Dawn, Her Dad and the Tractor Available for the festival’s duration through FIN Stream or Sep 17, 7 & 7:30pm at Cineplex Park Lane; tickets here. By the time Dawn, Her Dad and the Tractor screens at FIN (at the gala presentation on Friday, September 17), writer-director Shelley Thompson will finally have time to exhale. […]
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It’s lights, camera action for FIN Atlantic Film Festival 2021
The FIN Atlantic International Film Festival is back, running from Thursday to Thursday, September 16-23, so get ready to subsist on popcorn and plot lines as the region’s biggest celebration of cinema does its glorious thing. This year, there will be flicks screening at Cineplex Park Lane (5657 Spring Garden Road) alongside special, ticketed gala […]
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What to watch at the 2021 FIN Atlantic International Film Festival
There are over 150 films on offer at this year’s FIN Atlantic International Film Festival, on from September 16-23 both online and in-person at Cineplex Park Lane. Offerings range from box office blockbusters to indie documentaries, from stories about the precursors of punk rock to teenagers managing viral fame. No matter your cinematic tastes, there’s something […]
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Prismatic Arts Festival drops 2021 lineup
Let’s be honest: We didn’t really like sharing the shimmering, captivating Prismatic Arts Festival with anyone else—so its return from time-sharing between Ottawa and home (er, Halifax) is good news on its own. What’s making it even better, though? This year’s edition of the annual event, held from September 28 to October 10, is boasting […]
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FIN Atlantic International Film Festival launches 2021 lineup
If this past year-and-a-half has you missing the movies—realizing that maybe the best part of a horror film is the whole audience holding its breath, or that a comedy just hits different when someone in the back row has a gregarious laugh—you’re not alone. But you’ll also find buttered popcorn-tinged solace in the return of […]
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Festival of Dance Annapolis Royal returns Aug 16-21
Every August at the Valley’s edge, as the fertile region’s tree branches begin to feel the weight of fragrant fruit, another transformation happens: Annapolis Royal becomes overrun with rhythm. Dancers and performance artists—striking, sparkling talent from across the region and the country—descend on the idyllic town, ready to make moves. It’s the sort of embracing […]
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Hoping to do a COVID Pride justice
Editor’s note: Hosting an arts event these days is no joke. It’s more like a dance with a million unknown, ever-changing steps, making event planners need back up plans for their back up plans. They pivot and contort to COVID’s inconsistent rhythm while keeping the beat at all feels like a feat. Juggling public expectations […]
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Enjoying the feeling of queer life returning to normal
Editor’s note: Hosting an arts event these days is no joke. It’s more like a dance with a million unknown, ever-changing steps, making event planners need back up plans for their back up plans. They pivot and contort to COVID’s inconsistent rhythm while keeping the beat at all feels like a feat. Juggling public expectations […]
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Preparing for an in-person Halifax Pride
Editor’s note: Hosting an arts event these days is no joke. It’s more like a dance with a million unknown, ever-changing steps, making event planners need back up plans for their back up plans. They pivot and contort to COVID’s inconsistent rhythm while keeping the beat at all feels like a feat. Juggling public expectations […]
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Halifax Fringe Festival’s 2021 event is a-go
It’d be easy to say that this year’s Halifax Fringe Festival won’t be a typical one—but when has the beigeness of that word ever really captured the wild edges of the annual unjuried, uncensored performing arts event? Fringe has always been about the beauty of spontaneity and strangeness—a cloud of ‘anything could happen’ forming over […]
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Planning Pride during a pandemic
Editor’s note: Hosting an arts event these days is no joke. It’s more like a dance with a million unknown, ever-changing steps, making event planners need back up plans for their back up plans. They pivot and contort to COVID’s inconsistent rhythm while keeping the beat at all feels like a feat. Juggling public expectations […]