There are over one million books in the Halifax Public Libraries holdings, but this week it seems like the city only cares about one: Irreversible Damage, written by journalist and notorious trans-exclusionary radical feminist Abigail Shrier. “I did go and put it on hold the other day, because if they’re gonna keep it I’m gonna […]
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Pianist R. Grunwald has the key
R. Grunwald March 17, 7pm Halifax Central Library, 5440 Spring Garden Road Free After more than a decade in the Canadian music industry, R. Grunwald (née Robbie Grunwald) is finally going solo. Releasing his piano-driven debut album Oma earlier this month, the musician is visiting Halifax on Tuesday to perform compositions from the moving and […]
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The Halifax Black Film Festival gets reel
Halifax Black Film Festival Feb 28-Mar 1 Cineplex Park Lane 5657 Spring Garden Road and Halifax Central Library, 5440 Spring Garden Road It may only be marking its fourth year, but the Halifax Black Film Festival has high expectations. “We show the Black reality from around the globe. It allows us to celebrate shared values,” […]
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Toni Morrison’s magnificent sense of self
Evelyn C. White on Toni Morrison’s Sula Halifax Central Library, 5440 Spring Garden Road Feb 18, 7pm, Free It was the late 1980s and I wasn’t feeling Toni Morrison’s latest release, Beloved. Not even a titch. This, despite my respect for a cadre of African-American writers then so enraged by the “sometime-y” treatment Morrison […]
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Best Public Space
Gold Winner Halifax waterfront Silver Winner Halifax Public Gardens Bronze Winner Halifax Central Library Ten reasons why Halifax’s waterfront is the best: 1. It’s only a 25- or 30-minute walk from anywhere on the peninsula. 2. Ice cream at both ends. 3. You can smell it from Brunswick Street if the wind blows in the […]
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Best Student Hang
Gold Winner Halifax Central Library Silver Winner The Board Room Game Cafe Bronze Winner Coburg Social “It’s welcoming, bright, open,” says Halifax Central Library branch manager Kathleen Peverill of the city’s Best Student Hang. “Students may come to Central Library to connect with information, but we see them connect with each other and meet people […]
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Best Library
Gold Winner Halifax Central Library Silver Winner Keshen Goodman Library Bronze Winner Alderney Gate Public Library It’s been almost five years since the Halifax Central Library first opened its doors, and this is the fifth year it’s won Best Library gold. Branch manager Kathleen Peverill says it’s so popular because it has space for everyone. […]
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Fall Arts Preview: Get lit(-erary) with these events
Wed Oct 2-Sun Oct 6 Afterwords Literary Festival The brainchild of some of very best and brightest folks putting pen to paper—Stephanie Domet, Sue Goyette, Stephens Gerard Malone, Rebecca Thomas and Ryan Turner—Afterwords aims to bring top-notch writers, both local and visiting, off their pages and into listening rooms around town. Treat your brain to […]
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Margaret Atwood is coming but sorry, you can’t go
Thirty-four years after The Handmaid’s Tale first published—and two years after the Hulu series of the same name sky-rocketed into TV stardom—Canada’s most famous author is back with the novel’s sequel. And she’s bringing it to our dearly beloved library. The Testaments, which picks up 15 years after the original novel takes place, officially drops […]
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Listening deep with Joe McPhee
“Possible, poetic, hypothesis—it’s all po.” Underground jazz legend Joe McPhee is listing a string of words connected through the phonetic sound “po”—a reminder, he says, of the creative possibilities of approaching the world from a slightly different angle. McPhee, 79, attributes the theory to the philosopher Edward De Bono, whose book Lateral Thinking: A Textbook […]
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Other tongues
Languages of Nova Scotia Thursday, November 29, 7pm Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library 5440 Spring Garden Road free The predominantly English local film scene will get mixed up this week, courtesy of the Languages of Nova Scotia screening. An initiative of the Atlantic Filmmakers’ Co- operative, on Thursday five directors will present their debut shorts, […]
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Nocturne 2018: Fox Hatch
Exhibit 102 Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library 5440 Spring Garden Road There are, perhaps, a million ways a story can be told, but for Laura Stinson, there’s no way like puppetry. “I fell in love with puppetry because it involves performance and dance and music and visual art all together, but the focus is […]