“In 2013, I realized that I loved sculpture and I started looking at my close relationship with my grandfather, who was a woodworker and welder. He was also a residential school survivor, and I started developing a narrative around that,” says Anishnaabe artist Aylan Couchie, from Nipissing First Nation in Northern Ontario. “Around then, the […]
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New Art: Raghed Charabaty
“I left Lebanon being very distant from Arabic culture,” says 20-year-old filmmaker Raghed (Ray) Charabaty, who moved to Halifax from the mountains outside of Beirut to study film and art at NSCAD in 2012. “I wanted to focus on this new person I could be. “Until I realized that you need to go back to […]
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Check out this year’s winning Film 5 projects
Last week, the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative aka AFCOOP announced the 2016 winners of the Film 5 program in which aspiring and emerging directors, producers and crew produce a five-minute film from script to budget to star-studded premiere. With two phases — Program Development (Phase I) and Production (Phase II) — participants experience the full range […]
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Q & A: Jeremy Banks, the new director of Bus Stop Theatre
Last month, The Bus Stop Theatre announced the hiring of its new executive director, Jeremy Banks. After incorporating as a non-profit co-operative in 2013 and establishing a Board of Directors, Waque’s vision to transfer leadership was accomplished with Banks, a west-coast arts and culture administrator who moved to Halifax two years ago. We caught up with Banks […]
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Local boosterism is killing the Atlantic Film Festival
[Image-1] A lot of us Canadians squirm in our seats in shame as we are obliged to sit through half an hour of sponsor promotion and self-indulgent speeches before each gala film presentation at the Atlantic Film Festival. European visitors must conclude that Halifax is a hick town where there is no respect for the […]
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The case for shit lists
[Image-1] Several months ago, Anna was sexually assaulted. The man was an acquaintance in Halifax’s arts community. They had met at a party, and left together later that night. There were no warning signs about the man Anna went home with that night, and nothing to indicate his reputation for violence. But people knew. “In […]
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How to be Halifax’s next poet laureate
[Image-1] El Jones, Halifax’s poet laureate for the last two years, announced today she’ll be leaving Nova Scotia for a writer-in-residence program at the University of Iowa. It’s a big blow to the city’s social justice and arts community. It also brings up the question of who’s going to replace Jones as HRM’s new poet […]
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Welcome to the summer of the Khyber
[Image-1] Last summer, friends of the historic Khyber Building on Barrington Street came together with artists, musicians, members of the queer community and heritage-loving Haligonians to save the Khyber from being forever lost. It didn’t really work. True, 1588 Barrington Street was removed from the city’s surplus property list and more study was done looking […]
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Thursday’s 9 things you need to know
1 Radio station Q104—the “home of rock and roll”—has apologized after sharing a Facebook photo mocking Caitlyn Jenner. An image of a dog with a caption reading “Bruce Jenner’s cat” was shared by the station yesterday. After complaints, Q104 deleted the “Facebook meme post” and replaced it with the following apology. The recent Q104 Facebook […]
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Wednesday’s 10 things you need to know
1 Two cannons were removed from Province House yesterday to restore their sandstone platforms. One, near the statue of Joseph Howe, was placed in 1829 and used to protect the Hollis Street entrance. The other, which was in storage, previously acted as Halifax’s noon and evening gun from 1882 to 1905. Some lucky communications worker […]
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13 things you need to know Friday
1 Dalhousie’s report into the sexually violent Facebook page created by fourth-year dentistry students was released today. If somehow you missed the scandal, refresh yourself with our coverage on the Facebook posts, subsequent suspensions and Dal’s general public relations nightmare. All of the men involved in the group can now graduate, according to the report. […]
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Halifax wants you on its new arts advisory committee.
[Image-1] If the last few weeks of budget protests have shown anything, it’s that this town has some powerful advocates for the arts. Which is great, since Halifax is looking for citizens to participate on the newly-formed ArtsHalifax advisory committee. Approved at council’s May 12 meeting, ArtsHalifax will be composed of eight artistic minds appointed […]