Monday, June 1, 2020
Creativity During Covid-19 with Mireille Eagan, Curator of Contemporary Art at The Rooms in St. John's
Mireille Eagan, Curator of Contemporary Art at The Rooms in St. John's chats with folklorist Dale Jarvis of Heritage NL about her work telling stories in the gallery space, her life as a curator, and about how the pandemic shutdowns have affected The Rooms specifically, but also the wider impact it has had on how we think about galleries, art, and creativity.
Friday, May 29, 2020
The Great Covid-19 Bake Off with Lara Maynard - a #FoodwaysFriday interview!
Today, as part of our ongoing Covid-19 NL oral history project, we visit Lara Maynard in her Torbay kitchen, and chat about what she's been doing to keep busy during the pandemic lockdown. As you might expect if you know Lara, it involves a lot of baking!
Do you know someone we should interview for our Covid-19 project? Email dale@heritagenl.ca
Do you know someone we should interview for our Covid-19 project? Email dale@heritagenl.ca
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
We asked people on the Baccalieu Trail about what they do. This is who answered!
We're off and running with the Baccalieu Trail Traditional Skills Inventory!
Since the launch of our project last week I've been chatting with all sorts of fascinating people working, crafting, making, and keeping heritage alive along the Baccalieu Trail. I've talked to Edward Delaney of Gull Island who makes his own knives for hunting and wood carving, and his wife Linda who knits trigger mittens. I was regaled with fairy and ghost stories by Clifford George of Whiteway. I've heard from vegetable gardeners, traditional musicians, caplin smokers, Indigenous basket makers, seal skin crafts, bakers, and stained glass producers.
Do you know someone practicing a traditional skill in your community along the Baccalieu Trail? I'd love to talk to them! Fill out our survey at www.heritagecraft.ca or join our facebook group Baccalieu Trail Heritage and Memories.
Since the launch of our project last week I've been chatting with all sorts of fascinating people working, crafting, making, and keeping heritage alive along the Baccalieu Trail. I've talked to Edward Delaney of Gull Island who makes his own knives for hunting and wood carving, and his wife Linda who knits trigger mittens. I was regaled with fairy and ghost stories by Clifford George of Whiteway. I've heard from vegetable gardeners, traditional musicians, caplin smokers, Indigenous basket makers, seal skin crafts, bakers, and stained glass producers.
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Horse carving by Edward Delaney. |
Friday, May 22, 2020
Ian Gillies, Newfoundland Blacksmith - An interview with folklorist Dale Jarvis
Ian Gillies, Newfoundland Blacksmith, chats with folklorist Dale Jarvis about his forge in Brigus South, how he got started with blacksmithing, materials and techniques, colour, coal, and creativity!
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Baccalieu Trail Traditional Skills Inventory Facebook Live Event
Do you know an expert berry-picker? The best local net mender or sheep shearer? Who in your community hooks mats or makes furniture? We want to know!
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Terrence Howell teaching a print making course at his studio in Grates Cove, NL. Photo by Kathi Penney-Stacey |
Tune in at 10am to find out more!
Friday, May 15, 2020
The Baccalieu Traditional Skills Inventory Project Launch
Do you know an expert berry-picker? The best local net mender or sheep shearer? Who in your community hooks mats or makes furniture? We want to know!
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Terrence Howell teaching a print making course at his studio in Grates Cove, NL. Photo by Kathi Penney-Stacey
We are looking to identify people in the Baccalieu Trail region who are the ‘hidden gems’ of Newfoundland traditions: storytellers, musicians, berry-pickers, hooked mat makers, carvers, knitters, guides, craft producers, and people who know traditional recipes, dances, or other local knowledge.
The purpose of the project is to build a publicly accessible inventory of tradition bearers which will serve as a local resource to match people who have valuable traditional skills with tourism operators in the region. The inventory project is part of Memorial University’s Thriving Regions Partnership Process, which supports research partnerships that help promote thriving social and economic regions.
We are eager to learn more about a variety of traditional skills in the area. We are curious about skills like net making and mending, pottery making, furniture making, tinsmithing, crocheting, tatting, and running birch brooms, but all kinds of skills or crafts are of interest.
We will be launching the project on Wednesday, May 20th at 10am NDT with a Facebook Live event on the Heritage NL facebook page. Join Dale Jarvis as he talks about the importance of the project and how to get involved.
We've created a brief online survey to help identify these hidden gems. Do you practice a traditional skill along the Baccalieu Trail? Does someone you know? Please fill out our survey or contact us at research@heritagenl.ca.
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Thursday, May 14, 2020
The Sourdough Revolution with Dee Payne - part of our ongoing Covid-19 NL Oral History project
As part of the ongoing Covid-19 NL Oral History project, folklorist Dale Jarvis sits down for a virtual chat with Dee Payne, admin of the Newfoundland/Labrador Sourdough Revolution Facebook group, taking a deep dive into the world of sourdough starters and bread-making during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Learn more about the group here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/243414046963940/
Learn more about the group here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/243414046963940/
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Double Your Bubble with Mike Hickey - documenting social interaction during #COVID19
Here in Newfoundland we’ve been lucky enough to reach a stage of the COVID-19 lockdown where we’re now allowed to “Double Bubble”, choose another household to socialize and interact with as we move forward, learning to live with Covid-19.
In this interview, filmmaker Mike Hickey chats with folklorist Dale Jarvis about his new "Double Your Bubble" podcast, how it got started, the kinds of stories he's been collecting, and some tips for people new to the world of podcasting/recording about where they might start.
You can find the "Double Your Bubble" podcast at https://anchor.fm/hickeycommamike or follow Mike on Twitter @hickeycommamike
Do you have a suggestion for someone we should interview as part of the NL Covid-19 Oral History Project? Email us at covid19@heritagenl.ca
Friday, May 8, 2020
Hey NL Students! We want your family stories about the #Covid19 pandemic!
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Photo by cottonbro from Pexels |
Covid-19 NL Oral History Project with Heritage NL and The Rooms
We want your family stories about what is happening in Newfoundland and Labrador during the Covid-19 pandemic! Here are some sample questions to get you started on your home oral history interview. You can answer these yourself, or sit down with a family member and interview them. Don’t forget to start your interview by spelling out your full name, and including the date of the interview. You can record your interview in any format (audio or video) on your smartphone or digital device, and email it to covid19@heritagenl.ca. If it is a large file, you can use the free www.wetransfer.com website to send it to the same email address, or post it on YouTube and send us the link.
All submissions welcome, including songs, recitations, poetry, or music!
Sample Questions
- Can you describe the community where you live?
- When did you first learn about the coronavirus? What were your initial reactions?
- How did your community respond to the virus? What closures, restrictions, or safeguards were put in place?
- Describe any events you witnessed that express your or your community’s response to the virus.
- How are you personally responding to the virus? What has changed in your daily routine?
- How has your family been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic?
- How are you staying in touch with family and friends?
- What will you remember most about this time in our lives?
- Who is in your Double Bubble, and why?
Feel free to make up your own questions!
What will happen to my audio/video file?
Once you contact us, we will ask you to fill out this brief, confidential consent form so that we can add your story to a permanent collection on Memorial University’s Digital Archives Initiative, where it can be seen and accessed for educational and non-commercial use only, and where it may be used as part of a future physical or online exhibit at The Rooms about the Covid-19 pandemic. Your story will become part of the historical record! If at some point you want your story taken down from the website, we can always remove your records from the archive.
- Download this page as a pdf here.
For more information, contact:
Dale Jarvis, Heritage NL dale@heritagenl.ca
@dalejarvis on Twitter www.hfnl.ca
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