ACC Presents 2016 Fall Season

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Newfoundland & Labrador (August 9, 2016) - The fall of the year is almost here and we are proud to launch a new ACC Presents season at the Arts and Culture Centres. The ACC Presents series is a multi-disciplinary touring program that features artists at various stages in their career in music, theatre, dance, circus arts, film and more. These shows will visit the six provincial Arts and Culture Centres from September to December 2016. 

The ACC Presents Fall 2016 season will feature artists that you already love, artists performing in Newfoundland and Labrador for the first time, and brand new works that will make their debut on our stages. 

This fall, we will have a list of incredibly talented musicians touring the province. We welcome home The Once, who have been touring around the world. In October The Once will hit all the ACCs for the first time since 2010. The Masterless Men will celebrate their 25th anniversary with a cross-province tour in October and November. Newfoundland trad stars Jim Payne & Fergus O’Byrne, along with Canadian Folk Music Award winning Matthew Byrne, will tour stages big and small in September and October.

The ACC has also partnered with MUN and Mightypop to bring Juno Award and Polaris Prize winning Tanya Tagaq for the first time to Newfoundland. Tagaq is an experimental recording artist whose music defies categorization, fusing elements of punk, metal, and electronica.

Following a sold-out run of the world-premiere in 2015, Falling Trees by playwright Megan Coles will go on the road. Coles’ play about the logging industry features a strong cast of local actors; Greg Malone, Steve O’Connell, Brian Marler, Darryl Hopkins and Evan Mercer. Also in the theatre vein, we will partner again with Rising Tide Theatre, as they tour their ever-successful production of No Man’s Land by Kevin Major.  In 1916 Newfoundland soldiers were part of the immeasurable toil of war, yet they were never without the spirit and humour they brought from their homeland. This play will have bothpublic and school presentations. 

For family and school audiences, there is also the grand spectacle Circus Glorious! brought to us by Newfoundland’s own, Wonderbolt Circus. Local, national and international circus artists, will amaze with technicolor costumes, jaw dropping aerial acts, interactive clowning, sophisticated choreography and original music.

We’re lacing up our skates to collaborate with the Festival of New Dance to bring contemporary dance show on ice (yes, on skates!) to arenas in Deer Lake, Clarenville and St. John’s, performed by the amazing Le Patin Libre from Montreal. 

We will also work again with the National Film Board of Canada on the momentous screening of Theatre of Life which documents Italian chef Massimo Bottura’s mission to change the conversation around food waste, featuring Newfoundland’s Jeremy Charles. Preceding the feature film is local filmmaker Justin Simm's short film Hand. Line. Cod. Simms follows a group of traditional fishers in Fogo who catch cod live by hand, by hook and line, one at a time. 

The ACCs will continue to build upon diverse partnerships with local organizations in all six communities. In St. John’s alongside The Fluvarium the ACC is co-presenting a community-based fall musical All Shook Up , the story of Natalie, who in 1955 meets a stranger and together they bring the magic of romance, the energy of dance and the power of rock & roll to a small American town -all set to the music of Elvis. The ACC is supporting Corner Brook based Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador’s (TNL) provincial tour of Bernardine Stapleton’s Our Fanny , a play inspired by the book Your Daughter Fanny: The War Letters. In Stephenville, the Bay St. George Glee Club, led by Jean House, has over 120 members who will practice at the centre through the fall until their big concert before Christmas. The Joseph R. Smallwood Arts and Culture Centre in Gander is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, with entertainment from BS Entertainment’s Brain Way and Sandy Morris. The ACC is proud to again have the Carol Players and Northern Lights Theatre Company working on their new work this fall at the centre in Labrador. This is just a snapshot of some of the many partners we work with every year.

We are also pleased to welcome back our Artist-In-Residence in St. John’s, Megan Gail Coles, who will continue to lead the ACC Playwrights Unit, culminating in public presentations of new scripts by 12 emerging Newfoundland writers. Grand Falls-Windsor based artist, Michael Pittman, will also be in-residence at the Gordon Pinsent Centre for the Arts in Grand Falls-Windsor through September, wrapping up with a public presentation of his new work and installation as part of the annual Art-Ex event. 

“I extend an invitation to you to be curious. Come and take a chance on a show that you aren’t totally familiar with," says ACC Programming Manager Erin Barnhardt. "You might be surprised by how much it affects you. Some of the best audience feedback that we received last year was from patrons that did not know what to expect when they booked their tickets to the show.” 

Tickets for these Fall 2016 ACC Presents performances are on sale now and can be purchased online at www.artsandculturecentre.com or at the local Arts and Culture Centre box offices.  This is not an exhaustive list of all performances happening at the Centres. The ACCs have many 3rd party performances on stage through the season. Check our website for other exciting events coming up.

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE FULL LIST OF "ACC PRESENTS" TOURS THAT ARE ON SALE NOW! 

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