Act one: A change in shape Our story begins against the backdrop of a global pandemic, set during a year so unprecedentedly strange, the vernacular to discuss it is still being ironed out. Our protagonist, the hero of this tale, isn’t exactly a protagonist at all—or at least isn’t a person. It’s the oldest art […]
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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Rich Aucoin’s American fever-dream
The opening notes of Rich Aucoin’s newest album—the oxygen-doused, psychedelic-streaked United States—sounds like the start of a movie: Close your eyes and you can see the screen rouse to life, a nameless city coming into focus. It’s morning and the sun sits just overtop the buildings, an egg yolk suspended in the sky. “Boarded up […]
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Andrea Dorfman and Tanya Davis teach us How To Be At Home
“I think at the centre of all my work is that freedom that we find in the self, in the aloneness that we occupy as humans,” Andrea Dorfman told The Coast earlier this year, when discussing her new un-romantic comedy, Spinster. Hers has been a busy 2020, discussing the Chelsea Peretti film through its release. […]
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Step inside the Art Arena
Art Arena! Live Stream Fri Sep 25, 7-9pm The Bus Stop Theatre Facebook Live and Art Arena Facebook Live Performance is the building of a temporary world. The artist and audience are across from each other, in a silent agreement, that this whole thing is going somewhere. Will it be to space? To an ancient […]
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The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia unveils three potential designs for its new location
Right now, at 1723 Hollis Street, over 10,000 paintings, sculptures and works of art have their bags packed, ready to go. They’re waiting, fingers drumming, until it’s time to get moving. They’re ready for their new home, on what is currently a parking lot on Lower Water Street. Yes, the art is ready to move […]
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Trapped inside a Bone Cage
Bone Cage at FIN Atlantic International Film Festival Streaming online until Sep 27 $9.99/$19.99, finfestival.ca Jamie works operating a wood processor, clear-cutting for pulp. Jamie knows what it feels like to be killing the place you want to live in. Jamie worries what he’ll do for work once the last tree falls. Jamie wonders what […]
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What’s happening in Halifax from September 17-23
Thursday September 17 Dispatch Part play, part riddle-solving text message game, this Fringe Festival offering promises to “send you on a code-cracking trek through a cityscape you thought you knew.” Get started here. halifaxfringe.ca, Sep 11-27, 10am-4pm daily, $5/PWYC Jah’Mila w/Owen O’Sound Lee Halifax’s reigning reggae queen takes to The Carleton stage for an already […]
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Eastern Front Theatre announces new Artistic Director
Kathryn McCormack—her friends call her Kat, and she really wants all of Halifax and local theatre to be her friend, so you should call her that too—has an energy that is palpable from the second she enters the Zoom call. “Ugh, I gotta stop saying ‘excited’,” she says with a laugh, correcting herself from answering […]
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What’s happening in Halifax from September 10-16
Welcome to The Coast’s weekly roundup of can’t-miss Halifax events, happening both online and IRL. Looking for more things to do? Check out our complete event listings calendar here. Thursday September 1o Be Heard: Black and Indigenous Voices (The Scholar Strike for Black and Indigenous Lives) An open-mic-style rally aiming to elevate the voices of […]
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What’s happening in Halifax this Labour Day Weekend
Friday September 4 Because I Have A Voice: Hip Hop for Mental Health The Bluenose Ability Arts & Film Festival’s free evening show is already at capacity—and with a lineup featuring Classified, Quake Matthews, MAJE, Jody Upshaw and more, it’s hardly a surprise. As of press time, though, the 4pm show (which has the same […]
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Climb aboard the Stage Mother ship
Big hair, big makeup, big attitudes: It became clear to screenwriter Brad Hennig one day, while perusing his social media, that the drag queens and church ladies on his friends list weren’t so different after all. That seed of mid-scroll discovery would sprout into Stage Mother, the new movie that is, as director Thom Fitzgerald […]
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Yes, the 2020 Halifax Fringe Festival is happening
Last year, a hurricane tried to stop Halifax Fringe. This year, a global pandemic attempted. But, the resilient theatre fest is rolling on regardless, celebrating its 30th anniversary with a full month of shows all September long. “I always say the amazing thing about the Fringe is that it’s like a cockroach. We’ve certainly had lots […]