Sackville 250 Events

Events in yellow boxes are events created speifically for the Sackville 250 celebrations. Other events can have a Sackville 250 flavour and help to create a full year of celebrating Sackville's 250 years of history

February 2012:

  • “Sackville’s 5th Annual Winter Fest”, Feb 3-5
  • “SAPPY: Photographs by Aaron McKenzie Fraser”: street portraits of a selection of informal musicians, artists, writers and supporters of SappyFest 2010 & 2011. Until Feb 10, at Thunder & Lightning
  • “Heritage Day”: Tantramar Heritage Trust, with Sackville 250 displays, on March 3 at Tantramar Regional High School, 7.30am to 10.30am for breakfast, 8am to noon for displays, presentations and the Antiques Roadshow

March 2012:

  • Mar 16 – Aug 26: “Swan Pond, Oh Swan Pond”: the Owens Art Gallery presents an exhibition that looks at one of Sackville’s most beautiful spots, the Mount Allison Ladies’ College Pond, or the Swan Pond as it is more commonly known

May 2012:

  • Thursday May 24: “250 Years of History and Fashions”: Sackville Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, at the Tantramar Regional High School. Doors open 6.30pm, show starts 7pm. Wonderful and unusual stories from our history with associated costumes and props - a very different approach and not to be missed!

  • Sunday May 27: Family Games Day, Tantramar Family Resource Centre

  • Saturday May 31: Book Launch "Yorkshire Immigration to Atlantic Canada - Papers and Proceedings of the Yorkshire 2000 Conference", 2-8pm, at Tantramar Heritage Trust AGM

  • Thursday May 31 to Saturday June 2: New Brunswick Federation of Music Festivals

June 2012:

  • Saturday June 2 & 3: Museums Across the Marsh
  • Friday June 8: United Way Day of Caring. A special Sackville 250 event with the Sackville Community garden - a planting in honour of early settlers

  • Sunday June 10: Rustic Harmony & Guests at the Music Barn, 2pm to 4pm. $10

  • Saturday Jun 16: Sparklng Diamonds Queen's Diamond Jubilee Garden Party, at Marshlands Inn, 1:30pm to 3:30pm

  • Sunday June 17: Family Games Day, Tantramar Family Resource Centre

  • Wednesday June 27 to Saturday July 14: Summer Dinner Theatre at Live Bait Theatre

July 2012:

  • July 3, 10, 17, 24: Tuesdays Under the Sky, at Campbell Carriage

  • July 4, 11, 18, 25: "Make It!" workshops for kids, at Campbell Carriage Factory

  • July 5, 12, 19, 26: Concerts in the Park series

  • Monday July 9 to Tuesday August 10: Struts Gallery Artist in Residence, Brian McKenna (Amsterdam)

  • July 14 & 28: Live Bait Young Company Performance

  • July 18 to August 4: Tantramar: Photograph as Historical Artifact, Thaddeus Holownia, at Fog Forest Gallery

  • July 19: “Then and Now”: the Heritage Board Photo Exhibition. This is a special Sackville 250 exhibit from the Town of Sackville Heritage Board. First, they plan to feature "Then and Now" vintage photographs and descriptions of Sackville and area's buildings and spaces (businesses, schools, houses, parks, streetscapes, etc.). Where possible, these photographs will be accompanied by current day photos for comparison. Secondly, during the exhibit the Heritage Board will set up a recording booth where citizens can come in and reminisce about growing up in Sackville and area.

  • Friday July 20: SACKVILLE 250 STREET PARTY: a chance for the whole community to come out and wish Sackville a Happy Birthday!! Live music with Eddie Chase and Graffiti Four and other entertainment, plus cake! Fireworks!

  • Friday July 20: Legion Luncheon. A special Sackville 250 celebration: Fish cakes, baked beans, biscuits, corn bread, molasses cake, boston cream pie, from 11am to 1pm

  • July 18 to 22: Sackville 250 Community Anniversary Play, created by Tantramar Heritage Trust, at Live Bait Theatre

  • Saturday July 21: A larger than usual Farmers Market – “Back to Basics: How we used to eat”

  • Saturday July 21: Silent Films at the Sackville Music Hall. See old black and white silent movies, accompanied by local musicians, the way they used to be seen in the heyday of the Music Hall

  • Saturday July 21: Mucking About at the Mill Pond: children’s picnic and activities at Silver Lake, 11.30am-1.30pm

  • Saturday July 21: Campbell’s Carriage Factory: children’s activities, 1.30pm-2.45pm

  • Saturday July 21: SACKVILLE 250: A MUSICAL CELEBRATION AT THE MUSIC BARN

-- 3pm to 4.30pm: Scotty and the Stars – Children’s show. This musical duo of Scott Sampson and Andy Cotter provide a live theatrical and musical experience where children march, stomp, clap and dance their way through this interactive and fun-filled musical journey. The children’s musical entertainment group delivers positive messages, active participation and musical education through original music and enthusiastic live performances. Target age group is Daycare to Grade 5. Scotty and the Stars was nominated for a 2011 East Coast Music Award. The new album entitled “Making Music” was nominated for “Children’s Recording of the Year! Door prizes of books and albums. http://www.scottyandthestars.com/
-- 4.30pm to 6.30pm: BBQ - a fundraiser for the FoodBank
-- 6pm to 7pm: Ivan and Vivian Hicks and friends, including Tom Johnson and Del Wheaton. "Ivan and Vivian have made an outstanding contribution to the Canadian music scene. Many awards and honours have come to them including induction into the New Brunswick Country Music Hall of Fame (Ivan & Vivian) and the North American Fiddlers Hall of Fame (Ivan). Ivan and Vivian Hicks have always demanded and achieved a high standard of excellence in their performances and related musical activities."
-- 7pm to 7.30pm: Stacey Read
-- 7.30pm to 9pm: Ray Legere and Acoustic Horizon: Ray Legere is the 2003 ECMA (East Coast Music Award) Winner for "Bluegrass Artist Of The Year" which he also won in 1996. Ray is a five-time winner of the Eastern Division Bluegrass Awards in the categories of Mandolin and Fiddle " Player of the Year", honors which have distinguished him with a "Masters Award" for each

  • Sunday July 22: Sackville 250 Sunday at the Owens, 2pm-4pm

  • July: Launch of the sculpture "Marsh Barn" by John Haney. This sculptural work is an exact scale model of an iconic Tantramar barn. It is made of sand-blasted glass and will be floated on the water at the Waterfowl Park, lit from the inside by solar lights. Launch date TBA

  • July: Launch of the Tantramar Heritage Trust publication "The Struggle for Sackville"

"Festival By the Marsh", July 22nd to August 18th

2012 marks a return of one of Southeast New Brunswick's largest and best loved summer festivals - the full-scale Festival by the Marsh - this year with a theme of "Back to the Future". This theme was chosen because 2012 will see a return to the format of fully produced plays, the Marsh Music Fest (featuring jazz, blues, and folk music), a two day KIDS FEST, a drama workshop, and other activities, all stretched over four weeks in July and August.
* July 23, 24 and 25: Shakespeare returns to the Festival by the Marsh with Moncton's Hubcity Theatre presenting their production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Mount Allison Swan Pond.
* July 22 to August 18: The Marsh Music Fest,featuring folk, jazz and blues concerts in collaboration with Catbird Jazz and the Tantramar Blues Society
* July 23 to 27: Drama Workshop presented by Windsbreath Celebrations and Retreats (with an additional performance on August 11 during KIDS FEST)
* July 26 to July 29: Sackville's own Performers Company Theatre will present "Toad of Toad Hall"
* August 8 to 11 and 15 to 18: Will O' the Wisp Productions presents "The Little Prince".
* August 11 and 12: KIDS FEST, featuring plays, concerts, the "Tool Collector Show and Family Fun Day" in collaboration with the Tantramar Heritage Trust, and many other activities for children and families.
Plus other activities. For more information, visit www.festivalbythemarsh.ca, email sackvillefestival@gmail.com or phone (506) 536-7898.

August 2012:

  • August 5: Sackville Sounds. Concert featuring music of our time, created in Sackville as we know it, at the Sackville Music Hall. The composer/performers will be Steve Lambke (also known as Baby Eagle) and WL Altman, with Helen Pridmore

  • August 8-11, 15-18: "The Little Prince" from Will O' the Wisp Productions

  • August 11 to 12: Kids Fest, Festival by the Marsh

  • Sunday August 12: Antique Tool Collectors' Show, Vintage Tractor Run

  • August 16 to 19, 21 to 26: "Fishing" at Live Bait Theatre

September 2012:

  • September 2 to October 6: Struts Gallery Artist in Residence, Sue Johnson (Toronto)
  • September 7 to October 14: "24 Ironworkers of Sackville" Exhibition by Evan Rensch on ironworkers at Enterprise Fawcett Foundry, at Owens Art Gallery

September 23 to 30: SACKVILLE EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL

This year’s Early Music Festival celebrates Sackville’s 250th anniversary with music closely linked to the community.

-- Sunday September 23: “Songs We Sang In 1762”, a musical tribute to our founding communities: the Mi'kmaq, the Acadians, the British Garrison at Fort Cumberland, and the New England Planters. The event will engage local musicians in reviving music (popular songs, military airs, folk and fiddle tunes etc) that would have been current during the mid eighteenth century

-- Thursday September 27: the group Ritournelle presents free workshops to local schools and a public concert
-- Friday September 28: recent Mt Allison graduates Shawn Potter (organ) and Mikaela Tolf (trumpet) perform Baroque music in the Mount Allison Chapel
-- Saturday September 29: alumnus, Matthew Lane (MtA ’09), is composing a three-part choral work to be premiered by the Louisbourg Choir
-- Sunday September 30: another new Sackville ensemble, Sacabuche! (soprano Jennifer Farrell, organist Gayle h. Martin, and Linda Pearse, Baroque trombone) present early Baroque works in a program titled Galleggiante – the floating city. www.SackvilleEarlyMusic.ca

  • September 21 to 23: Sackville I'm Yours - the Moving Image. A series of films and videos related to and based on Sackville's landscape, people, and community, or that use the idea of Sackville to construct a moving image. Curated by Struts Gallery
  • We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage "Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage: Community Anniversaries"

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