Handy with a camera? Wicked on your smartphone? You can now submit your smartphone film until March 9th for the Halifax Smartphone Film Festival (SPFF) via The Coast’s SPFF site, where videos (5 mins max) will have a chance to win cash and prizes including a new Eastlink phone! Entries will be shown at the SPFF Screening & […]
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New Art: Frankie Macaulay
“I like to go into nature and hike with my camera, and shoot nature as it is,” says photographer Frankie Macaulay (BFA 2015). “On the other end of the spectrum, I like to shoot urban environments and manipulate what we see through composite images and digital collage work, to create a fiction.” For the last […]
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New Art: Aylan Couchie
“In 2013, I realized that I loved sculpture and I started looking at my close relationship with my grandfather, who was a woodworker and welder. He was also a residential school survivor, and I started developing a narrative around that,” says Anishnaabe artist Aylan Couchie, from Nipissing First Nation in Northern Ontario. “Around then, the […]
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New Art: Laura Jean Forrester
Growing up on a flower farm in North Rustico, PEI, Laura Jean Forrester’s family would sell harvested dahlias, lilies, sunflowers and other native flora at the Charlottetown farmers’ market while Forrester took pottery lessons. But it wasn’t until 2014, as a sculpture student at NSCAD, that her current art practice really bloomed. “I was fortunate […]
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New Art: Raghed Charabaty
“I left Lebanon being very distant from Arabic culture,” says 20-year-old filmmaker Raghed (Ray) Charabaty, who moved to Halifax from the mountains outside of Beirut to study film and art at NSCAD in 2012. “I wanted to focus on this new person I could be. “Until I realized that you need to go back to […]
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Meet the dazzling stars of Hali-Wood Squares
From the 1960s until the early 2000s, NBC’s Hollywood Squares was one of the most popular game shows on television. Every-day contestants could win cash and prizes by playing question-and-answer Tic-Tac-Toe with well-known celebrities. Part of the show’s allure was the candid look at the personalities of stars usually only known via script. It was a […]
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Ryan Hemsworth & Hey Rosetta! lead ECMA noms
This morning in Sydney, Nova Scotia, the nominees for the 2016 East Coast Music Awards were announced to recognize the best in Atlantic music and the music industry this year: Newfoundland’s Hey Rosetta! leads with seven nominations, while Halifax honey Jenn Grant received six, as songwriter Mo Kenney and world-star producer Ryan Hemsworth each received four. Taking place from […]
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Gordon Lightfoot Read My Mind: Halifax shows announced
Ontario king of 60s and 70s folk-pop, Gordon Lightfoot, has just announced a return to Halifax for three dates: August 25, August 26 and August 27 at the Rebecca Cohn (6101 University Avenue). He has also scheduled shows in Glace Bay, Moncton, Saint John, Fredericton and Antigonish. Now 77 years old, Lightfoot is a national […]
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Five fun music things to do this weekend
No need to stress about what to do, my dudes, but there is SO MUCH music going on, it’s hard to pick. You can either thrash out at a Khyber fundraiser, or sit back and get sad with some heartfelt folk or dance with Skratch Bastid. From all our listings, here are five things to do: […]
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A look inside Skratch Bastid’s studio
Last week, Halifax-bred, Toronto-based DJ Skratch Bastid (AKA Paul Murphy) released a filmed remix of David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” on the morning after the rock star’s death. In just a few days, the video had been viewed and shared over 11 million times on Bastid’s Facebook page. This Saturday, Skratch Bastid returns to The Marquee […]
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All Dressed Up
In the dead of last winter, living alone for the first time and unemployed, Dark for Dark’s Rebecca Zolkower spent a lot of time just playing guitar and writing songs. “I like watching winter from the window,” she says. Even though she wasn’t feeling inspired about the writing, when the spring arrived Zolkower took her bandmates—singers […]
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Catherine MacLellan’s island muse
“Whenever I’m home, I’m always writing something,” says PEI songbird Catherine MacLellan, who performs Friday. “I sit and look outside the window and inspiration comes through osmosis, through the experience of being here.” Although MacLellan says travelling—as she’ll do on tour later this year—can also spark creativity, “PEI is definitely my muse.” For almost 15 […]