity of Quebec's Etoile des Aines/Senior Stars."

MMaP Research Centre is pleased to welcome Dr. Line Grenier of the Université de Montréal who is the guest for the second installment of the Music, Media and Culture Lecture Series on Wednesday, Oct. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the MMaP Gallery on the second floor of the Arts and Culture Centre in St. John’s.

Dr. Grenier will present her talk, "Moments of Music in Action: Exploring the Effectivity of Québec’s Étoile des Aînés/Senior Stars." She will explore intersections of aging and popular music in the context of a global demographic shift to “an aging society” and governmental discourses and policies around “active aging.”