[Image-1] Even with all the recent news about their former home, the Khyber Art Society itself has been relatively quiet lately. That’s likely due to the difficult task of finding a replacement artistic director after the recent departure of Daniel Joyce for greener pastures. Today, the Khyber’s board announced that out of 20 applicants and […]
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Khyber may go up for sale
[Image-1] After 126 years on Barrington, the Khyber Centre for the Arts building could be at its end. City staff is recommending Halifax Regional Council declare 1588 Barrington St. surplus and put it up for sale. Officials assessing the Victoria-era building listed poor conditions and hazardous materials (including a failing floor system and asbestos in […]
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Get OUT
“The history of lesbian and gay activism in Halifax has been, to an extraordinary degree, a history of creating and contesting spaces.” Robin Metcalfe wrote this in 1997 in his essay on the exhibition Queer Looking, Queer Acting: Lesbian and Gay Vernacular, which was held at the Mount Saint Vincent University Gallery. That show chronicled […]
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Q&A : Ryan Allen on the Khyber Compilation VOL. II
This Saturday is your chance to add to the attractive cassette spines on your shelf with the Khyber Compilation VOL. II, featuring new and unreleased tracks from ULTRATHIN, Quaker Parents, Old and Weird, Green and Darnell, Dog Day, Moonsocket, Mike O’Neill, GUILT, Long Weekends, Long Long Long, Each Other, Monomyth, TORSO, Hand Cream, HYMM, and […]
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Draw Nudes With Local Dudes life drawing event gets relaxed
If you’ve ever had a hankering to draw, but find most art classes don’t have enough beer for your liking, Rachael Cadman and Lee Dekel have just the event for you. Draw Nudes With Local Dudes (Monday, March 5 at the Khyber Ballroom, 8-11pm) is a monthly life drawing event organized by the pair. Inspired […]
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A Sneek Peek at the Khyber Tape
If you can’t wait until the Saturday release party to get your mitts on a copy of the Khyber Comp Tape, we’ve received the opening song on the comp, “Khyber” by Cousins, to share with you now. Listen and get pumped, and then go pump some life-giving money blood into the old building’s veins, so we can all enjoy it a little longer.
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Khyber Doom Love Party
Typically rad posters (intended to be stuck together like a Sonic Youth “Goo” version of a Mad fold-in) by Adam OReilly. This Saturday your old buddies in Data Cave will be stopping in Halifax fresh off their Pop Montreal experience on an East Coast tour with TORSO and the insanely violent-sounding AHNA from Vancouver: “Their […]
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Khyber building plan goes to council tonight
At tonight’s city council meeting, HRM staff will present the staff report “1588 Barrington Street as an Arts & Culture Incubator.” This, of course, is the recommendation from staff to council to continue using, and to expand the cultural services offered in the Khyber building, which is seen as a big part of the Barrington […]
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Good Lovelies and Rose Cousins warm hearts at IDOW
Natasha Peach In the Dead of Winter may be in its fifth year, but it hasn’t strayed far from the original vision once held in the legendary Khyber Club. As a Halifax-based festival, IDOW’s mission is to showcase up and coming local artists. Natasha Peach is merely one of the many songwriters featured this year. […]
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Ghost Bees play in Halifax this Friday at the Khyber
Ghost Bees float back into to Halifax for the summer with a show at the Khyber with Fall Horsie (first Halifax show this year!) and Cousins on Friday, July 24 (10pm). This is the folk duo’s first show this year after touring Europe for a few months and then across Canada with Timber Timbre in […]