Situated from Coast to Coast although not all at the same time.
Rosemary House formed Rock Island in St. John’s Newfoundland, Canada, in 1996 after her award winning short film, When Women are Crazy, screened at Toronto. Highlights since include feature film Violet (2001) produced by Mary Sexton and National Film Board documentaries Rain, Drizzle and Fog (1998), Hospital City 2002 and Salvation in 2004. Art docs Bloomsday Cabaret, Ron Hynes: The Irish Tour and Ahead of the Curve (2002-07) all received Gemini nods, screened on Bravo, CTV and internationally.
Rock Island produced Rosemary's adaptation of Kevin Major’s Hold Fast in 2013. Justin Simms (Down to the Dirt) directed. Hold Fast won the Audience Award at the Seoul Intl Youth Festival in 2014.
The music, by Mark Bragg, was a hit with Korean youth. Those kids know.
In 2015 Rosemary and Charlotte Engel wrote and produced Puffin Patrol for CBC's Nature of Things. The NFB launched Rock Island's award-winning digital production of Hungry Month of March, produced by Annette Clarke, in 2017.
House’s adaptation of Joan Clark’s novel, An Audience of Chairs, directed by Deanne Foley won Best Screenplay at the 2018 Atlantic Festival. Archipelago, produced in 2022, is almost there but in a LULL.
August 28, Friday 2026. Whereabouts uncertain at the moment but west coast is getting ready for some bad weather as it was pretty obviously from the record horror of 2026 January to July that I brought a lot of misery to Newfoundland. I am returning with rain. Hopefully not also blizzards and winds that make you wonder about the windows. Now when you move you think fire threat, how close is the water, not the lake but the ocean.
I'll let you know when I get there. Protect our world. Sure. But you know don't you think it's a bit too late? Are you worried it's our turn next?
Another Daily Inspiration from the mailbag.
New Topic: Lunch
I get all my news at lunch (also the Guardian although I'm mad at them for being dismissive of our country)......
THE TRAVEL PAGES, OR MY INSTA: HEREWITH the UAE in December 2025
Art and architecture in Abu Dhabi December 2025. Levitation Void at Team Lab, Tamara de Lempicka at the Louvre and Chagall. The Guggenheim ( by Frank Gehry) under construction and a 'walkway' at the Louvre where people line up for a classic Insta. No wonder.
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