Behind the circulation desk at the Halifax Central Library, a massive work by the legendary artist Cliff Eyland makes your neck crane ever higher, a wave of comfort following a backbend as you feel tiny in its towering presence. Library Cards is a mixed-media piece that has proven itself to be Instagram bait and a […]
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Fall Arts Preview: Sara Coffin’s wild side
Wild Within November 14-16, 8:00pm Alderney Landing Theatre, 2 Ochterloney Street, Dartmouth $17-$28 www.moceandance.com The ties between ourselves and the natural world are vast and deeply connected to a part of us we might not be conscious of—but what does that bond look like? This is a question Mocean Dance’s co-artistic director Sara Coffin hopes […]
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26 concerts to spice up your summer
June 22-23 Matt Andersen and The Mellotones w/Bobby Bazini It’s not the first time New Brunswick’s blues king has kicked it with the Halifax party-starting eight-piece (they co-headlined a gig at last year’s Jazz Fest)—but, this time around, there will be a stack of new songs awaiting from Andersen’s upcoming Halfway Home by Morning. Rebecca […]
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Mouthpiece’s brain matter
Mouthpiece To Nov 18, 8pm (2pm Sun mat) Alderney Landing, 2 Ochterloney Street, Dartmouth $35 ($25 underwaged) In Mouthpiece, Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava climb out of a bathtub to play both sides of one woman’s brain. They began creating her in 2013, put her on a Toronto stage in 2015, won two Dora Awards […]
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Nova Multifest does it for the culture
Nova Multifest Saturday, July 28, 10am-8pm Alderney Landing, 2 Ochterloney Street, Dartmouth free multifestns.ca If you take a look beyond Nova Scotia’s tartan-clad, fish ‘n’ chips-dense, bagpipe-ridden traditions, you’ll realize there’s a lot more cultural diversity in this province than meets the eye. If you’re having trouble seeing the rich multiculturalism making up our vast […]
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Put your hands together for these 17 summer concerts
JUNE 21 Partner w/Century Egg and No, It’s Fine. Sackville’s finest stoner rock ex-pats return to the east coast for what’ll surely be one of the sweatiest gigs of the summer—and one of the best, with support from the mathy No, It’s Fine and alt-popsters Century Egg. The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street, 8pm, $17.50 […]
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Mocean’s double feature dance show
Mocean Dance Double Bill Feb. 23-24, 8 p.m. Alderney Landing, Dartmouth Mocean Dance is letting audiences take in two of their hit performances in one night for their double bill event: Canvas 5 x 5 and Sable Island. Choreographer Tedd Robinson drew from both Scottish and Japanese influences to create Canvas 5 x 5. Four […]
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Catching up with Kate Beaton
Kate Beaton has a lot on her plate. Within the past eight months, she moved home to Mabou, Cape Breton from Toronto; received a prestigious Eisner award for her book Step Aside, Pops! A Hark! A Vagrant Collection; and decided to devote full-time work to a new graphic novel based on her experience working in […]
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Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival is the big draw in comics
Liz Mac was terrified. It was the first time she was presenting her work as an illustrator at the Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival. And there she was, last August at Alderney Landing, beside local stars like cartoonist Andy Cotnam. A self-taught illustrator, she’d only been to DCAF once before, in 2014, and that was as an […]
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Yukon Blonde ambition
Jeffrey Innes lives on Galiano Island, accessible via small car ferry or floatplane from Vancouver, “home to a thriving community of artists, musicians, poets and craftspeople whose work captures the beauty and spirit of Galiano,” as declared by its chamber of commerce. He’s forced to stand in one place to maintain his cell phone connection, […]
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Squid goals: urban fishing in Halifax
Leaning over the wooden ledge of the boardwalk, Andrew Hunt preps one of his many fishing rods with a shrimp-like lure—a tackle suited for squid. “Those are huge!” he says, as he jigs his line near the tentacled shadows below the surface, waiting for them to take notice. Hunt, a local artist and graphic designer, […]
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The Sanctified Brothers shake up traditional gospel music
For Wallace Smith, music has always been a fact of life. “I was sort of born into it,” explains Smith, a member of the North Preston soul gospel group The Sanctified Brothers. “I don’t think there’s ever a day that went by in the whole time I’ve been alive that singing hasn’t taken place in […]