After two years of planning and waiting, this north end community greenhouse is finally beginning to blossom. Saturday afternoon marks the launch of the joint project between Imagine Bloomfield and its friendly neighbours the Ecology Action Centre that’ll open up the floodgates for urban gardening aplenty in a very active neck of the woods. Thanks […]
Allison Saunders
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Nocturne Quick Picks
DOUBLE FANTASY Curated by Danielle St-Amour, Francesca Tallone The Khyber, 1588 Barrington Street Zone 1: Downtown Halifax It’s a TV party at the Khyber featuring videos from Bridget Moser, Patrick Vezina, Vinh Truong, Brendan Reed, Ray Fenwick, Jessie Rainville, Jacqueline Lachance, Willie Brisco, Steve Wiseman, Jason Harvey, Leah Cameron and Kate O’Connor. Curated by Palimpsest […]
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Analog Stereograms from Synthetic Space takes Alderney Theatre
Slide on a pair of 3D glasses and prepare to slip into an interactive, mind-bending transformation of the Alderney Landing theatre. Taking hints from the Atari video music Robert Drisdelle and Heather Rappard will use projectors and cameras, with a mood set by live musicians, to create a space that can be changed and manipulated […]
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Revealing Three Faces of Realism
Kristie Sheehy, Al Bergin and David Howells know the meaning of strength in numbers. The three Nova Scotian artists have combined their talents in an effort to not only give more prominence to the range of realist works being created right under our noses, but also to work towards bringing realism away from the fringes […]
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A walk in the Parks
As a kid Dr. Claire Campbell spent a lot of time in the back of a camper van, road-tripping across the continent. Her dad was a history teacher and for his family, the beautifully sublime national parks were the perfect teaching tool. And Campbell’s park life didn’t end there. She went on to be a […]
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Station to station
“I just always had in my mind that if I’m going to be a musician, I’m never going to be that person with an acoustic guitar at an open mic,” says Tamara Lindeman of the recent transformation of her solo project, The Weather Station. But then again, there was a point where she didn’t consider […]
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The Jerry Granelli Trio gets going
Let Go wasn’t the kind of album that could just happen, even with Halifax jazz legend Jerry Granelli and multi-instrumentalists Danny Oore and Simon Fisk behind the reins it needed time to steep. “It became obvious to me we weren’t going to get together for three days and just record. We needed to find a […]
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Laura Merrimen’s next chapter
Last February, Laura Merrimen thought she was saying so long to Halifax, at least for a little while. She planned to set up shop in Montreal following a tour with fellow singer-songwriter Kelly Sloan, but plans changed. After getting word that she’d received a grant to assist with her next record, she was eastward bound. […]
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DalTheare’s season starter While We’re Young
“Where there is love, there is hope in Don Hannah’s brilliant play,” says Margot Dionne, the director of DalTheatre’s opening production for the season. While We’re Young, a Canadian written play yet to be performed in Halifax, covers six generations of youth transitioning into adulthood. With war as a backdrop (starting in 1870, the play […]
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Minus World takes over
Minus World doesn’t stop. Immediately after Justin Wiles and Kat Williams wrapped their first little maritime tour last weekend, what did they do? They kept on rehearsing. And they’re proving the point that hard work pays off. Just over a year old, the duo has recently received a Music Nova Scotia nomination for Best Electronic […]
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Guitar hero
Stuart Lorriman knows guitars. “I have been a musician since the late ’60s and have always been a wheeler and dealer,” says the member of Fossil Rock. Thanks to Lorriman, this weekend the Forum will be better known as guitar heaven, reigning in buyers, sellers, collectors, traders and braggers. “I have a sizable collection of […]
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Fall Arts at a glance
EVENTS & LITERARY AUTHORS Hal-Con November 12-13,hal-con.com The great thing about Hal-Con is not just that it brings big names in sci-fi and fantasy to Halifax but that it also gives local institutions a bigger stage to spread the geek word. Like last year, Hal-Con’s 2011 convention is a mix of Halifamous and Hollywood famous, […]