Since the League of Canadian Poets established National Poetry Month in 1999, April is officially the busiest month for poets. The union of schools, booksellers, literary organizations, publishers, libraries and poets now come together annually to celebrate poetry’s crucial role in Canada’s culture. In Halifax, celebrate all things poetical with a reading at Spring Garden […]
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We’re a fire inside the storm
Halifax is where I hang my hats it’s where my chosen home is at but I follow a career path that keeps me moving so it seems I have to always be leaving some days this proves to be my undoing homesickness and missing things and consequently stewing but mostly it just soothes me when […]
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Stanzas in the Stacks is late night library fun
I can’t be the only one who would be stoked to be locked in the library after close and have to spend a night wandering, reading and napping. Friday, January 20 from 8-10pm will provide you with all of that mystery and romance (except maybe the napping… and the locked in part) at the Spring […]
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Congratulations Tanya Davis on being named the Mayor’s Poet Laureate!
Feast your peepers on this shit: HRM’s poet laureate announcement The amazingly talented Tanya Davis is now going to be poeting on the reg for the HRM, and generally representing awesomeness to the literary world. Attend the Mayor’s Poet Laureate Celebration Reception and Open Mic (Sunday, May 1 at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, […]
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Part of the Weekend Never Dies
party cat wants to have it all How great was this past weekend? You probably still have salt in your skin from the beach, or maybe your shirt still stinks like coal and hot dogs from camping, or maybe you’re still cross-eyed and sloshy in the guts from all the beer you drank. But hey, […]
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Tanya Davis isn’t alone anymore, she’s in the Guardian
After being the subject of Russell Smith’s bizarro feminist rant yesterday in the Globe, today, the video collaboration of Tanya Davis and Andrea Dorfman made the Guardian‘s viral video chart, along with a legless cat, a kitten who can’t jump, Justin Bieber, a chimp and a frog. Watch for Davis, tonight on the National. Related […]
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Roger Ebert is alone with Andrea Dorfman and Tanya Davis
Ebert’s Tweet, on an alone Saturday night. We’re not sure how, but Roger Ebert has discovered Tanya Davis‘ new lovely video for her song “How to be Alone,” directed by Andrea Dorfman, who also did the animations. The video only went up on July 28, and now has over 122,000 hits—a testament to the power […]
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Vote for Forsyth in TIFF’s emerging filmmakers competition
Halifax filmmaker Walter Forsyth was one of five emerging filmmakers chosen to take part in a contest through TIFF. Filmmakers were given a camera and $500 to create a film based on the theme of water. Five were chosen as finalists, including Forsyth’s “This tear is a word,” which uses the distinctive voice and words […]
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Festival Express IDOW Round Up
All good things must come to an end. The closing evening of In the Dead of Winter is always a touch bittersweet. After many late nights spent listening on minimal sleep, socializing, eating sporadic meals and perhaps drinking a little too much to drink for a Wednesday, everyone seems burnt out from festival exhaustion. With […]
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In the Dead of Winter Celebrates Fifth Anniversary
Musical matrimony Luke and Melissa As I wandered down the balmy streets of Halifax this afternoon to I bumped into Tim Crabtree, mastermind behind Paper Beat Scissors, who was heading home for a bite to eat before his show later at the Bus Stop Theatre. We stopped and chatted, noting the unusually warm winter’s day […]
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Mittentime Revue spreads Island cheer
If you’re hiding under the covers to avoid shopping, baking or card sending, be sure to dress in your woolies and hop out of bed for Saturday’s Mittentime Revue—a cabaret show that’ll de-stress you with its carol medleys, storytelling, poetry and songs. “It’s meant to take the piss out a little bit, and also just […]
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Tanya Davis and Andrea Dorfman collaboration on Bravo this weekend
Tanya Davis is all Alone If you missed Andrea Dorfman and Tanya Davis’ videopoem How to Be Alone at Atlantic Film Fest last week, it’s going to be on Bravo!FACT Presents this weekend, Friday and Saturday at 10pm, and at 8:30pm on Sunday. It’s the filmmaker and singer/songwriter’s second collaboration, after Art, and Davis describes it as being “about… being alone. Or being one person in the world. Or being okay spending time with yourself. Or all of the above.”