Art at Night

NOCTURNE: ART AT NIGHT

Nocturne 2015: Curator Welcome Message Found And Lost And Found

Whether you scour the guide and plan each moment, wander the city seeing what A city is made up and defined by people, places, and spaces, an ever changing and you collide into, or a combination of both; Nocturne offers infinite versions to shifting entity; we shape our buildings and public spaces in small and significant experience. It’s what I love about it. Through exploration and discovery, each of us ways, then they shape us, then we them again – ad infinitum. These places walks away with a different impression of what Nocturne is. and spaces are shaped and re-shaped by changing social, political and cultural currents, real estate boom and bust, extreme weather and even disaster. Buildings The 2015 theme invites artists to peel away the layers, find new meaning, and are occupied and vacant, re-imagined, reconsidered, renovated and sometimes meet the wrecking ball, only to begin the process again and again. Shadows offer commentary and consideration of what’s come before and what’s ahead. of these changes are etched on our collective and individual memories and sometimes the buildings and spaces themselves. As you explore Halifax and Dartmouth through the Nocturne lense be sure to lose yourself in the unfurling of the familiar and unfamiliar, discover new perspectives This year, as part of Nocturne, Curator Rose Zack asks artists to explore history, and vantage points, reflect on the departed, celebrate the new, and spark memory, consciousness, and the changes wrought by time in Halifax’s unique conversations with friends and strangers. cultural, historical and social spaces. We consider what takes place in the moments between past and present, the familiar and the unknown, and the Thank you to the artists and organizers whose significant effort creates Nocturne. potential for subversion and change as part of this year’s curatorial theme: Found This city and region is home to an abundance of creative talent, a history and and Lost and Found. landscape that inspires and challenges us, and an audience that brings it all to life on October 17! #NocHfx15 #FoundLostFound

Michelle Doucette Photography Michelle Doucette Photography Michelle Doucette Photography Top 5 Lists of Nocturne: Art at Night

This year we asked the Nocturne Programming Committee to tell us about TOP 5 FIRST DATE PROJECTS NOCTURNE GUIDE TO BREAKING some of their favourite projects. Take a look at these curated lists to help UP guide you on the eve of Nocturne! 200. The Beacon in the Dark Jeremy Tsang 400. Poetic Mixology Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Laura Dawe Big Pony Clothing Store 300. Ferris Wheel Anna Sprague 200. The Beacon in the Dark Citadel Hill Jeremy Tsang Maritime Museum of the Atlantic 401. How to Say Becka Barker 123. Friend to be Found Various Locations Jason Skinner and The Printing House 1809 Barrington St 400. Poetic Mixology Laura Dawe 302. Digital Shrine Big Pony Clothing Store Sharon Stevens Camp Hill Cemetery Gates 319. Serpentine Studio 1489 Birmingham St 309. Nostalgiacholia, Live from the Past Christopher Spencer-Lowe

Michelle Doucette Photography Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History NOCTURNE: ART AT NIGHT TOP 5 LISTS

TOP 5 GLOWING PROJECTS NOCTURNE MUST-SEE TOP 5 PROJECTS ABOUT TOP 3 PROJECTS FOR YOUR PERFORMANCE ART ARCHITECTURE SMARTPHONE 300. Ferris Wheel Anna Sprague 305. Hoop Dreams 200. The Beacon in the Dark 303. Wifi Haiku Citadel Hill Lisa Lipton Jeremy Tsang Andrew Patterson Citadel High Gymnasium Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Nocturne Hub 500. Drum Voices Lindsay Dobbin 202. Grain by Grain 301. /Livestreams 123. Friend to be Found Highest Point, Dartmouth Common Lukas Pearse, Véronique MacKenzie HalifaxNew Jason Skinner and The Printing House and Susan Tooke Halifax Central Library 1809 Barrington St 200. The Beacon in the Dark Cunard Centre Parking Lot Jeremy Tsang 310. Citadel Beacon 301. /Livestreams Maritime Museum of the Atlantic 201. Rebecca Reads Nora James Forren HalifaxNEW Reads Molly Citadel Hill Halifax Central Library 310. Citadel Beacon 2b Theatre Company James Forren Maritime Museum of the Atlantic 307. Sun Ship Machine Gun Citadel Hill (Metallurgy I) 204. The Weather Maidens Will Robinson 202. Grain by Grain Carly Butler and Arianne Pollet- Fort Massy United Church Lukas Pearse, Véronique MacKenzie Brannen and Susan Tooke Purdy’s Wharf 202. Grain by Grain Cunard Centre Parking Lot Lukas Pearse, Véronique MacKenzie 103. Safety Cages and Susan Tooke Ken Burke Cunard Centre Parking Lot Roaming Project

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PAINTINGS TOP 5 MEDIA ARTS PROJECTS FAMILY FRIENDLY PROJECTS EXPLORE THE 5 SENSES

110. Colour Abstracts 309. Nostalgiacholia, Live from 205. Wave of Waste 400. Poetic Mixology (taste) Richard Mueller & Igor Kolodin the Past YESS and OCEANS-NS Laura Dawe Studio 21 Fine Art Christopher Spencer-Lowe Beside ‘The Wave’, Sackville Landing Big Pony Clothing Store Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History 409. Our Water, Our World 115. Circus Spectacular 102. Spectre (touch) Monika Wright, Cory Paul Hill and 306. 3B: Backlands, Badlands, Burbs Halifax Circus Janice Wright Cheney Halifax Music Coop Susan Tooke 1479 Barrington St Anna Leonowens Gallery The Atlantica Hotel Lobby Halifax Central Library 504. Mosaic for Mental Health 305. Hoop Dreams (sound) 106. Local Momentum, Sole of the 202. Grain by Grain Craig Gallery Lisa Lipton City: Walk Through Halifax Lukas Pearse, Véronique MacKenzie Alderney Landing Citadel High Gymnasium Jan Davison , Kim Danio and Susan Tooke 118. Letterpress Gang Argyle Fine Art Cunard Centre Parking Lot 204. The Weather Maidens (smell) The Dawson Printshop Carly Butler and Arianne 212. Nocturnes on Silk By the Sea 402. How to Say 1895 Granville St Pollet-Brannen Holly Carr and Jennifer King Becka Barker 319. Serpentine Studio Purdy’s Wharf Helipad at Bishops Landing Various Locations 1489 Birmingham St 309. Nostalgiacholia, Live from 109. Unconsciously Conscious 500. Drum Voices 409. Our Water, Our World the Past Art Zone Gallery Lindsay Dobbin Monika Wright, Cory Paul Hill and Christopher Spencer-Lowe 1673 Barrington St Highest Point, Dartmouth Common Halifax Music Coop Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History The Atlantica Hotel Lobby NOCTURNE: ART AT NIGHT

ROSE ZACK BIOGRAPHY MESSAGE FROM THE NOCTURNE CHAIRS

Rose Zack is a Calgary-Halifax transplant and an arts On behalf of the Board of Directors, we are pleased and culture doer, dreamer and volunteer. Calling and excited to welcome you all to the 8th edition of Halifax home since 2007, Rose is currently keeping Nocturne: Art at Night! We want to recognize and company with Atlantic Film Festival, as Regional congratulate all the artists, community groups, and Outreach Manager and on the boards of Centre for galleries who have put in an enormous amount of Art Tapes and Business for the Arts - ArtsScene. effort to create such exciting work for this year’s Past involvement includes public programmer at festival - well done! the Glenbow Museum (Calgary), on the boards of ArtCity (Calgary), Creative Cities Network (National) We would like to thank Rose Zack, our 2015 curator, and as founding Board Member and past Chair of for returning this year to lead the creative direction of Rose Zack Nocturne: Art at Night (Halifax). Recognition for her Lindsay Ann Cory the festival. Her commitment to providing the public Curator contributions include: The Chronical Herald’s Arts Acting Chair & with a remarkable art experience has resulted in the & Culture Honour Role (2011), Canadian Progress Programming presentation of an extraordinary collection of work. @therosezack Club’s Women of Excellence Awards – Arts & Culture Director (2012), Progress Magazine’s People We Love 2012 An overwhelming “Thank-You!” to all of our volunteers, board members, partners, sponsors and funders who and Fusion’s GO Awards – Arts & Culture (2012). As a cultural planner for the past 15 years, Rose’s raison dedicated time and resources to make this event d’être is to create meaningful connections between possible. Specifically, we would like to acknowledge artists, their work, and the public. the work of Kim Farmer, our coordinator, for her constant support and boundless enthusiasm. And to you, the public, the people who experience Nocturne first hand year after year, we hope you enjoy this year’s MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR festival-- from the Anchor Projects, to our selected Beacon Projects, the Galleries, and the Community I’m delighted to welcome art enthusiasts of all Groups. Allow yourself to get found and lost and found ages, interests and experiences to the 8th annual in the magic of Nocturne! Nocturne: Art at Night. Susan Joudrey We have a rich and vibrant arts and culture Vice Chair community here in Halifax Regional Municipality and @NocturneHalifax I encourage you to partake in this celebration of our extraordinary art scene and visit the many diverse galleries, artists, and organizations that make this event truly memorable. BOARD OF DIRECTORS I acknowledge, with gratitude, the artists for BOARD Mike Savage sharing their incredible works and commend event organizers, volunteers and sponsors for making this Lindsay Ann Cory Heidi Mossman Katherine Nakaska Mayor highly anticipated evening the great success it is! Acting Chair & Treasurer Sponsorship Director Programming Director @MikeSavageHFX Nicole Doiron Melissa Strachan Susan Joudrey Human Resource Director at Large MESSAGE FROM THE PREMIER Vice Chair Director Lucie Taussig Art and culture are integral to life in Nova Scotia; Lorraine Plourde Amy Lorencz Director at Large for centuries they have knit people to new creative Past Chairperson Communications ideas and to each other. Nocturne: Art at Night Director has become a highlight of the art calendar in this Dary Jessome province, introducing thousands of residents and Corporate Secretary Wynne Van Thielen visitors to the beautiful, the innovative and the Marketing Director awe-inspiring. Our government is proud to once again support COMMITTEE HRM LIAISON CURATOR Nocturne. The festival brings art to public spaces MEMBERS Jamie MacLellan Rose Zack and to a new and wider audience, helping to develop Duncan Patterson Stephen McNeil interest, awareness and understanding. Timothy Ediger Premier Tori Flemming COORDINATOR Congratulations to the organizers on your hard Ozana Gherman Kim Farmer @StephenMcNeil work to make 2015 yet another successful year. To Lauren Matheson Nocturne visitors, I wish you great enjoyment of this Morgan Salter exotic celebration of art.

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MESSAGE FROM THE NOCTURNE CHAIRS THANK YOU JOIN US FOR FERRY-OKE

On behalf of the Board of Directors, we are pleased Nocturne thanks all of the outstanding individuals and groups who make this Ferry-Oke! Come out and sing along to your favourite long and forgotten songs and excited to welcome you all to the 8th edition of event possible. To all of the participating galleries, businesses, community while you cross the Harbour under the stars. A team of local karaoke legends will Nocturne: Art at Night! We want to recognize and groups, artists and performers: for your professionalism, creativity and host your crossing on the Halifax-Dartmouth ferry, all for the price of a transit congratulate all the artists, community groups, and enthusiasm — thank you. To our sponsors, government agencies and event ticket. The ferry departs from the Halifax terminal at fifteen minutes past the galleries who have put in an enormous amount of partners, who through dedicated and generous support make Nocturne a hour and fifteen minutes to the hour, with the last ferry departing at 11:45 pm. effort to create such exciting work for this year’s success — thank you. And, of course, we express our complete appreciation to The ferry departs from Dartmouth on the hour and half hour, with the last ferry festival - well done! our team of volunteers who gave their time, energy, and commitment to bringing departing at 11:30 pm. Nocturne to life for the past eight years — thank you! We would like to thank Rose Zack, our 2015 curator, for returning this year to lead the creative direction of POP-UP PROFESSORS the festival. Her commitment to providing the public with a remarkable art experience has resulted in the “All art is collaboration”, it has been said. This year, professors from Saint Mary’s presentation of an extraordinary collection of work. University will be located at the NOCTURNE HUB in the Natural History Museum Parking Lot ready to pop up and present their views on many of the featured An overwhelming “Thank-You!” to all of our volunteers, projects. Join them & the artists for a discussion about art and creation and make board members, partners, sponsors and funders who Nocturne something really special in 2015. dedicated time and resources to make this event possible. Specifically, we would like to acknowledge the work of Kim Farmer, our coordinator, for her Michelle Doucette Photography constant support and boundless enthusiasm. And to ACCESSIBILITY FREE BUS ROUTES you, the public, the people who experience Nocturne first hand year after year, we hope you enjoy this year’s FULLY ACCESSIBLE SEMI ACCESSIBLE Nocturne will have two free chartered Metro Transit buses available to the public festival-- from the Anchor Projects, to our selected Venue that has at least Venue has one wheelchair during Nocturne and will follow a route mapped out specially to stop close to Beacon Projects, the Galleries, and the Community one wheelchair accessible accessible entrance, limited Nocturne projects in Halifax. Grab a group of friends and plot a special Nocturne Groups. Allow yourself to get found and lost and found entrance. The exhibition access to exhibition (limited route; no need to worry about parking! Buses are wheelchair accessible and run in the magic of Nocturne! itself is wheelchair by stairs, gravel), and no wheelchair approximately every 20 minutes. There will be Nocturne volunteers on the bus accessible. accessible bathroom. Projects can also ready to answer any of your questions. be viewed or experienced without NOT ACCESSIBLE entering a building and are wheelchair This year we will also have a Dartmouth/Halifax shuttle service running every half Venue or installations are accessible from its viewing point hour from Alderney Landing to Lower Water Street - hop on the bus on either side inaccessible to wheelchairs (e.g. a sidewalk). and leap frog the harbour! (due to stairs, narrow entrances). NOCTURNE: ART AT NIGHT HUB

PROJECT CATEGORIES Nocturne: Art At Night HUB in the parking lot of the Nova Scotia Natural History Museum from 6pm to 12 midnight. Food Trucks, live DJ, Pop-up-Professors and ANCHOR PROJECTS BEACON PROJECTS all the Nocturne information you need to make your Nocturne experience the Anchor projects are selected by our Beacon Projects are artist conceived best it can be! Volunteers on site to guide you through the 80+ projects that curator and relate thematically to and artist-led works that are situated Nocturne is offering this year! Drop into the museum – there will be 3 projects this year’s curatorial direction. These in public or publicly-accessible inside this year... projects are large-scale and in some spaces throughout the urban centres cases provide access to civic spaces of Halifax and Dartmouth. Beacon often not available during evening projects are facilitated through the hours. They are facilitated by HRM. Nocturne organization and may be developed by an individual or artist collective.

GALLERIES COMMUNITY GROUPS A Gallery is an organization or business Non-profit community and cultural whose primary operations are the organizations, businesses, and exhibition and/or promotion of visual educational and historical institutions arts and artists. This includes public will coordinate their own nocturnal and commercial galleries, artist-run arts event or activity, with the centres, arts cooperatives, university participation of artists or members of galleries, and museums. During the arts community throughout Halifax Nocturne, some galleries will offer and Dartmouth. additional programs and activities.

Locations and programming of exhibits are subject to change without notice.

DOWNTOWN HALIFAX

Zone 1: Beacon Projects

102. Spectre 103. Safety Cages 104. Urban Paper Illuminated Janice Wright Cheney Ken Burke Frankie Macaulay Anna Leonowens Gallery - window Roaming Project Chives Restaurant Window Space space 1537 Barrington St 1891 Granville St Wearable steel sculptures make public social conventions explicit as they interact A window display of illuminated miniature paper buildings. Spectre is a mixed media installation with each other and the public moving that conjures the ghost of a polar bear. through the night. Still Images • Sculpture Crocheted snowflakes and crystals are suspended in a darkened space to create a Performance • Sculpture • Mobile haunting presence.

Sculpture

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Zone 1: Community Groups and Galleries

105. Janice Wright Cheney - 106. Jan Davison and Kim Danio 107. See for Yourself 108. Various Artists Karin Kope -Bruce Barber Argyle Fine Art Gallery Art 1274 Hollis Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Anna Leonowens Gallery Argyle Fine Art Art 1274 Hollis Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Anna Leonowens Gallery 1559 Barrington St - Unit 102 1274 Hollis St 1723 Hollis St 1891 Granville St Local Momentum: New Work by Jan Watch art demos from our galley artist. Join us for an illuminating night at the Art Gallery 1: Window installation by Janice Davison will explore and celebrate the local Also offering hands on experience for some Gallery of Nova Scotia for Nocturne 2015. Wright Cheney (NB) - Beacon Project businesses and landscapes that have come of the demos. Meet many of our artist and and gone. share a warm cup of hot apple cider while Still Images Gallery 2: Window Video projection and you tour the gallery of new works. audio installation by writer/ activist/ Artist, Sole of the City: Walk Through NSCAD faculty, Karin Cope (NS) Halifax: Artist Kim Danio will recreate the Still Images • Sculpture •Interaction city of Halifax using re-purposed shoes and Gallery 3: Window projection by artist/ boots. Artist Craig Baltzer will provide the NSCAD faculty Bruce Barber painted backdrop to her “solefull” city. 109. Unconsciously Conscious 110. Richard Mueller & Igor Kolodin Moving Images • Mobile Still Images • Sculpture Art Zone Gallery Studio 21 Art Zone Gallery Studio 21 Fine Arts 200-1673 Barrington St 1273 Hollis St

Paint on our 15 x 16 foot canvas and help Colour abstracts by Richard Mueller & Igor us explore and collaborate on the theme of Kolodin with other gallery artists memory and consciousness, exploring one’s own history and experience. Exhibition Still Images of Art Zone’s membership artist’s also on display, showcasing local contemporary art 105 109 work.

Still Images • Audience Interaction

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Zone 1: Community Groups and Galleries

111. Memories of Place and Space 112. Private Body, Public Space 113. FRAME OF MIND 114. Anijam ViewPoint Gallery Stephanie Gill and Shuvanjan Connections Halifax DANS: Digital Animators of ViewPoint Gallery of Karmaker Connections Halifax Nova Scotia Contemporary Photography Granville St - end of pedestrian 1221 Barrington St Hardman Group Parking Lot 1272 Barrington St mall 1226 Hollis St Join us in celebrating the creative mind. Next to 1891 Granville St A fine art photographic exhibition of local This inspiring community of artists will AniJam meets Peter Parker and the photographers challenged to express their Speaking out against Street Harassment enchant you with live performance and amazing Spiderman. Come and view a visual interpretation of the Nocturne in Halifax! visual creations. complete visual “REMIX” of your favourite curatorial theme of "Found and Lost and 1960 Spiderman cartoon! Still Images • Performance Found". Moving Images •Audio Moving Images • Audio Moving Images • Audio

115 116 113 114 104 115. Circus Spectacular 116. Barres on Barrington 117. Trackback in Time: The Halifax 118. Letterpress Gang Halifax Circus Halifax Dance Association Streetcar The Dawson Printshop Halifax Circus Corner of Barrington St and Salter Inkwell Modern Handmade The Dawson Printshop 1479 Barrington St St Boutique & Letterpress 1895 Granville St 1505 Barrington St Studio Halifax Circus will again present an amazing Solve a mystery and decipher a secret night of spectacular fire performance, We’re bringing the studio to the street to Inkwell Boutique 1658 Market St message at the The Dawson Printshop astonishing aerials, and student give you a behind the scenes look at the using the mighty power of the presses. demonstrations of tightwire, acrobatics, dynamic world of a pre-professional dancer Print your own #Halifax #streetcar paper juggling, unicycling, diabolos and other in Halifax! Still Images • Audience Interaction circus skills. toy keepsake on a vintage #letterpress. Performance #TrackbackInTime #nochfx15 Performance Still Images • Audience Interaction

110. Richard Mueller & Igor Kolodin Studio 21 Studio 21 Fine Arts 1273 Hollis St

Colour abstracts by Richard Mueller & Igor Kolodin with other gallery artists

Still Images DOWNTOWN HALIFAX

Zone 1: Community Groups and Galleries

119. Objets trouvés: Rediscovering 120. Pocket Change 121. Unconcious Contruction 122. Wrinkles in Time perspective National Public Relations suddenlyLISTEN, Kinetic Studio and Spirit Spa Sophie Pilipzcuk & Alliance National Public Relations Mocean Dance Spirit Spa Française Halifax 1701 Hollis St 1313 Hollis St 5150 Salter St #200 Accès Justice Access Celebrate the changes we love and pay our Unconcious contruction: a slowly shifting Stylized living portraits of Haligonians 1663 Brunswick St respects to that which we once loved with cast of musicians and dancers create a mar- during interesting points of time in our an interactive digital tableau of Halifax history. Featuring artistic hair from Spirit Objets trouvés: Rediscovering perspective athon length performance in real time. paintings. Find your city. Leave your mark. memories. Spa. Audio • Performance It all starts with Bonsoir Still Images • Audience Interaction Performance • Sculpture

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123. Friend to be Found 124. Halifax Photographers 125. Cat Room 126. Chinese Tea Ceremony & Jason Skinner and the Gallery Show Haley Kerr & Rich Aucoin Dressed up Photography Printing House Apeture Studios Artzone Gallery Sawadee Tea House The Printing House, CIBC Building Apeture Studios 1673 Barrington St Sawadee Tea House 1809 Barrington Street 1678 Barrington St, 2nd floor 1871 Granville St A sensory overload of approximately Get your picture taken and join in the Aperture Studios is pleased to open our 500 feline portraits accompanied by a Chinese Tea Ceremony & Dressed up Nocturne-wide friend search. Smile, doors to showcase local Photographer’s continuous loop of a gentle purr. Photography by Daniel Luques. someone may be looking for you. work with a gallery show during Nocturne 2015. Still Images • Audio Still Images • Performance Still Images • Performance • Audience Interaction Still Images

127. Something Broke the Silence: 128. The Coast Art Party 130. Bulwark Cider Label Expressionist paintings by The Coast Competition Corrine Redden The Chameleon Bulwark Cider Canvas Resto Lounge 1587 Barrington St Stillwell Bar Canvas Resto Lounge 1672 Barrington St 1583 Brunswick Street The Coast comes to life for one night only at The Chameleon. Bulwark Cider is holding a contest to give Current collection of paintings on the an up and coming artist an opportunity to theme of human relationships; how we are Still Images • Moving Images • Audio • use their art on a cider label. in the world and with each other. Performance • Audience Interaction 125 Still Images • Audience Interaction Still Images

129. Boom 131. Art in the Dark Neptune Theatre CNIB Neptune Theatre Government House 1593 Argyle St 1451 Barrington St

Travel back in time to the year that shaped Guests are blindfolded and guided through the Baby Boom generation! an exhibit of tactile art to feel what it may be like to have vision loss. Still Images • Performance 127 129 Audience Interaction HALIFAX WATERFRONT

Zone 2: Anchor Project

200. The Beacon in the Dark

Jeremy Tsang Waterfront Boardwalk at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic 1675 Lower Water St @IAM_T_SANG presents a temporary informal lighthouse speaking to urban preservation versus revitalization/gentrification of spaces and places. This project is presented in partnership with the Centre for Art Tapes. 200 Sculpture

Zone 2: Beacon Projects

201. Rebecca Reads Nora Reads 202. Grain by Grain 203. How to Say - Location 1 204. The Weather Maidens Molly Lukas Pearse, Véronique Becka Barker Carly Butler and Arianne 2b Theatre Company MacKenzie and Susan Tooke Halifax Boardwalk, bridge outside Pollet-Brannen Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Halifax Grain Elevator Murphy's on the Water Purdy's Wharf 1675 Lower Water St 951 South Bland St 1751 Lower Water St The Weather Maidens bring a laundry line In a grand-scale projection project, A durational performance of the last If we try to speak like each other, is a back to downtown Halifax with a poetic watch artists Lukas Pearse, Véronique chapter of Joyce's Ulysses featuring Molly common understanding in our words performance about weather, washing, and MacKenzie and Susan Tooke present an Bloom's stream of consciousness ultimately lost, or found? women’s work. ethereal performance piece, projected inner monologue. high against the facades of the Halifax Audio • Audience Interaction Performance • Sculpture Grain Elevator system and best seen from Performance • Mature The Cunard Centre parking lot. This project is presented in partnership with the Centre for Art Tapes. Moving Images • Performance

131. Art in the Dark CNIB Government House 1451 Barrington St

Guests are blindfolded and guided through an exhibit of tactile art to feel what it may be like to have vision loss. Audience Interaction HALIFAX WATERFRONT

Zone 2: Community Groups and Galleries

205. Wave of Waste Project 206. Nocturne at Pier 21 207. You Can't Drink Plastic 208. Carrefour Atlantic Emporium YESS and OCEANS-NS Canadian Museum of Artists in Action at SAJHS and the Puffin Gallery Beside 'The Wave' Immigration at Pier 21 Sackville Landing Carrefour Atlantic Emporium Sackville Landing Canadian Museum of Immigration and Puffin Gallery at Pier 21 "You Can't Drink Plastic", is a 7'X7' 1869 Upper Water St Experience the ocean as marine life does. 1055 Marginal Rd sculpture made from over 1000 water The Wave of Waste takes you inside the bottles, created by Artists in Action An Eclectic Showcase for the scary truth of marine waste. Museum is open all night long! Join at SAJH. Discriminating Eye, offering Atlantic us for new exhibitions, classical music Canadian literature, handicrafts, fine art, Sculpture performances and an interactive Sculpture folk art, and much more, all from the east film installation. coast and the North.

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209. Sculpture Nova Scotia 210. Brushfire June 211. Craft Year 2015 212. Nocturnes on Silk By the Sea Various Artists Sam Hodgkins-Sumner, Ryan Nova Scotia Centre for Craft Holly Carr and Jennifer King Salter Block, Halifax Waterfront Abrams, John Gilchrist, Alex and Design Helipad at Bishops Landing Salter St McVittie Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Nova Scotia Visitor Information Centre – Design Holly Carr creates, in live time, a beautiful Sculpture Nova Scotia connects citizens Halifax Waterfront 1061 Marginal Rd, Suite 140 hand painted silk installation that is and visitors with the public art creation 1655 Lower Water St inspired by the live piano music of process on the Halifax Waterfront. See the This juried exhibit of contemporary fine Jennifer King. unveiling at Nocturne! Light of my life, fire of my loins. Brushfire craft offers a snapshot of what is being Still Images • Audio • Performance June is a piece of performance art made by Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Sculpture that explores the beauty and danger of Council members right now. Selected visceral eros in the midst of a society artists will be “appearing” and chatting with obsessed with order and efficiency. gallery visitors at random times throughout the evening - we will be tweeting who and Audio • Performance • Mature when to keep things unexpected and "by chance".

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We are so proud to support tonight’s artists and freedom of expression. 306. 3B: Backlands, Badlands, Burbs Susan Tooke Halifax Central Library 5440 Spring Garden Rd

3B: Backlands, Badlands, Burbs is a multimedia presentation about choices transforming the landscape in HRM. This project is presented in partnership with the Centre for Art Tapes.

Moving Images • Audio

MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Limited

2188 Gottingen Street Halifax, Nova Scotia B3K 3B4

T: 902-429-1867 www.mlsarchitects.ca SPRING GARDEN

Zone 3: Anchor Projects

300 301 302 300. Ferris Wheel 301. /Livestreams 302. Digital Shrine

212. Nocturnes on Silk By the Sea Anna Sprague HalifaxNEW Sharon Stevens Holly Carr and Jennifer King The Halifax Citadel National Historic Site Halifax Central Library Camp Hill Cemetery Gates Helipad at Bishops Landing 5425 Sackville St 1600 Summer Street, Halifax HalifaxNEW will stream a selection of happenings for Holly Carr creates, in live time, a beautiful Enticed by a strange soundscape of backwards carnival you to watch live from your laptop, tablet or smartphone. @oxyyc Sharon Steven's Digital Shrine invites participants hand painted silk installation that is music, viewers are lead from Brunswick Street to the top of Follow us at halifaxNEW.org or join in the experience with to write tributes to the departed at Camp Hill Cemetery inspired by the live piano music of the Halifax Citadel where they will encounter a 68’ Ferris us on the really really wide screen. Summer Street entrance. This project is presented in Jennifer King. wheel running slowly in reverse. partnership with the Centre for Art Tapes. Moving Images • Audio • Performance • Audience Still Images • Audio • Performance Audience Interaction Interaction Moving Images • Audience Interaction Zone 3: Beacon Projects

000. NOCTURNE HUB 303. Wifi Haiku 304. How to Say - Location 4 305. HOOP DREAMS 212 Nocturne: Art at Night Andrew Patterson Becka Barker Lisa Lipton Museum of Natural History Nocturne Hub Halifax Central Library Citadel High Community Centre Parking Lot 1747 Summer St 5440 Spring Garden Rd Gymnasium 1747 Summer St 1955 Trollope St Poetry In The Shape Of A Happening If we try to speak like each other, is a Audience Interaction Network. Wifi Haiku inspires a new way of common understanding in our words HOOP DREAMS is a site-specific conceptualizing how an individual might ultimately lost, or found? performance that will transform a read and write their contemporary reality, basketball tournament into a rhythmical and challenge what poetry might look like in Audio • Audience Interaction dream world, fraught with competition and chaos. #hoopdreams the modern era. PERFORMANCE TIMES: 7pm, 9pm & 11pm Audience Interaction Performance • Audience Interaction 306. 3B: Backlands, Badlands, Burbs 307. Sun Ship Machine Gun 308. The Maidens Tragedy Susan Tooke (Metallurgy I) Alysse Bowd Halifax Central Library William Robinson Victoria Park 5440 Spring Garden Rd Fort Massy United Church South Park St and Brenton Pl 5303 Tobin St 3B: Backlands, Badlands, Burbs is a The Maiden is caught in a whirl of happily Sun Ship Machine Gun (Metallurgy I) multimedia presentation about choices ever afters. She arrives and then vanishes interprets the sonic and material evolution transforming the landscape in HRM. This and then she is rescued again. inherent in the metal that once took the project is presented in partnership with the form of European church Bells. Centre for Art Tapes. Performance • Sculpture Performers: Nathan Pilon & Nick Dourado. Moving Images • Audio Visit williamrobinson.ca, @nocturnehalifax, or nocturnehalifax.ca for performance times. Moving Images • Audio • Performance • 306 Sculpture 309. Nostalgiacholia, Live from the 310. Citadel Beacon 311. Echoes Past James Forren Society of Dalhousie Music Christopher Spencer-Lowe The Halifax Citadel National Students Nova Scotia Museum of Natural Historic Site Halifax Central Library-Paul History 5425 Sackville St O'Regan Hall 1747 Summer St 5440 Spring Garden Rd Citadel Beacon illuminates the sky from the Transfer yourself into the lost image Halifax Citadel and offers visual cues into Students from Dalhousie’s Fountain School memories of Super 8 home movies and feel the Halifax Citadel’s living inscription on of Performing Arts explore Halifax’s history the Nostalgiacholia. Literally. the city's urban form. through video and a live orchestra. 308 Moving Images • Audience Interaction Sculpture Moving Images • Performance SPRING GARDEN

Zone 3: Community Group and Galleries

312. Drawings from the heart - 313. Through 3 Lenses: MacAskill, 314. Lisa Keay: Let Not Your Heart 315. Calming Nature 400. Poetic Mixology The Directed Lie Wagg and You. Creating and be Heavy Humani-T Cafe Gallery Laura Dawe Re-Creating Iconic Nova Scotia Thierry Delva, Paulette Zwicker's Gallery Art Gallery of Humani-T Big Pony Clothing Store Memories Phillips 5415 Doyle St 1451 South Park St 2168 Gottingen St Dalhousie Art Gallery Nova Scotia Archives 6101 University Ave Nova Scotia Archives Zwicker’s Gallery is hosting an exhibition Four artists will rotate painting on a large Poetic Mixology takes an idea, makes it into 6016 University Ave to introduce new artist Lisa Keay, a local, canvas creating an overall painting. a poem, shakes it with rocks, pours it neat, Video installation and drawings from young and talented figurative painter. For and drinks it back despite the fact that its Still Images • Performance medical instruments such as EKG and Take a photo inspired journey around NS. the evening of Nocturne, the Gallery will full of dirt and sparkles. polygraph explore the physical responses to Selfies a must! present a body of new work by Keay, which art, truth and lies. will focus on figurative oil paintings which Performance • Mature • Mobile Still Images • Moving Images • Audio • explore themes of human experience, Still Images • Moving Images Audience Interaction beauty and the serene. 319. Serpentine Studios Still Images Serpentine Studios 317. Twinkle/Twinkle 318. Cut Serpintine Studios, Above Lululemon #PlayMeHfx, Dalhousie Members of #NSFilmJobs 1489 Birmingham St Architecture Students The Pavillion 405. Not the Time or Place Association, Dalhousie Central Common, 5816 Cogswell Serpentine Studios invites you to an open Charlotte Brumwell and Society of Undergraduate Planners St house and hypnotic shows of modern belly Victoria Brumwell & Dalhousie Undergraduate dance and hooping, every 30min on the CUT invites visitors onto an eerie film Lion and Bright Cafe Wine Bar 312 Engineering Society hour and half-hour! set made up of a cast and crew of live 2534 Agricola Street Dalhousie School of Architecture and mannequins, frozen in time. Performance 316. Living Traces Planning Performance Twin sisters and NSCAD grads Charlotte 5410 Spring Garden Rd and Victoria Brumwell present paintings at Dalhousie Architecture Join Dalhousie students as we create a Lion and Bright Cafe Wine Bar. Students Association magical grove of trees, hidden on Sexton Medjuck School of Architecture Campus, where curiosity is rewarded in Still Images Exhibition Room and Surrounding unexpected ways. Exterior Space 5410 Spring Garden Rd Audio • Sculpture • Audience Interaction 318 319

An interactive exhibition located both inside and outside that illuminates the 321. Nocturne: Art at Night 322. Ross Creek Creatures 323. Are We Really Strangers? Architecture student’s work and life. Screenings Lost and Found Halifax Central Library Sculpture • Audience Interaction Carbon Arc Cinema Co-op Ross Creek Centre for the Halifax Central Library The Museum of Natural History in Arts 5440 Spring Garden Rd the Lower Level Auditorium 320. Are We There Yet? Museum of Natural History 1747 Summer St 1747 Summer St Do you feel like a stranger in your own city? Studio in Essence Presents: Come and find your hidden connections and Cirque Inverta Each Nocturne, Carbon Arc Cinema Find pieces of a puzzle at Nocturne stops discover whether you really are a stranger. Studio in Essence, above Pete's welcomes the community to see who along the way to our special interactive art Frootique they are, give their feet a rest and share in installation at the Natural History Museum, Still Images • Audience Interaction 1535 Dresden Row, Suite 204 exciting new works on screen. then spend some time creating creatures in art and bringing them to LIFE! 324. Bitchin Van!.. Man An aerial theatre of misplaced souls that Moving Images • Audio first appeared on Barrington St. 10 years Audience Interaction Fresh Goods (upstairs) ago. As they search for a new home, they 1491 South Park St must evolve. Bitchin Van, Man! artist make work inspired Moving Images • Audio • Performance • by 70's rock culture, van art, psychedelic Mobile blacklight posters, wizards, unicorns, magic... 321 322 Still Images

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Zone 4: Beacon Projects

400. Poetic Mixology 401. How to Say - Location 2 402. How to Say - Location 3 403. How to Say - Location 6 Laura Dawe Becka Barker Becka Barker Becka Barker Big Pony Clothing Store Halifax North Memorial Library North Park St & Cunard St Cogswell St & North Park St 2168 Gottingen St 2285 Gottingen st Roundabout Roundabout

Poetic Mixology takes an idea, makes it into If we try to speak like each other, is a If we try to speak like each other, is a If we try to speak like each other, is a a poem, shakes it with rocks, pours it neat, common understanding in our words common understanding in our words common understanding in our words and drinks it back despite the fact that its ultimately lost, or found? ultimately lost, or found? ultimately lost, or found? full of dirt and sparkles. Audio • Audience Interaction Audio • Audience Interaction Audio • Audience Interaction Performance • Mature • Mobile

Zone 4: Community Groups and Galleries

405. Not the Time or Place 406. Summer of 35mm - reclaiming 407. First Voice Digital Storytelling 408. I Can’t Sleep When I’m Charlotte Brumwell and a lost film gauge First Voice Digital Dreaming Victoria Brumwell AFCOOP Atlantic Storytelling Project Secord Gallery Lion and Bright Cafe Wine Bar Filmmakers Cooperative Canadian Mental Health 6301 Quinpool Rd 2534 Agricola Street AFCOOP Association Halifax-Dartmouth Branch Holly Carr’s exhibit “I Can’t Sleep When I’m 5663 Cornwallis St Community Space Dreaming” blurs the lines between sleeping Twin sisters and NSCAD grads Charlotte 100-2020 Gottingen St and Victoria Brumwell present paintings at 4 local filmmakers were challenged to and waking hours in her distinctive Lion and Bright Cafe Wine Bar. create short films using a single roll of First Voice Digital Storytelling gave silk paintings. 35mm film. individuals with mental illness the Still Images Still Images opportunity to share a personal story Moving Images through video.

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409. Our Water, Our World Monika Wright, Cory Paul Hill and Halifax Music Coop The Atlantica Hotel Lobby 1980 Robie St Exploring the effect that people have on the most pristine parts of our planet and the ecological impact that affects us all. 406 Still Images • Audio • Performance • Audience Interaction 324. Bitchin Van!.. Man Fresh Goods (upstairs) 1491 South Park St

Bitchin Van, Man! artist make work inspired by 70's rock culture, van art, psychedelic blacklight posters, wizards, unicorns, magic... 409 407 405 408

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Zone 5: Anchor Project

500. Drum Voices

Lindsay Dobbin Highest Point of the Dartmouth Commons 45 Park Ave Lindsay Dobbin’s Drum Voices is a sound piece that transports the drum to a place before time. This project is presented in partnership with the Centre for Art Tapes.

Audio • Sculpture

Zone 5: Beacon Project Zone 5: Community Groups

501. How to Say - Location 5 502. The Out Side of Healing 506. Sawmill Creek - Found Lost Found Becka Barker Alderney Landing Dartmouth Ferry Terminal Park Dartmouth Ferry Terminal Catharine Tutton and other Dartmouth Alderney Dr Residents The Out Side of Healing is a collaboration of a group of Sugar Shok If we try to speak like each other, is a common artists’ perspective on a journey through the process 112 Portland St, Dartmouth understanding in our words ultimately lost, or found? of healing. Sawmill Creek is a collaborative art piece created out Audio • Audience Interaction Still Images • Moving Images • Audio • Performance • of re-purposed tissue paper from weddings and other Sculpture • Audience Interaction celebrations. The final effect is like a stain glass window of a long mural interpretation of migratory gaspereaux swimming in Sawmill Creek.

Still Images • Sculpture

Zone 5: Galleries

503. Here and Then 504. 17th Mosaic for Mental Health, 505. ThatWas Insight Gallery HORIZONS The Dart Gallery Insight Gallery The Craig Gallery The Dart Gallery 156 Ochterloney St 2 Ochterloney St 127A Portland St Veith Street Gallery Studio Association plans in house The Mosaic for Mental Health will be in The Craig Gallery A “liquid” light projection installation with music by training for up to eight artists of Creative Spirit East on at Alderney Landing from October 15th – November 1st. lightsweetcrude, art by DartmouthHaiku, & interactive specific techniques related to producing transfers of vin- Now in it’s 17th year, the Mosaic for Mental Health has haiku art creation. tage photos and historical text onto non-representational become the signature fundraiser for CMHA acrylic paintings. Animal and vintage photo “Halloween” Halifax-Dartmouth. Moving Images • Audio masks with a “mummer” theme (acrylic, polymer clay, and paper mache with ribbon and accoutrements added) will Still Images • Sculpture • Audience Interaction also be produced by the artists for sale. Still Images

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