Sue Carter Flinn

Lucky us: we spoke to Governor General award-winning Halifax poet Don Domanski, hours after it was announced that he beat out some impressive nominees, including Dennis Lee and Margaret (“my pen!”) Atwood. Domanski, who kept the big secret for over a month, receives an early Christmas bonus of $25,000 at Rideau Hall on December 13. […]

Friday’s Artists Against Gentrification event is poignantly timed to coincide with Turnstile Pottery‘s eviction from 2207 Gottingen, the future site of sparkly new condos. Starting at 7pm, short films by Anchor Archive‘s Sonia Edworthy and artist Sarah Mangle will be projected onto the wall at the future site of more new condos, the Falkland-Gottingen intersection—or […]

This ain’t your mama’s lido deck. On Wednesday November 28, Blowhard Presents: Tales from the Fuck Cruise: sordid tales of sex, truth and hope at The Space (2353 Agricola). Could be freaky, furry erotica. Maybe a film or two (not that kind!) But with storytellers Tara Doyle, Michael Best, Jane Kansas, Sue Goyette, Tara Thorne, […]

About a month ago we wrote about a wonderful Symphony Nova Scotia fundraiser that put busted instruments into the transformative hands of artists. One of those artists, Enrique Ferreol, turned the experience into a video performance, to be screened at the AGNS Windsor Theatre on Thursday, November 22 (6:30pm, 1723 Hollis, $5). “I realized the […]

Consider the Samuel Beckett double-bill of Krapp’s Last Tape and Not I at The BusStop Theatre (2203 Gottingen) as Tim Leary‘s homecoming. Leary, former head of the sorely missed Nova Scotia Arts Council, left the professional stage in the1970s but continued as a producer and a consultant. “It’s new all over again. It’s like riding […]

“I wasn’t expecting it—it was a fine group of individuals on the short list with me. They’re all really, really good artists and they all make really good work,” says the modest winner of this year’s Nova Scotia Masterworks Award, Glynis Humphrey. Indeed, the artist was in fine company with short-listers Georgette LeBlanc, Lorraine Field, […]

An unrelated panel discussion on “Trust in Freedom of Artistic Expression: Is Art Free?” on Thursday, November 15 at Saint Mary’s University (7:30pm, Scotiabank Theatre, Sobey Building) has become incredibly timely, given the controversy around a piece of art currently on display at that university’s art gallery. “Black Santa Coffee Pot” by acclaimed artist Léopold […]

Wednesday loses its rep as the least funny day of the week, thanks to the arrival of Holly Prazoff, Inessa Frantowski and Rebecca Addelman, with their Spare Some Changes comedy tour, coming to Ginger’s (1662 Barrington) on November 14. A mash-up of alternative-minded sketches, video and stand-up, mixed with music from The Just Barelys (also […]

Gamblers, art collectors and bargain hunters take note of this fundraiser: Eastern Canada’s answer to the Banff Centre, The Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, is bringing a giant secret to Argyle Fine Art (1869 Upper Water). More than 300 postcard-sized pieces of original art will be auctioned off at $50 each, but you won’t […]

Although she was living and performing in Saint John, New Brunswick, many people in Halifax were affected by the terribly early death of violinist and music teacher Ericka Low, on October 22, at age 30. A Masters of Music Performance grad from the University of Ottawa, Low was a soloist for the Ottawa Symphony, Ottawa […]

If you despise Halloween, trash the sweaty plastic mask, and head out for some alternative entertainment. On Tuesday, October 30 at 7pm, bring in your pumpkins and head over to the CBC Radio Room at 5600 Sackville for Future Shorts, featuring wee works by international filmmakers, followed by a screening of Siloen Daley’s short film, […]