Together From Aways Tues Oct 15 Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Andrea and Charles Bronfman Theatre 1055 Marginal Road 7-9pm, $10 O n any given HFX Wanderers FC game day, there is an international flair throughout the Wanderers Grounds. While the players from over nine different countries play on the field, flags of […]
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Katarina Marinic’s family ties
Katarina Marinic, Oceans of Change To November 3 Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 1055 Marginal Road Katarina Marinic is the child of immigrants, the ways many of us who live on this large rock called North America are. The travelling branches of her family tree are more fresh and linear than some, though, stretching […]
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Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival re-emerges
7th Annual Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival April 19-22 various locations free The Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival has come a long way since its first year, co-founders Tara Taylor and Shelley Fashan remember. “We had one day and one sponsor in our first year,” Taylor says with a chuckle. The festival focuses on diverse, […]
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A truckload of Togetherness
Yesterday this truck drove down Marginal Road towards the container port. But unlike most of the trucks driving that route, which will unload their container cargo onto boats or trains for shipping around the world, this one is delivering the world to Halifax. Its cargo is a (literally) touring exhibition called “Together: An exhibition on […]
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Buttons for peace: A Q&A with Betty Peterson
[Image-1] Betty Peterson has been marching for decades. The American ex-pat moved to Nova Scotia in the ‘70s, eventually sharing a house with social justice icon Muriel Duckworth and spending her time fighting for peace. In 1982, she joined a million voices in New York calling for an end to nuclear arms. Now, Pier 21 […]
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Shaking it up
Daniel Libeskind, the architectural pioneer responsible for monuments such as Berlin’s Jewish Museum and the master plan for New York’s World Trade Center, will critique NSCAD jewellery students on their salt and pepper shaker-making abilities this week. It’s not really a stretch for the architect, in Halifax giving a public lecture Thursday at the Pier […]
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Oh Canada! Pier 21 officially the country’s national immigration museum
It’s official. On Monday, the House of Commons voted unanimously to designate Pier 21 as the country’s national immigration museum. It’s not just a fancy title: this means that the former immigration shed will be eligible a higher level of federal funding, as well. Here is Sean Flinn’s story from last year, when the announcement was made.
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Update: Pier 21 to become a national immigration museum
UPDATE: After this story came out on June 25, Prime Minister Harper visited Pier 21 with his ministerial cohorts and Premier Dexter to make an announcement: he has conferred national museum status to Pier 21. Pier 21 becomes the second national museum outside Ottawa. It will be officially called “Canada’s National Immigration Museum.”How momentous is […]
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Is Stephen Harper taking our advice on Pier 21?
In tomorrow’s paper, Sean Flinn writes about Pier 21’s 10th anniversary and its pursuit of national museum status. Already a national heritage site, Pier 21 hosts Stephen Harper tomorrow, and the PM is planning an announcement with premier Dexter at 10:30am. Hopefully this means good news for Canada’s immigration museum, putting it on par with […]
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How to celebrate Pier 21 ‘s tenth anniversary
On July 1, Canada turns 142 years old. That same day, Pier 21 celebrates its 10th anniversary as “Canada’s immigration museum.” At the museum, the holiday begins with an official citizenship ceremony at 10am, harkening back to the pier’s important history as a threshold—an entry point for one million Canadians, according to the museum’s website, […]
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The Coast’s get involved guide
Right here, right at the beginning, this is the part of the guide where I beseech you to reach into your inner self and find that true heart of goodness that sits at your very core, your soul, right next to your spleen, I think, and to connect that true heart of goodness to those […]