Electro Femmes: A Technology Focused Workshop Series July 29, 10am to 3pm CKDU, Dalhousie University Student Union Building Three local women are looking to support artists who want to work in digital media—specifically, women and non-binary folks. Grace Stratton, Francella Fiallos and Danielle Jakubiak are putting together Electro Femmes: A Technology Focused Workshop Series coming […]
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Xara Choral Theatre searches for stories from the Halifax Explosion
Xara Choral Theatre Ensemble is calling for stories of women involved in relief efforts after the Halifax Explosion. The Hours Turn to Nothing, Xara’s collaboration with author Ami McKay, premiered in Halifax in April. Despite the evidence that women were needed and present following the explosion, they’ve largely been excluded from the narrative. “A number […]
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Vincent Coleman and Rita Joe win Halifax ferry naming contest
The results are in for the second most important election in the province: The harbour ferry naming contest. As if that classic Heritage Minute weren’t enough, Halifax hero Vincent Coleman will be memorialized by having his name painted on the next ferry. Over the course of the 10-day naming contest, 11,014 votes were tallied, with […]
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Halifax Pride addresses pinkwashing by discontinuing community fair
Halifax Pride is nixing booths from its festival grounds ahead of this year’s celebration. The change was announced late last month, several months after October’s tumultuous AGM, during which a “pinkwashing motion” brought forth by members of Queer Arabs of Halifax (QAH) was voted down. According to the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project, pinkwashing usually […]
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The Halifax Fringe Festival wants you to come off the beaten track
Cinq à Sept at Good Robot June 1, 5-7pm Good Robot Brewing The Atlantic Fringe Festival is going into its 27th year with a new name: The Halifax Fringe Festival. Executive director Lee-Anne Poole believes it will better represent the event, which she calls “one of the city’s biggest festivals that a lot of people […]
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The beat of Mobius Percussion
Mobius Percussion Thursday, June 1 at 7pm Sir James Dunn Theatre, 6101 University Avenue $35 The Mobius Percussion group is often described as a chamber music quartet, but to hear them perform is to know they don’t fit squarely into any box. “We are all over the map,” says member Mika Godbole. The quartet, which […]
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Pump it up at Halifax Bike Week
Taking consistent care of your bicycle can save you from disasters down the road. For Bike Week, Mountain Equipment Co-op is setting up a slew of “mobile bicycle maintenance stations,” doing safety checks and offering advice on basic bike fixes. In the meantime, Brendan Sutcliffe—bike mechanic at MEC—gives a few tips for keeping your ride […]
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North Preston campaign signs defaced with racist imagery
To say it’s an unpleasant start to election day is an understatement. Campaign signs in the Preston-Dartmouth riding have been vandalized by graffiti. Signs for PC candidate Irvine Carvery, NDP candidate Shelley Fashan and Liberal candidate Keith Colwell at the entrance to North Preston have all been spray-painted with racist and Nazi imagery, including a […]
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Shawn Cleary continues push for changes to HRM’s snow plans
The snow may be gone from Halifax—knock on wood—but Shawn Cleary still has winter on his mind. The councillor for Halifax West Armdale will be asking for two new staff reports at the next meeting of Regional Council that would allow residents to opt out of sidewalk snow clearing, and bring all of HRM’s sidewalk snow […]
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Who the hell are the Atlantica party?
As far as Jonathan Dean is concerned, Nova Scotians have two choices come election day: Vote for the “status quo,” or vote for change. He believes the Atlantica party is the only way to achieve the latter. “If I was a candidate in this election and I had to go door-to-door for the Liberals,” he […]
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Halifax police regret those comments about “hip hop graffiti”
Halifax Regional Police is back-pedalling on comments made by a member of its community response team to the media, in which the force’s expert on graffiti management called “hip hop graffiti” a culture that promotes drugs and suicide. The comments were “intended to describe a particular style of graffiti,” reads a statement posted earlier today. “We […]
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Get ready for doggy paddles at the Dartmouth Sportsplex
The Dartmouth Sportsplex pool is going to the dogs before it closes for renovations. The Sportsplex, along with Camp Bow Wow—a local doggy daycare and boarding service—is hosting a dog swim for charity this Sunday. Who cares about wet dog smell when you know they’re going to look this cute? Owners (who must be Camp […]
