Halifax’s own Juno-winning Wintersleep will be joining in the Natal Day festivities with a free concert at Alderney Landing on Saturday. And for those who remember last year, we can only hope it isn’t moved from an outdoor space to a 100-person capacity room again. “It was kind of weird because it didn’t really rain […]
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Must see event planner: Sports
Mondays from June to August Monday Night Bouldering with Climb Nova Scotia If you’re afraid of climbing mountains after seeing Cliffhanger a few too many times, but sick of the indoor rock wall scene, Climb Nova Scotia has the answer. Every Monday for the rest of the summer, groups of experienced and beginner climbers will […]
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A Halifax Academy Award-winning connection
Though they won’t be getting one of those golden statuettes nor did they attend the Vanity Fair party in Hollywood last night, local sound experts Brian Power and Graham Colwell were part of the Inception sound team that won Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing at the 83rd Academy Awards. Ellen Page, who played […]
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Get signed by Cameron Stewart
Award-winning Canadian comic artist Cameron Stewart is visiting Halifax for the first time this weekend, signing comics and saying hello. Fresh from illustrating a story arc for DC Comics’ Batman and Robin, Stewart writes from Paris about the newly finished project. “Working on Batman and Robin was a joy—I’ve been a fan of the writer, […]
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Daniel Olson tosses his toys at Dal Art Centre
After a wildly successful and steamy time at SeaDogs last night, the Sound Bytes Festival fun continues this evening at the Dalhousie Art Centre. Montreal-based artist Daniel Olson, one of the artists in the Dal Art Gallery exhibition Resounding, is performing “Coloured Plates.” Olson has collected toy xylophones over the past 15 or so years, and in this performance he throws the coloured plates from those instruments onto the floor, one by one. I’ve watched the video and it’s mesmerizing. No two performances will ever be the same. Show starts at 6pm in the Sculpture Court. If you’re into