Warm weather? Time for a barbecue!!

Come on out to our barbecue!

We’re having a barbecue this weekend and you’re invited! Come by for some grub and good times! We’ll be having some readings from our latest special issue on the Grand River too. Eeek! Can’t wait!!

Aimee

JOB AD – Summer Student!!

It’s that time of year again: SUMMER STUDENT TIME!!

We’ve recently learned that we’re getting funding for a summer student, so that means it’s time to hire! (Just as another heads up: we’ve applied for other funds for more summer students, so keep checking back for more postings for a job that would be later in the summer if we’re successful in our application.)

So if you’ve got an interest in anything that Them Days does, please apply!

Click here to see the job ad.

Game On

On Friday night, Them Days hosted the opening of Game On, an exhibit featuring Labrador Winter Games athlete portraits by John Gaudi. We had a really great turnout–I’ve never seen this office so full of people!–and a good time was had by all. It was a great relief to have it all done, as it had been in the works for a number of months, and in the couple of days leading up to it, John and I put a lot of work into hanging the pictures just so and preparing for the party. You can only imagine how happy I was to have all these people show up! Read the promo I did on OKâlaKatiget Society, and listen to John’s interview on CBC.

The unfortunate thing about being the host, however, is that you don’t get a chance to take photos during the event because you’re so busy making sure everybody’s doing well and chit-chatting with the guests that time flies by. Same thing happens at Culture Days events, so I always try to designate a photographer. Oops, didn’t do that this time! So all the photos are from when the crowd started to thin and I had a spare moment to take out my camera.

All the coolest people in Goose Bay were there.

Anna

She’s so spunky, hey? All ready to party at an art show.

Ilana and Jon (director of the Labrador Winter Games)

Susan looking at the photographs

By the way, that cheese in the above photo? AMAZING. We picked out some really great cheeses, if I do say so myself.

John and Mavis

Morgon and Bea (she’s getting so big!). My favourite little guest here was also a big fan of the cheese and crackers.

Everyone I talked with had nothing but good to say and they all liked the portraits. A number of people said they hadn’t been to an event like that around here, and they were glad to go to something different. I really liked hearing that, because that’s what we were trying to do. We even had a DJ!

Me and John (I was the art director and John was the photographer!)

A gallery featuring some of the shots in the show (along with some others, just for variety) is available for viewing on the CBC website. You can also come by the Them Days office to see the exhibit; it’ll be up for a few months yet!

Thank you to everyone who came out! It was so much fun.

Aimee

Heritage Fair

Last week Jill and I headed down to the regional Heritage Fair. The students at this fair had been finalists from their in-school competitions, so they were all pretty high-calibre stuff.

I really love the idea of the Heritage Fairs, so I was excited when Jill mentioned that it was open to the public and she was thinking about going. I have a not-so-secret desire to be a judge, so I wanted to check it out!

I was pretty impressed overall–I even ended up learning some new things!

A Rigolet entry into the Heritage Fair. Haley later won Best Use of Archival Materials.

HV-GB Heritage Fair project on blacksmithing. Connor’s project later won Best Use of Artifacts

Heritage project from Hopedale (Veronica later placed second overall from the coastal communities)

Heritage Project from Nain about the Spanish flu. Great use of Them Days materials!

Heritage project on Lobstick Lodge. This project also won something, but I can’t remember what! (Sorry.) But I would definitely award this student with Yummiest Treats.

Good job, guys!

Aimee

Spring has Sprung!

When I came back from my vacation last week, the first thing I noticed around town was the lack of snow. There were small patches in shady areas, but that’s about it. The rest of the ground was brown and sandy (sand gets EVERYWHERE during the winter…we are beginning the long and difficult task of removing large amounts of sand from our lawn at home). Spring was definitely here but the signs of plant life were still hidden.

All except one. This pansy at Them Days is a hardy little thing.

The lone pansy plant, which Daphne tells me has been blooming for two weeks now.

We’ve had some cold weather this week (below freezing, snowing, etc.) and still this little pansy survives. Everything else is brown and non-flowering. But what a nice sign of spring!

And today we had a new sign of spring: I rode my bike to work! Ah, yes, it’s that time of year again. BIKE TIME! I’ve been itching to get out for awhile, but I needed to do some maintenance, and then we went away, and then it got cold….anyway, it’s out now. Woo hoo!

My bike!

Hope you are enjoying some nice weather too!
Aimee

Game On Photography Exhibit

I’m so excited about an event we’re hosting this Friday night (May 10).

Back in March, during Winter Games week (which was a really crazy time in office as well because I was finishing up the Grand River issue!), I helped out my friend John with a photography project sponsored by the Labrador Winter Games. He took photographs (black and white film, medium format–no digital photos for this project!) of fifteen athletes from all over Labrador. It was a LOT of work (especially for John, who then had to spend a ton of time in the darkroom afterwards) and this show that we’re going to be hosting at Them Days is the culmination of all that work. The exhibit will be on display at Them Days for a while, and this event is kicking it off in a big way.

Come to the exhibit launch!

If you’re in the Happy Valley-Goose Bay area this week, you should definitely come to the exhibit launch Friday at 8pm! And if you’ll be here some other time, you should come by and look at the photos anyway, even without the big party. They’re really great!

Aimee

My Morning at Labrador Morning

I started work a little early last Thursday because I was being interviewed by Tony Dawson on CBC’s Labrador Morning. The night before really wasn’t a good night to be watching documentaries on Netflix until the wee hours. Ah well. Who needs sleep, anyway?

Anyway, I sat down with Tony in the studio to do an interview about the Grand River special issue which just came out the week before last. Click here to listen to it. It was kind of a follow-up to the interview I did back in January, when Alicia and I (thought we) were struggling to find content. As you can tell, we definitely met our goals of getting more information–and then some!

Good Morning! Me at the Labrador Morning studio. I totally just stole this from their website. But I’m a strong believer in using pictures in my blog entries, and I couldn’t find my camera, and Tony said I could use one from his camera. So I guess it’s not really stealing then, hey? Thanks for letting me use it. haha

Since the interview, a few people have told me they heard me on the radio and we’ve had a few orders come in for magazines through our online webstore. I guess publicity really does work!

Aimee