Sean Flinn

Bottomwriting is dead, long live bottomwriting. Perhaps you’ve spied our thin and elegant strand of words that runs along the bottom of each page of The Coast. Last week, Ryan Turner’s novel Radiostation Berlin concluded. Before that, we serialized Stephanie Domet’s Pawnshop Blues. These were wonderful stories in this format and now we’re chuffed about […]

Nova Scotia-born and Montreal-based writer and artist J.R. Carpenter lectures at Dalhousie Art Gallery (Dalhousie Arts Centre, 6101 University, Thursday, February 28, 8pm) about her electronic literature. Her web project, The Mythologies of Landforms and Little Girls (1997), uses a map of Nova Scotia to generate a non-linear story. Her work has evolved over the […]

Movies are more than the Oscars. Sometimes we need to look at something besides beautiful people on a red carpet, supposedly stunned award recipients and montages of “those we’ve lost this past year.” Centre for Art Tapes programming coordinator John Mathews continues to curate a provocative program of short-ish films screening at Eyelevel Gallery (2063 […]

Nominees for the 2008 Robert Merritt Awards have been announced and 13 theatre companies from around Nova Scotia received nominations in 11 categories. For its innovative production Revisited, 2b Theatre is vying for seven Merritts, including Steven McCarthy for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Outstanding Direction for Christian Barry and Outstanding […]

Across the harbour at Alderney Landing Theatre (on the second level of the building), Eastern Front Theatre opens its tribute show to the great Nova Scotian folk singer Stan Rogers. According to Scott Burke, artistic producer and director of Stan Rogers—A Matter of Heart, the show is “not biographical in any sense. We talk about […]

Metamorphic Theatre announces its 2008 season with the third annual Kick It! launch party, Saturday February 23, from 8pm to midnight at the Garrison Brewing Company (1149 Marginal). The evening’s program will include music from Christina Martin, Amy Blanchard and Sarah Mian, a silent auction and DJ Johnston Farrow. Andrew Murphy, programming manager for The […]

Organizers say Heads Up, Eyes Open, Fists Clenched—Know Your History, an African Heritage Month celebration of spoken word and song, 
is happening at King’s, Tuesday February 19 at 
8:30pm.
 The program will feature spoken word and song by the likes of Shauntay Grant (did you catch her performance during In the Dead of Winter?), Ottawa’s […]

Connections Clubhouse brings together people with mental illness, creating a community within the community. The recent publication of Looking 
Beyond, for example, collects poetry, short stories, essays and art (drawings primarily—check out Jon Welland’s stuff) by Connections members, and creates not only a document reflecting the daily life and vibe of the place, it also offers […]