Arts & Culture

Things are about to get quirky at the waterfront. Buskerfest is back for another year in Halifax, bringing along with it some of the most interesting performers from around the globe. If you’re someone who’d want to watch a person eat fire or cringe while a performer inhumanly contorts themselves into a pretzel, this is […]

This Tuesday marks the third-annual Emancipation Day in Nova Scotia, an anniversary of the historic end to slavery across the British Empire. So-called Canada has a 200-year history of slavery—and Halifax itself hosted slaver’s ships in its harbour. Yet, public knowledge of this chapter of the past—and its effects on the systemic racism of today—is […]

It’s been a busy few days for rebranding, with a struggling social media network changing its name on Sunday, followed by Halifax’s major film fest following suit Wednesday. But unlike Elon Musk’s dopey move—an X-tinction level event according to much of the Twitterverse—the Atlantic International Film Festival went in the right direction. Rebranders of the […]

There’s a moment during Zoë Comeau’s F*cking Trans Women, a story of “trying to navigate intimacy and hot fucking sex with bodies that don’t fit the norm,” when a cartoon-animated penis runs across the screen behind the stage. It’s the kind of impromptu moment of levity you might have expected from a Seth Rogen film […]

Take Pablo Picasso’s cubist works and marry them with the vivid, expansive landscapes of Lawren Harris: That’s as good a starting point as any to describe the latest exhibit on offer at the Halifax Public Library. On the fifth floor of the Halifax Central Library, you’ll find a free, month-long showcase of Belleville, NS artist […]

Come From Away doesn’t open Halifax until November, and it’s already a hit. Today the show’s producers announced that three performances have been added to CFA’s local run, making for a total of seven chances to see the show at Scotiabank Centre from Tuesday Nov 14 through Sunday Nov 19. “Due to overwhelming demand, three […]

UPDATE Monday July 17: When the production company Broadway in Halifax announced these two shows back in March, they were both far in the future and the producers had an obvious interest in selling packages to both shows at once. These “season packages” were the source of much confusion, as we discuss below if you’re […]

At first blush, it’d be easy to see K.R. Byggdin’s Wonder World as lifted-from-life, the sort of roman à clef that many debut authors write to make a splash: Like their protagonist, Isaac Funk, Byggdin relocated from small-town Manitoba to Halifax in search of queer community, and like Funk, Byggdin is part of the city’s […]