[Image-1] It takes Lucy Wallace two hours, every single day, to shave and cover her facial hair. The 20-year-old transgender woman wants laser hair removal and a tracheal shave to remove her Adam’s apple, but those “cosmetic” procedures aren’t funded by the province. Now, she’s taken to GoFundMe.com to crowdsource the $15,000 she needs and […]
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Dalhousie refuses to comment on dentistry faculty accusations
[Image-1] “Price under more heat for sexual harassment than anyone since Merino and gives a final with 69 questions,” reads the Facebook post. “What a boss.” That’s what one Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen wrote this past spring. He’s referring to current dentistry professor Richard Price, and former Dalhousie professor Arturo Merino. They’re two of […]
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Shut the fuck up and read!
[Image-1] Libraries are places to read, to study, to enrich oneself. They aren’t malls. They aren’t hang-out spots for you and your loud, obnoxious, inconsiderate friends. Is library etiquette dead? Did it die between the time the Spring Garden Library closed and the Halifax Central Library opened? I’m conflicted on which should be the quietest […]
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New Art: Peter van Gurp
Wandering into Peter Van Gurp’s recent exhibition at Anna Leonowens Gallery you’d be forgiven for thinking that you’d mistakenly walked into a room under construction. A pallet, cardboard boxes, a road work sign, an orange barrier, a length of chain, cinderblocks—Van Gurp’s pieces are so unremarkable in their everyday familiarity that you may not notice […]
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New Art: Kyle Martell
“Right now I’m focusing on Ancient Aliens theories,” says artist Kyle Martell. “I’ve been watching it a lot on TV and thinking about that. There’s this weird racism in show—it’s like watching a train wreck.” Much like Ancient Aliens, Martell’s work, images of which can be seen on his website/digital sketchbook gorgeorwell.tumblr.com, dwells in the […]
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New Art: Merray Gerges
Merray Gerges started CRIT in 2012, with NSCAD’s then-student union president Sarah Trower. Three years later, CRIT is still going strong, producing quarterly broadsheet issues—on newsprint. Let it sink in that someone started a physical newspaper in 2012—packed with essays, reviews and interviews about art and artists in Halifax and beyond. Today, Gerges is editor-in-chief […]
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New Art: Katherine Nakaska
“I’m a very sentimental person,” says artist Katherine Nakaska. “Sentimentality is one of those feelings that the art world sometimes considers less important than it really is.” Predominately working in photography, Nakaska creates beautiful prints—ephemeral work that suits her darkly romantic subject matter. “I’m interested in themes surrounding memory and tangibility. In the past year […]
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New Art: Brandon Brookbank
Brandon Brookbank’s photographs capture places normally packed with life and action, in a state of abandon. These are still friendly places—rec centres, public pools, cardio theatres—but without folks to enjoy them, the photographs have a tree falling in the woods vibe. In his newest work, in an exhibition titled Pools and other nouns, Brookbank made […]
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HFX Art Gossip’s 2015 picks
Spaces and places Young Offenders Gallery has moved spaces (2130 Gottingen, one floor down) and has some cool projects for winter. BSide Gallery (2180 Gottingen) is really blossoming under the direction of Laura Baker-Roberts, Britt Ward, Emily Lawrence and David Figueroa. Hermes (5682 North) has also come under new leadership, with a group of local […]
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Get that gold
Eyelevel Gallery’s annual fundraiser—and chance to get glamourous—is coming up this Saturday night. In its fifth year, Silver and Gold is a semi-formal art function: part exhibition, silent auction and raffle, part cash-bar dance party. The fundraiser takes place at sponsor location Maitland Terrace, to familiarize supporters “with the space of our February exhibit,” director […]
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The more you Know
Love. Marriage. Baby carriage. Until the advent of the birth control movement, both practical considerations and societal expectations placed women firmly on the path of this schoolyard rhyme. In What a Young Wife Ought to Know, playwright Hannah Moscovitch explores the emotional and physical costs of living in a time where fertility could only be […]
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Free Will Astrology
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 18) In 1899, the king of the African nation of Swaziland died while dancing. His only son, Sobhuza, was soon crowned as his successor, despite being just four months old. It took awhile for the new king to carry out his duties with aplomb, and he needed major guidance from […]
