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Your 2018 Atlantic Book Award winners
Thirteen awards were handed out last night at Paul O’Regan Hall to the authors, illustrators and publishers representing the best of the past year in Atlantic Canadian literary offerings. The winners: Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction Barrelling Forward by Eva Crocker (House of Anansi Press) Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature The Painting by […]
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Afua Cooper is Halifax’s new poet laureate
The municipality’s next poet laureate has no shortage of work experience. Afua Cooper, best-selling author and one of the country’s most celebrated voices of Black Canadian history, is now Halifax’s poet-in-residence. “Poetry brings people together,” Cooper writes in a press release announcing the news. “It is my honour to serve as the municipality’s poetry ambassador.” […]
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Sickboy seeks applicants for the Sickboy Wish Fund
“The whole idea came from a running joke on the podcast that I had wasted my Children’s Wish,” says Jeremie Saunders. In 2002, when Saunders was given the opportunity to make one wish, he chose a shopping spree. Many teens would do the same. Now he deeply regrets the decision, and that remorse has motivated […]
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City nails new Halifax Explosion memorial
When Haligonians gather December 6 at Fort Needham Memorial Park to remember the blast that devastated the city 100 years ago, they will find some informative architecture has been added to the grounds around the old bell tower monument. The new commemorative elements don’t take the form of strenuous plaques droning on about the Imo, […]
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In Memoriam: Dunsworth and Downie
This has been a horrible week in Canadian culture. On Monday, local actor John Dunsworth passed away at 71, after a short and unexpected illness. Then 53-year-old Gord Downie of The Tragically Hip followed him, succumbing on Wednesday to a brain cancer that was widely discussed from the moment he announced its existence more than […]
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A Nocturne 2017 round-up
Keeping with this year’s “vanish” theme, the art from Saturday night has left the city streets. Thankfully, we have Instagram to keep the memories alive. Check out highlights from Nocturne’s 10th anniversary below. A post shared by Benjamin Lemphers (@blemphers) on Oct 15, 2017 at 8:36am PDT A post shared by Laura Selenzi (@lauraselenzi) on […]
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Review: Bodies in Translation: Age and Creativity at the MSVU Art Gallery
Bodies in Translation: Age and Creativity Through November 12 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, 166 Bedford Highway One of two current shows at MSVU Art Gallery, Bodies in Translation: Age and Creativity features work by eight senior artists who explore aging through art. Several of the artists address the physicality of aging, as in […]
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Review: Zachari Logan’s Topiary at Anna Leonowens Gallery
Zachari Logan, Topiary Anna Leonowens Gallery, Granville Square, 1891 Granville Street To September 23 While the word “topiary” may conjure up images of shrubs in the shapes of elephants and swans, Zachari Logan’s latest exhibition by the same name delivers an entirely different articulation of this, but just as luxurious and with just the right amount […]
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Review: New works by Shane Keyu Song at Lost & Found
New works by Shane Song Through September 20 Lost & Found, 2383 Agricola Street Fans of Century Egg will be familiar with the visual talents of the band’s frontwoman Shane Keyu Song, whose illustrations grace their album covers and merch, and will recognize her distinctive style in the latest show at Lost & Found. For her […]
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Deep-dive into Halifax’s stories
The Deep Magazine Launch Party Tuesday Sept. 12, 7-10pm Lot Six, 1685 Argyle Street $14.29 w/ fees and taxes tickethalifax.com Thank you, Halifax, for your love and patience—The Deep has launched. ICYMI, you can find its first story right here. Tickets for the launch party are going fast, but there are still a few left […]
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Review: Prime Suspects: Canada’s Prime Ministers in Caricature by Bruce MacKinnon at AGNS
Prime Suspects: Canada’s Prime Ministers in Caricature by Bruce MacKinnonThrough April 1 Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1723 Hollis Street With only a swooping hairline needed to bring him to mind, there has perhaps never been a POTUS more easily caricatured than Donald Trump, and few Prime Ministers that have looked better in comparison than Justin […]
