Alderney Landing Market Zone 5, exhibit #503 www.dustinharvey.com Any time I watch an NBA game, I imagine myself at centre court overwhelmed by the thousands of people standing and clapping, just for me. This unreal moment is what Ovation is all about. “My intent was to create the feeling of standing onstage at the end […]
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Vertical City Performance: All Good Things
Prince George Hotel, 1725 Market Street Zone 1, exhibit #101 www.brucewbarton.com/all-good-things “It’s based on a real-life experience of mine, a near-drowning in a lake on Manitoulin Island, where I was pulled from the water by a fisherman, and based on the complex, lingering ripples of that event for me and for my family,” says writer/director […]
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Rebel Girl Halifax: Khy-bar VJs
Khyber Centre for the Arts, 5521 Cornwallis Street Zone 4, exhibit #404 www.rebelgirlhalifax.org Denise Donlon, Erica Ehm and Sook-Yin Lee were my MuchMusic video jockey icons. They were super-cool, they knew everything about rad music and they asked challenging questions about art. Their importance in Canadian pop culture can’t be overstated— I wouldn’t be into music […]
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Becka Barker’s The Hundred-Eyed Satellite
The Museum of Natural History, 1747 Summer Street Zone 3, exhibit number 301 http://wmdp.ca/ Artist and filmmaker Becka Barker has been collecting hundreds of hand-drawn-from-memory maps from Haligonians for weeks, hosting World Map Drawing Parties at libraries and opening up online submissions to increase her hoard. Why, you ask? All will become clear at Barker’s […]
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Roy Caussy: SMOKELIFE III
It’s been a long time since Roy Caussy— a NSCAD grad and now Toronto-based artist—has been back in Halifax, which might be why he wants to have dinner with you this Saturday night. Thanks to Nocturne, he’s bringing us SMOKELIFE III, an interactive project that he originally presented in 2011, and again last year for Hamilton’s […]
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Brendan Fernandes: Still Life
Sackville Landing Zone 2, exhibit 200 www.brendanfernandes.ca Brendan Fernandes is a multi-disciplinary artist with a downright unique perspective on movement and identity–it’s no wonder he’s preoccupied by notions of bodies, in motion and at rest. Fernandes was born in Nairobi, Kenya, to a Goan, Indian family and moved to Toronto in 1989. These days, he […]
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Nocturne 2014 schedule is now mobile!
Nocturne: Art at Night is a sea of art all over the city, with enough events, exhibits and performances to keep you fuelled into the fall. Taking place from 6pm to midnight on Saturday, October 18, this year’s Nocturne is under Eryn Foster’s curatorial vision “Peripheral Visions: Art from the Outside in,” featuring work from […]
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Brand new Nocturne
With a theme like space and time, there is no doubt Nocturne 2013 is going to be out of this world. Curator Eleanor King chose the theme in hopes of creating a cohesive flow for the nighttime festival. Being the first ever curator, King got the position after being approached by the Nocturne board. Guilty […]
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Final Nocturne thoughts
It was shoulder to shoulder downtown last Saturday night for Nocturne 2011, a magical night of lights, bubbles, stars, gum, music and art. Nocturne organizer Rose Zack breaks down Saturday night’s attendance: “Based on perfect weather, increased attendance everywhere, large crowds and lineups at galleries and installations, increased ferry traffic, social media numbers, increased media […]
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Prayer beat
William Robinson’s Young Prayer takes the best part of rock and roll—the smashing—and replays them over and over for your visual and auditory amusement during Nocturne (#ex12, St. Matthew’s United Church, 1479 Barrington). We ask Robinson why he hates guitars so much. Q: What led to you developing this idea? A: As a teenager, discovering […]
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Nocturne spotlight: Coast picks
Night Twitters The Letterpress Gang, Dawson Printshop, 1895 Granville street, Zone 1 “It’s an old technology that takes a long time to learn. We want to pass it on,” says Katie Tower, representing The Letterpress Gang. Tower is talking about the printing equipment at the Dawson Printshop, a teaching printshop that’s existed here for over […]
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Nocturne spotlight: Ursula Johnson: Elmiet
The headpiece rests on a bust in the window, a superhero’s costume without a secret compartment in the hideout. Facing the street, it’s perhaps being hidden in plain sight. Passersby don’t recognize the mask, which will be worn by Ursula Johnson during Nocturne, as part of the Prismatic festival. It’ll cover her head and eyes, […]