Thursday, October 18 at Reflections Cabaret, 5184 Sackville Street, 8pm, $10 Remember that scene in Tropic Thunder when Robert Downey Jr.’s character has a career retrospective with Ben Stiller’s character, telling him to “never go full retard”? Well, there’s a way in which El-P (Jaime Meline), the Brooklyn DJ, member of Company Flow and co-founder […]
Cultural Festivals
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Tasseomancy
w/Sea Glasses, Doom Squad, Demetra Thursday, October 18 at The Company House, 2202 Gottingen Street, 8pm, $10 “Music is mystical,” says Sari Lightman, vocalist and songwriter in Tasseomancy, the Eastern European-inspired ambient-folk band she plays in with her twin sister Romy. After releasing the Tasseomancy EP in 2008 under their old moniker, Ghost Bees, the […]
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Freak Heat Waves
w/Heaven For Real, TORSO, Each Other Thursday, October 18 at The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street, 8pm, $10 “We’ve always been attracted to the minimalist side of post-punk,” says Thomas Di Ninno. “And that was definitely a starting point for us.” On Thursday at The Bus Stop Theatre, with TORSO, Heaven For Real and […]
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Cauldron
w/Metalheart, Dumpster Mummy, Black Moor Friday, October 19 at The Pavilion, 5816 Cogswell Street, 6pm, $10 Some of our brightest leave the Maritimes for Canada’s bigger cities, with dreams of stable employment and stronger economies. It’s in the news all the time. But how many move away to drum in a traditional heavy metal band? […]
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Serve and protect
Several committees at the Ecology Action Centre focus on the protection of Nova Scotia’s wilderness. Not only does forestry management benefit our atmospheric biology, it keeps intact the habitats of over 30 at-risk species. But facts and figures can lose potency. Sometimes outreach needs to be more visceral. Believing in art as a powerful form […]
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Events/Literary/Comedy
Canadian Surf Film Festival Now celebrating its third year, the Canadian Surf Film Festival (September 27-30) showcases material designed to appeal to surfers and non-surfers alike. “We program the festival for surfers or surf culture enthusiasts, but we also program it for the general public,” explains development director and co-founder Keith Maddison. “We’re well aware […]
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Get involved
It’s the perfect symbiotic relationship. You want to get involved in the local art scene and local arts organizations want your help. Most artist run centres run on very little funds—the Association of Artist-Run Centres from the Atlantic released the shocking statistic that HRM has the worst per capita arts funding in the country for […]
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Music
CKDU Funding Drive To September 30, various locations fundingdrive.ckdu.ca Funding drive season is so chock-full of awesome stuff to do and see that sometimes you forget what it’s actually all about—keeping our sweet, sweet community/campus radio thriving. In honour of their 28th funding drive, the fine people at CKDU are looking to raise $28,000, which […]
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Cooperation makes it happen
Ask a local band how they got their start, and many will tell you it happened at a party. A conversation about shared interests turns into a date for a jam, and in just a short while, a band is born. The Halifax Music Co-op started just this way, but with a significant twist. When […]
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Dance/Theatre
Live Art Dance 30th season begins September 27 with Dévorer le Ciel, 8pm, Sir James Dunn Theatre, 6101 University Avenue If you’re interested in contemporary dance, theatre or performance art, then you should definitely check out choreographer Crystal Pite’s contemporary twist on Shakespeare’s The Tempest this fall, put on by Live Art Dance for their […]
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Visual arts
Nocturne October 13, 6pm-midnight, various locations, nocturnehalifax.ca Once a year, Halifax’s streets, parks and buildings are transformed into an art lovers’ utopia, and this year’s no exception. During the Nocturne Art At Night festival artists will take over public spaces and venues across the city, creating surreal, sensory experiences in unlikely locations. This year, Nocturne […]
