Well despite all my defending Mount Pearl to my St. John’s counterparts as a man who grew up in this city, it seems I was wrong, in a sense.

I know a few people who ought to enjoy this post.

If you compare the indices below you can see that Mount Pearl is virtually only ever average or below (though it should be known St. John’s in much in the same boat). Part of this can be accredited to our education system, part of it can be accredited to our dependencies of St. John’s.

For instance, everyone assumes Mount Pearl has no arts scene because there are never any events held in the city. Well that can almost single-handedly be attributed to the fact that there is no infrastructure to handle it. Consequently Mount Pearl artists show off their wares and talents in St. John’s. The Association for the Arts in Mount Pearl is trying to combat that.

I am sure there are other factors that Mount Pearl’s averageness as well.

In the same census, St. John’s is ranked as the single highest improver in a 5 year span, skyrocketing from a total score of 65 to 80. Yes, better than Mount Pearl. I said it.

From Yahoo News: St. John’s impresses in Maclean’s magazine’s ranking of Canada’s smartest cities

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The Association for the Arts in Mount Pearl, AAMP, is currently accepting short films from local artists for their annual Frosty Film Festival. Here is the announcement:

On February 7th the Association for the Arts in Mount Pearl will be hosting the 5th annual Frosty Film Festival and I’m hoping to make this the biggest and best year yet. I’m reaching out to a few of my favorite artistic people to look for some help.

AAMP is all about giving local artists opportunities and while we try to have a few bigger names in our line up, we like to put a focus on first time filmmakers.

So, primarily I’m looking for any local film makers who you may know that have a short film that they would like played. If you do, please pass my name on to them and we can work on getting their film shown.

For info on AAMP, you can go to AAMP.ca or you can reach me at info@aamp.ca.

Also, if any of you have any ideas or suggestions on what we could do to increase knowledge of the event and, of course, attendance I’d love to hear about it.

Thanks for helping and I hope to hear from you soon!
Angela

To learn more check out the Frosty Film Festival section on the AAMP website.

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