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SUMMARY:Linfield & Banfield & Co.
DESCRIPTION:By Coral Maloney\nFree t-shirts available at all festival events! \nIn 2025\, several citizens filed complaints about the conduct of an elected official. These complaints were reported on in the media\, allowing those people to learn of each other. They realized they were larger than they’d planned to be. They realized\, in fact\, that they were building toward something much bigger than a set of uncoordinated complaints. One person who took part in this was named Linfield. Another one was named Banfield. There were others. There will be others still. You are invited too. \nBREAK RANK // TRY SOMETHING // WE HAVE EACH OTHER \nThis project occurs throughout the run of the festival. T-shirts & buttons from Linfield & Banfield & Co. will be available at each in-person event. You are invited to don them during the festival\, and well beyond. \n \nCredits:\nProject: Coral Maloney\nDesign support: Colleen Arcturus MacIsaac \n\n \nCORAL MALONEY [++++euro/±latina/~unspecified borders] [Leander Atkinson Wurz Amaya Torres Scott Krysska] is an interdisciplinary artist and performance-maker based in Halifax in Mi’kma’ki territory. www.coralmaloney.ca
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SUMMARY:On the Line
DESCRIPTION:By Audrey Eastwood\nOn display May 1 to June 1\nReception on May 10\, 4:00pm-6:15pm\nArtist Q&A on May 10\, 6:15pm-7:00pm \n    \nChildcare is available for free and on site during the May 10th reception and Q&A. Please register in advance. \nASL interpretation will be available during the May 10 Reception and Q&A \n\nOn the Line is a time-lapse video and photo compilation of six months’ worth of one of domestic labor’s most repetitive and relentless tasks: laundry. By   documenting every load washed\, every dryer load\, and every line of drying clothes\, the project seeks to show the cumulative weight of an everyday chore\,   particularly within the context of parenting and motherhood. \n\n \nAUDREY EASTWOOD is a multi-disciplinary artist\, General Manager of the Bus Stop Theatre Co-op\, and Co-Founder and Artistic Producer of Terra Novella Theatre. She has worked as an actor\,  designer\, musician\, technician\, and fight choreographer for a number of Kjipuktuk based companies including Villain’s Theatre\, Kick at the Dark Theatre Co-op\, Halifax Summer Opera\, Halifax Fringe\, Votive Dance and Whale Song Theatre. She is the mother of two young children\, and lives on a small farm with them and her partner Nick. Her artistic practice has shifted in the last few years to try and find space in the small gaps of time between work and childcare: cutting floral designs into sourdough bread\, filling indoor and outdoor spaces with plants\, teaching her kids the names of different birds and trees and how to successfully cut paper without cutting your small fingers\, and by making this art piece out of her never ending laundry pile.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/on-the-line/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Stephen Hero + El Tata y Los Toqueros
DESCRIPTION:Also featuring Ambeez\, General Khan & Gearl\nGet down with the working class on May Day at the Seahorse! \n$10 in advance and $15 at the door\nDoors at 9:00 PM \n  \n \nIf cost is a barrier\, please reach out to info@mayworkskjipuktukhalifax.ca and we will accommodate you. \n \n\nStephen Hero + El Tata y Los Toqueros\n \nSTEPHEN HERO makes raw\, working class hip hop from Canada’s east coast. His style is influenced by alt-rap legends like Kool Keith and MF DOOM\, with a strong penchant for the relaxed and joyous experimentation of groups like De La Soul and Beastie Boys\, but with a contemporary\, often dark feel. Hero takes the ruling class to task unapologetically as he builds his varied and powerful catalogue. \nEL TATA y LOS TOQUEROS could be best described as a melting pot of influences\, with deeply international roots thanks to the various nationalities of its core members: Gabriel Ibarra\, Chaly Benz\, Teijiri Emore\, and Daniel Salas. Together they mix the influences of their countries from the Philippines to Honduras\, into a Latin fusion of hip hop\, funk\, and other rhythms\, resulting in a style rich in versatile musicality that really makes them stand out. \n\n \nAMBEEZ is a hip-hop producer known for raw drums\, soulful samples\, and a feel-driven approach to beatmaking. A mainstay on the Canadian hip-hop scene\, he’s built a reputation for flipping obscure sounds into hard-hitting\, cohesive tracks. His style blends gritty boom-bap with subtle experimentation and off-grid rhythms\, textured chops\, and a strong sense of swing. Focused on mood and authenticity\, his beats are crafted to feel lived-in and replayable. With accolades and a growing catalog\, ambeez continues to refine his sound while carving out his own lane. Most recent release: Computer Sciences\, Vol 1 \n \nGENERAL KHAN is a local community organizer and artist\, born and raised in Kjipuktuk\, Mi’kma’ki (Halifax\, Nova Scotia). General Khan has been breaking barriers in the local rap scene since the release of her first album Wrath of Khan in 2021 and EP ON GOD in 2023. For Khan\, Poetry and rhyming is an expression that is tied to her cultural practice as an Afghan Pashtun and Muslim. Her art style is influenced by her lived experiences facing white supremacy\, colonialism\, islamophobia and ableism. Her next album Afghan Variety is set to release summer 2026. \n \nGEARL is an Indigenous Hip‑Hop artist from Eskasoni\, Nova Scotia. He shares lived  experiences of Indigenous life in the Maritimes and promotes Mi’kmaq language and culture. Years of steady work have earned him momentum\, multiple nominations and awards. This year he’s nominated for Indigenous Artist of the Year and Hip Hop/Rap Recording of the Year at the ECMAs. Gearl delivers powerful performances\, tackles difficult topics\, adapts across genres\, improvises songwriting\, and weaves personal experience into dense\, impactful concepts. @gearljij \n\nPhotos of Stephen Hero + El Tata y Los Toqueros by Mckenzie Power
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/stephen-hero-el-tata-y-los-toqueros/
LOCATION:The Seahorse Tavern\, 2037 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3K 3B1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Raising Big Questions
DESCRIPTION:YOU FRGOT SOMETHING\, Collaboration with Luke Hathaway. Photo by John Haney. \nBy Andrew Maize in collaboration with El Jones\, Seán Kennedy and Sue Goyette\nApril 25th 1-4pm – Dr. El Jones @ Halifax Common\nMay 2nd 1-4pm – Seán Kennedy @ Citadel Hill\nMay 3rd 1-4pm – Sue Goyette @ Point Pleasant Park \n**Please note that exact time and location are subject to change according to weather and wind conditions. Rain-Wind Dates will be scheduled according to forecast/availability. Please refer to our website and social media accounts @mayworkskjipuktukhfx for the latest information. \nWe live in punishing and brutal times. Language plays a crucial role in how we make sense of the world. In language\, we can bear witness\, negotiate meaning\, and call-out the people and systems of power to hold them accountable. Language has long been a creative and powerful tool in labour and social justice movements\, with the ability to encapsulate and embody a movement or a moment. \nThe arrival of May is the arrival of kite season. For Mayworks\, Maize has invited 3 word-workers; El Jones\, Seán Kennedy and Sue Goyette\, to compose aerial text banners to be flown across the city. The Mayworks audience is invited to help fly these kite banners. By working collectively to lift language up into the sky – we embody a public discourse of sorts\, fielding critical challenges and raising big questions. \nRAISING BIG QUESTIONS is an ongoing project by Andrew Maize\, that uses a home-made\, modular kite-letter to compose aerial text banners in the sky. Kite-flying is a joyful\, analogue and collective activity – one that must be responsive to both the weather and site. Location of the events will be dependent on environmental factors\, including wind direction. \nStay tuned closer to the date on the Mayworks Website and social media @mayworkskjipuktukhfx for announcements. \nNOTE: Andrew is offering a kite-flying workshop on April 25th. Find details at GO FLY A KITE.\n\n \nANDREW MAIZE is an artist. His playful\, collaborative and improvisational approach to making art is contingent on the relationships of environmental\,  social\, and material situations. Recent collaborative explorations include mobile instruments for improvised performances\, wind-powered kinetic sculptures\, and experimental drawing practices (using local sourced inks and candle smoke). He seeks collaborations across disciplines to expand improvisational practices as tools for embodying more responsive and adaptable ways of being\, by welcoming the fundamental agency of uncertainty. As an arts educator and organizer\, he has been involved in collaborative projects that engage communities with art\, in both traditional and non-traditional spaces. Maize graduated with a BFA from NSCAD University in Halifax NS in 2012\, and a MFA from the University of Guelph in 2021. He is the recipient of multiple grants and awards\, including SSHRCC\, Canada Council for the Arts\, Arts Nova Scotia. \n \nDR. EL JONES. Author\, poet\, journalist\, educator\, and advocate. Dr. El Jones is all these things and more\, an outspoken activist\, thinker and writer whose strengths converge in her spoken word performances. A respected poet\, Dr. Jones was two-time National Slam champion in 2007 and 2008\, Poet Laureate of Halifax in 2013-2015\, resident of the International Writing Program at University of Iowa in 2015\, and poet in residence at University of Toronto Scarborough in 2021. What defines her achievements is a commitment to activism and community advocacy to highlight inequities and redress injustices. The recognition of her performances\, teaching and political commitment testifies to the exceptional influence she has exercised during the Black Lives Matter movement and the expansion of Black scholarship in Canadian academia. \n \nSUE GOYETTE lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax) and has published ten books of poems and a novel. Her latest collection is Future Howl\, (Gaspereau Press\, 2025). She is the editor of Resistance: Righteous Rage in the Age of #MeToo (University of Regina Press\, 2021)\, The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology (Anansi\, 2017) and The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013 (Tightrope Books\, 2013). Her work has been translated into French\, Spanish and German and has been featured in films\, subways\, buses\, spray painted on a sidewalk and tattooed. Her work has been nominated for the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Award and has won several awards including the Dalhousie University Teaching Award\, 2021; the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation (Océan translated by Georgette Leblanc)\, 2020; J.M. Abraham Poetry Award 2016\, 2012; ReLit Award 2016; 2014 Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award; 2013 National Magazine Award\, Silver; 2012 Pat Lowther Award for Poetry; Bliss Carman Poetry Award\, 2011; The Established Artist Recognition Award\, NS\, 2011; 2010 Earle Birney Award; 2008 CBC Literary Award for Poetry; as well as the 2015 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award for her collection\, Ocean. Sue teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Dalhousie University. \n \nSEÁN KENNEDY is Professor of English and Coordinator of Irish Studies. Their research interests include Samuel Beckett\, Queer Ireland\, Ireland in Psychoanalysis\, Zionism\, and the “Erotics of Irish Austerity” (the ways in which austerity economics is troped in terms of the kinky language of discipline\, control and humiliation). Publications include Beckett and Ireland (Cambridge UP\, 2010)\, Send In the Clowns! (OR Books\, 2025) and Beckett beyond the normal (in progress). Kennedy is the coordinator for Unsettling Irish Studies. \n\nEvent photo by John Haney
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SUMMARY:and so we dance
DESCRIPTION:By I’thandi Munro and Kay Macdonald\nONE TICKET FOR TWO INCREDIBLE PERFORMANCES!\n$10 in advance and $15 at the door.\n**Ticket includes admission to BE ETERNAL** \n \nIf cost is a barrier\, please reach out to info@mayworkskjipuktukhalifax.ca and we will accommodate you. \n \nChildcare available on site for free. Please register in advance. \n\nArchiving and exploring movement through the cultural lenses of African Nova Scotian identity.\nand so we dance explores the contemporary realities and historic contexts of moving/movement through time and place. Specifically looking at the realities of being African Nova Scotian within the broader context of Black + African American performance traditions. We explore cultural themes of tension\, relation\, freedom and love through the creative modalities of improvisation\, contemporary dance and vocalization. \nCredits:\nCreators:\nI’thandi Munro\, Kay Macdonald \nPerformers:\nI’thandi Munro\, Kay Macdonald \nSpecial Thanks:\nSyreeta Hector\, Sara Coffin\, Liliona Quarmyne\, Reequal Smith \nFunding Credits:\nMocean Dance – CLEaR Forum Residency\, The Khyber Centre For The Arts – KREAM Residency\, Live Art Dance – CanDance Showcase \nMusic Production and Mixing:\nCarmel Farahbakhsh\, I’thandi Munro\, Kay Macdonald \nLighting Production:\nLouisa Adamson \n\n \nI’THANDI MUNRO is an award winning dancer\, performer\, visual artist and educator\, who has reached International recognition. She incorporates her lived experiences of her own cultural understanding within her artwork. She has a double major in Photography + Jewellery Design and Metalsmithing from NSCAD University. Munro has been facilitating within dance studios\, Halifax Regional Arts\, artist centers\, and community programs for over a decade. Munro continuously seeks to learn new ways of making\, teaching\, collaborating\, and continues to educate herself in a multitude of techniques. She has spent her entire life pursuing art but dancing is the constant base of creating throughout her professional career. Movement is at her core of making. When Munro became a mother\, her exploration into uninhibited linework and freedom of creation was sparked by watching her two young children draw effortlessly and with confidence. These inspirations from her kids showed her new pathways\, and taught her that you can make your own. This naturally led I’thandi into the research behind improv and freestyle dance. Munro uses the representation of line and lineage as underlying concepts in her art. Her work has become an ever-changing body of work that can be explored and realized in many different ways. Munro is the founder of Drifted Collective as well as Scotian: The Collective. She has collaborated with many professional dance and theatre companies primarily based out of Mi’kma’ki and the Atlantic regions such as The Woods Professional Hip Hop Company\, Mocean Dance\, Kinetic\, Rooted Dance(Votive) Nestutasi Story Telling\, Home Economics Collective\, and KasheDance. \n \nKAY MACDONALD (they/them) is an African Nova Scotian\, Acadian\, Queer\, Trans community educator\, artist\, activist\, facilitator\, and performance based artist born and raised in Kjipuktuk\, Mi’kma’ki. Macdonald’s artistic practice has roots in interdisciplinary methodologies. Gathering and curating scores of improvisational movement\, dance\, sound\, and visual arts culminating in various forms of performance. Their work explores themes of observation\, culture\, ancestral lineage\, connection\, community and place. Macdonald’s work seeks to unravel restrictive concepts of identity\, belonging\, liberation\, and societal constructs. Macdonald views the intersection of advocacy\, community building\, and artistic processes as a means to disrupt and intervene in harmful colonial and white supremacist narratives. Currently\, Kay is working as the Program Coordinator at The Youth Project\, a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to providing support and services to 2SLGBTQIA+ youth ages 12-25. As well as\, currently holds the role as Co-Artistic Director at Kinetic\, a contemporary dance organization based in Kjipuktuk. \n\nEvent photo by Reequal Smith\nI’thando Munro headshot by Cavell Holand\nKay Macdonald headshot by Matt Downey
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/and-so-we-dance/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Dance
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SUMMARY:Be Eternal
DESCRIPTION:With Jackson Fairfax-Perry\, Andrew Jackson\, Lance Sampson\, Shuvanjan Karmakar and Joshua Awe\nONE TICKET FOR TWO INCREDIBLE PERFORMANCES!\n$10 in advance and $15 at the door.\n**Ticket includes admission to AND SO WE DANCE** \n \nIf cost is a barrier\, please reach out to info@mayworkskjipuktukhalifax.ca and we will accommodate you. \n \nChildcare available on site for free. Please register in advance. \n\nTaking its name from the final line of Common’s acclaimed 2005 album\, Be Eternal explores black male mortality\, particularly of musicians\, and the normalization of this in modern society. Led by local saxophonist Jackson Fairfax-Perry\, this ensemble brings together 5 local improvising musicians with roots connecting to the African diaspora. Exploring both spontaneous and written compositions\, Be Eternal asks how can we move past this mindset that black men die young? That this is just how it is? How can we honour the artists who came before us\, while also giving flowers to the ones who are still with us? This music is raw and mournful\, but it is also filled with joy and hope\, brimming with the power of our ancestors. This is a celebration of our black musical lineage. \nPersonnel:\nJackson Fairfax-Perry – Saxophones \nAndrew Jackson – Trombone \nLance Sampson – Voice \nShuvanjan Karmakar – Bass \nJoshua Awe – Drums \n\n \nJACKON FAIRFAX-PERRY is an award-winning African Nova Scotian composer\, sound designer\, musician\, and musical director based in Halifax\, Nova Scotia. A graduate of Dalhousie University (Bachelor of Music in Composition\, 2014)\, Jackson has built a multidisciplinary career that bridges contemporary composition\, popular music\, improvisation\, and theatrical sound design.  For the decade following his graduation\, he recorded and toured nationally and internationally with Hillsburn\, an award-winning indie-pop band. Since 2023\, Jackson has collaborated closely with Lance Sampson\, AKA Aquakultre. As musical director for Sampson’s live performances\, he has co-written\, arranged\, and performed on several of Aquakultre’s recordings\, most notably on the critically acclaimed album 1783. As a saxophonist and keyboardist\, Jackson is an active member of Halifax’s jazz and creative music scene performing regularly with several ensembles including Many Worlds\, as well as his own group TYNES plus III. Jackson also collaborates frequently with theatre and dance artists\, having contributed music and sound design to numerous local and national productions. Jackson is the most recent recipient of the Paul Cram Creation Award\, and is in the process of writing his first composition for orchestra\, to be premiered by Symphony Nova Scotia at Open Waters Festival in January\, 2027. \n \nANDREW JACKSON is a Juno award winning trombonist and composer based in Halifax\, Nova Scotia. His versatility and unique sound have made him one of Eastern Canada’s first-call players. Jackson keeps a busy playing schedule with many of the premiere artists in the region\, spanning a variety of styles\, and was selected as a member of the National Canadian Jazz Orchestra. Andrew is a multiple time Music Nova Scotia award winner\, including accolades such as “Musician of the Year” and “Jazz Recording of The Year” amongst others. Since 2017 Andrew has been the musical curator for the TD Halifax Jazz Festival\, which has won multiple “Event of The Year” Awards under his tenure. \n \nLANCE SAMPSON better known as AQUAKULTRE is an uncommonly versatile singer\, rapper\, composer and storyteller from Halifax\, NS. Since winning the 2018 CBC Searchlight competition\, Aquakultre has released two Polaris-nominated albums and a multitude of genre-diverse\, multi-media collaborations\, establishing him as a significant musical and cultural presence. The live show is a warm-hearted party where all are welcomed by Aquakultre’s big voice and bigger stage presence. Through all his works\, via poetic lyrics and straight-up jams\, Aquakultre is on a mission to share his love for his unique and beautiful corner of the culture. \n \nSHUVANJAN KARMAKAR is a bassist. Their practice synthesizes curatorial methodology\, environmental listening\, and diasporic microcosms. Their curatorial tenure\, marked by collaborations with award-winning artists across disciplines\, explored engagement with form\, temporality\, and audience perception. This experience established a foundation in spatial dramaturgy\, critical framing\, and orchestrating sensory experiences. These principles translate into their musical practice\, where they treat sound as an experiential field rather than a linear construct. Shuvanjan’s artistic labor navigates the dialectic between the intrinsic desire to create and the external pressures that necessitate production\, allowing this tension to shape both methodology and output. Their exploration of non-equal-tempered systems\, encompassing microtonality\, just intonation\, and other alternative tuning paradigms\, serves as both a technical and conceptual extension of this inquiry. Challenging hegemonic sonic structures and repositioning the bass as a site of critical experimentation. \n \nJOSHUA AWE is an instinctive drummer who enjoys playing a wide range of musical genres. He often plays with jazz musicians in Halifax\, however\, Joshua has recently been performing with musicians in the folk and oldtime scenes where he usually plays djembe and percussion. Joshua has his roots in Nigeria where he started playing in the church. This is where he learned that music can be used for a spiritual transcendence. His resume includes an extensive list of public and private gigs including the Halifax Jazz Festival\, Every Seeker and Deep Roots Festival. \n\nEvent photo and Jackson Fairfax-Perry headshot by Jamie Kronick\nLance Sampson headshot by Mo Phùng
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/be-eternal/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Raising Big Questions
DESCRIPTION:YOU FRGOT SOMETHING\, Collaboration with Luke Hathaway. Photo by John Haney. \nBy Andrew Maize in collaboration with El Jones\, Seán Kennedy and Sue Goyette\nApril 25th 1-4pm – Dr. El Jones @ Halifax Common\nMay 2nd 1-4pm – Seán Kennedy @ Citadel Hill\nMay 3rd 1-4pm – Sue Goyette @ Point Pleasant Park \n**Please note that exact time and location are subject to change according to weather and wind conditions. Rain-Wind Dates will be scheduled according to forecast/availability. Please refer to our website and social media accounts @mayworkskjipuktukhfx for the latest information. \nWe live in punishing and brutal times. Language plays a crucial role in how we make sense of the world. In language\, we can bear witness\, negotiate meaning\, and call-out the people and systems of power to hold them accountable. Language has long been a creative and powerful tool in labour and social justice movements\, with the ability to encapsulate and embody a movement or a moment. \nThe arrival of May is the arrival of kite season. For Mayworks\, Maize has invited 3 word-workers; El Jones\, Seán Kennedy and Sue Goyette\, to compose aerial text banners to be flown across the city. The Mayworks audience is invited to help fly these kite banners. By working collectively to lift language up into the sky – we embody a public discourse of sorts\, fielding critical challenges and raising big questions. \nRAISING BIG QUESTIONS is an ongoing project by Andrew Maize\, that uses a home-made\, modular kite-letter to compose aerial text banners in the sky. Kite-flying is a joyful\, analogue and collective activity – one that must be responsive to both the weather and site. Location of the events will be dependent on environmental factors\, including wind direction. \nStay tuned closer to the date on the Mayworks Website and social media @mayworkskjipuktukhfx for announcements. \nNOTE: Andrew is offering a kite-flying workshop on April 25th. Find details at GO FLY A KITE.\n\n \nANDREW MAIZE is an artist. His playful\, collaborative and improvisational approach to making art is contingent on the relationships of environmental\,  social\, and material situations. Recent collaborative explorations include mobile instruments for improvised performances\, wind-powered kinetic sculptures\, and experimental drawing practices (using local sourced inks and candle smoke). He seeks collaborations across disciplines to expand improvisational practices as tools for embodying more responsive and adaptable ways of being\, by welcoming the fundamental agency of uncertainty. As an arts educator and organizer\, he has been involved in collaborative projects that engage communities with art\, in both traditional and non-traditional spaces. Maize graduated with a BFA from NSCAD University in Halifax NS in 2012\, and a MFA from the University of Guelph in 2021. He is the recipient of multiple grants and awards\, including SSHRCC\, Canada Council for the Arts\, Arts Nova Scotia. \n \nDR. EL JONES. Author\, poet\, journalist\, educator\, and advocate. Dr. El Jones is all these things and more\, an outspoken activist\, thinker and writer whose strengths converge in her spoken word performances. A respected poet\, Dr. Jones was two-time National Slam champion in 2007 and 2008\, Poet Laureate of Halifax in 2013-2015\, resident of the International Writing Program at University of Iowa in 2015\, and poet in residence at University of Toronto Scarborough in 2021. What defines her achievements is a commitment to activism and community advocacy to highlight inequities and redress injustices. The recognition of her performances\, teaching and political commitment testifies to the exceptional influence she has exercised during the Black Lives Matter movement and the expansion of Black scholarship in Canadian academia. \n \nSUE GOYETTE lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax) and has published ten books of poems and a novel. Her latest collection is Future Howl\, (Gaspereau Press\, 2025). She is the editor of Resistance: Righteous Rage in the Age of #MeToo (University of Regina Press\, 2021)\, The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology (Anansi\, 2017) and The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013 (Tightrope Books\, 2013). Her work has been translated into French\, Spanish and German and has been featured in films\, subways\, buses\, spray painted on a sidewalk and tattooed. Her work has been nominated for the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Award and has won several awards including the Dalhousie University Teaching Award\, 2021; the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation (Océan translated by Georgette Leblanc)\, 2020; J.M. Abraham Poetry Award 2016\, 2012; ReLit Award 2016; 2014 Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award; 2013 National Magazine Award\, Silver; 2012 Pat Lowther Award for Poetry; Bliss Carman Poetry Award\, 2011; The Established Artist Recognition Award\, NS\, 2011; 2010 Earle Birney Award; 2008 CBC Literary Award for Poetry; as well as the 2015 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award for her collection\, Ocean. Sue teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Dalhousie University. \n \nSEÁN KENNEDY is Professor of English and Coordinator of Irish Studies. Their research interests include Samuel Beckett\, Queer Ireland\, Ireland in Psychoanalysis\, Zionism\, and the “Erotics of Irish Austerity” (the ways in which austerity economics is troped in terms of the kinky language of discipline\, control and humiliation). Publications include Beckett and Ireland (Cambridge UP\, 2010)\, Send In the Clowns! (OR Books\, 2025) and Beckett beyond the normal (in progress). Kennedy is the coordinator for Unsettling Irish Studies. \n\nEvent photo by John Haney
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/raising-big-questions/
LOCATION:NS
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260506T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20260506T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T083752
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SUMMARY:Queers in Carhartts
DESCRIPTION:By Devin West and Shift Change Halifax\n \nFilm Screening and Exhibition//Artist & Researcher Q&A \nQueers in Carhartts is an art exhibition\, film screening\, and research launch\, documenting the unique challenges and practices of resilience by queer and trans people working in skilled trades labour. QiC is a hybrid of qualitative research investigating the lived experiences of 2SLGBTQ+ people in skilled trades in Nova Scotia\, and a collaborative\, community-building\, creative documentation of the first-person authority of some of those experiences and survival strategies. Community collaborations feature local artist Andrew Deveaux for filmography\, Winnipeg musician and sound artist\, Kitz Willman on sound\, and sculptor-researcher (carpenter)\, Devin West on research and artistic direction. Join us in launching our exhibition\, film screening and research report at Queers in Carhartts. \n    \nResearch and art facilitated by YWCA Halifax Shift Change Project @shiftchangehalifax\, funded by Women and Gender Equity Canada. Thank you to our supporters: WAGE Canada\, Wisdom2Action\, WiSTAN and Titiklie Workplace Safety. \n\n \nDevin West
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/queers-in-carhartts/
LOCATION:Glitter Bean Cafe Co-op\, 5896 Spring Garden Rd\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3H 3B8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260507T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20260507T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T083752
CREATED:20260405T155509Z
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SUMMARY:everything i wanted to tell you / tout ce que j’avais envie de te dire
DESCRIPTION:everything i wanted to tell you (but couldn’t\, so here it is now)\nBy Vazari\nPresented with support from / Présenté avec le soutien du Conseil Communautaire du Grand-Havre et Live Art Dance\n      \n$10 in advance and $15 at the door \n\nIf cost is a barrier\, please reach out to info@mayworkskjipuktukhalifax.ca and we will accommodate you. \n \nCette présentation est bilingue – en anglais et en français. La description en français suit ci-bas. \nASL interpretation will be available for the May 7th presentation \n\nThis athletic and empathic work of dance theatre lifts a glass (and then smashes it) to love\, loyalty and the difficult things we hope never to escape.\neverything I wanted to tell you (but couldn’t\, so here it is now) is an adventurous\, no bullshit look at the ties that bind. Two dancers are locked in a liminal space of shared memories\, imagined incidents\, and the difficult things left unsaid. Together they set off on an athletic journey traversing the tangible and illogical as they learn to navigate change without letting go – because family is forever\, right? \nWinner of three Dora Mavor Moore Awards:\nOutstanding Choreography\nOutstanding Production\nOutstanding Performance by an Individual\nAlso nominated for Outstanding Original Sound Composition and Outstanding Achievement in Design \n \nCredits:\nConcept and Direction Jessie Garon\nChoreography by Jessie Garon in collaboration with Sully Malaeb Proulx\, Jarrett Siddall\, Guillaume Biron and Pulga Muchochoma\nPerformed by Demetri Apostolopoulos and Jarrett Siddall\nSound Design by Stephen Joffe\nLighting Design by Simon Rossiter\nCostumes by Jessica Mak and Brayden Cairns\nOutside Eye Tia Kushniruk \nStatement from the creator\, Jessie Garon\n \nThe inspiration to create this work came from reconciling the friction and sense of duty in my own family. I come from a homestead farm where siblings\, cousins\, aunts\, uncles\, parents and grandparents have lived and worked together for six generations. In a time when establishing boundaries and cutting ties is more encouraged\, what has to happen if we choose to engage with the tension instead? I hope the audience will leave thinking about the listening\, empathy and flexibility required to evolve with people over time. \nNOTE: Jessie is offering a dance workshop on May 9th. Find details at WORKING IN UNCERTAINTY.\n\ntout ce que j’avais envie de te dire\n \neverything i wanted to tell you (but couldn’t\, so here it is now) est une œuvre de danse-théâtre virtuose et empathique qui lève son verre (avant de le briser) à l’amour\, à la loyauté et aux difficultés auxquelles nous espérons ne jamais échapper. \nAvec cette pièce\, Garon s’interroge sur la souplesse de nos relations les plus proches et sur la tendance culturelle à établir des frontières rigides. \nLauréat de trois prix Dora Mavor Moore:\nMeilleure chorégraphie\nMeilleure production\nMeilleure performance individuelle\nÉgalement nominé dans les catégories de meilleure composition musicale originale et meilleure réalisation en conception \n \nÉquipe:\nConcept et direction par Jessie Garon\nChorégraphie par Jessie Garon en collaboration avec Sully Malaeb Proulx\, Jarrett Siddall\, Guillaume Biron et Pulga Muchochoma\nInterprété par Demetri Apostolopoulos and Jarrett Siddall\nComposition musicale  par Stephen Joffe\nÉclairage par Simon Rossiter\nCostumes par Jessica Mak et Brayden Cairns\nRegard extérieur Tia Kushniruk \nDéclaration de la créatrice\, Jessie Garon\n \nL’inspiration pour créer cette œuvre m’est venue en conciliant les tensions et le sens du devoir au sein de ma propre famille. Je viens d’une ferme familiale en Alberta où mes frères et sœurs\, cousins\, tantes\, oncles\, parents et grands-parents ont vécu et travaillé ensemble pendant six générations. À une époque où l’on encourage davantage à établir des limites et à couper les liens\, que doit-il se passer si nous choisissons plutôt d’accepter les tensions? J’espère que le public repartira en réfléchissant à l’écoute\, à l’empathie et à la flexibilité nécessaires pour évoluer avec les gens au fil du temps. \nNB: Jessie offre un atelier de danse (en anglais) le 9 mai. Visitez WORKING IN UNCERTAINTY pour plus de détails.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/everything-i-wanted-to-tell-you-tout-ce-que-javais-envie-de-te-dire/
LOCATION:Breaking Circus\, 2164 Amalamek Wy\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3K 2WB3K 2W4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Dance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260507T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20260507T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T083752
CREATED:20260405T155509Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260406T213720Z
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SUMMARY:everything i wanted to tell you / tout ce que j’avais envie de te dire
DESCRIPTION:everything i wanted to tell you (but couldn’t\, so here it is now)\nBy Vazari\nPresented with support from / Présenté avec le soutien du Conseil Communautaire du Grand-Havre et Live Art Dance\n      \n$10 in advance and $15 at the door \n\nIf cost is a barrier\, please reach out to info@mayworkskjipuktukhalifax.ca and we will accommodate you. \n \nCette présentation est bilingue – en anglais et en français. La description en français suit ci-bas. \nASL interpretation will be available for the May 7th presentation \n\nThis athletic and empathic work of dance theatre lifts a glass (and then smashes it) to love\, loyalty and the difficult things we hope never to escape.\neverything I wanted to tell you (but couldn’t\, so here it is now) is an adventurous\, no bullshit look at the ties that bind. Two dancers are locked in a liminal space of shared memories\, imagined incidents\, and the difficult things left unsaid. Together they set off on an athletic journey traversing the tangible and illogical as they learn to navigate change without letting go – because family is forever\, right? \nWinner of three Dora Mavor Moore Awards:\nOutstanding Choreography\nOutstanding Production\nOutstanding Performance by an Individual\nAlso nominated for Outstanding Original Sound Composition and Outstanding Achievement in Design \n \nCredits:\nConcept and Direction Jessie Garon\nChoreography by Jessie Garon in collaboration with Sully Malaeb Proulx\, Jarrett Siddall\, Guillaume Biron and Pulga Muchochoma\nPerformed by Demetri Apostolopoulos and Jarrett Siddall\nSound Design by Stephen Joffe\nLighting Design by Simon Rossiter\nCostumes by Jessica Mak and Brayden Cairns\nOutside Eye Tia Kushniruk \nStatement from the creator\, Jessie Garon\n \nThe inspiration to create this work came from reconciling the friction and sense of duty in my own family. I come from a homestead farm where siblings\, cousins\, aunts\, uncles\, parents and grandparents have lived and worked together for six generations. In a time when establishing boundaries and cutting ties is more encouraged\, what has to happen if we choose to engage with the tension instead? I hope the audience will leave thinking about the listening\, empathy and flexibility required to evolve with people over time. \nNOTE: Jessie is offering a dance workshop on May 9th. Find details at WORKING IN UNCERTAINTY.\n\ntout ce que j’avais envie de te dire\n \neverything i wanted to tell you (but couldn’t\, so here it is now) est une œuvre de danse-théâtre virtuose et empathique qui lève son verre (avant de le briser) à l’amour\, à la loyauté et aux difficultés auxquelles nous espérons ne jamais échapper. \nAvec cette pièce\, Garon s’interroge sur la souplesse de nos relations les plus proches et sur la tendance culturelle à établir des frontières rigides. \nLauréat de trois prix Dora Mavor Moore:\nMeilleure chorégraphie\nMeilleure production\nMeilleure performance individuelle\nÉgalement nominé dans les catégories de meilleure composition musicale originale et meilleure réalisation en conception \n \nÉquipe:\nConcept et direction par Jessie Garon\nChorégraphie par Jessie Garon en collaboration avec Sully Malaeb Proulx\, Jarrett Siddall\, Guillaume Biron et Pulga Muchochoma\nInterprété par Demetri Apostolopoulos and Jarrett Siddall\nComposition musicale  par Stephen Joffe\nÉclairage par Simon Rossiter\nCostumes par Jessica Mak et Brayden Cairns\nRegard extérieur Tia Kushniruk \nDéclaration de la créatrice\, Jessie Garon\n \nL’inspiration pour créer cette œuvre m’est venue en conciliant les tensions et le sens du devoir au sein de ma propre famille. Je viens d’une ferme familiale en Alberta où mes frères et sœurs\, cousins\, tantes\, oncles\, parents et grands-parents ont vécu et travaillé ensemble pendant six générations. À une époque où l’on encourage davantage à établir des limites et à couper les liens\, que doit-il se passer si nous choisissons plutôt d’accepter les tensions? J’espère que le public repartira en réfléchissant à l’écoute\, à l’empathie et à la flexibilité nécessaires pour évoluer avec les gens au fil du temps. \nNB: Jessie offre un atelier de danse (en anglais) le 9 mai. Visitez WORKING IN UNCERTAINTY pour plus de détails.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/everything-i-wanted-to-tell-you-tout-ce-que-javais-envie-de-te-dire/
LOCATION:Breaking Circus\, 2164 Amalamek Wy\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3K 2WB3K 2W4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Dance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260509T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20260509T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T083752
CREATED:20260405T155525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260406T160629Z
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SUMMARY:Working in Uncertainty - Dance Workshop
DESCRIPTION:With Jessie Garon of Vazari\nThis workshop is geared towards professional artists from any medium with a performance practice\, as well as students in pre-professional programs. \nWorking In Uncertainty plays with agency\, togetherness\, and uncertainty through a group improvisation structure. We explore uncertainty as a rich creative state without ego and look for ways to embrace it. This workshop encourages a playful approach to build skills as an interpreter and improvisor. Participants practise following impulses\, supporting fellow performers\, and diving into their own creativity. As a group we question; what is required for us to retain full agency while participating completely in heightened togetherness? How can safety and negotiation be built into the practice so we all take part? \nAdmission by donation. Please RSVP here:\n \n\n \nJESSIE GARON (Artistic Director of Vazari Dance Projects) is a queer performer and choreographer working in contemporary dance theatre. Originally from a homesteaded family farm in Alberta\, she is now based in Tkaronto/Toronto. She is a graduate of Dance Arts Institute after which she interned for Ate9 Dance Company (Los Angeles) under Artistic Director Danielle Agami studying Gaga Movement Language daily. Since 2014\, she has participated primarily in collaborative processes blending performative forms. Her work incites the potential of dance virtuosity\, rigor and spectacle as materials to craft spirited\, athletic and abstract dance theatre. She has worked with artists such as Brandy Leary/Anandam Dance Theatre\, Jennifer Dallas/Kemi Contemporary Dance Projects\, Serge Bennathan\, Lemi Ponifasio/MAU (New Zealand)\, Clarice Lima/Futura (Brazil) and Sara Porter. Garon is the founder and Artistic Director of Vazari Arts. As a creator she is nominated for the 2024 Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize. Her work has been shown across Canada\, including the Theatre Centre (ON)\, Pumphouse Theatre (AB)\, Refinery Theatre (SK)\, Édifice Wilder Espace Danse (QC) and Salle Bernard-LeBlanc (NB).
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/working-in-uncertainty-workshop/
LOCATION:Breaking Circus\, 2164 Amalamek Wy\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3K 2WB3K 2W4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Dance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260509T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20260509T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T083752
CREATED:20260405T155540Z
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SUMMARY:Music of Liberation
DESCRIPTION:With John Kameel Farah\nPresented in partnership with Upstream Music Association \n \nAll proceeds will be donated to the Sameer Project in Palestine \n$10 in advance and $15 at the door \n\nIf cost is a barrier\, please reach out to info@mayworkskjipuktukhalifax.ca and we will accommodate you. \n\nIn this extraordinary concert\, Palestinian-Canadian pianist and composer John Kameel Farah embraces elements of Baroque and Near-Eastern music\, improvisation and electronic music to create what he calls “Arabic-Baroque-Cyberpunk.” Surrounding the piano with synthesizers\, he combines a vivid and playful imagination with virtuosic musicianship. Accompanied by projections of his intricate ink drawings\, the performance sounds through the lens of Palestinian struggle\, identity and heritage\, drawing connections across histories and liberation movements. \n \n“In performance\, Farah ranges all over his instruments while setting up textures and countertextures\, moving deftly from acoustic to electronic episodes\, and testing and deploying his materials with a mixture of scientific care and wild abandon. Improvisation is a key working method\, both at his various keyboards and in the execution of electronic beats and processes that are equally at the core of his approach. \n“Frenetic and contemplative in turn\, Farah’s music is underpinned by a deep emotional and spiritual reservoir which\, when framed through his exceptional musicality and virtuosic instrumental command\, packs his highly original music with considerable and undeniable clout.” \n-Scott Thompson\, Guelph Jazz Festival \n\n \nJOHN KAMEEL FARAH is one of Canada’s most creative and imaginative composers. He is a Palestinian-Canadian pianist whose music embraces Baroque and Arabic Music\, experimental improvisation and electronics. He studied at the University of Toronto\, where he received the Glenn Gould Composition Award twice and afterwards had private lessons with Terry Riley in California\, and later at the Arabic Music Retreat in Hartford. He has been a member of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble since 2010\, and was a guest-performer with Tangerine Dream in Toronto in 2023. \nTHE SAMEER PROJECT is a Palestinian-led mutual aid group supporting people in Gaza during the genocide. It is a donations based initiative\, led by Palestinians in the diaspora\, who are working to supply aid to displaced families in Gaza. Fiscal host: Social Change Nest.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/songs-of-liberation/
LOCATION:Joseph Strug Concert Hall\, 1385 Seymour Street\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3H 3M6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260510T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20260510T181500
DTSTAMP:20260407T083752
CREATED:20260405T155553Z
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SUMMARY:Found in Translation / Trouvé dans la traduction
DESCRIPTION:By Sometimes in Nova Scotia (SiNS)\n \nMay 10\, 4:00pm-6:15pm (durational – drop in anytime) \n  \n \nCette présentation est présentée en anglais et en français grâce au soutient du gouvernement de la Nouvelle-Écosse.\nLa description ci-bas alterne entre l’anglais et le français. \n \nASL interpretation will be available \nChildcare available on site for free. Please register in advance. / Gardiennage gratuit disponible sur place. SVP instrivez-vous à l’avance (formulaire en anglais). \n\n \nFound in Translation is an interactive performance in which small objects are translated into movement\, drawing\, and poetry through a series of playful transformations. Audience members are invited to join with performers to uncover illuminating potentials in the things that surround us. \nFound in Translation originated as part of Eastern Front Theatre’s Macro Digitals: CONNECTIONS under the guidance of Kat McCormack\, with collaborators Katie Clarke\, Breton Lalama\, Logan Robins\, Gillian Seaward-Boone and Rebecca Wolfe. \n\n \nTrouvé dans la traduction est une performance interactive où de petits objets se transforment en mouvements\, dessins et poèmes grâce à une série de métamorphoses ludiques. Le public est invité à se joindre aux artistes pour découvrir le potentiel insoupçonné des objets qui nous entourent. \nCette pièce a été créée en 2022 avec les membres de la distribution originale Jacinte Armstrong\, Katie Clarke\, Breton Lalama\, Logan Robbins\, Gillian Seaward-Boone et Rebecca Wolfe\, avec la dramaturge Kat MacCormack\, et produite par Eastern Front Theatre\, Dartmouth\, NS. \n\n \nFound in Translation is an interactive performance that transforms small objects into movement\, drawing\, and poetry through a kind of artistic “assembly line.” Six performers take part at a time\, rotating through all of the roles: hosting\, describing\, drawing\, dancing\, typing poems\, and reading them aloud. Crucially\, the “machine” is always activated by audience participation. An audience member begins each round by arranging objects\, and at the end of the cycle\, they receive the poem that was generated and read out specifically for them – an artistic “gift” created through the collective process. \n\n \nTrouvé dans la traduction est une performance interactive qui transforme de petits objets en mouvement\, dessin et poésie grâce à une sorte de « chaîne de montage » artistique. Six performeurs participent simultanément\, endossant tour à tour tous les rôles : présenter\, décrire\, dessiner\, danser\, taper des poèmes et les lire à voix haute. Point essentiel\, la « machine » est toujours activée par la participation du public. Un spectateur initie chaque cycle en disposant des objets\, et à la fin\, il reçoit le poème créé et lu spécialement pour lui – un « cadeau » artistique né de ce processus collectif. \nEnsemble:\n-Jacinte Armstrong\n-Micaela Comeau\n-Françoise Labelle\n-Susan Leblanc\n-Zya Langdon-Quarmyne\n-Liliona Quarmyne\n-Mila Samarani​​​​​​​​​​\n-Dawn Shepherd\n-Winnie Sherwood-Steele\n-Geneviève Steele\n-Nadine Sures \n\n \nJACINTE ARMSTRONG (she/her) is an Acadian artist based in Kjipuktuk/Halifax\, NS. Her work explores embodied practice through performance\, choreography\, collaboration\, and curation\, communicating the experience of the body in relation to objects\, materials\, and people. Her choreography ranges from intimate and imagistic to large-scale collaborations with dancers\, architects\, visual artists\, radio producers\, filmmakers\, actors and musicians. A leader in the Atlantic region\, she is Artistic Director and co-founder of SiNS (Sometimes in Nova Scotia) Dance\, Artistic Director of suddenlyLISTEN\, and collaborates regularly with Mocean Dance. From 2014-18\, she was Artistic Director of Kinetic Studio. \nIn 2016\, Jacinte was awarded an Established Artist Recognition Award by the Nova Scotia Arts and Culture Partnership Council\, and a Masterworks Award for her work in Mocean Dance’s “Canvas 5×5” choreographed by Tedd Robinson. She holds an MFA in Performance from NSCAD University and is a certified in Laban Movement Analysis. \nJACINTE ARMSTRONG (elle) est une artiste acadienne basée à Kjipuktuk/Halifax\, en Nouvelle-Écosse. Son travail explore la pratique incarnée à travers la performance\, la chorégraphie\, la collaboration et le commissariat. Elle communique l’expérience du corps en relation avec les objets\, les matériaux\, l’environnement\, la technologie et les personnes. Ses chorégraphies vont de l’intime et de  l’imaginaire à des collaborations à grande échelle avec des danseur-euses\, des architectes\, des artistes visuel-les\, des producteur-rices de radio\, des cinéastes\, des créateur-rices de théâtre\, des programmeur-euses informatiques et des musicien-nes. Jacinte est titulaire d’une maîtrise en beaux-arts en performance de l’Université NSCAD et est certifiée analyste du mouvement Laban (CMA). \n\nEvent photos by Laura Demers and Daniel Wittnebel\nHeadshot of Jacinte Armstrong by Kevin MacCormack
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/found-in-translation-trouve-dans-la-traduction/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260510T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20260510T190000
DTSTAMP:20260407T083752
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SUMMARY:On the Line - Artist Reception
DESCRIPTION:By Audrey Eastwood\nOn display May 1 to June 1\nReception on May 10\, 4:00pm-6:15pm\nArtist Q&A on May 10\, 6:15pm-7:00pm \n    \nChildcare is available for free and on site during the May 10th reception and Q&A. Please register in advance. \nASL interpretation will be available during the May 10 Reception and Q&A \n\nOn the Line is a time-lapse video and photo compilation of six months’ worth of one of domestic labor’s most repetitive and relentless tasks: laundry. By   documenting every load washed\, every dryer load\, and every line of drying clothes\, the project seeks to show the cumulative weight of an everyday chore\,   particularly within the context of parenting and motherhood. \n\n \nAUDREY EASTWOOD is a multi-disciplinary artist\, General Manager of the Bus Stop Theatre Co-op\, and Co-Founder and Artistic Producer of Terra Novella Theatre. She has worked as an actor\,  designer\, musician\, technician\, and fight choreographer for a number of Kjipuktuk based companies including Villain’s Theatre\, Kick at the Dark Theatre Co-op\, Halifax Summer Opera\, Halifax Fringe\, Votive Dance and Whale Song Theatre. She is the mother of two young children\, and lives on a small farm with them and her partner Nick. Her artistic practice has shifted in the last few years to try and find space in the small gaps of time between work and childcare: cutting floral designs into sourdough bread\, filling indoor and outdoor spaces with plants\, teaching her kids the names of different birds and trees and how to successfully cut paper without cutting your small fingers\, and by making this art piece out of her never ending laundry pile.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/on-the-line-artist-reception/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260510T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20260510T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T083752
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SUMMARY:Am I Ovary-Acting?
DESCRIPTION:By Lunasea Theatre\n$10 in advance and $15 at the door\n\nIf cost is a barrier\, please reach out to info@mayworkskjipuktukhalifax.ca and we will accommodate you.\n \n  \n    \nChildcare is available for free and on site during the May 10th reception and Q&A. Please register in advance. \nASL interpretation will be available during the May 10 Reception and Q&A \n\n \nAm I Ovary-Acting? is a work by LunaSea Theatre about reproductive justice that examines commonly held beliefs about health and medical care for those with ovaries/uteruses/vaginas. Through comedy\, storytelling\, rage and disbelief we explore reproductive health and justice through relevant objects. At Mayworks\, our focus will be the history\, uses and misuses of the speculum. This 50 minute show is part ted-talk\, part conversation\, part storytelling. When it comes to health and reproductive justice the political and social landscape right now is rife with misinformation\, disinformation and half-truths.  We are here to press against that tide with nuanced conversation and evidence-based information in a fun\, curious\, theatrical way. \nCredits:\nCreated and performed by Kathleen Dorian and Ailsa Galbreath \nResearch by Claire Horn \n\n \nKATHLEEN DORIAN (she/her) is a creator/actor based in Dartmouth\, NS (Punamu’kwati’jk). She is co-Artistic Director of LunaSea Theatre\, Nova Scotia’s foremost feminist theatre company (most recently producing SoloFest\, a festival of new one-act works)\, and one quarter of the clown-troupe-turned-accidental-theatre-company Tea Time Creation Co. (First Date/Last Date\, Gina Is Dead\, Romeo & Juliet: A Drink Along\, Midsummer Night’s Wet Dream). She has had the great pleasure of working with extremely talented Halifax peers as an actor (How Quickly Things Change – xo secret theatre; This is Nowhere\, How Small How Far Away – Zuppa Theatre; The Very Hungry Caterpillar\, My Favourite Story Book/Guess How Much I Love You\, The Rainbow Fish – Mermaid Theatre) as well as an assistant director and director (Some Blow Flutes – HomeFirst Theatre\, Booby Trap – Rooks Field Green). Kathleen is interested in puppetry\, story through movement and magic\, and meeting her audience in the space between performance and reality. \nAILSA GALBREATH (she/her) is a theatre artist based in Punamu’kwati’jk (Dartmouth). Ailsa is an actor\, creator\, and producer. She is passionate about new work. Recently\, Ailsa performed as a puppeteer in Gale Force’s ambitious outdoor creation Icarus: Falling of Birds. Ailsa played Flute in Neptune Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream last season. She performed in Two Planks and a Passion’s season of The Mountain and the Valley and Chased by the Bear.  She has worked with Ship’s Company Theatre\, Gale Force Theatre\, PARC\, secret theatre\, EFT\, HomeFirst\, Zuppa Theatre\, LunaSea Theatre Co\, Halifax Theatre for Young People and Villain’s Theatre. Ailsa is 1/4th of Tea Time Creation Co\, a clown troupe who seek to subvert the status quo with wacky fun\, through the creation of new work and reinvention of classics. Ailsa is a certified teacher of the Interactive Teaching Method of the Alexander Technique. She is the Co-Artistic Director of LunaSea Theatre Company\, a feminist theatre company whose work centres the voices of women\, non-binary\, and underrepresented genders. \n \nCLAIRE HORN is a writer and researcher with a PhD in law (University of London) and an MA in gender and legal studies (NYU). From 2021-2024\, she was a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University’s Health Justice Institute\, and she has held research fellowships with the Modern Law Review and the Wellcome Trust. She has researched and taught in law and policy governing sexual and reproductive health\, rights\, and technologies for six years and has published with a variety of nonfiction venues as well as academic journals including Body & Society\, Catalyst: Feminism\, Theory\, Technoscience\, The Journal of Medical Ethics\, the Medical Law Review and Feminist Legal Studies. Her first book\, Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth\, was published in 2023 and was longlisted for the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Book Award.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/am-i-ovary-acting/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Theatre
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