Video screening, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Windsor Foundation Theatre, 1723 Hollis Street Live performance, 7pm Mi’kmaq Native Friendship Centre Zone 1, exhibit 100 Artist talk Thu, Oct 16 at NSCAD Bell Auditorium, 5163 Duke Street, 6:30pm www.jamesluna.com Acclaimed artist James Luna’s Ishi: The Archive Performance makes its Canadian premiere at this year’s Nocturne, and […]
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Stephen Kelly: Open Ended Ensemble
King’s Wharf, The Anchorage, 15 King’s Wharf Zone 5, exhibit 500 www.stephenkelly.ca Ghostly tones emanate from miniature tube guitar amp-looking devices, each trying in their robotic way to hit the same note—matching the hum of a fluorescent light in an eerie automaton choir. Artist, computer programmer and musician Stephen Kelly has created Open Ended Ensemble, […]
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Nocturne by the hour
We won’t pretend that any one person could see all of this year’s Nocturne offerings (although it’s certainly worth trying), and breaking it down by hour seems more manageable. On your way to our featured projects, make pit stops at these pieces of interest 6pm: Before you start, remind yourself to keep an eye out […]
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Get outside for Nocturne 2014
Nocturne: Art at Night has been responsible for some of the most exciting and temporal installations, performances and exhibits our city sees in the run of a calendar year, and it all happens on one night—for free. For its seventh year, artist Eryn Foster selected a group of local and international artists as part of […]
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Agathe Simon: Antarctic Spectrum
1880 Hollis Street Zone 2, exhibit 201 www.agathesimon.com If you’ve never heard of Argentinian explorer Gabriela Conti (1974-2010), it’s likely because she is the work of Parisian artist Agathe Simon’s imagination. But that doesn’t make Conti any less real. “She’s a source of inspiration for me because her all life is about freedom, creation, desire […]
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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, […]
