Kye Clayton waits for no one. He doesn’t get caught up watching for the right time: The prodigious, prolific MC has released more music in the last six months than most rappers do in a year. He doesn’t pause, holding out for the perfect moment to begin: After all, in ninth grade, when he decided […]
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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Bring Halifax culture home with The Coast’s June 23-28 streaming guide
Tuesday June 23 Carbon Arc screens The Booksellers (remotely) While there’s no news yet as to when Halifax’s indie movie house will re-open, you can get your film fix by streaming its latest pick, The Booksellers. Available through Carbon Arc’s website for $9.99 (and available to watch until July 2), the film takes a look […]
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I Hear You: a medical drama that listens
I Hear You now streaming on ihearyouseries.com free The world doesn’t need another medical drama. If you’re looking for life-or-death plot lines and heroes (or hunks) in scrubs, you’ve been long-satiated thanks to Grey’s Anatomy, E.R and even the likes of The Mindy Project. Good thing, then, that the web series Halifax-based filmmakers Amy Trefry […]
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Keep showing up for Black Lives Matter with more events
Tonight, June 17, there will be an anti-racism rally at the Captain William Spry Community Centre (16 Sussex Street), beginning at 7pm. “This rally is in support of the global Anti-Racism and Black Lives Matter movement happening around our globe, while highlighting the impact of individual and systemic racism that has happened, and continues to […]
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Here’s everyone who made it onto the 2020 Polaris Long List
This afternoon, the most prestigious award in Canadian music—sorry Junos, we’re talking about the Polaris Prize—announced its long list (as in, the list of all the Canadian albums released since last spring that are in the running for the $50,000 prize). These 40 albums will be parsed through by the Polaris’s 201-member jury before the […]
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Bring Halifax culture home with our June 15-21 streaming guide
Monday June 15 Trivia for Shut-ins Halifax trivia hosts-about-town Jason Dorey and Andrew Evans have shifted their popular trivia game from pubs like Durty Nelly’s, the Lion’s Head and The Fickle Frog, to a Facebook livestream. Three 20-question rounds will challenge, amuse and delight, and with no prizes on the line, you won’t even mind missing […]
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Five opportunities for visual artists in Halifax
Sure, the difficulty of making money as an artist is nothing new—Oscar Wilde’s painter protagonist complains about it in his 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Grey—but just as the novel coronavirus has underscored many things we all knew with a renewed urgency, it isn’t easy to be a creative right now. While some galleries […]
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How Israel Ekanem rolls
Emerging Lens Film Festival 2020 June 10-14, 6:30-9pm themerginglens.com The edges of the word prolific aren’t enough of a border to contain Israel Ekanem’s volume of work. His is the sort of output that quickly overflows: He’s constantly making new short films; putting together a weekly radio show for CKDU FM; working on his podcast, […]
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Bring Halifax culture home with your June 8-14 streaming guide
Monday June 8 A conversation on unity w/Tyler Simmonds & Verena Rizg Simmonds, an award-winning filmmaker and public speaker from North Preston, hosts this chat with singer-poet Verena Rizing at 5:30pm via Instagram Live. Made In Bangladesh screening Since we still can’t go to Carbon Arc and see an indie flick IRL, the small theatre […]
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See you at the vigil
We’re all wondering what to do right now. Wondering what to say. (Remember that really, for non-Black folk, right now should be about listening.) Wondering how to be better. A good place to start? Educate yourself. Give money if you can. And show up, as often as possible, for those more marginalized. Here’s three ways […]
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O funding, where art thou?
By now, 10 weeks in, it’s a sadly familiar scene for artists in all mediums: Galleries closed; tours and performances cancelled; revenue drying up quicker than a puddle on a hot, late-May sidewalk. Back when all this began, Neptune Theatre’s artistic director Jeremy Webb put it perfectly when he told The Coast: “The arts scene […]
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Bring Halifax culture home with our May 25-31 streaming guide
Tuesday May 26 Vista Zuppa Theatre continues to push your mental boundaries of what a play can be—this time, taking you on a virtual walking tour that can be done anywhere (yes, even in your apartment) while asking big questions about what health means and how communities can stay healthy. An app-guided audio tour that […]