Hug the next gallery volunteer you see. Well, ask them first, but you get the point. They help run galleries and so many other arts institutions, organizations, events and programs—big and small—in this city. The AGNS gives out proverbial hugs to its veteran volunteers at the AGNeS party as well. These aren’t just any volunteers. […]
Sean Flinn
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Autism Arts Program
The Autism Arts Program was piloted last February and officially launched this past October, says Michael Price, program director at the non-profit Provincial Autism Centre (autismcentre.ns.ca). Price and Dale Sheppard, AGNS curator of education and public programs, together run the AAP. A winter class is just wrapping up its eight-week run and a spring group […]
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Craigs donate to AGNS
If you want to hang with—and eat the fine cheeses worthy of—the big backers of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, you’ll have to call gallery events coordinator Sue Melvin at 424-8935. At the time of writing, there were only 15 or 20 tickets left for the 2008 AGNeS Award party, she says, but by […]
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Bottomwriting!
We’re still planning our next bottomwriting instalments, but invite you one last time to let us know what you’d like to read along the bottom of our pages. Send suggestions to arts@thecoast.ca.
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Boys and men
At their heart The Darcys manifest dualism. They are one thing; theyre another. Theyre both at the same time. The fellows in the group, who just released their debut full-length Endless Water, might appreciate such an analysis of human nature, since theyre made up of mostly Kings College graduates and soon-to-be grads of the Contemporary […]
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Bottomwriting in The Coast
Let us not lose sight of the bottom line. Email your ideas for what you think we should do with the bottom-writing. Put bottom-writing in the subject header and send to arts@thecoast.ca.
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Ha!ifax Comedy Fest
Organizers just released the lineup forHa!ifax Comedy Fest, which runs April 19 through 26. Rich Hall’s coming. Apparently he has two shows on BBC4—Rich Hall’s Cattle Drive and Rich Hall’s Fishing Show. But you may remember him from such earlier comedy sketch and variety programs as Saturday Night Live. The material that guy came up […]
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No NS Genie Awards
Alas, Nova Scotia-related film productions were shut out of the Genies, handed out in Toronto the same night as the Merritts. Marc Almon and Nona McDermid’s imaginative, kerosene-lit short The Wake of Calum MacLeod didn’t take the prize for Best Live Action Short Drama, but the film about the power of storytelling to preserve the […]
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2b Theatre on top
The 2008 Merritt Awards were handed out on Monday, March 3, celebrating the best in Nova Scotia’s theatre. Halifax-based 2b Theatre won four of the seven categories it was nominated for, including Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for Stephen McCarthy, who played the Storyteller in 2b’s Revisited, and Outstanding Direction for […]
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Ryan Cook & Sunny Acres
[image-4]Published March 06, 2008.Ryan Cook & Sunny AcresHot Times(No Scene)Cook and friends (including John Campbelljohn on C6th pedal steel and Jon Landry, from Folds of Policy, on electric guitars) show themselves to be sure hands on honky-tonk numbers (“How Drunk I Get”), brooders (“…Between the Buried and Me”) and old-timey waltzes (the closer “Little Doves”). […]
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Eels
EelsMeet the Eels Vol. 1, Useless Trinkets(Geffen Records)Being an Eels fan is like belonging to a secret society: With every release you wonder how much you want to share your band. Well, it’s out of your hands. A two-volume set—five discs in all—of essential tracks from albums released between 1996 and 2006 (Meet the Eels, […]
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Monade
MonadeMonstre Cosmic(Too Pure)Unfortunately for Laetitia Sadier, she has one of those instantly recognizable voices. The (dare it be said) brand recognition is so strong a listener forgets this is Monade and not Stereolab—the singer’s usual band. This is reinforced by other elements: Marie Merlet’s plonk-plonk bass, Rachel Ortas’ ba-ba-badah-aaaaah-type vocal counterpoint, frequent time changes within […]
