Reasoning with a psychopathic culture hasn’t been much fun for environmentalists. It’s probably futile anyway—if you wanna change minds, you gotta touch hearts first. And touching hearts is the work of artists, not policy wonks. “Art hits us viscerally,” explains spoken word artist Laura Burke. Burke, known for dropping earth-loving rhymes, will compete as part […]
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Wearable art works
It’s Good Friday morning, and while the rest of the city plans a lazy day, the NSCAD fashion studios hum with the sound of sewing machines, music and laughter. Sunlight streams through the large windows, casting a shine on duct-taped body forms, or Judys, as they’re called. Students are preparing for NSCAD University’s 19th Wearable […]
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Charles Landry speaks in Halifax about great cities
Long before Richard Florida discovered the “creative class” and their predilection for culturally dynamic places, Charles Landry started talking about the “creative city,” referring to the regenerative force of arts and culture in post-industrial cities like Glasgow, Scotland, starting in the late 1980s. The UK writer/thinker will speak to a business luncheon crowd on Tuesday, […]
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Eleanor King on arms-length arts funding
The city needs an arts council. All major cities in Canada have three-tiered funding opportunities, Federal, Provincial and Municipal. In Halifax, we don’t have municipal funding. An arms-length body would also bring respect and professionalism to arts funding in this town! Right now the city offers $500 if you want to paint a mural on […]
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Art and the city
It’s a telling sign that more than 500 people showed up last Friday in Grand Parade to protest federal arts funding cuts and to rally around the concept of “Vote Arts,” and yet, six hours later, only about 40 to 50 people attended a District 12 municipal candidates debate, hosted at NSCAD University by that […]
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Briony Carros on talent drain
…on talent drain While other cities are trying to find ways to attract talented, creative people, Halifax needs to work on retaining them. We have an incredible asset, hundreds of students graduate from post-secondary institutions every year, but the municipality is squandering opportunities to develop or encourage the infrastruture necessary to keep them here. The amount of talent […]
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All-party culture club
It’s hardly news to say the arts don’t rank as a top-level issue in the current federal election campaign. But, when asked, each of the four local candidates vying to represent the riding of Halifax in the next Parliament can produce a platform or set of numbers relating to their party’s supposedly solid position on […]
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15 years: Arts and activism, con’t.
Andrew David Terris is an artist, consultant and activist who remembers when there was only one good restaurant in Halifax. He’s lived in the city since 1982. Sonia Edworthy and Sarah Evans are the driving force behind the Anchor Archive Zine Library and Arts Centre. They’ve both lived in Halifax since the late ’90s. They sat amidst […]
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15 years: Comedy, con’t.
Newfoundland native Cathy Jones moved to Halifax in 1993 to star in the CBC political satire This Hour Has 22 Minutes with Mary Walsh, Rick Mercer and Greg Thomey. A founder of the seminal troupe CODCO, she is the current 22 Minutes’ only original cast member. Evany Rosen moved from Toronto to attend King’s College […]
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15 years: Film, con’t.
Andrea Dorfman moved from Toronto in 1993 to attend NSCAD. Her 2000 feature debut Parsley Days screened at the Toronto International Film Festival as well as the Atlantic Film Festival, where Love That Boy (2003) and the documentary Sluts (2005) had their premieres. Dartmouth native Jason Eisener: co-wrote and directed the fake trailer for Hobo […]
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15 years: Arts and activism
Andrew David Terris is an artist, consultant and activist who remembers when there was only one good restaurant in Halifax. He’s lived in the city since 1982. Sonia Edworthy and Sarah Evans are the driving force behind Anchor Archive Zine Library and Arts Centre. They’ve both lived in Halifax since the late ’90s. They sat […]
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Best Gallery
One of the coolest things going on currently at the AGNS is work by the Sobey Prize-winning Michel de Broin. The Montreal sculptor took the $50,000 award in October, and his spherical collection of boardroom chairs—called Black Whole Conference—is on display, along with work by the four other artists under 40 years old who were […]