The NFB at The Rooms
Date: Aug 1
12:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
Where: Theatre
Film
The Rooms presents a free summer-long program of short films from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) running in a continuous loop in its theatre, with a special theme for each day of the week.
Sunday: Indigenous Voices (approx. 90 minutes)
- Vistas: Little Thunder (2 min)
- Maq and the Spirit of the Woods (8 min)
- Shaman (5 min)
- Three Thousand (14 min)
- The Mountain of SGaana (10 min)
- Stories from Our Land 1.5: If You Want to Get Married... You Have to Learn How to Build an Igloo! (5 min)
- Stories from Our Land 1.5: Inngiruti - The Thing that Sings! (5 min)
- Woman Dress (6 min)
- Now is the Time (16 min)
- Stories from Our Land Vol 2: Taking Shape (9 min)
- Waseteg (6 min)
- Red Ochre (3 min)
Thanks to our ample space and high attention to recommended COVID-19 protocols, The Rooms is an excellent choice for individuals and families looking for a safe and enriching way to experience the finest in NFB cinema and storytelling.
Events & Programs
Two very significant, early European paintings depicting Newfoundland are coming to The Rooms in early November for an extended exhibition. These works by the Dutch artist Gerard van Edema may be the earliest European paintings of Newfoundland (if not of North America). It is thought that he may have visited the island in the late 1600s to travel and sketch along the “English Shore” between Bonavista and Trepassey.
Who was Edema? How and why did he come to Newfoundland? What do we know about these works and why they were created?
Rooms Curator Mireille Eagan moderates a conversation about these paintings with Heidi Sobol, Senior Conservator of Paintings at the Royal Ontario Museum, and Mark Ferguson, Collections Program Supervisor at The Rooms.
Tickets: $12 plus HST. Free for Rooms members. Get your tickets online or by calling 709-757-8090.