Exhibit 215 Park at Hollis and Barrington Street It all started over a year ago, when an audience member stood up at a lecture by senator Murray Sinclair, former chair the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. “She asked ‘What can we do’” Kathrin Winkler recalls. “He said ‘Read the damn report!’” The phone line […]
Nocturne 2018
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Nocturne 2018: Poemtree
Exhibit 307 5057 Salter Street Don’t alert the GMO activists just yet, but hundreds (possibly thousands) of poems can be seen growing from a huge weeping willow tree on the evening of Nocturne. Yes, you read that right—the Poemtree is here to give Haligonians a super-natural outlet to express themselves. Inspired by Japanese traditions of […]
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Nocturne 2018: Let Evening Come
Exhibit 505 Downtown Dartmouth Business Commission 163 Portland Street Dark and mysterious, peaceful and joyous: The evening holds a special place in all of our hearts. On the night of Nocturne, Let Evening Come invites you to explore the sentiments accompanying this magical time through music, drama and more. Inspired by Jane Kenyon’s poem of […]
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Nocturne 2018: Fox Hatch
Exhibit 102 Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library 5440 Spring Garden Road There are, perhaps, a million ways a story can be told, but for Laura Stinson, there’s no way like puppetry. “I fell in love with puppetry because it involves performance and dance and music and visual art all together, but the focus is […]
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L’nuwesimk: El-noo-wee-simk: Speaking Indian
Exhibit 201 Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre 2158 Gottingen Street (6pm) Burying grounds at Sinnot Hill Park, 31 Windmill Road, Dartmouth (8pm) Granville Court, Granville at Duke Street (10pm) For their Nocturne piece L’nuwesimk, the artists Ursula Johnson and Angella Parsons are proposing something very small and incredibly wide at once: At three sites in Halifax […]
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Nocturne 2018: Free Consultations
Exhibit 115 Victoria Park, Spring Garden Road at South Park Street The team at Dramatic Changes wants to create art and community at the same time. “We’ve been getting together once a week for three months to discuss what support could look like,” says co-founder Ross Unger of the group’s Nocturne project, Free Consultations. “We […]
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Nocturne 2018: Black Hair Magic
Exhibit 400 Alteregos Cafe, 2193 Gottingen Street Different folks have different strokes, and that’s no lye when it comes to Black hair. For many years, Black women have adhered to Eurocentric hair ideals—oftentimes to their detriment. Black Hair Magic encourages us to see the beauty in Black hair. Inspired by the natural hair movement embraced […]