The multi-disciplinary Prismatic Festival—an annual multi-day cultural event that gives a platform to artists of colour—is returning to Halifax this fall, a press release announced today. From September 26 to October 9, theatre, dance, film, music, visual arts and more will light up spaces around the city. Today’s release from the festival named 12 of the artists that’ll be part of its 2022 slate.
Amongst the names? Juno-winning musicians Celeigh Cardinal and Djely Tapa (pictured above), local digital collage artist Emmanuel Nwogbo, decorated playwright/actor Cliff Cardinal and the contemporary circus performers Breaking Circus (who’ll be performing alongside Halifax improv music legends Upstream).
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It was announced in 2021 that Prismatic would double down on Halifax as its home base, after a few years of split programming between here and Ottawa. With 2022 being its first post-pandemic event, this is very good news for Nova Scotians, who’ll get to enjoy a full schedule of performance and creation from the fest.
This article appears in Jul 1-31, 2022.