Arts & Culture

Let’s start with good news: The 2482 Maynard project—a multi-use arts hub that’s home to Wonder’Neath Society, Eyelevel Artist Run Centre and The Blue Building Gallery, at 2482 Maynard Street—has been a runaway success since it opened mid-2020. Now, as its reopening plans unfold and onsite programming for Wonder’Neath resumes in the near future, the […]

Bootlegger Oct 20, 7-9:45pm, Scotiabank Theatre, 190 Chain Lake Drive, festival.imaginenative.org for ticket details. A Turtle Island-wide celebration of Indigenous film, the imagineNATIVE Festival sees in-person screenings of a selected, seminal movie at some Cineplex locations across various cities. The flick in question for Kjipuktuk? The buzzed-about 2021 release Bootlegger, by Algonquin director Caroline Monnet. The […]

Looking Back 20 Years ViewPoint Gallery, 1475 Bedford Highway, until Oct 31 ViewPoint Gallery, the city’s lone photography-only exhibitor, celebrates two decades of putting the frame in focus with this retrospective show, on view until October 31. The gallery’s whopping 240-exhibit back catalogue has been mined for Looking Back. “We’re in a very interesting time […]

In the soil that feeds Abena Beloved Green’s family tree, a place of nutrients and knowledge that helps grow chlorophyll-packed leaves, inspiration was waiting to be dug up like treasure. “I always had a reverence for grandmothers and always envied classmates who were close to their grandmothers and would talk to them,” the lauded slam […]

Forgive us for saying that it’s been lights, camera, action for the film industry in Nova Scotia for 14 months now, with the movie Wildhood putting the industry back in motion when it filmed in Windsor last August. Screen Nova Scotia told CBC then that our province’s handling of COVID gave us an edge in […]

Jesse Wente in conversation with Matt Galloway Thu Oct 14, 8pm, livestream, Attendee info available at Bookmark Halifax (5686 Spring Garden Road) with purchase of Unreconciled Chances are you don’t know arts journalist and Canada Council for the Arts chairperson Jesse Wente, but you certainly know the cultural riches Turtle Island gets to boast about, […]

It’d be easy to compare Marcie Diggs—the main character of the sleeper hit, Halifax-set CBC legal drama Diggstown, returning for its third season October 6—to Annalise Keating of How To Get Away With Murder, since both are powerhouses in the courtroom. It’d be easy to cast her akin to Scandal’s Olivia Pope, thanks to the […]

Family Patterns Oct 16-Feb 28, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1723 Hollis Street “We’re not really represented a lot…or in a positive light,” artist Letitia Fraser told The Coast back in 2019, explaining why her portraits of the African Nova Scotian community are so vital as she was showcasing her first exhibit, at the Anna […]

I’m tired of explaining why art matters, because I always figured it was something we understood, really, when we got out of our own way—a riff on that old, coffee mug-ready Picasso quote that “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once [she] grows up.” We know it because, […]