“Now that the Khyber’s closed I don’t know where my next show will be. I had a show scheduled there but now I have to find another space. I’m having trouble with that,” said multimedia artist Jesse Mitchell. When The Coast interviewed Mitchell earlier this year, he was struggling after the sudden closure of what […]
Roberts Street Social Centre
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Anchor Archive Zine library zines in
Nestled between a Pac-Man machine and Cafe Bream, Anchor Archive Zine Library and The People’s Photocopier have found a new residence in Plan B Merchants’ Co-op. The heady air smells of coffee and taxidermy; the space looks like your great aunt’s living room ate a grassroots atheneum—it’s alien and it feels like home. The archive, […]
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Gifts that give
The 12 days of Christmas can’t contain all the fun that’s about to come at you. Breaking the holiday mould—read: a book for Uncle Steve, a puzzle for Grandma and beer for your younger brother—is a new frontier in gift-giving. It’s groundbreaking stuff, people: gifts that actually keep on giving. Self-improvement is the name of […]
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Roberts Street Social Centre’s sentimental journey
Take a scan through Brendan Anckaert’s photo collection from the Roberts Street Social Centre‘s Sentimental Detachment Celebration last Saturday, and you’ll feel like you were there. The RSSC are looking to move into their new digs June 1, we look forward to the housewarming!
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Cafe-go-round
It all started in a friend’s living room. Daina Tavenier and Sam Kinsley came up with the idea of setting up a makeshift cafe in their friend’s apartment in February. The General Cafe was a name the two had been thinking about to call their novel idea, although it didn’t hurt that their friend’s apartment […]
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The General Café happens at the Roberts Street Social Centre
Care for some sugar and discourse with your coffee? Stop by The General Café this month to enjoy some specialty coffees, wild harvested teas and snacks with good company. Daina Tavenier and Sam Kinsley will be hosting their mobile cafe at the Roberts Street Social Centre (5684 Roberts Street, 446-1788, the little red house between […]
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RSSC’s crowdfunded house
Lovers of zines, screenprinted matter and everything DIY, your Halifax hub needs you! The Roberts Street Social Centre, home of the Anchor Archive Zine Library, Inkstorm Screenprinting Collective, the Crow’s Nest meeting space and the Peoples’ Photocopier, is fundraising for their proposed May 1 move (beta.indiegogo.com/Roberts-Street-Social-Centre-MOVING). The centre—which for seven years has been a media […]
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Big news from the Roberts Street Social Centre
Gem of the north end—hub of such culturally rich projects as the Shed Residency, Anchor Archive Zine Library, the Ink Storm Screen Printing Studio, the People’s Photocopier and the Crow’s Nest meeting space—The Roberts Street Social Centre (5684 Roberts Street, only residential home on the street, the cute little red one) is relocating as of […]
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A dinner, a movie and thou
Theme nights are often the perfect cure to a bad week. Gidget, a blender full of pina coladas and prank calls to the Bahamas are usually more than enough to make you forget there’s some sort of weather bomb outside your window. Your pals at the Roberts Street Social Centre (5684 Roberts Street) are making […]
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Screening Alert: Don’t Need You: The Herstory of Riot Grrrl
Tonight at 7pm, check out the documentary Don’t Need You: The Herstory of Riot Grrrl as part of the Zine Challenge Weekend, to be screened at the RSSC (5684 Roberts Street, 446-1788) in the Crow’s Nest. SEE: hardcore music in the 1990s! FEEL: rock, roll, rebellion! SMELL: lovely papery zines! And sweat!
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Mary Green’s Black Out zine alters alt-weeklies
Sometimes when it comes to print media, you need to read between the lines. Mary Green’s Black Out zine project guides you in the right direction. Green is a zine-maker, blogger, board president of Fredericton’s Gallery Connexion and government employee based in Fredericton who began self-publishing mini-zines called Black Out. The zines feature altered content […]
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Roberts Street Social Centre plans a week of fundraising events
[image-1] The Roberts Street Social Centre (5684 Roberts Street) is having a week full of fundraising that is almost too much to believe. Starting this Saturday, May 7 at 8am with a killer yard sale and wrapping up next Sunday, May 15 with an Italian dinner and movie night, the week will feature film screenings, a mother’s day brunch, an art auction, a bicycle scavenger hunt, homemade pizzas bike delivered to your home (vegan option available), live music, a social night, book making and artist trading card making workshops and possibly the best idea ever: deluxe candy grams. The order