collaboration

TRANSCRIPT – Meeting Waters: Cross-Cultural Collaboration On Environmental Racism

October 14, 20200

This event occurred on October 14th 2020, as an Anchor project of Nocturne Halifax. Meeting Waters: Cross-Cultural Collaborations on Environmental Racism with Ingrid Waldron was an online event centering Black and Indigenous solidarity through cross-cultural exchanges on environmental racism in Mi’kma’ki. Speakers and performers were brought together to share stories and experiences of environmental racism...

Event

How We Build: On Craft and Blackness

October 7, 20190

With the purpose of illuminating ideas on intergenerational knowledge and craft sharing as a means of fostering solidarity and resistance within and between the various Black communities in Nova Scotia, this panel will engage in ideas on locating pleasure, joy, and celebration as a survival tool while navigating structural oppression.

Magazine Reviews

All These In-betweens

Logan MacDonald on how to reclaim what has been lost

Kate LaheyJune 11, 20190

MacDonald tells me that “this work is sad. It is about contemporary mourning and historical mourning, but it is also a call to action and to empathy.” In these betweens there is also a generative tension that illuminates hope and possibility.

Archive Magazine Q and A

Landscape as Archive: Tracing Rivers + stories with Carrie Allison

Mollie CroninSeptember 21, 20180

CARRIE: Grass is so crazy! It’s like a sign of royalty—the fact that we still have it in our lives is very weird!

40 years Online

In This Place: The lasting impact of Nova Scotia’s first exhibition of Black artists’ work

Our research intern revisits a powerful 1990s exhibition and asks why we're not seeing more Black artists in galleries

Chris ShaponesApril 19, 20170

Why In this Place was a groundbreaking exhibition for Black artists in Nova Scotia

Online Q and A

Constructing home: Pam Hall’s “Housework(s)”

Kaylee MaddisonSeptember 11, 20140

A house, whether it is built of bricks, stones, clay or paper, is always more than the materials that make it. In her recent exhibition Housework(s) (at The Rooms gallery in St. John’s.), Pam Hall explores the essence of the house and the core qualities that support its physical structure. Hall’s social engagement with the...