When Emmy Award season finally came to its climactic end last Sunday, after three different ceremonies to honour the best in American TV, Game of Thrones walked away as the winningest fictional show ever. To get an idea of the depth of talent on GOT, consider some of the show’s nominees who didn’t win this […]
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Mildest dreams
Shaya Ishaq holds her favourite piece of jewellery as the sunlight streams in on her face. She sits, surrounded by art supplies and half-finished creations, explaining how she made the large blue-and-white ceramic necklace. The jewellery maker and NSCAD student is addicted to statement-making pieces with strong lines. To her, jewellery is “the cherry on […]
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Local fashions plus Jeanne Bekker
Prepare for an epic Epoch. At the Saturday night fashion gala, members of the senior class of NSCAD’s fashion/textile department will showcase their spring collections on a 100-foot runway at the school’s Port Campus. Designers and lines include Toban Ralston’s line BLKWRK, Leanne Hansen’s Tatamagouche Pines (pictured), Maggie J. MacCormick, Chelsie Coles, Matthew Brown and […]
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Canadian icon Jeanne Beker coming to NSCAD’s Epoch show
Canadian fashion icon, Globe & Mail columnist and former host of Fashion Television, Jeanne Beker will be this year’s special guest at the Epoch Fashion Show at NSCAD’s Port Campus on April 16 (7pm). The runway will debut the spring collections of senior NSCAD Textile/Fashion students, including Maggie MacCormick, Cai Ripley, Leanne Hansen and a dozen more. “I […]
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Annotated Photo: NSCAD’S Art District
With this week’s relocation of the Atlantic Film Festival office, NSCAD’s “art district” vision is complete. Here are some of the key tenants that should help turn the arts university’s Fountain campus into a renewed downtown arts and culture destination—at least until NSCAD decamps to a new “integral campus” sometime in 2019. 1. Art Bar […]
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A Peek at the new Khyber Centre for the Arts
Last night, the Khyber Centre for the Arts hosted a grand opening at its new location (1880 Hollis Street), with the show “Equipment” by Kyle Alden Martens. My immediate reaction? It really rules having the Khyber downtown again! With a glorious storefront at the NSCAD Granville Campus, it feels a little like the old Khyber. For […]
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Sneak Peek: Paints & Prints at The Nook
For the month of October, The Nook (2116 Gottingen) is featuring drawings by Danika Vandersteen and paintings by Sara Russell, both NSCAD graduates living in Halifax. The show opened last night to a full cafe that smelled like cookies. I had a pop. Vandersteen (Old & Weird) says that she “fragments surreal figures and decorative tropes to […]
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NSCAD’s downtown dilemma
The Board of Governors sealed the school’s fate Friday night, approving this resolution: “Be it resolved that NSCAD management proceed with the planning of an exit strategy from the Fountain Campus facility on or before the year end 2019.” Even BoG member Margaret Fountain, NSCAD’s great benefactor and namesake of the beloved Granville Mall rabbit […]
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Where to live in Halifax
[Image-1] Every year thousands of new students descend on this city with no clue where to find an apartment. The largest concentration inevitably ends up in the south end because it’s so close to Dalhousie and Saint Mary’s. That’s dumb. Halifax is pretty tiny, geographically speaking. We’re an easy city to walk and bike across […]
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Fashion ain’t easy
College students, current and former, are used to “camping out” in libraries, pulling all-nighters during the final term push. But Becky Gartner is taking it to the next level. In preparation for NSCAD’s senior fashion show, *Thaw*, the fourth-year student loaded up her trusty Dodge Caravan with a mattress, pillows and sheets and parked it […]
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Wearable Art’s 25 alive
Models, and drag queens and acrobats—oh my! The Wearable Art Show is the wildest night of runway fashion and performance art in Halifax and it’s celebrating a silver anniversary. The Wearable Art Show is an annual extravaganza that is to Halifax’s fashion and art communities what Christmas morning is to tiny tots. After four years […]
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In the margins
In 1981, young art educator Tim Rollins was assigned to a classroom in South Bronx, New York, where he began art collaborations between marginalized youth and literary classics. The collective, Kids of Survival, has been active for the last 30 years. On Thursday at The Khyber and on Friday at NSCAD, Rollins will talk about […]