Late on Monday night, The Hub Halifax (1673 Barrington Street)—a space that’s been an incubator for entrepreneurs, start-ups, community-building and many a brainstorm for five years— posted an announcement that it would be closing its current office at the end of the month. Though the decision was made to coincide with the end of its […]
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Emerging Lens expands
“There’s a lot of people out there with stories to tell,” says festival co-producer Shelley Fashan on how the Emerging Lens Film Festival began. “We just decided we would try to do that through a conversation of these stories.” What started as a one-day showcase of local talent is gradually getting bigger, adding a workshop […]
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Game Jam 2012 commences!
The Halifax Game Jam is a gathering of game developers, artists, musicians, hackers, graphic designers, system admins, comic book artists and good old-fashioned creative people for a weekend-long game-development event. Game Jammers will converge at The Hub (1673 Barrington Street) on the evening of Friday March 2 where they’ll stay for 48 hours. Jammers will […]
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Big Gottingen Street News: Backpackers hostel, Alteregos cafe poised for major expansion
[image-1] There’s yet more big news on Gottingen Street, as a stalwart business owner prepares to take on a major expansion Two weeks ago we reported on plans to build two 100+ unit low-income apartment buildings on Gottingen Street, one on the site of the former Diamonds bar, the other at the much-neglected Mitchell’s Environmental Treasures building. Between the two sits Alteregos Coffee Shop and Halifax Backpackers hostel (2193 Gottingen Street), both owned by Michelle Strum. Most business owners would be horrified by the prospect of major construction taking place on either side of her, but Strum seems entirely nonplussed.
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Thinking creatively: TEDx Halifax and 4 Days Thinking Forward
Multidisciplinary design firm Breakhouse Inc., the innovators who brought the popular Pecha Kucha nights to Halifax, together with Envision Halifax, is hosting 4 Days Thinking Forward Halifax, from October 21-24, “an open ‘unconference’ of community conversations on the power of design to reshape economies, improve public services and enhance our quality of life.” All activities […]
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Dive into deux fm
Although it feels like summer’s just getting started, some of us are already excited for fall’s cozy knits and sleek dresses. Get a head start on your autumn fashion shopping this Sunday at deux fm’s fall collection trunk show at The Hub (1673 Barrington, second floor), 1-5pm. There will be a mini-boutique, live models, wine […]
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The Hub hubbub
On Friday June 5, The Hub (1673 Barrington St. 2nd floor, 482-4729) has its official launch from 8:30am to 6:30pm, offering the space for free to work in all day, including a series of in-house events; an ideas breakfast, a story-of-The-Hub lunch and live music and snacks at 4pm.
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Shop local: business profiles along Barrington Street
The historic area of Barrington Street is buttressed by the towers at Scotia Square at one end and the Maritime Centre on the other. It’s a busy thoroughfare for transit, local workers and shoppers. Sure, there are pockets of fallow storefront, but all it takes are a couple of key retailers to create a little […]