Arts & Culture

When asked how it feels to be nominated for the 2022 Siminovitch Prize—Canada’s largest prestigious theatre award, given to mid-career directors, playwrights or designers—Halifax actor-director-instructor Ann-Marie Kerr’s answer flows forth with the immediacy of the moment, but is as eloquent as if it’d been lifted from a script: “When I got the call, I had […]

Miya Turnbull’s three-dimensional self-portraits masks are a combination of photography, sculpture and collage. They’re the type of exciting work that makes the visual art world sit up and take notice: Landing her on the cover of Visual Art News (the region’s largest art publication), getting scooped up by the Nova Scotia Art Bank (a provincial […]

Nova Scotia is looking to name the next Robert Eggers, the upcoming Denis Villeneuve, Gen Z’s Greta Gerwig: Yesterday, the province announced a new batch of funding for those who work in TV and film—aimed particularly at attracting and retaining emerging talent in the under-30 cohort. An expansion to the existing More Opportunity for Skilled Trades […]

When it comes to telling the story of a dysfunctional family that’s also financially messy, Jennifer Finnigan says Moonshine—the one-hour CBC dramedy in which she stars—has a lot to add to the canon: “I can’t compare our show to anything, really. Yes, there’s sort of quirky elements of Arrested Development and Schitt’s Creek, absolutely. There’s […]

If you’re feeling like a fall day trip is in order, The Chester Playhouse has your back with a sweet screening of the movie The Good House, held Friday October 21 at 7:30pm at the Chester Legion. A fundraiser for the Playhouse—which was gutted by a fire in 2021—it’s $20 for adults and $10 for […]

By the time Cliff Cardinal’s one-actor show Huff reaches Halifax audiences (it opens today at Neptune Theatre as part of Prismatic Arts Festival, and runs until Oct. 9), it’ll be the 200th-and-change time the lauded playwright has retold the tale. “Over the years, Huff has become more of a known quantity,” Cardinal begins, speaking by […]

When it comes to local art stars on the come-up, few are glittering brighter than Ivan Flores: It was announced today that the NSCAD student has won the provincial division of the BMO 1st Art! Competition.  An annual prize with a two decade tenure, 1st Art! recognizes an artwork (and artist) from each province and […]

It’s a big week for Beaver Bank, Nova Scotia: The horror-slash-sci-fi series From—which was shot in the community in 2021—has made its Canadian streaming debut this week, on the Paramount+ platform. The series’ story swirls around a small town in middle America where things are decidedly….off, as all who enter the town are then trapped […]

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 […]

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 […]