Rose Cousins w/John Paul White Mar 19, 8pm Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, 6101 University Avenue $28-$33 Rose Cousins’ fifth full-length album, Bravado, opens with a track bright as orange marmalade called “The Benefits of Being Alone.” It’s an upbeat anthem for anyone who doesn’t share their breakfast table or their Netflix account with anyone special and […]
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First look: Egyptian Mummies and Eternal Life
Egyptian Mummies and Eternal Life Feb 22-Jun 21, Museum of Natural History, 1747 Summer Street For years, Jeff Gray, curator of visitor experiences and exhibits, was trying to bring an exhibition on ancient Egypt to the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History. At the same time, the Museo Egizio in Florence, Italy, was trying to […]
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In Desmond Cole’s Skin
Book Launch: Desmond Cole in Conversation w/El Jones Feb 13, 7pm Alumni Hall, King’s College 6350 Coburg Road Free Desmond Cole’s activism and journalism have focused national attention on systemic racism and police brutality in Canada. Now, he’s launching a book on the subject. In The Skin We’re In, Cole chronicles one year of anti-Black racism […]
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Christy Ann Conlin’s high Watermark
Watermark (House of Anansi) Available now In her new collection of short stories—already in its second printing—Christy Ann Conlin explores connections between water, life and death. Conlin grew up in Turners Brook on the Bay of Fundy. Nowadays, she lives outside Wolfville. Her stories have been influenced by her oceanfront life and her reverence for […]
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Rebecca Rose wants you to remember Before the parade
Before The Parade (Nimbus Publishing, $19.95) Available now In 2016, journalist and queer activist Rebecca Rose sat down to coffee with local gay elder Robin Metcalfe. He told her that his friend and lesbian elder Anne Fulton had recently died. Fulton was a founding board member of the Gay Alliance for Equality—the first gay and […]
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Garry Leeson’s The Dome Chronicles will inspire you to go off the grid
The Dome Chronicles (Nevermore Press, $24.95) Halifax Signing Coles Scotia Square Thu Jan 9 noon-2pm “It wouldn’t be fair to say that everything that happens around here is funny, but anything that wasn’t, I’d shy away from,” explains Garry Leeson. “This is meant to be a humorous book.” The Dome Chronicles is Leeson’s first […]
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Six local gifts for $60 or less
1Stollen, Gingerbread Haus Bakery Fruitcake is a bit of a punchline. But this sweet, cakey fruit bread is no joke. From the melt-in-your-mouth icing sugar coating to the tangy citrus peel pieces inside, this traditional German treat will delight the foodies in your life. Visit the fine folks at Gingerbread House (1138 Queen Street) to […]
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Calvin Lawrence’s Black Cop tells all
# BlackLivesMatter justifiably draws attention to how racism affects Black civilians—but what about Black police officers? In his recently released memoir Black Cop, Calvin Lawrence recounts the racism he experienced as a Black police officer in Halifax and across Canada. In 1969, Lawrence was one of the first Black men recruited by the Halifax Police […]
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Gabrielle Papillon wants to see you Shout
Gabrielle Papillon w/Gianna Lauren Nov 30 The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street 7pm $25 Gabrielle Papillon will take you on a journey through social anxiety to a new kind of bravery with her art-pop album Shout. “If you start off at the beginning of the record,” Papillon says, “that song is like anxiety brain.” She’s […]
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Christina Martin knows it’s a Wonderful Lie
Christina Martin & Dale Murray Nov 29 The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street 7pm $17.50/$20 Sometimes Christina Martin doesn’t feel like talking about it. “And my husband’s amazing,” she says. “He’s like, ‘Why not? Yeah, we need to talk about this. We need to do this.’” It’s a difficult subject. “We lost our brother Stephane to […]
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Francesca Omolara Ekwuyasi moves from Penance to reconciliation
Screening and reception: Penance and Reconcile Nov 28 The Khyber, 1880 Hollis Street 6:30-9:30pm free Francesca Omolara Ekwuyasi has been thinking a lot about the intersection of queerness and faith. “The faith I grew up in, the way that it’s practiced in my home country of Nigeria, is inherently homophobic and heavy on the shame,” […]
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Let’s go to the movies
Working Women (2018) Hebrew w/English subtitles Nov 21, 7pm, Cineplex Park Lane In her first feature-length fiction film Invisible (2011), director Michal Aviad explored the longterm effects of stranger rape. In her most recent film, the feminist filmmaker tackles the immediate consequences of a kind of sexual violence that is less definite and more diffused. […]