Street Life: Candid Portraits It’s been a rough one for ViewPoint Gallery, which moved mid-pandemic from its brief residence near Spring Garden Road to Bedford. Celebrate the photography-focused gallery’s new digs and take in its latest exhibit, a collection of black and white snaps by gallery member Paul Williams. To Apr 18, Thu-Sun noon-5pm, ViewPoint […]
Dinuk Wijeratne
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Dinuk Wijeratne stays wylin’
Dinuk Wijeratne Trio Fri Nov 22, 7:30pm Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library, 5440 Spring Garden Road $15-$35 P ianist-conductor-composer-genre-obliterating Dinuk Wijeratne returns to Halifax this weekend for a trio concert at the Paul O’Regan Hall. Wijeratne will be joined by jazz drummer and world percussionist Nick Halley and jazz artist Tom Easley on bass. […]
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Dinuk Wijeratne’s Masterworks win
Composer Dinuk Wijeratne could not believe it when he heard the news he’d won the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award last week. “I heard wild ringing on my phone from a friend congratulating me,” says Wijeratne. “I thought it was a hoax for a moment, so I needed confirmation before I could […]
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Congrats to 2017’s finalists for the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award
Yesterday, the three finalists for the largest annual award to any work of art in Nova Scotia—the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award—were announced. The award was established by the Honourable Myra Freeman in 2005, and is meant to recognize “the excellence of a particular work of art or design from any media.” […]
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Jazz Fest: Diallo and Church Span the Globe
“Sit down!” As Alpha Yaya Diallo and his band took the Festival Tent stage last night, a few voices rose in anger to scold some late arrivals who’d decided to stand in between the rows of seats, blocking the viewplane of several audience members. One of the reprimanded dudes shrugged, look back at his friends […]
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Friends of note
Halifax pianist Dinuk Wijeratne is welcoming an old friend and artistic ally, clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, to town. Sri Lankan-born and Dubai-raised Wijeratne and Syrian Azmeh met at Juilliard’s International House. “It was this international residence in the heart of New York. It was a huge mansion-looking building,” says Wijeratne, with “people from about 100 different […]
