Handy with a camera? Wicked on your smartphone? You can now submit your smartphone film until March 9th for the Halifax Smartphone Film Festival (SPFF) via The Coast’s SPFF site, where videos (5 mins max) will have a chance to win cash and prizes including a new Eastlink phone! Entries will be shown at the SPFF Screening & […]
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Hurt, hope, healing and the NS Home for Colored Children
“It’s a difficult read,” says Wanda Taylor, the author of The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children, a comprehensive history of the structure that stood in rural Dartmouth for over 70 years. The Home was the site of extreme abuse and neglect for hundreds of African-Nova Scotian children in the protective care of the Nova […]
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Dive into Open Waters
“There the jazz archipelago and the classical archipelago. They can be traversed, it’s not impassable, there’s no barriers between them, except maybe distance,” says Lukas Pearse, the artistic director of this year’s Open Waters Festival. From Thursday to Sunday, Upstream Music will collaborate with Symphony Nova Scotia, SuddenlyListen and more for 14 extraordinary music events. […]
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UNITY Charity’s breakdance launch at the Library tonight
Tonight at the Halifax Central Library (6pm, free), UNITY Charity will announce its new partners in bringing Halifax youth weekly breakdancing and beatboxing sessions, with the Charity’s founder Michael Prosserman aka “Bboy Piecez.” The national community organization has made its way to our city via Branden “Haste” Taylor and Matthew “Testament” Jones, leaders of the breakdancing sessions […]
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Best Effort To Improve Halifax
Gold Winner Halifax Central Library Silver Winner Paul Vienneau, Asshole With A Shovel Bronze Winner Argyle Street pedestrian block
 Sure, turning Argyle Street into a pedestrian-friendly, argyle-painted walkway (a little on the nose there, people) was an all-around hit for the theatre/bar crowds. And yes, when the city froze over for months and months in […]
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Best Library
Gold Winner Halifax Central Library Silver Winner Keshen Goodman Public Library Bronze Winner Halifax North Public Library
 
We’ve got some cool libraries in Halifax. We know it, you know it, The Amazing Race: Canada knows it. Coming up on his first birthday, the Central Library continues to shine. The downtown anchor is the first thing […]
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Best Public Space
Gold Winner Halifax Central Library Silver Winner Public Gardens Bronze Winner Halifax Common
 Halifax’s love affair with the new downtown library appears to be far from over. Dominating this category yet again is Spring Garden Road’s instantly iconic community hub. Sure, the glass Rubik’s Cube aesthetic looks fantastic on the outside, but what really makes […]
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Q&A with D’Arcy Wilson, CFAT’s speaker tonight
The Centre for Art Tapes has been a generator of Halifax’s independent arts community for over 30 years, and tonight, CFAT presents an artist’s talk with multidisciplinary visual artist D’Arcy Wilson, CFAT’s 2015 Artist-in-Residence (6:30pm, free, Halifax Central Library). In practice, Wilson’s work often explores the complex interrelations between humanity and nature. Tonight’s talk includes […]
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Read my list: books for your next beach trip
Emma Jane Unsworth, Animals It’s summertime and you’re probably going a little buck wild—it’s OK we’re all still young at heart. My hangover cure: Two Advil, coconut water, as many carbs as you can handle and this drug-and-alcohol-laced black-out of a dysfunctional friendship. Laura’s getting married and trying to grow up. Her best friend Tyler […]
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Get a load of the first Smart Phone Film Festival, June 19
Many, many short films—30 to be exact—make up the two and a half hours of pure smartphone film enjoyment to be had this Friday. Presented by The Coast and Eastlink, the inaugural Smart Phone Film Festival screening party and awards show goes down this Friday at 7pm at the Central Library’s Paul O’Regan Hall. The […]
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How to destroy a political movement
[Image-1] In terms of the province’s shale gas development agenda, 2013 would turn very nasty. With billions of dollars in hypothetical royalties at stake, two years of false starts, and the likely threat of Southwestern Energy (SWN) suing the province for tens of millions of dollars if the company was forced to default on its […]
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Choose your own comedy adventure for Ha!ifax ComedyFest
Ha!ifax ComedyFest To April 25 halifaxcomedyfest.ca
