Morgan Mullin

A Short Story About Sidewalks is one of five can’t-miss projects at this year’s Nocturne, a site-specific art festival that has things popping up all over Halifax from Oct. 13 to 15. Read more about the other Nocturne projects we’re most excited about here. “I think in the simplest sense, Halifax means home for me,” writes […]

Meet Me at the Dinner Table is one of five can’t-miss projects at this year’s Nocturne, a site-specific art festival that has things popping up all over Halifax from Oct. 13 to 15. Read more about the other Nocturne projects we’re most excited about here. “Our main thing, our main agreement, is that we want […]

so lucky so strange so persistent is one of five can’t-miss projects at this year’s Nocturne, a site-specific art festival that has things popping up all over Halifax from Oct. 13 to 15. Read more about the other Nocturne projects we’re most excited about here. “It was a place that I would go to late […]

Halifax has a rich history of independent movie houses: Everyone from your grew-up-here co-worker to former national poet laureate George Elliott Clarke can wax poetic about the locally-run spot they favoured for screenings, be it The Oxford or the fantastically named Wormwood’s Dog and Monkey Cinema. (Clarke talks a lot about the transformative times he […]

When asked how it feels to be nominated for the 2022 Siminovitch Prize—Canada’s largest prestigious theatre award, given to mid-career directors, playwrights or designers—Halifax actor-director-instructor Ann-Marie Kerr’s answer flows forth with the immediacy of the moment, but is as eloquent as if it’d been lifted from a script: “When I got the call, I had […]

Miya Turnbull’s three-dimensional self-portraits masks are a combination of photography, sculpture and collage. They’re the type of exciting work that makes the visual art world sit up and take notice: Landing her on the cover of Visual Art News (the region’s largest art publication), getting scooped up by the Nova Scotia Art Bank (a provincial […]

Nova Scotia is looking to name the next Robert Eggers, the upcoming Denis Villeneuve, Gen Z’s Greta Gerwig: Yesterday, the province announced a new batch of funding for those who work in TV and film—aimed particularly at attracting and retaining emerging talent in the under-30 cohort. An expansion to the existing More Opportunity for Skilled Trades […]

When it comes to telling the story of a dysfunctional family that’s also financially messy, Jennifer Finnigan says Moonshine—the one-hour CBC dramedy in which she stars—has a lot to add to the canon: “I can’t compare our show to anything, really. Yes, there’s sort of quirky elements of Arrested Development and Schitt’s Creek, absolutely. There’s […]

If you’re feeling like a fall day trip is in order, The Chester Playhouse has your back with a sweet screening of the movie The Good House, held Friday October 21 at 7:30pm at the Chester Legion. A fundraiser for the Playhouse—which was gutted by a fire in 2021—it’s $20 for adults and $10 for […]