Cultural Festivals

It’s a good thing Kevin Hartford’s not a religious guy: If he’d left it up to The Fates, Lemon Squeezy, his debut feature film that’s showing at FIN on Thursday, September 22 at 9:30pm, would never have been made. There’d be no story to tell—nothing to see—if, after he was denied funding for his project […]

Update: Due to a bad weather forecast, the Open Street event has been cancelled for this Sunday. A press release from the event’s organizing committee announced the decision Friday afternoon. “We’ve all agreed that cancelling the event now, based on the current weather forecast for Sunday, is the most responsible thing to do for everyone […]

Every September, just as the seasons are slipping into one another, Hopscotch Arts Festival returns with enough hot bars and thumping bass to prove that summer’s just a vibe, anyway—and one that can be held onto with a quick enough tempo. The region’s largest hip hop-focused festival (which also includes visual art and dance amongst […]

A crystalline celebration of the arts in every form, Prismatic is a multi-disciplinary festival that provides diverse and boundary-pushing creators with a place to display works that enlighten and enliven audiences. From artist’s talks on how their craft builds community (Brandon Hoax’s Sep 22 lecture) to a show that sees circus performers and improvisational musicians explore […]

Halifax filmmaker Koumbie knows her debut feature, Bystanders—showing at FIN Atlantic International Film Festival on Sep 22—is bound to get people talking, but that’s the point: “What do you do when someone you like does something you hate?” she says, managing to get to the crux of it all before her phone interview with The […]

It’s the time of year film buffs live for: FIN, the region’s biggest celebration of cinema, is touching down at Cineplex Park Lane from Sep 15-22, showing a smattering of local features, buzzy international indie numbers and full-on Oscar bait. With hundreds of films on show, there’s no shortage of excellence you can view—but a […]

The FIN Atlantic International Film Festival is the largest film fest east on Montreal. Since 1980, it’s brought the top flicks on the fall festival circuit to town while also serving as a space for local features to make their debut. It’s basically the biggest event all year for movie buffs, who make Cineplex Park […]

The first bluster of fall is being felt this week as students return to town and the Halifax Fringe Festival begins. For the next 11 days (from Sep 1-11, to be exact) the city’s going to be overrun with indie theatre and performance—and with friends you haven’t seen all summer. How to maximize your time […]

Hopscotch Festival—the city’s premiere hip hop festival—had high hopes to meet with its 2022 event slate: After all, in this year’s off-season alone, the fest brought two of the biggest names in modern rap—Freddie Gibbs and Conway The Machine—to Halifax for sold-out gigs. Today’s lineup announcement proves the annual event can keep the good times […]

Every fall, FIN manages the juggling act of bringing hundreds of movies to the big screens of Cineplex Park Lane, providing a list of the hottest Hollywood hits-in-waiting and must-see local features alike. For a film buff, it’s the type of one-stop shopping that’ll get you up to speed on what’s bound to end up […]

To describe Halifax Fringe in a word, one might say “community.” But since that doesn’t tell you an awful lot, we’ll use a few more: The un-juried, uncensored festival allows anyone in (or at least, anyone who coughs up the application fee and finishes their script). It’s a playground for the city’s theatre-makers, a place […]