Here are your Best of Halifax 2024 winners for Arts + Culture

  Fresh off the Canadian release of the film Closer to You, Elliot Page continues to be one of Halifax’s favourite actors, winning Gold in the Best Film/TV Actor category for the fourth year in a row.

It’s been a productive year for one of Nova Scotia’s greatest actors. Page wrote, produced and starred in Closer To You, a story about a trans man coming back to his hometown. He also reprised his role on the fourth season of Netflix’s comic book adaptation The Umbrella Academy, playing the central protagonist Viktor Hargreeves. On top of winning Gold for his acting, he also won a Gold a second year in a row for his book, Pageboy: A Memoir.

Page was far from the only one to win big in our annual readers’ choice awards. Also winning Gold was the Neptune Theatre as the city’s Best Theatre Company. Their 2023-24 season saw Jonathan Torrens’ Neptune debut in The Play That Goes Wrong, as well as Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan (Merry and Pippin from Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings) performing in the Tony-award winning. Hamlet-based tragicomedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. The Neptune’s current lineup, consisting of Disney’s Frozen and Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, show that Halifax’s Best Theatre Company earns its recognition. This is Neptune’s seventh Gold medal in this category.

Also winning Gold were CBC Information Morning in the Best Radio Show category, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia for Best Gallery, and the Halifax Jazz Festival for the Best Festival in the city.

For even more Gold, Silver and Bronze winners in each of our Arts + Culture categories, check out the list below. Want early access to all the Best of Halifax winners, including Food + Drink, right now? Become a Coast Insider today, and you’ll get the full list of Best of Halifax 2024 winners.

BEST BOOK
🥇 Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page
🥈 Death and Other Inconveniences by Lesley Crewe
🥉 Grey Dog by Elliott Gish

BEST COMEDIAN
🥇 Kristyn Green
🥈 Dan Hendricken
🥉 Travis Lindsay

BEST COMEDY SHOW
🥇 Drag Queens of Comedy
🥈 Hello City Improv
🥉 Better Times Comedy

BEST DANCE COMPANY / GROUP
🥇 House of Eights
🥈 Halifax Dance
🥉 Atlantic Boylesque

BEST DANCER
🥇 Anna Mona-Pia
🥈 Sarah Prosper
🥉 Tyson Villeneuve (TYSN VLNV)

BEST DRAG PERFORMER
🥇 Anna Mona-Pia
🥈 Mya Foxx
🥉 Elle Noir

BEST FESTIVAL
🥇 Halifax Jazz Festival
🥈 Halifax Pride
🥉 Busker Festival

BEST FILM / TV ACTOR
🥇 Elliot Page
🥈 Jonathan Torrens
🥉 Mark Critch

BEST FILMMAKER
🥇 Koumbie
🥈 Jason Eisener
🥉 Tara Thorne

BEST GALLERY
🥇 Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
🥈 Argyle Fine Art
🥉 The Dart Gallery

BEST KARAOKE
🥇 Bearly’s
🥈 Lion’s Head Tavern
🥉 Draggity Ass Karaoke at Staggers Pub & Grub

BEST MUSEUM
🥇 Museum of Natural History
🥈 Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
🥉 Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21

BEST PODCAST
🥇 Sickboy
🥈 Afternoon Pint
🥉 Nighttime Podcast

BEST RADIO SHOW
🥇 Information Morning, CBC Radio One
🥈 Griff & Caroline in the Morning, JACK 92.9
🥉 BJ & The Q Morning Crew, Q104

BEST THEATRE ACTOR
🥇 Allister MacDonald
🥈 David Light
🥉 Jade Douris-O’Hara

BEST THEATRE COMPANY
🥇 Neptune Theatre
🥈 Shakespeare By The Sea
🥉 The Villains Theatre

BEST TRIVIA NIGHT
🥇 East Coast Queers
🥈 The Board Room Game Cafe
🥉 Freeman’s Trivia Night

BEST VISUAL ARTIST
🥇 Meg Ryan
🥈 Jenny R Johnson
🥉 Kristen Herrington

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This article appears in Dec 1-18, 2024.