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What does your brain look like? Birds, Bones & Brains is the retrospective exhibit covering Rose Adams’ mind-blowing work from the last 25 years, which will be commemorated with a poetry reading on February 28 at the Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery. Best known for her work involving the brain, the exhibit covers Adams’ journey […]

“How do I even begin?” asks Phanuel Antwi, chuckling, over the phone from Toronto, where he’s just waking up. “Dub poetry is a poetic practice that emerged from Jamaica. I use the language ’emerge’ because that’s really quite important. What dub is is very political, it emerged from the psyche of the youth of Jamaica […]

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Local filmmaker Kristen Swinkels will go so far as to admit she hasn’t euthanized her own mother, but otherwise her film, Nigredo, is based on personal experience. The imagery sprung from visiting her mom in hospital, combined with a hefty dose of Jungian psychology. “The hospital experience is kind of crazy when you’re there for […]

Crossing paths with a wild animal is a striking experience. Whether it’s a raccoon rustling in the shadows of a shed or a deer standing roadside and motionless, there’s often a kind of memorable excitement to it. “When I encounter a wild animal, I never quite know what to do,” says D’Arcy Wilson. “It’s really […]

Sometimes people say things like “it’s like riding a bike,” when referencing something you haven’t done in ages but are expected to pick up again with no problems. Listen guys, sometimes it’s not like riding a bike, sometimes it’s careening into a ditch and scraping up all your exposed bits. Which is why, thank the […]

“Everybody has a living story,” says Jae-Sung Chon, architect and curator of Migrating Landscapes. “Whether it’s in the past or present or the future, everyone can talk about their living conditions and architecture is essentially an envelope that hosts these stories.” Migrating Landscapes is an architectural project that hosts the varied migration stories of Canadian […]

Whether you’ve got the pristine skin of youth contemplating your first permanent art piece, you’re in the process of going full lizard, or maybe you just want to turn your belly button into a cat’s anus—whatever your poison, Adept Tattoo’s 7th annual Maritime Tattoo Festival has inky inspiration up the ying yang. The three day […]