Someone, somewhere in the annals of city hall must have seen I’thandi Munro’s 2020 Nocturne Festival art installation, titled Wejku’agamit > Owed: That was the only explanation I could think of when I saw the news earlier this month that Halifax was offering residents a chance out of their parking tickets, swapping the fee for […]
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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Everything you need to know about the 2022 Halifax Jazz Festival
A sure sign of summer being in full swing, the Halifax Jazz Festival is (arguably) the biggest music fest of the season, a set of concerts offering some of the brightest and fastest-ascending names in music. It’s brouhahas on the waterfront as big stars take the stage for open-air, seaside shows; it’s a summer sunset […]
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Halifax Fringe Festival is seeking a new executive director
Every September for the last seven years, Halifax Fringe Festival executive director Lee-Ann Poole has steered a mighty ship into port. The Fringe is an eleven-day blitz of indie, un-juried, uncensored theatre, bringing everything from one-person shows to conceptual circus performance to venues all over the city—in a total of 55+ productions and over 350 […]
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Halifax Urban Folk Festival announces 2022 dates, lineup
Summer might not feel fully here yet (thanks, rain) but the season’s swan song is already set in the queue, thanks to the Halifax Urban Folk Festival’s lineup and date announcement released this week. The cap to festival season/summer in general, HUFF routinely brings bright singer-songwriters from a swath of genres to The Carleton for […]
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Everything you need to know about the 2022 Halifax Pride Festival
From drag shows to fetish parties to wellness workshops to big-name concerts to, yes, the parade, it might be easier to list what Halifax Pride *doesn’t* do than all that it does. The annual celebration of gender and sexuality expression and inclusion, Pride brings the party, make no mistake. But, it also builds community. Here […]
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Canadian punk legends The Dayglo Abortions play Halifax July 3
Every pot has a lid, or so the saying goes—and when it comes to band and venue reaching match-making perfection, we can’t think of a better combo than Canadian punk legends The Dayglo Abortions playing Gus’ Pub, a longtime home to some of the city’s scrappiest sounds. DGA has been doing their shock-rock thing since […]
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Mo Kenney’s self-titled, debut album gets 10 year anniversary vinyl re-issue
When The Coast reaches Mo Kenney on a June afternoon, they’re on break from soundcheck. Their five-week European tour is wrapping up soon—but tonight, the singer-songwriter is performing the Netherlands stop. It’s been a decade since Kenney dropped their self-titled debut album (“It feels like that record came out maybe four years ago—but it definitely […]
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Halifax-based artist Jordan Bennett unveils new mural in Toronto
Halifax-based artist Jordan Bennett’s Air Miles card must never be in his wallet: The mixed-media, archival-revival installation artist—whose resume includes two years in a row on the Sobey Art Award long list, winning the 2020 Masterworks Art Award and co-designing the new Art Gallery of Nova Scotia design—has been to the likes of New York, […]
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Comedian John Mulaney announces Halifax show for November 4
The last time John Mulaney came to Halifax, tickets sold out in the time it took us on Team Coast to write a concert announcement. He was playing at the Rebecca Cohn auditorium, and a second show ended up being added (and selling out). This time, things feel a little different: Mulaney will be playing […]
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Michael Bublé announces Halifax concert for October 22
Michael Bublé has been crooning his way to the top since the early 2000s, angling to be a one-man Rat Pack revival, with the slim-cut suits to match. It’s worked: The singer’s got enough Grammys and Junos to fill a shelf, and fans the world over who can’t get enough. The Halifax contingent of this […]
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Everything you need to know about the StArt Festival
A blend of visual art, music, fashion, dance and more, the StArt Festival is a two-day blitz of creativity, held at The Bus Stop Theatre. Aimed at uplifting and amplifying both emerging and marginalized artists, the event is always a trove of on-the-come-up greatness mixed with names you’ve been meaning to check out. What is the […]
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Here’s your recap of the 2022 Atlantic Book Awards
Correction: An earlier version of this article referred to Lesley Choice, publisher of Pottersfield Press, as ‘she’ instead of ‘he’. The Coast regrets the error. On June 9, the red carpet unfurled at Halifax Central Library’s Paul O’Regan Hall, as the first Atlantic Book Awards ceremony since 2019 took place. Past winners—like former Halifax poet […]