Exhibit 203, NSCAD Academy Building, 5163 Duke street and Citadel Hill A spotlight may bring particularly theatric or cinematic scenes to mind: Bright movie lights or a single beam illuminating a soloist on stage. Alternatively, a beacon can bring to mind images of distress: A bat signal, or a lighthouse. Mark Hines’ installation Striving for […]
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Revisionist Landscapes: Luminary Forestation
Exhibit 136, Museum of Natural History, 1747 Summer Street In this interactive piece, viewers are invited to assist in reconstructing a forest by travelling the city with paper lanterns. The ecosystem of an Acadian forest is a unique combination of evergreens such as red and white spruce, as well as deciduous trees like sugar maple […]
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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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Folded River
Exhibit 400, Common Roots Urban Farm, Bell Road at Robie Street In Folded River, artist Alex Balkam’s creative process is mined to create an immersive piece of expanded cinema. Working with Thomas Evans and Jonathan Mandeville of Passage Studios, Balkam reconstructs a version of a landscape he’s known since childhood, one that he returns to […]
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Nocturne turns 10
Nocturne: Art at Night October 12 & 14 various locations nocturnehalifax.ca Halifax’s annual Art at Night festival always promises spectacle, but according to this year’s curatorial team, Nocturne 2017 promises to deliver something different: Magic. A recent highlight was doubtlessly the spooky and whimsical Citadel Hill Ferris Wheel organized by Anna Sprague, and it is […]
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Become a master of arts this fall
Fall in Halifax is something special, as festivals and art organizations brace for the colder days a-comin’ with a packed calendar of events that’ll challenge, educate and entertain you. Here are a few that are a great intro to the local arts scene. Keep an eye out for more in our Fall Arts issue September […]
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Breastival Vestibule
South Courtyard of Halifax Central Library and Khyber Centre For the Arts A festival within a festival, Breastival Vestibule is a temporary space that aims to break rules and help us reconsider how we use space. A soft, inflatable breast-like structure, it’s the creation of Baltimore-based artist Rachael Shannon, who began the project considering the […]
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Nocturne for the kids
For full location details, see the Nocturne guide pull-out in this issue. Provided bedtime doesn’t get in the way, Nocturne is a perfect time to rally the fam and hit the town. There are plenty of people to watch, lots of exciting projects waiting around every corner and, of course, the frisson of excitement that […]
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Dog Expo
Dog park beside Centennial Pool Inspired by bringing two new furry friends into his family, multidisciplinary artist Zachary Gough’s Dog Art Expo blends a signature style of site-specific, participatory projects with a love for the canine community. Before adopting his pets, Gough reached out to Jenn Corning, a trainer with dog care company Follow The […]
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Oversight
Dalhousie School of Architecture and Planning Inspired by different activist movements, Oversight is an installation exploring our relationship, as citizens, to the police. The collaboration between the three artists started as a Centre For Art Tapes project (together with Lindsay Dobbin), now being adapted for the festival. Dina, Pearse and Bowles look at the way […]
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Requiem for Radio: New Dead Zones
The Sands at Salter Street Since 2014, the Trans-Canada just hasn’t looked the same after CBC dismantled the Radio-Canada International broadcasting site in Sackville, NB—the glowing red towers alongside the highway. Moncton artist and filmmaker Amanda Dawn Christie has been documenting the site for seven years, premiering her documentary, Spectres of Shortwave, at the Atlantic […]
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KENO/KINO & Last syllable of time
Dartmouth waterfront, and Halifax waterfront on docks in front of the Marriott Hotel facing the ferry landing. The scene is still. So still, in fact, you might forget you’re watching a film, if not for the soft waves in the background. The images centre around a boat, resting on its side, one that hasn’t felt […]
