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 […]
Halifax Public Gardens
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This shit is bananas
Another summer in Halifax, another stretch of months watching a plant die. For the first time in history there are bananas growing in the Halifax Public Gardens. The musa acuminate AKA dwarf banana plant has been growing in the gardens for eight to 10 years, and this spring began to produce fruit. There are over […]
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Best Public Space
Gold Winner Halifax waterfront Silver Winner Halifax Central Library Bronze WinnerHalifax Public Gardens The Halifax waterfront: A bad limerick If you’re living here then you must know, the waterfront’s the best spot to go. It’s a special place, the Best Public Space. Just bundle up when winter winds blow.
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Toqolu’kwetijik
Exhibit 108, Public Gardens 5665 Spring Garden Road With this year’s group of anchor artists all working to activate the Public Gardens, Ursula Johnson and collaborators will be kicking up dust along the gravel paths encircling Griffin Pond. These clear paths, strict rules and enforced designated sitting areas that make up the Public Gardens are known […]
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Pushback
Exhibit 105, Public Gardens, 5665 Spring Garden Road The wrought-iron gates of Halifax’s Public Gardens are an icon in the city’s landscape, but for Nocturne anchor artist Habiba El-Sayed, they also stand as a fruitful metaphor for decolonization. Throughout the night, El-Sayed will push hundreds of pounds of clay back and forth through the wrought-iron […]
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Wait Outside with Your Necklaces On
Exhibit 117, Public Gardens, 5665 Spring Garden Road A decade ago, Martha Cooley was mugged in the city. A few years back she made a short super-8 film called Wait Outside with Your Necklaces On about that time. “I wanted to transpose that experience—it’s taken me 10 years to think about it, and what the […]
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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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Ten weekend plans that are better than Netflix
10. Outdoors › Garden Days Garden Party. Sat June 18, 9:30am-1:30pm. Join the Halifax Public Gardens as they celebrate Canada’s Garden Days, a fest honouring the role of gardens in our communities and lives. Unroll your yoga mat at 9:30 for a chance at garden enlightenment, or stop by between 10:30 and 1:30 to learn the basics of plant […]
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Supper heroes
Ray sits on the front steps to the Discovery Centre holding out a cup. It’s -14 and Barrington Street is quiet. He makes little eye contact with strangers who walk by him as he holds himself tightly together, mumbling a few words. Ray usually finds himself sitting here until midnight. His wife Connie, who he […]
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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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Best Public Space
Gold Winner Halifax Public Gardens Silver Winner Point Pleasant Park Bronze Winner Halifax Common The Public Gardens is that pretty classmate who makes the rest of Halifax’s public spaces look like wrinkled garbage. Like, we get it, Public Gardens. You’ve got gorgeous flowers and waterfowl up the wazoo. You don’t also have to corner the […]
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Best Public Space
Gold Winner Public Gardens Silver Winner Point Pleasant Park Bronze Winner Halifax Common We all know why we love the Public Gardens: great Victorian-era garden, wondrous wildlife, geese, bandstand, cafe, blah, blah, blah. Here’s what we don’t know: lore has it that Griffen Pond is named after Frederick Griffen, who was wrongly executed for a […]