Gong Hei Fat Choy! Happy Year of the Rabbit! Yesterday—Sunday, January 22—marked the beginning of the Lunar New Year Festival. Whether you call it Chinese New Year, Korean New Year or Vietnamese Tết, people all over the world have kicked off this 15-day celebration welcoming the first moon of the lunar year. For the Gregorian […]
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Live theatre, art exhibits, comedy, literary, spoken word – The Coast guide to Halifax and Dartmouth, NS . The downtown, local arts scene – plays, writers, actors, artists and performers. Painting, sculpture, photography, stand-up, stage.
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Halifax, here’s your going out guide for Jan 23-25
January lives up to its mental image as a dry month, a time for trimming away the extras, when you look around the world of events. There’s simply not as much going on as the other 11 months of the year. This isn’t me hating on the month: After December’s hectic pace, it feels like […]
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Neon Dreams’ new record is the sonic sunshine you need to hear
If sunshine had a sound, it’d be the opening warbling reverb and trilling guitar of Halifax-formed, internationally-beloved Neon Dreams’ latest album, Love Child Baby Dolphin. From the moment the needle drops on the opening track “Little Dance”, your skin starts absorbing the Vitamin D. Anthemic strings that sound loaned from Carly Rae Jepsen meld with […]
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Big changes coming at the African Nova Scotian Music Association
The shake-up in Halifax’s culture sector—in which many executive directors and managers of the biggest arts organizations are leaving their chairs—is now one count stronger: It’s been announced that the African Nova Scotian Music Association’s is seeking a new executive director. Related Outgoing chair and executive director Lou Gannon has helmed the organization for over […]
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Halifax architect Brian MacKay-Lyons appointed to the Order of Canada
Lines so crisp they paper cut the sky, colours so in tune with their surroundings they feel lifted from nature, banks of windows flooded with light: Chances are, you know a building designed by MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple when you see it—if for no other reason than the strong visual style has become a stalwart of east […]
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Halifax, here’s your weekend guide for Jan 19-22
January lives up to its mental image as a dry month, a time for trimming away the extras, when you look around the world of events. There’s simply not as much going on as the other 11 months of the year. This isn’t me hating on the month: After December’s hectic pace, it feels like […]
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Hey Halifax, here’s how to dance away your winter blues
If the winter blues got you bad, it’s time to strike back, step up and, in the words of Taylor Swift, “shake it off.” Yup, a cure for the long nights and grey skies can be found by dancing the night away—or so argue the following events, which make room for the release that only […]
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G-Unit’s Tony Yayo announces Halifax concert
If you’re in the mood for a little Throwback Thursday fun, level8 night club (the after-dark destination that’s, yep, located on the eighth level of 1800 Argyle Street) has your back: The venue has announced it’s bringing G-Unit’s Tony Yayo to town on Thursday, February 16. Part of 50 Cent’s expansive crew that ruled early […]
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Canada’s first collage-focused gallery opens in Halifax this month
The sunlight is pouring through the windows inside 5663 Cornwallis Street’s suite 101, splashing on the hardwood floor and puddling on a folding table that’s littered with bits of newsprint and bottles of glue. A wall-mounted magazine rack shouts headlines in a variety of fonts from the far corner, while the gallery-white walls boast works […]
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Halifax, here’s your going out guide for Jan 16-18
January lives up to its mental image as a dry month, a time for trimming away the extras, when you look around the world of events. There’s simply not as much going on as the other 11 months of the year. This isn’t me hating on the month: After December’s hectic pace, it feels like […]
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Halifax Pride’s upheaval: what we know so far
In the mid-holiday haze of a waning 2022, many Haligonians’ thumbs stopped, mid-doom-scroll at the sight of it: An Instagram post that stood out so wildly from the typical late-year feed of festive scenes that it felt like the social media equivalent of a record scratch. A wall of text, written first-person but without a […]
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Nocturne and Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival announce calls for admissions
Both Nocturne Halifax and the Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival announced today that they’re looking for new, exciting artworks to consider for their respective events this year. Visual art festival Nocturne posted on Instagram that it is currently seeking submissions from BIPOC-identifying artists who are early to mid-career for an upcoming public art installation that’ll be […]