Anyone who has spent time mothering knows that it is undoubtedly and irrevocably work. But could it also be an art? Jessica Winton and Sally Morgan certainly think so: Along with fellow artist Ruth Douthwright, they’ve formed The Sense Archive, which is currently showing the exhibition This Body of Work through a partnership between Eyelevel […]
Morgan Mullin
Morgan was the Arts & Entertainment Editor at The Coast, where she wrote about everything from what to see and do around Halifax to profiles of the city’s creative class to larger cultural pieces. She started with The Coast in 2016.
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The speech that stole the show at this year’s Atlantic Book Awards
Get ready for your to-be-read pile to grow even taller: Last night, June 7, saw the annual Atlantic Book Awards Gala take over Halifax Central Library’s Paul O’Regan Hall, getting lit(erary) as it celebrated some of the top tomes of the last year. Halifax author K. R. Byggdin was the evening’s star, taking home the […]
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Every big show happening in Halifax (and beyond) in June 2023
Wondering how to make the most of summer’s scant time? We’re breaking down all the big shows, from Rich Aucoin’s album release show at The Seahorse to Two Planks and A Passion’s outdoor theatre offerings. Get ready to light up the group chat with some great plans—and if you notice we’re missing something, email us! […]
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Halifax, Vivek Shraya has your soundtrack for Pride Month and beyond
This week, two very different—but equally glamorous—divas are making Halifax glitter on back to back nights: Yes, Shania Twain is playing a long-sold-out show June 12 at the Scotiabank Centre—and trust, her girls are ready to go. But the evening before (June 11 at Alderney Landing Theatre) pop princess and multi hyphenate artist Vivek Shraya […]
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Everything you need to know about the 2023 Stages Festival
STAGES Theatre Festival is more than an annual bright star on the calendar of theatre lovers around town, more than simply a stopover a play takes between the Halifax Fringe Festival and debuting at Neptune Theatre. (Though, of course, it’s both those things, too.) See, STAGES is, in its own way, an encapsulation of the […]
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A major retrospective of one of the 20th century’s most overlooked artists is on view at Halifax’s Blue Building Gallery
New York is quick to call dibs on June Leaf, since she was part of the city’s historic Bleecker Street scene (the street gets its bohemian cred for being HQ for generations of bohemians, a longstanding locale for Leaf and her contemporaries as they re-shaped abstract art in a post-World War Two era). The Whitney […]
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Son of a Critch gets third season, Moonshine premieres this summer in this week’s local film news
It’s peak season for the film industry in Nova Scotia, with hundreds of sets calling “action” all over the province. Team Coast is keeping track of the ever-growing biz (in a press release from last May, the province says “the film industry contributed about $180.8 million to Nova Scotia’s economy in 2021-22”) with weekly updates […]
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UPDATED: Shelburne area wildfires cause closure of Black Loyalist Heritage Centre
The unprecedented wildfires in Nova Scotia continue today, with the burning in Shelburne County now being called one of the biggest wildfires in the province’s history, as Global news reports. As a reported 17,602 hectares of a wooded area in the province’s southwestern pocket continues to blaze, about 5,000 people have been evacuated. Amongst the […]
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Two Dora-winning playwrights are making a musical about Frenchy’s, the iconic chain of Nova Scotian thrift stores
Update: Since originally filing this story, I heard from a Mr. Dale Fawthrop telling me about the original musical about Frenchy’s he and Ruth Cormier Nichols staged circa 2010 in Amherst. (It was a love story between a shopper and stockiest that, tbh, feels like the sort of thing Kate Hudson would star in, had […]
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Telefilm funds Devour and Halifax Black Film Fest, director Fawaz Al-Matrouk making next flick in Nova Scotia, and more local film and TV news
The big picture in movie-making right now is split-screen in focus: Massive movie deals being made at a record-level-attendee Cannes film festival and the ongoing Hollywood writers’ strike. Cut to Nova Scotia, though, and the scene is different: High season for the film and TV industry is rolling onwards, with film crews across the province […]
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Everything you need to know about the 2023 Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival
An antidote to the run-of-the-mill movie multiplex; the thing that’ll make your Letterboxd (the Goodreads of movies) profile 10 times cooler; a bunch of outside-the-box films so boundary-pushing we’re already craving popcorn: The Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival is a flick freak’s dream come true, showing features and shorts from around the world and across the […]
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Have you seen the new mural on Agricola Street?
Some people send a suitcase or two in advance of a cross-country move, but not Jasmin Amoako. Forget checked luggage, never mind a carry-on: When the artist swapped Ontario for Nova Scotia in 2022 (she’s a master’s student at NSCAD), she sent ahead plans for one of the most eye-catching new public art installations on […]