Portland Street’s The Dart Gallery is once again proving itself to be the buzzy community hub the city needs post-COVID: While the location’s already been on our radar of late as an incubator for local comedy, it was announced this week that it’ll also play host to a new writers’ collective debut event. Related The […]
Arts & Culture
Posted inArts + Music
Staging the first-love story of the first modern lesbian in Crypthand
The real life of Anne Lister already feels lifted from a script: Described as the first “modern lesbian” (she lived openly with a woman in 1830s England, in what many consider the country’s first same-sex union), Lister’s diaries were so spicily explicit that, when they were first discovered after her death, they were thought to […]
Posted inArts + Music
Halifax filmmaker Leah Johnston screens Mother’s Skin at Vancouver International Film Festival
By the fall of 2021, the local film biz was roaring back to life after a series of COVID-related shutdowns: Things we moving, sets were cropping up all over, and Screen Nova Scotia was announcing an industry-wide boom. Local filmmaker Leah Johnston was both an example of the buzz and completely outside of it, filming […]
Posted inArts + Music
Neptune Theatre announces five audition notices
Part of Neptune’s 2022-2023 slate, In Lieu of Flowers is a new work penned by emerging playwright Alison Crosby, through an incubator program by the venerable theatre. Its story traces a tale of grief and loyalty as main character Eddie attempts to navigate life and relationships after the sudden passing of her brother. Hitting the […]
Posted inArts + Music
Updated: What Hurricane Fiona means to Halifax’s weekend plans
Have you bought some bottled water yet? Or figured out how you’ll fill the time once the power goes out? Yep, Hurricane Fiona is on its way—currently forecast to hit Nova Scotia with major wind and rain starting Friday, September 23, with landfall happening near Cape Breton on Saturday, September 24—and will affect Halifax to […]
Posted inArts + Music
Walter Borden’s The Last Epistle of Tightrope Time sees a master revisiting and restitching their opus
In the penultimate scene of The Last Epistle of Tightrope Time, Neptune’s 60th season opener, which closes Sept. 25, Walter Borden unfurls a quilt on the stage floor. He crouches low to the blanket’s surface, saying: “your life is like this patchwork quilt where them pieces don’t mean nuthin’ when they scattered all about, but […]
Posted inArts + Music
Neptune Theatre renames greenroom to legendary actor Walter Borden
When the Order of Canada-winning, Dora-nominated, luminary of theatre Walter Borden wraps his run of the solo play The Last Epistle of Tightrope Time at Neptune Theatre this weekend, it’ll be far from the last you’ll hear of him at the venerable venue. In a release issued earlier today, Neptune announced plans to rename its […]
Posted inArts + Music
Oscar-winning Haligonian Ben Proudfoot releases new food-focused doc
You’d be forgiven if, due to a certain slap, you missed when Ben Proudfoot’s Breakwater Studios took home the Oscar earlier this year for best documentary short—but don’t for a second think that Halifax missed seeing their hometown boy make good in front of the entire film world. Since then, Proudfoot’s been busy on a […]
Posted inArts + Music
New performance incubator, LUCID, releases call-out for QTBIPOC artists
Time to dust off your resume: LUCID, a new performance incubator led and created by artist Vie Jones, is looking for 13 artists between the ages of 18 and 30 who are part of the queer BIPOC community. Backed by the folks from HEIST Live Art (who have had their works performed at the National […]
Posted inArts + Music
Venice 2022: A wrap-up and photos from the 79th international film festival
The 79th Venice International Film Festival capped off its final days with a flurry of premieres and celebrity red carpet appearances. Michelle Zyuryaeva’s special coverage for The Coast captures all of the highlights from one of the world’s oldest and most renowned film fests. September 2 The festival marked its third day Friday, with enthusiastic […]
Posted inArts + Music
The Nova Scotia Art Bank just bought works by 22 local artists
The province’s trove of original artwork just got 22 times richer today, as the Nova Scotia Art Bank announced its list of acquisitions for 2022. A way to preserve the best in local visual culture *and* celebrate artists making work here, the art bank has been buying significant works since 1975. This year, 13 of […]
Posted inArts + Music
God save the stream: 7 pieces of pop culture to mark Elizabeth II’s passing
In the 23 hours since Queen Elizabeth II’s death was announced, the internet has, perhaps predictably, cleaved in two: There’s those mourning the longest-reigning British monarch and then there’s those who are taking this moment to talk about how she was a proponent of and symbol for ongoing colonial horror. In the 11 days until […]