Today is the last day of work for longtime FIN Atlantic International Film Festival executive director Wayne Carter, who came to the fest from New Brunswick by way of Toronto in 2012, after spending a decade gaining a foothold in the film industry working for the likes of Warner Home Video. Soon, his desk will […]
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New 2SLGBTQ+ theatre festival OutFest arrives in Halifax April 26, 2022
Page 1 Theatre Company is bringing a new, six-day celebration of queerness and performance to The Bus Stop Theatre in late April. Called OutFest, the event has relocated to the city after seven prior festivals in Kitchener, Ontario, and will be held at The Bus Stop Theatre. The bulk of the event’s April 26-May 1 […]
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Nocturne announces its 2022 festival curators
Last fall, Stephanie Yee and Lux Habrich made the cover of The Coast, with a 30-foot Chinese dragon between them. That dragon, constructed of clear tarp, was the pair’s Nocturne festival contribution. It took over an expanse of the Halifax waterfront for the duration of the outdoor art celebration, representing themes of identity and anti-Asian […]
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NSCAD starting new film festival for April 2022
There’s a common pattern when it comes to locally made movies. You hear about an interesting, innovative flick; you watch it make the rounds on the film festival circuit; you wait until you can see it yourself; it disappears, sometimes not even available to be streamed, as if it was a figment of your imagination […]
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Halifax Pride wants to help you get the party started with $2,500 event-planning grants
Halifax Pride is returning to a fully in-person fest this year, happening July 14-24. It’ll be the first summer since COVID’s arrival to feature the parade—held July 16 at noon, for those asking—too. But the good times don’t stop there. Aside from a complete, to-be-announced slate of official programming, Pride will also be chock-full of […]
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8 must-see movies at this weekend’s Halifax Black Film Festival
The Halifax Black Film Festival makes its triumphant return this weekend, closing out African Heritage Month with a slew of online screenings and panel discussions. We watched all the available trailers on the event’s site—36 of ‘em—to pick out some of the must-see shows in the festival’s whopping 63-title slate, a mix of feature-length flicks […]
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African Heritage Month 2022 events in Halifax
Okay, okay, you know what I’m going to say: COVID has impacted how African Heritage Month is being celebrated, causing the programming to be slighter than it has been in pre-pandemic years. But that doesn’t mean the city isn’t celebrating Black culture and history in February. The Coast is actively compiling this full calendar of […]
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Nocturne opens call for curator-in-residence; announces 2022 dates
The city’s biggest open-air celebration of art is getting ready to mark its 15th spin ’round the sun this fall: Nocturne announced yesterday that, COVID willing, its 2022 festival will be slated for October 13-15. The event—which went into a multi-night format during the pandemic to accommodate safer crowd sizes—is also on the lookout for […]
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Pop-up holiday markets to hit up this month in Halifax
Okay procrastinators, it’s time to get your credit card out of the freezer, your cash out of your piggy banks and start drafting your shopping list: This is gonna be the year we get it together and shop early. We will beat the holiday rush and, dare I hope, have fun in the process? Thanks […]
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666 ways to celebrate Halloween 2021 in Halifax
Here’s the candy-bag-half-full way to look at it: Halloween falling on a Sunday this year means you have a whole weekend of tricking, treating and partying ahead of you. How will you fill that time? The city’s gotchu with ghoulish good times, from monstrous movie screenings to petrifying parties. Here, we’ve gathered 666 (OK, fine, […]
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Hal-Con returns this weekend
Time to dust off your cosplay wigs: Hal-Con is back. While this year’s slate is significantly smaller-scale than past Cons, it still packs a wallop, particularly for the bookworms in the crowd: Author of the Governor General Award-nominated The Grey Sisters, Jo Treggiari, is one of several noted sci-fi/fantasy/YA authors on the 2021 event guest […]
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Butter Honey Pig Bread author Francesca Ekwuyasi gets the last Afterword
Francesca Ekwuyasi at Afterwords Literary Festival Sunday, October 3, noon, livestream, $5 Tickets at afterwordsliteraryfestival.com Francesca Ekwuyasi’s debut novel, Butter Honey Pig Bread, doesn’t just sound like the most delicious word salad you’ve ever read. It’s also a pulse-taking study of today’s Halifax, from the quiet trudge of gentrification in the city’s north end to […]