[image-1] Although people winding up in sheds for two weeks is more likely to happen on an episode of Criminal Minds, these artists are doing it voluntarily. Shed season is starting up again for the Roberts Street Social Centre, who will happily welcome 13 lovely new tenants starting May 9. Each of these tenants will spend two weeks in the shed (it’s a lot less ominous than it sounds), creating an art project. A list of residents and their projects, taken from the Social Centre’s press release, are below: May 9 – May 22: Elizabeth Groeneveld (Toronto, ON) Elizabeth will
Roberts Street Social Centre
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Local poetry: For letter or for verse
When it comes to poetry, Halifax slams. And poetry is cool. Really. Don’t think so? Got the structured verse of a long dead white guy rattling your cranium? Been rejected by a now out-of-print literary journal? Whatever might have scared you off poetry, you’re in Halifax now. Halifax is one poetic town. Poetry rings through […]
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Northern lights
King-in-exile of the local music scene, Sloan was the highest-profile band to come out of the mid-’90s Halifax music explosion. Though they’re longtime Toronto scenesters—it even says as much on their website—Sloan often sang of its hometown experience, as on a few key tracks from the 1999 release Between the Bridges. The bridges in question […]
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Build a spaceship with Dusty Peas
Thanks to the artistic team Dusty Peas, you can build your own sculpture. The collaborative pair (James Kirkpatrick—also known as rapper Thesis Sahib—and Jamie Q, currently working on her MFA at Western) are launching their hand-silkscreened, limited-edition ’luxe zine, A Journey Through Time & Shapes, at the Roberts Street Social Centre (5684 Roberts) on Wednesday, […]