Black Cop Opens Friday, June 1 Cineplex Park Lane 5657 Spring Garden Road Black Cop was shot in Halifax, but you’d only know that if you already lived here. Cory Bowles’ directorial debut, expanded from his 2015 short, looks and feels as if it could be anywhere in North America, and that’s just what he […]
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Twelve fashionably fancy weekend picks
As Paris Fashion Week continues and the Oscars’ red carpet gets ready to unroll Sunday, Halifax has its own luxe happenings to hit up: The Halifax Black Film Festival returns—bringing Cory Bowles’ Black Cop with it—while the Chebucto Symphony Orchestra delivers sweet Viennese sound and, at The Craig Gallery, the power of doodling finally gets […]
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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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Everyone’s Famous and the viral payday
Everyone’s Famous New episodes Thursdays everyonesfamous.ca It was 1968 when Andy Warhol said everyone would be world-famous for 15 minutes, and he died before the modern internet was invented–he never knew how true this throwaway line would become. The Halifax-produced web series Everyone’s Famous, a third of the way into its second season, knows what’s […]
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The year in film
Andy Hines’ Grammy nomination The Nova Scotia-born Hines—his father is the photographer Sherman—already has a few awards for his music videos, including an MTV Moon Man. His clip for Logic’s “1-800-273-8255″—a sensitive, six-minute coming-out story starring Don Cheadle and Luis Guzmán—is up for the big time, a Grammy Award, in February. Black Cop This timely […]
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Black Cop feature film shoots in Halifax for 12 days
Filmmaker Cory Bowles says he likes to explore questions through his work. His latest questions: What if a black police officer wanted to respond to systematic police violence? What if he did so by directing his frustrations at non-minorities? Bowles’ current project, Black Cop, touches on satire and humour as well as drama. It’s based […]
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Oversight
Dalhousie School of Architecture and Planning Inspired by different activist movements, Oversight is an installation exploring our relationship, as citizens, to the police. The collaboration between the three artists started as a Centre For Art Tapes project (together with Lindsay Dobbin), now being adapted for the festival. Dina, Pearse and Bowles look at the way […]
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Dance review: Burpee and SINS
Apple Darkest Perhaps the most striking thing about last night’s two premieres, presented by Live Art, was their differences. The minimalism of Susie Burpee‘s Apple Darkness, performed by Danielle Baskerville, seemed almost pious compared to Sometimes in Nova Scotia‘s over-the-top ode to greed, only emphasizing its glorious excessiveness even more. No surprise: Apple Darkness was […]
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Heavenly SINS performing
Peter Eastwood This Thursday night marks the first time since 2006 that all the members of Sometimes in Nova Scotia will be dancing together on the same Halifax stage. The cheekily named young contemporary dance collective, who are spread out across the country, debuts its new piece Xs—-the fourth in its 7 Deadly Sins series—-on […]