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5 artists who deserve a major public art installation in Halifax
Imagine the city if talents like Ursula Johnson and Raven Davis had large-scale artwork all over the place. Imagine a Halifax where every public space had art as part of it. Close your eyes and picture a trip to the mall that included taking in a mural or two. A visit to a government building also meaning a visit to a mixed-media installation. When, this Wednesday, Halifax Regional Council voted unanimously to spend $125,000 to help foot the bill of the art installations at Queen’s Marque, it felt like the perfect time to ask: Why can’t Halifax be so full of public art that a walk down the street feels like strolling in an open-air museum? What if we made it so that, instead of waiting until the next Nocturne festival to get a fix of art injected into unexpected places, we made our city feel like a never-ending version of the event?
7 Sure Things going on in Halifax the April 15 weekend
From the return of Adam Baldwin’s livestreams to a new, drag-filled play from HEIST. With going out in Halifax becoming more and more of a thing thanks to Nova Scotia’s COVID miracle, we’ve got a bunch of online and IRL event picks for your weekend. For lots more events happening every day of the week, check out The Coast’s complete entertainment listings.
REMAINS Artist Marie-Soleil Provençal literally makes treasure out of trash–as in, she’s known for building installation and found-art pieces from stuff that, to any other eye, would just belong in a green bin. (You might remember her from last year’s Nocturne festival, where she installed markers along the Halifax waterfront to show how rising sea levels will affect the area for a piece called
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A helicopter aids a search on Blow Me Down Mountain in the Bay of Islands. In the past five years, BOISAR says, more than one-quarter of distress calls have come from the Lark Harbour-York Harbour area.(Bay of Islands Volunteer Search and Rescue)
Garry MacKenzie headed to Lark Harbour as soon as he heard the news. I was that excited I drove down to see what area was covered by cell service, said MacKenzie, a member of Bay of Islands Volunteer Search and Rescue, also known as BOISAR. We feel great about it. It s going to be a big benefit to us.