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To see all our generous sponsors and supporters: CLICK HERE
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Quotes from Janey's Journals: "I walked on wet Paris streets at 3am in the morning and when I met others walking, we smiled a secret smile because we knew, we knew the world was a magical place, if we believed." Jane LeBlanc,1984.
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Jane LeBlanc Legacy Fund
Mission Statement: To nurture and develop emerging and seasoned creative artists in New Brunswick in honour of Jane LeBlanc.
Staff: Cat LeBlanc - Founder, Executive Director
Maureen LeBlanc - Founder
Tony Merzetti - Finance
Kaitlyn Adair - Marketing Specialist
Contact us if you would like to sponsor, mentor or sit on a jury!
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Upcoming Deadlines
JL Music Award (Deadline: June 25)
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JL Photography Award (Deadline: July 1)
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JL Storytelling Award (Deadline: July 1)
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JL Music Studio Mentee Program (Deadline: July 15) CLICK HERE
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Recent Legacy Fund Winners
JL Film Post Award Winner
Kaitlyn Adair
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JL Acting Support Award Winner
Anthony Bryan
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Arnold LeBlanc Songwriter Award
Jason Anderson
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Jane LeBlanc Screenwriter Award
Sue Rose
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The Jane LeBlanc Legacy Fund welcomes contract staff person Kaitlyn Adair to our tiny family team. Kaitlyn will be working her magic helping the fund with promotion and online marketing. Welcome Kaitlyn!
About Kaitlyn:
Kaitlyn (she/her) is an actor, writer, director, and producer from Fredericton, New Brunswick. She started her career in film, working as an actor in film and television in Vancouver, B.C. She attended Vancouver Film School in 2011 and has been pursuing her passion for film since. Kaitlyn won the Jane LeBlanc Filmmaker Award for her first film March 2.4, allowing her to attend a post-production residency at The Banff Centre For Arts and Creativity. In addition, she received the Short Film Venture Grant and the CBC-NB Joy Award for her second film, Together We Move. Kaitlyn is dedicated to feminist-based media and creating inclusive spaces for marginalized communities to partake in visual arts. You can find her @rebelatart on Instagram and Youtube.
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Sponsor Spotlight: Jane LeBlanc Legacy Fund Receives Generous Financial Gift from TIFF Film Circuit Saint John
June 17, 2022
The Jane LeBlanc Legacy Fund is growing with a generous financial contribution from the popular film screening series TIFF Film Circuit Saint John.
The gift will be in excess of $20,000 and enables the JL Legacy Fund to add a more significant financial value to one of its 12 creative awards. The Jane LeBlanc Film Post Award is the lucky recipient for the long-time cash infusion. With TIFF Film Circuit Saint John’s support, awarded New Brunswick filmmakers will be able to hire and pay New Brunswick resident post-production specialists to take their film projects to the next level.
“My mother and I are thrilled and thankful for this incredible gift our Legacy Fund will hold in trust long-term for the New Brunswick creative community.” Cat LeBlanc
The long-time popular film series presented by TIFF Film Circuit Saint John, and sponsored by Crosby’s and Commercial Properties, moved its screenings to the Imperial Theatre recently. Individuals can purchase tickets at imperialtheatre.ca or by calling the box office at 674-4100.
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Sponsor Spotlight: Jane LeBlanc Legacy Fund receives Generous Financial Gift from New Brunswick Writer
June 17, 2022
The Jane LeBlanc Legacy Fund is growing again, with a generous long-time financial contribution from writer Jeremy Gilmer.
Jeremy Thomas Gilmer is a writer of short fiction and nonfiction. He has been longlisted for the CBC Canada Writes Short Story Prize, won the inaugural Short Story Day Africa Flash Fiction Prize, and was selected as the writer-in-residence at the KIRA residency in 2018.
He has published articles on science, art, literary criticism, music, and travel. His voice work has won an Independent Press Award for Audiobook fiction in the US. In addition, Jeremy is the Art and Literature editor-at-large for The East magazine.
Gilmer has spent over twenty-five years as an Engineering Consultant on environmental, energy, and mining projects. Born in New Brunswick, Gilmer grew up in Nigeria, Northern Ireland, and Canada and has lived and worked in over forty countries. He splits his time between Eastern Canada and Brazil.
“My adopted home of Fredericton, New Brunswick, is a place teeming with artists of all kinds, as is the rest of New Brunswick. In a very short time, the Jane LeBlanc Legacy Fund has become a critical source of support, encouragement, and community among these artists and creatives in New Brunswick. The wonderful work that Cat and her mom have done in memory of her talented and brilliant sister brings to mind my late mom, who was my first influence in art and culture, who spent a lifelong career as an art therapist, and who believed deeply in the transformative power of art and music in people’s lives and society. I hope more people will support Cat and her mother’s work and that the fund continues to touch lives and provincial communities for many years to come.” Jeremy Gilmer
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New! Jane LeBlanc Music Studio Mentee Program!
The Jane LeBlanc Legacy Fund is excited to announce a new music studio program that will assist emerging music artists with their music and composing growth in a studio setting. This weekend, music artist Anne Lebans will have her first in-person studio session with Cat LeBlanc. The Jane Legacy Fund Studio Mentee Program is made possible thanks to sponsor/iconic music artist Dan Hill. READ MORE
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Music artist/filmmaker Cat LeBlanc is working on a multi-media installation project about her sister Janey entitled Jane LeBlanc Lives in These Pages. It will incorporate original music Cat has composed and new music she will create, the book Cat is writing about Jane with the help of a Paris publisher, Jane's travel photographs, slides, postcards, handwritten letters, and her many journals and notebooks that she wrote in throughout her travels and lifetime.
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"I love this passage in one of my late sister Janey's journals. She speaks about celebrating her first New Year's Eve in France. At this time, she was a nanny for two small children whose parents were doctors. They treated her like family. She talks about all the dancing they did, how they brought their children to parties, how good the food was, and how exciting it was to be in France in the 80s' on New Year's Eve. She even pasted her noisemaker and some other little things onto the page." (December 1983) Cat LeBlanc
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"I'm going through all my late sister Janey's journals, letters, photos, slides, and postcards, and came across this gold nugget, now to find the rest of it as it was a three part story in the Miramichi Leader at the time. Janey's personality shines through in the article. All the things she kept and documented are helping me write her compelling story with the help of the Paris publisher." Cat LeBlanc
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