Enjoy festive tunes, tales and merriment in The Irish Descendants Christmas 2024 show starring multi award-winning Newfoundland folk group The Irish Descendants with longtime front man Con O’Brien.

The group will be joined by Mark Manning and Aaron Collis of the popular Newfoundland folk band, Rum Ragged, creating a powerful ensemble!

Tickets $46

The Once have been performing across NL and the world for the past 16 years. They discovered a love of playing together in Trinity, NL. They were presented to NL, Canada and the United States when Stuart McLean fell in love with them in 2009 and invited them on a tour across the Island of the province broadcasting his love of the place. They have travelled the world over recording and playing with some pretty renowned artists including, Passenger, Alan Doyle and Amelia Curran Their songs and videos have gathered millions and millions of views from fans across the globe. They have a couple of JUNO Noms under their belt along with some CFMA, ECMA, MUSICNL, ArtsNL wins to boot.

Each year at Christmas, they travel across NL to regail us with stories and warm our hearts with their ice melting harmonies. Christmas just isn't Christmas without The Once.

Let’s have a Happy Holiday!

Tickets - $40

Join us on Friday night for Open Mic night!

Hosted by Paul Ryan with special guest, Ian Abbott.

We invite you to drop in and sing a tune, do a little dance, put on your best comedy act or grab a drink and sit and watch!

$10 at the door

It's that time again!

Come join us at The Garrick Annex on Wednesday, December 11th with your host Jared Barnes for another night of friendly competition and lots of fun -holiday style!

That’s right, this is the Christmas edition! We encourage you to dress up in your best holiday duds!

Doors open at 7:30 PM
Trivia starts at 8:15 PM

As always, $10.00 per team - maximum 8 per team

No reservations - first come, first served

Experience the grandeur and glory of the holiday season with the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra’s timeless presentation of Handel’s Messiah. Join us in Bonavista on December 8, 2024, at 2:30pm at the Memorial United Church, for an unforgettable afternoon of musical splendor.

Under the masterful direction of conductor Marc David, this beloved masterpiece comes to life with the majestic voices of the Philharmonic Choir of the NSO, led by choir conductor Stephen Candow. The concert will also feature outstanding guest artists, David Pomeroy, tenor;  Daniel Taylor, counter tenor;  Zoë Vallée, soprano and Tyler Duncan, baritone who will add their exceptional talents to this celebrated performance.

Handel’s Messiah, with its stirring choruses, sublime solos, and powerful orchestration, has been a cherished tradition for generations. From the triumphant “Hallelujah” chorus to the serene “For Unto Us a Child Is Born,” this concert promises to uplift your spirit and fill your heart with the true essence of the season.

Tickets $30

The Garrick presents The Joys of Christmas - Our local Christmas Concert.
This holiday tradition featuring Sandra White and Friends is our kick off to the Holiday Season!

Join us as we gather our community together to share in the Christmas Spirit.

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The Garrick presents The Joys of Christmas - Our local Christmas Concert.
This holiday tradition featuring Sandra White and Friends is our kick off to the Holiday Season!

Join us as we gather our community together to share in the Christmas Spirit.

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The Garrick presents The Joys of Christmas - Our local Christmas Concert.
This holiday tradition featuring Sandra White and Friends is our kick off to the Holiday Season!

Join us as we gather our community together to share in the Christmas Spirit.

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Nobody is ready for the mayhem and surprises that ensue when six of the worst youngsters disrupt the town's yearly Christmas performance.

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Nobody is ready for the mayhem and surprises that ensue when six of the worst youngsters disrupt the town's yearly Christmas performance.

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Tim is on tour with full band, full sound & full hearts to bring his new Christmas record Full Rainbow Of Light to life.

Juno Award nominated, Polaris Prize short-listed, ECMA-laden musician Tim Baker returns with a new album, Full Rainbow of Light. The record consists of twelve new songs, written by Tim - except for one blistering cover of “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” - and recorded in his hometown of St. John’s, Newfoundland. To call it a Christmas album is to cheapen the depth of the songwriting – these are masterful, original compositions that are set in the big feelings and high emotions of the holidays.

Inspiration for this album stems largely from Tim’s connection to Newfoundland and the unique and deep way December hits there each year. In Tim’s own words, “Full Rainbow of Light is the first record I’ve made that really centers around a single concept throughout: the warmth, the nostalgia and the goodness of being home at Christmas. Through many themes and stories and sounds, these songs keep pointing back there, to my people and places and past, in Newfoundland & Labrador - to all the tradition and the change of it, the warmth and the winter, the hardship and the hope of it.”

This album is the follow-up to 2022’s The Festival and its 2023 companion EP Along the Mountain Road. Those releases sent Tim on extensive international touring, both with his full band, All Hands, and as a solo artist, selling out some of Canada’s most acclaimed venues, including Massey Hall in Toronto. In many ways, Full Rainbow of Light is a bridge between his long love of expansive full-band energy, and the vulnerability, purity and maturity of his recent solo performances. While there is an obvious specificity to the album - set as it is at Christmas, in Tim’s own home and history, complete with traditional Newfoundland instrumentation strewn throughout - the authenticity of the work is something that transcends the specific and shines a warm welcoming light for everyone, everywhere.

While Tim & the band will be presenting the new album, they’ll of course be playing much-loved Hey Rosetta! Christmas tunes, as well as crowd favorites from Tim’s own ever-deepening solo catalogue. And with Cape Breton’s Villages joining them, it’s liable to be a travelling East Coast Christmas party, full of new, artful, instant classics. Truly, not to be missed.

Tickets - $45

Join us at The Garrick Annex with your host Jared Barnes for another night of friendly competition and lots of fun!

As always, $10.00 per team - maximum 8 per team

No reservations - first come, first served

Two young missionaries become ensnared in a deadly game of cat and mouse when they knock on the door of the diabolical Mr. Reed. Trapped in his home, they must turn to their faith if they want to make it out alive.

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Tickets $10

Two young missionaries become ensnared in a deadly game of cat and mouse when they knock on the door of the diabolical Mr. Reed. Trapped in his home, they must turn to their faith if they want to make it out alive.

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It’s a boy!

March 2016. Justin Simms becomes a dad.

But his joy is tinged with unease. Little Jude enters the world at a time when traditional notions of masculinity are being contested as never before. How can he teach his boy to be a good man?

With Sons, eight eventful years in the making, the Newfoundland-based filmmaker confronts the challenge with imagination and creative flair, crafting a big-hearted documentary essay on parenting, patriarchy—and the pain and pleasure of guiding boys through the turbulent cultural waters of the early 21st century.

Woven throughout is luminous informal footage of Jude’s early years, charting his trajectory from helpless newborn to hurricane of a boy, obsessed with dinosaurs and superheroes.

How can fathers steer sons away from negative models of masculinity and help them become caring adults? What does it even mean to be a “good man”? Isn’t it enough to nurture basic human qualities—empathy, confidence, common decency—without dwelling on gender?

Anchoring his enquiry in his home turf, a vibrant neighbourhood in downtown St. John’s, Simms enlists the help of family, friends and an engaging gang of fellow dads, all grappling with the challenge of parenting boys. “Masculinity can be beautiful,” observes one participant, “but it needs a new story now.”

Set against the backdrop of his son’s first five years of life—from cooing infant to hurricane of a boy—filmmaker Justin Simms looks at modern masculinity through the lens of fatherhood as he asks an increasingly urgent question: How do we teach our boys to be better men?

Free Admission

When Harry Met Sally is a cozy Autumn Rom-Com which begins when college graduates Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) and Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) share a contentious car ride from Chicago to New York, during which they argue about whether men and women can ever truly be strictly platonic friends. Ten years later, Harry and Sally meet again at a bookstore, and in the company of their respective best friends, Jess (Bruno Kirby) and Marie (Carrie Fisher), attempt to stay friends without sex becoming an issue between them.

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Struggling with his dual identity, failed comedian Arthur Fleck meets the love of his life, Harley Quinn, while incarcerated at Arkham State Hospital.

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Struggling with his dual identity, failed comedian Arthur Fleck meets the love of his life, Harley Quinn, while incarcerated at Arkham State Hospital.

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Teenager Nancy Thompson must uncover the dark truth concealed by her parents after she and her friends become targets of the spirit of a serial killer with a bladed glove in their dreams, in which if they die, it kills them in real life.

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Brought to you by The Bonavista Church Street Festival

The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.

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Brought to you by The Bonavista Church Street Festival

The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.

Join us for a free showing!

Brought to you by The Bonavista Church Street Festival

The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot--ROZZUM unit 7134, "Roz" for short -- that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.

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The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot--ROZZUM unit 7134, "Roz" for short -- that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.

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The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot--ROZZUM unit 7134, "Roz" for short -- that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.

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Featuring Roger Howse, Larry Foley, Sandy Morris, with Leanne Kean, Scott Mansfield, and Brian Way, please join us as we celebrate the iconic and successful Eric Clapton "Unplugged" album in addition to other Clapton favourites.

Tickets - $35