Working Women (2018) Hebrew w/English subtitles Nov 21, 7pm, Cineplex Park Lane In her first feature-length fiction film Invisible (2011), director Michal Aviad explored the longterm effects of stranger rape. In her most recent film, the feminist filmmaker tackles the immediate consequences of a kind of sexual violence that is less definite and more diffused. […]
Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
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Gold Winner Discovery Centre Silver Winner Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History Bronze Winner Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 The sky’s not even the limit for wanderlusting explorers who visit the Discovery Centre. Brenna Hill, marketing and communications manager, says her favourite part of the centre is the dome theatre. “It’s just so […]
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Settle Elsewhere belongs right here
Settle Elsewhere Oct 24-25, 5pm; Oct 26, 1:30pm, 5pm; Oct 27, 1:30pm, 5pm Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, 1055 Marginal Road $10-$20 T heatre du Poulet came onto the local scene in 2017 with The Extinction of Hong Kongers, a puppet show that tells a story of Hong Kong’s fraught past and uncertain […]
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One way, together
Together From Aways Tues Oct 15 Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Andrea and Charles Bronfman Theatre 1055 Marginal Road 7-9pm, $10 O n any given HFX Wanderers FC game day, there is an international flair throughout the Wanderers Grounds. While the players from over nine different countries play on the field, flags of […]
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Katarina Marinic’s family ties
Katarina Marinic, Oceans of Change To November 3 Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 1055 Marginal Road Katarina Marinic is the child of immigrants, the ways many of us who live on this large rock called North America are. The travelling branches of her family tree are more fresh and linear than some, though, stretching […]
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Gold Winner Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History Silver Winner Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Bronze Winner Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Longevity is the key to success at the once-again gold-winning Museum of Natural History. Between its roots—which trace back to 1868 on Hollis Street—and its long-living live exhibition Gus the 93-year-old […]
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A truckload of Togetherness
Yesterday this truck drove down Marginal Road towards the container port. But unlike most of the trucks driving that route, which will unload their container cargo onto boats or trains for shipping around the world, this one is delivering the world to Halifax. Its cargo is a (literally) touring exhibition called “Together: An exhibition on […]
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Thursday’s 6 things you need to know
1 When the Macdonald Bridge was built 60 years ago it linked two distinct cities. Nowadays, it’s a part of the Halifax Regional Municipality but our two harbour bridges are still run by a strange authoritative body in the Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission. As the Big Lift lifts off, this week’s Coast cover story looks at […]
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Gold Winner Museum of Natural History Silver Winner Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Bronze Winner Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 There’s never a dull moment at the repeat-winner Museum of Natural History. Whether its welcoming a new permanent exhibit (like Sable Island: Over the Dunes, Beyond the Wild Horses) celebrating steampunk (Science Fiction […]
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Gold Winner Museum of Natural History Silver Winner Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Bronze Winner Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 If you’ve lived in this city for any length of time, you’ll have definitely heard of Gus, the 90-year-old tortoise and longtime resident of the Museum of Natural History. However, Gus is but […]
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Gold Winner Museum of Natural History Silver Winner Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Bronze Winner Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 According to the comments they leave while casting their votes, readers love the Museum of Natural History for all kinds of reasons: “Costumes.” “Bees.” “Batman.” “Gus the tortoise.” Needless to say, we’re not […]
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Shaking it up
Daniel Libeskind, the architectural pioneer responsible for monuments such as Berlin’s Jewish Museum and the master plan for New York’s World Trade Center, will critique NSCAD jewellery students on their salt and pepper shaker-making abilities this week. It’s not really a stretch for the architect, in Halifax giving a public lecture Thursday at the Pier […]