Shoreline 2099 Halifax waterfront Oct 12-17 The water pitches and heaves. The air smells of salt. Sometimes, the wood creaks. Don’t be afraid: You’re not about to fall into the Atlantic. At least, you won’t yet. But come 2099, the Halifax waterfront will look very different. About half the wooden walkway will be gone as […]
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Nocturne 2020: Mo Drescher and Liliona Quarmyne cross the distance
f e e l i n g d i s t a n c e Window performance, The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street Fri Oct 16, 5-9pm Remember life without social media? Without a cell phone? Remember shutting down your portal to the internet—rather than slipping it into your pocket? “There’s this desire-shame dynamic […]
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Nocturne 2020: I’thandi Munro’s parking impass
Wejku’agamit > Owed Window display, FBM Architecture, 1660 Hollis Street Oct 12-17 Because there wasn’t enough parking spots, I’thandi Munro would put her car wherever she could. Because there wasn’t enough bus options, Munro had to drive. Because of all this, she began to acquire parking tickets—over 100, to be exact. “It’s been in the […]
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Nocturn’d up
Nocturne 2020 Oct 12-17 Various locations and nocturnehalifax.ca What a gift it is that, when we needed a dose of what only art can give us, the usual one-night festival that is Nocturne has stretched into a multi-day celebration of beauty, magic and belief—both online and off. Here, we celebrate how art outlives everything—and how […]
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Nocturne 2020: Ingrid Waldron is changing the tides
Meeting Waters: Cross-Cultural Collaborations on Environmental Racism Wed Oct 14, 7-9pm Zoom, details and links at nocturnehalifax.ca Dr. Ingrid Waldron never expected to have an exhibit at Nocturne. After all, the sociologist, author, world-leading researcher on environmental racism and co-producer of the documentary smash There’s Something In The Water (yes, the one Ellen Page co-directed, […]
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The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia unveils three potential designs for its new location
Right now, at 1723 Hollis Street, over 10,000 paintings, sculptures and works of art have their bags packed, ready to go. They’re waiting, fingers drumming, until it’s time to get moving. They’re ready for their new home, on what is currently a parking lot on Lower Water Street. Yes, the art is ready to move […]
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Bria Miller’s archive of art
If the aim of art is to hold a mirror to society, no one has polished a surface more reflective, streak-free and detail-catching than Halifax’s Bria Miller. A professional artist for about five years—focusing on the mediums of digital and ink illustration—Miller is out to capture the scenes and subject matter mainstream art has left […]
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Wonder’neath it all
In north end Halifax, there is a place where magic lives. A place where community is built over a work table. A place where healing and identity is found through self-expression. A place where affordable studio space keeps professional artists able to work. A place where you can see what’s possible, if you remember to […]
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Paintings, by the numbers: An exploration of Cliff Eyland’s Library Cards
At some point when you walk into the Halifax Central Library, you’ll feel your neck crane, as if it’s working independently of the rest of you. Your head will tilt, following suit. Your eyes will climb, eager to not be left behind. Your back might even bow under all the upward shifts, under the need […]
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Five opportunities for visual artists in Halifax
Sure, the difficulty of making money as an artist is nothing new—Oscar Wilde’s painter protagonist complains about it in his 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Grey—but just as the novel coronavirus has underscored many things we all knew with a renewed urgency, it isn’t easy to be a creative right now. While some galleries […]
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Emily Lawrence’s likeable feast
The world of Dartmouth-based artist Emily Lawrence feels like a pastel-filled, Betty Crocker spin on Willy Wonka’s factory: Her work is a visual feast (pun fully intended) as she makes portraits of people’s favourite desserts and lines gallery walls with tiny, climbing shrimp tails and petit-fours. With her, you never question that we eat first […]
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Three decades of wear-withal
The Wearable Art Show Feb 28, 6-8pm & 9-11pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $10/$20 I n the mental space between haute couture and your best outfit—somewhere between the wardrobe changes on a Madonna tour and a well-accessorized variety show—rest the knotty, throbbing aspirations of the Wearable Art Show. “The first time I […]
