You might remember, if you were in Halifax between 2006 and 2010, being enchanted by the Lightman twins, Sari and Romy, facing each other on stage singing their Ghost Bees tunes in the midst of tea offerings and scent tinctures. Those were the early “vulnerable” days of their artistic birth, where identity and ancestry fixated […]
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Camera conduct
Smiling for the camera is an ingrained response. But the performance doesn’t stop there, according to Vancouver-based video artist Karilynn Ming Ho. In her second solo exhibit, Versions 1,2,3, Ming Ho explores the way in which people (re)act when the camera’s turned on. Ming Ho only graduated from Simon Fraser University in 2010, and she has […]
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Love story
Surrealist and experimental art embraces urges to break rules, any rules and all rules. Wait a minute, what rules? Exactly. For OBEY Convention VI, Divorce Records is bringing aural outsiders to Halifax from June 6 to 9, to showcase the beauty of transgressive music. As prep, the OBEY fundraiser brings back Toronto’s dark-art-rocker Slim Twig […]
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Something Totally Wicked this way comes
Back by popular demand, The Totally Wicked Music Festival is returning to the Khyber Center on April 13. The event was created in 1999, when a couple of friends decided to turn funny band names into real bands. Initially names were assigned to different people, who were then responsible for putting together a band and […]
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Now look here
Defining the contemporary moment is a hard task. It’s a constant struggle to keep up with the now, now, now. Luckily, Jared Leon and Johanna Heldebro are here in Halifax to showcase the video work of artists from around the world who, together, shed some light on the contemporary condition. On January 28, Ahead of […]
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Wade into Open Waters
“It’s good way to start the year,” says the Upstream Music Association’s artistic director Paul Cram of the annual improvisation and experimental music festival that has had its fair share of hiccups throughout the years. Originally started in the ’90s, the Open Waters Festival ran for three years before it stalled and was restarted again […]
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Safe as Milks & Rectangles
In order to complete their debut album, Charlottetown indie rockers Milks & Rectangles had to navigate a musical long-distance relationship. Guitarist and organist Justin Uyterlinde, who grew up on a farm, was training to become a large animal veterinarian. Bassist Brandon Williams was fulfilling his dream of joining the Coast Guard, studying in Cape Breton […]
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Grit Town debuts at Carbon Arc
Carbon Arc (The Khyber, 1588 Barrington Street) is screening Grit Town on Friday October 7 at both 5pm and 7pm, a film by Halifax filmmaker Tim Tracey. It’s “a cautionary tale which explores the connections between greed, poverty, and violence.” Cover for the show is $10 and will be used to help fund the post […]
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Carbon Arc takes The Trip
The Trip is the most recent film by Michael Winterbottom, one of the year’s best comedies. (Check out my review here.) It played briefly at Park Lane but went away before the Atlantic Film Festival. Here’s your chance to see it if you missed it the first time around. It screens tomorrow night, Thursday September […]
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WIFT: Jan Miller in conversation with Skana Gee
The Atlantic chapter of Women in Film and television is hosting their semi-regular Reel Talk: Conversations with Women in Film and Television this week: Friday, September 30, 7pm at Carbon Arc Cinema at The Khyber (1588 Barrington Street). WIFT-AT members are free, non-WIFT-AT members $6. This week it’s Jan Miller in conversation with Skana Gee. […]
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Micro Organs’ lo-fi wonderland
When I first begin talking with Halifax two-piece Micro Organs, I’m alarmed to learn they have just come back from a weekend in Moncton. Could these experimental punks have been watching a U2 concert? “We got invited to play a house show by these French people from France and some people who live in Moncton,” […]
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Carbon Arc screens Helen Hill’s final film, goes dark
About to go dark for a month-long hiatus, the local film series Carbon Arc (The Khyber, 1588 Barrington Street) is closing its doors to help facilitate the installation of theatre-style seating. But this Thursday, July 14, it celebrates a year of showing artistic, experimental and repertory cinema with the Atlantic premiere of animator and filmmaker […]
