Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival April 24-28 various locations theemerginglens.com With the 9th annual Emerging Lens Film Festival kicking off yesterday, Halifax is lit with the talent and flair of homegrown BIPOC filmmakers. One of the festival’s freshest offerings on the itinerary is an entire segment dedicated to music videos created by up-and-coming artists on […]
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OBEY XI: Sarah Hennies
Sarah Hennies w/Melody McKiver Friday, May 25, 7:30pm Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $20, all ages Contralto screening Friday, May 25, 6pm Halifax North Memorial Public Library, 2285 Gottingen Street free Somewhere between starting drum lessons at age nine and studying modern classical music at grad school, avant percussionist and composer Sarah Hennies began […]
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Track by track: Rabies, What You Know About Me
Rabies w/Geil Friday, May 26, 6pm Halifax North Memorial Library garage 2285 Gottingen Street free, all-ages Rabies’ infectious pop can’t be denied. Rachel Fry’s powerful voice, mixed with harmonies from bassist Bria Cherise Miller and synth player Jeremy Costello, with a backing beat by Fry’s Surveillance bandmate Dave Burns, creates a heavenly mixture—satisfyingly dramatic and lots […]
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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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Chicago Producer RP Boo’s dancing drive
RP Boo w/Thrillah, EDDY/BUDI, DJ Goldilocks Friday, March 3, 10pm Menz & Mollyz Bar, 2182 Gottingen Street $20 OBEY Convention has been at the forefront of presenting underground music and art in Halifax for years, as each spring its namesake festival lines up artists that cross genre lines and push the boundaries of sound and […]
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Check out Alienation bringing punk to the library
Libraries are usually quiet spaces for reading, but Dartmouth hardcore band Alienation will blow the books off the shelves for an all-ages show on Friday at the Memorial North Library with their loud, fast D-beat punk. “The location is funny,” says vocalist and author Dylan Jewers. “Poverty, crime and deep-rooted community on one side, then […]
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Art Notes: Khyber Meeting and Show Openings
* * * * * HANK BULL & BRUCE BARBER @ SMU ART GALLERY Curated by Joni Low and Pat Wendt, the Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery (923 Robie Street) has a full art-weekend planned for you. You’re invited to the following events: on Friday at 7pm, Vancouver-based artist Hank Bull speaks on his sculptural installation that […]
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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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The Firefly Feast lights up
A shiny little red trailer is the latest addition to Halifax’s mobile food brigade, and we have Kim Burke to thank for it. The Firefly Feast will soon be serving up morning and midday eats to Gottingen, the street that made her (and her cooking) Halifamous years ago as the Marquee’s Pizza Lady. Tempting late […]
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The Dragons’ Den has love for Hope Blooms
It’s a beautiful day in the neighbourhood for the amazing crew of community farmers—and budding young entrepreneurs—over at Hope Blooms. The community project, started by North End Community Health’s Jessie Jollymore in 2008, has turned an abandoned chunk of land into a flourishing community garden and greenhouse over the last few years. It’s engaged 40-plus […]
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Northern lights
King-in-exile of the local music scene, Sloan was the highest-profile band to come out of the mid-’90s Halifax music explosion. Though they’re longtime Toronto scenesters—it even says as much on their website—Sloan often sang of its hometown experience, as on a few key tracks from the 1999 release Between the Bridges. The bridges in question […]