Notes from the Arts Desk * * * * * PARTY ALERT & AWARDS NIGHT The Khyber Centre for the Arts invites you to a general meeting on Friday, September 4 (6pm, free) to fill you in on the future of the Khyber Centre. You are then warmly invited to stay for the Community BBQ and […]
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Meet the three amazing artists creating public art for the Halifax Common
Three artists representing the LGBTQ+, Aboriginal and African Nova Scotian communities will collaborate with the municipality to create public art on three pedestrian plazas.
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NS Music Hall of Fame’s first legends
The casino just announced the very first members of the Casino Nova Scotia Music Hall of Fame. “These individuals are an excellent representation of the diversity of the music that represents Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canada culturally and historically,” the casino’s interim general manager Gary Moore says in the press release. “They have been amazing […]
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Here are your 2015 Masterworks Arts Award finalists
Five artists representing five different mediums are in the running for the prestigious award, a place in history and $25,000.
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Halifax Feast takes a final bow
Petrie’s Halifax Feast Dinner Theatre (1505 Barrington Street) announced yesterday via Facebook, and its website, that the business was closing due to financial problems. Jim Petrie who’s been the owner and director behind the Feast since 1989, has written and produced over 50 musical shows, putting countless local actors on stage, during the dinner theatre’s […]
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A truckload of Togetherness
Yesterday this truck drove down Marginal Road towards the container port. But unlike most of the trucks driving that route, which will unload their container cargo onto boats or trains for shipping around the world, this one is delivering the world to Halifax. Its cargo is a (literally) touring exhibition called “Together: An exhibition on […]
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Get a load of the first Smart Phone Film Festival, June 19
Many, many short films—30 to be exact—make up the two and a half hours of pure smartphone film enjoyment to be had this Friday. Presented by The Coast and Eastlink, the inaugural Smart Phone Film Festival screening party and awards show goes down this Friday at 7pm at the Central Library’s Paul O’Regan Hall. The […]
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22 Coast memories from Coast staff
An informal pile of scattered memories from Coast staff—best office treats, best parties, most embarrassing moments, triumphs, failures, tear-jerkers—all in one post. This week marks 22 years of the paper, and while we may not be doing any keg stands (or will we?) let’s all do a keg stroll down memory lane, shall we? 1. […]
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Major AGNS shake up
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia director and CEO Ray Cronin will step down after seven years in the job and 14 years total at the gallery. allNovaScotia is reporting that he was fired by the AGNS board. Cronin will be replaced in the interim by Lisa Bugden, the former head of Film & Creative Industries […]
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Sobey Art Award shortlist announced
This morning, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Sobey Art Foundation announced the five shortlisted artists for this year’s Sobey Art Award, a coveted prize for Canada’s contemporary artists under age 40. A curatorial panel whittled down the longlist of 25 artists to come up with five, one from each region. The selected […]
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Atlantic Film Festival announces Summer of Superheroes
It’s a cape escape every weekend from June 26 to August 21. Instead of focusing on an actor or director, The Atlantic Film Festival‘s Outdoor Film Experience is going broad with a genre: superheroes. Costumes encouraged, but I doubt you needed any encouraging, really. Now in Bedford and Dartmouth as well as on that big […]
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Music made palpable in Live Art’s latest
The tangibility of music, and its uncanny power to move us, was made manifest last night in Speaking in Ligeti, a production by choreographer Martha Carter, presented by Live Art Dance as part of the Scotia Festival of Music. Set to the music of Hungarian composer György Ligeti, the work brought the musicians of Microcosmos […]
