When listening to Jenny Berkel’s soft-edged LP, 2022’s These Are The Sounds Left From Leaving, the ripe-fruit taste of melancholy takes hold of your tongue. You’re pre-nostalgic for a heartache that hasn’t happened yet, walking around the rooms of your mind’s house while sunlight streams in. Written before the pandemic—and before Berkel swapped Toronto, where […]
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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HRM announces its official Canada Day/Kana’ta programming
The city has changed its approach to how it’ll celebrate July 1 this year: In today’s announcement from HRM sharing info on the programming planned for 155th anniversary of the confederation, it stated that consultation with “the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre and local Indigenous artists” was part of the 2022 planning process, aiming for “a […]
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700 Bliss, the buzzy club music duo Pitchfork is obsessed with, plays Halifax Friday June 10
Moor Mother, the Afrofuturist, sonic shape-shifting MC and poet, has long been a favourite of EVERYSEEKER Festival: The artist first came to the annual Halifax event back in 2017, when she was still scaling the rock face of the come-up. These days, she’s arguably at the mountaintop: The sort of known entity that music nerds […]
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Serena Ryder announces Halifax concert for December 1
Toronto-based singer-songwriter Serena Ryder must be sick of winning Juno awards (she’s got seven) and getting platinum certification on her albums (two of her streaming-age offerings, 2012’s Harmony and 2017’s Utopia managed this increasingly rare feat). One thing we hope she won’t get sick of? Bringing her heralded live show out east, like she’ll be […]
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Halifax author Andre Fenton’s newest novel is the book of the summer
Andre Fenton started writing unmissable books when he was still firmly within the age range of the Young Adult demographic, selling so many copies of his self-published debut—2016’s Ode to Teen Angst—that he could barely keep them in stock for the hungry, word-of-mouth fans who’d ask. Since then, the poet and author has racked up […]
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Afroman announces Halifax concert August 25
The Grammy nominated king of the Napster era, Afroman, is coming to Halifax this August as part of his Higher Times tour. He’ll play Level 8 nightclub (the new club and cabaret located on the, yup, 8th level of 1800 Argyle Street) on August 25. Tickets to see the mind behind jams like “Because I […]
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FIN Outdoor announces its return to the Public Gardens this summer
Not since 2019 has FIN: The Atlantic International Film Festival been able to bring its off-season specialty, FIN Outdoor, to life. But now, the event—a series of outdoor screenings, held on July Fridays at dusk, in the Public Gardens—is back, bringing all its wistfully summer feelings with it. And what will the event be screening? […]
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Here’s all the shows we can’t wait to see during Symphony Nova Scotia’s 2022-2023 season
At the end of May, Symphony Nova Scotia announced its upcoming fall season—the fullest programming slate the organization has put together since the pandemic. It’s chock-full of the sort of stuff that makes classical music lovers excited, but here’s a handful of gigs we’re already clicking marking our calendars for. -Marc-André Hamelin playing Grieg The […]
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Everything you need to know about the 2022 Stages Theatre Festival
The annual Stages Theatre Festival shows new works of theatre at all phases of creation: From table readings to full-on performances, this is the place to witness how the three-act structure gets made (and how it gets subverted). Run by Eastern Front Theatre (and housed in EFT’s home base, the Alderney Landing Theatre) the festival […]
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Halifax-made film Compulsus to show at Toronto’s Inside Out Festival this week
It’s a not-well-enough known statistic that two-thirds of Canadians know a woman who has been abused physically, emotionally or sexually—but it’s a fact that’s been seared on the brain of director Tara Thorne. A former Coast staffer (we shared a double-wide desk in the summer of 2016), Thorne’s simmering, provocative debut feature—titled Compulsus—stems from this figure, […]
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Everything you need to know about the 2022 Atlantic Book Awards & Festival
The biggest regional celebration of reading, the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival combines panel discussions, story circles and its marquee event—an annual awards gala—to deliver a bookworm’s dream every spring. As the yearly event returns, it’s embracing a hybrid online and in-person model that’s sure to sharpen up your reading list, stat. What is the […]
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Nova Scotia government increases film fund cap to $10 Million
When the Disney+ limited series Washington Black took over a section of Young Avenue in Halifax this spring, covering two blocks with cars as it shot on location, it was easy for pedestrians passing by to fancy themselves extras. A quiet slice of the south end hummed, lit up at night with a big-money production […]