Scott BlackburnPeachy keen. It’s been a good couple of weeks for the Company House. Fresh off an ECMA nod for Venue of the Year and co-owner Heather Gibson’s win for Manager of the Year, the warm, cozy Gottingen joint has also begun hosting an Artist in Residence program. Co-owner MaryAnn Daye likens the program to similar initiatives at the Cameron House in Toronto, where musicians get the chance to “present new music, fine tune older pieces and hone their performance skills in a live environment.” Natasha Peach will be assuming the role every second Monday for the next few months,
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Tyler Munford gives the big picture
One wall of Tyler Munford’s small apartment bedroom looks like an evidence board from a Law & Order episode. Photos of street scenes, colourful charts, online article printouts. Although it’s been almost two months since the NSCAD student was involved in an altercation with a Halifax Alehouse bouncer after Munford took his photo for a […]
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Young artists go outside in
If you threw together a stack of comics, zines and scrappy drawings from across the country, you’d find a complex web of friendships, school ties and social networks underlying it. That’s what curator Corinna Ghaznavi found when putting together the show Pulp Fiction, opening at Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery—uncovering an interconnected community of artists […]
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AGNS’ portrait of problems
Ray Cronin has an office with a gaping picture window giving view to the provincial legislature across the street. After 18 months as director and CEO of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Cronin’s gone through the looking glass and is still winding his way through wonderland. Running a provincial art institution, Cronin works with […]
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Jean-Pierre Gauthier’s Noise control
Hours before Jean-Pierre Gauthier’s Machines at Play opens at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the gallery is chaos. Yellow ladders loom among pushcarts of tools and cleaning equipment. Gauthier’s work fills the air with honks, scratches of graphite, gurgling bubbles and piano flourishes. It’s a bit much for Gauthier, the 2004 Sobey Art Award […]
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Hill’s article on Ash too narrow
Dear Editor of the Coast; Last week’s article on Gregor Ash’s bid for the Halifax West riding in the next Federal Election was a good one in that it highlighted some of Mr. Ash’s interests and strengths. That being said, it also had too narrow of a focus and left the reader with the feeling that Mr. Ash is running simply to forward his own, somewhat narrow, Arts agenda. I think a truly balanced article should have shed a little light on the other side of Mr. Ash, and let us know the real reason he’s running in Halifax West:
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Textile artist Brownlee weaves a message
It’s 1995 and Sandra Brownlee has stopped weaving. It’s not quite the reaction she expected following the success of her internationally touring solo exhibition, Weaving Out Loud. But that dust has settled, and the physical repetition of the loom has begun to worm itself into her thoughts and ideas. After first sitting down at a […]
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Art photo project gets bounced – hard
The weekend before last, NSCAD students on a school project ended up in a planned confrontation with an Alehouse bouncer. The controversy has raged ever since, perhaps giving impetus to a proposal to license bar security. The students were clearly on a mission to cause trouble. Bouncers “tend to get angry and tell you that […]
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Halifax Climate Events
Please note the changed dates below: If you were too broke or too worried about your own emissions to jump the bandwagon in Copenhagen, there’s still lots you can do right here in Hali to be part of “the most important human gathering ever.” On Saturday, December 12 at 5:00 pm there will be a […]
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Secret art installation, Saturday night
This Saturday night at 8pm, artist Jyelle Vogel has taken over the vacated upholstery shop at 5682 North Street for an installation. This is the third and last showing before she gives up the space. She describes the candle-lit installation: “There are four mobiles hanging from the ceiling. They are made from bicycle rims and […]
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Gerry Ferguson memorial this weekend
Gerald Ferguson, 11,000 Grapes, enamel on canvas, 54″ x 55. Courtesy of Gallery Page and Strange. Friends, family, students and colleagues of Gerry Ferguson will have a chance to remember the enigmatic artist and professor on Sunday afternoon, 3pm, at NSCAD’s Port Campus. It’s an appropriate location for a memorial: Ferguson, who passed away in […]
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Gregor Ash’s passion
When Gregor Ash was a kid in Newfoundland, he and his fellow film junkies would head to the Caribou Lounge Saturday mornings, where they’d endure the stench of cigarettes and stale beer for a chance to catch flicks that weren’t on CTV and CBC, their only two channels. Despite the smell, the Atlantic Film Festival’s […]