Last summer, René Boudreau told The Coast why she started Elevate and Explore Black Nova Scotia, a business all about promoting experiences for Black Nova Scotians through travel. Since then, she tells us now, it’s only grown. “There’s gaps in terms of the representation and cultural awareness that yes—there are Black people in Nova Scotia […]
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A universal event
Halifax Black Film Festival March 2-4 The Rape of Recy Taylor screening Friday March 2, The Spatz Theatre, 1855 Trollope Street, 6pm $20 halifaxblackfilm.com “Recy Taylor spoke up and called what happened to her what it was—she was not embarrassed by it, she was not ashamed, she was horrified,” says the documentary filmmaker Nancy Buirski. […]
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Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival re-emerges
7th Annual Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival April 19-22 various locations free The Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival has come a long way since its first year, co-founders Tara Taylor and Shelley Fashan remember. “We had one day and one sponsor in our first year,” Taylor says with a chuckle. The festival focuses on diverse, […]
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Made-in-Halifax feature Across the Line hits theatres Friday
A million dollar-budget feature film, shot entirely in Nova Scotia, is about to hit Cineplex Theatres. But this cause for celebration is also cause for concern. Opening almost exactly a year after the Stephen McNeil Liberals announced the end of the provincial film tax credit, Across the Line is a bittersweet anniversary marker—a film that […]
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Emerging Lens expands
“There’s a lot of people out there with stories to tell,” says festival co-producer Shelley Fashan on how the Emerging Lens Film Festival began. “We just decided we would try to do that through a conversation of these stories.” What started as a one-day showcase of local talent is gradually getting bigger, adding a workshop […]
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Dartmouth daytripper
As San Francisco has Oakland and New York has Jersey, Halifax has my dear Dartmouth. I opted to settle there when I moved back from Toronto a month ago. Plenty of Haligonians think Dartmouth is just a place to drive through on the way to the airport, but here are a few of the reasons […]