While this is definitely Hobo week in Halifax, it’s good to remember that another stellar genre picture from this part of the world, The Corridor, written by Josh MacDonald, will be joining Hobo with a Shotgun at the Boston Underground Film Festival, and MacDonald will be going down for the event this weekend. “I’m road-tripping […]
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Connie Littlefield at Reel Talk
Women in Film and Television Atlantic and Carbon Arc (at the Khyber, 1588 Barrington Street) are launching a monthly social screening called Reel Talk: Conversations with Women in Film and Television. On the last Friday of every month WIFT-AT will feature an interview with a veteran or emerging film or television professional and view some […]
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Like a Motorcycle revs up
It was just this past fall that Kim Carson and longtime friend Jillian Comeau started writing songs together and stumbled upon some rock and roll magic. Their search for the drummer to finish the puzzle ended in January with Michelle Skelding (No Flyers Please), who rounded off the unintentional girl-band, Like a Motorcycle. “People expect […]
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The Fuller Lecture Series looks on the bright side
The ladies from The Fuller Terrace Lecture Series want you to see the light. With the pending change in season comes a fundraiser for the always wonderful and inspiring summer lecture series, held bi-weekly in the backyard of Ella Tetrault and Bethany Riordan-Butterworth. The Light Lecture will include informal lectures from seven unnamed community members […]
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Khyber Flea Market redux
It was a big hit back in November so it’s happening again: on Saturday March 5 from 8pm-12am, the Khyber(1588 Barrington Street) will host a Night Flea Market. You’ll find more than 30 vendors on the second and third floor of the Khyber Building. Attendees can expect reasonably priced vintage clothing, baked goods, small-scale artworks, […]
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Barrington Street 2011 Rumours
It’s certainly not too early to start talking about 2011 in local business. If everything goes well, Shoptalk has heard the good people at Just Us! will be opening a cafe at the Khyber (1588 Barrington Street, 422-9668). More info to come as we (over)hear it.
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Khyber Night Flea Market
You know where Shoptalk will be on Saturday, yes? We’ll be at the Night Flea Market at the Khyber (1588 Barrington Street) at some point between 8pm and 11pm. For a measly $2 we all have access to 24 vendors, hawking their wares including clothes, crafts, records, books, baked goods, even VHS tapes for those […]
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Carbon Arc’s film footprint
Memories of Wormwoods How often have you had the conversation about how great it would be to have an independent rep cinema in Halifax? Well, filmmaker Siloën Daley has decided to do something about one of the city’s biggest shortcomings: “I really want Halifax to have an independent cinema space, it’s been too long talking […]
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Art history with the Khyber and Eyelevel Gallery
Good advice from the Khyber archives Light up the candles and grab the champers because two artist-run centres are celebrating significant birthdays with archive shows. Older sister Eyelevel Gallery, who donated their archives to Dalhousie University several years ago, created an extensive online archive of exhibitions (eyelevelgallery.ca), going back to 1974’s Peggy’s Cove Syndrome, in […]
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Khyber Arts needs your oh-so wise opinions
A couple of good things happened Wednesday at the two public info sessions dedicated to the future of the Khyber building (1588 Barrington) as an artist-run centre: 1. Everyone was in the same room, hearing the same information from TCI Management Consultants, who prepared the feasibility study, HRM staff and Khyber board members, past and […]
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The rise of fall arts: visual arts
Nocturne October 17 at various locations, dusk-midnight, free, artgalleryofnovascotia.ca Last year’s inaugural Nocturne festival brought 5,000 people out to local streets and galleries from dusk to midnight. Following up on that success, this year’s after-dark art festival will feature 32 gallery spaces opening their doors and more than 30 artists setting up installations and performances […]
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Go to The Room!
Thursday night at the Khyber is the Halifax premiere of The Room, Tommy Wiseau’s cult film, considered to be the “Citizen Kane of bad movies.” If you want an amazing list of reasons why this film shouldn’t be missed, check out the continuity section of the wikipedia page. Apparently Wiseau discovered that the screening was […]