SmartPhone Film Festival Screening & Awards Party Friday, April 21, 7-10pm Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library $10 tickethalifax.com It’s that time of year again: We’re getting ready to share some big stories told through some small devices. On Friday, you can hit up the 3rd annual SmartPhone Film Festival awards show—affectionally called “the Spiffies.” […]
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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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Halifax Public Library’s new plan is on the books
While most of us, by now, are familiar with the central library’s gleaming glass and endless shelves, it seems it won’t be the only chic circulation desk much longer: Today, Halifax Public Libraries unveiled its five year plan, a vision of what the city’s 15 branches will look like by 2021. The plan, available on […]
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Take a BAFF
Bluenose-Ability Film Festival December 1-3 Halifax Central Library 5419 Spring Garden Road free baff.ca If the Atlantic Film Festival left you hungry for more local films, your wait is over. The second annual Bluenose-Ability Film Festival is taking place at the Halifax Central Library from December 1 to 3. The festival is Canada’s only disability film […]
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Chase the Space’s case
Chase the Space Monday, November 28 at 7pm Halifax Central Library, BMO Community Room HFXARTS@gmail.com There’s a shortage of space for artists in the HRM—and arts groups are getting together at the end of the month to talk about it. “Halifax has a rich arts community. To help it grow, we have to find a […]
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Best Public Space
Gold Winner Public Gardens Silver Winner Halifax Central Library Bronze Winner Point Pleasant Park There’s no irony to the Public Gardens. For all the problematic Victorian era heritage and the hubris of a cultivated garden plonked down unnaturally into a city’s centre, the gated space really is a pristine gem to Halifax’s city life. It’s […]
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Best Student Hang
Gold Winner Halifax Central Library Silver Winner The Gorsebrook Lounge Bronze Winner The Wardroom What sort of book-loving nerds want to hang out in a library instead of the more convenient and beer-stocked on-campus pubs? It’s almost like they want to…learn things. Like, better themselves by studying. Yuck. Maybe it has something to do with […]
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Kyle Kinane can’t stop, won’t stop
Kyle Kinane w/Cher Hann, Everardo Ramirez, 7pm w/Travis Lindsay, Struan Sutherland, 10pm Saturday, October 22 Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library, 5440 Spring Garden Road $20 adv/$25 door Kyle Kinane is a comedian/comedian. He’s got a big beard, a gravelly voice, an amiable disposition and usually holds a beer while he tells his sharply observational […]
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Mount Saint Vincent University’s pulpy look at the past
Two women lock eyes across a crowded room. Soon, one approaches the other and lightly touches her shoulder… Sounds like a scene from a bad movie, or, at the very least, not something you’d expect to find behind glass in a library. Not according to Mount Saint Vincent University (MSVU) librarian Meg Raven. As she […]
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Sistine Chapel is a theatrical miracle
2b Theatre’s Unconscious at the Sistine Chapel is a theatrical delight at the Stages Theatre Festival, playing through the fest’s final weekend. It brings together technical magic, outstanding performances and a finely layered script filled with sharp, funny dialogue. Playwright Michael Mackenzie imagines a chance meeting in the Sistine Chapel between two couples: Minna Bernays […]
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What comedians really think about the Halifax ComedyFest
They say laughter is the best medicine, so get ready for a healing dose. From now until Sunday, the Halifax ComedyFest treats the city to 31 comics who will make you laugh across five venues. Legends like Cathy Jones, Derek Edwards, Elvira Kurt and Sean Cullen are showcased alongside up-and-comers like Aisha Alfa, Ivan Decker […]
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Atlantic Book Awards nominees 2016: Read ’em and reap…
Nominees for the 2016 Atlantic Books Awards were announced today, and Nova Scotian authors were well represented. Locals Dean Jobb, Janet Maybee and Sarah Mian are the only writers on the list to be nominated in two different categories, and a new award has been created in honour of Cape Breton’s late literary legend Alistair […]