Trapped at home by the pandemic, Karen Kulyk missed her beloved Italy so much that she decided to travel there through paint. Physically, she was at her easel in her Dartmouth home; imaginatively, she was in Italy where she had spent close to 10 years hiking in the country’s northern and central areas in both spring and fall. Painting “brought me back to a kind of peace,” says the cheerful, […]
Dearest Diary Mamma Mia! is a blast!. A wonderful escape just when the news is so awful globally and even locally. It’s so dry here – brown grass and not a drop of rain in the forecast – and there’s a woods travel ban BUT – thank heavens! – all the outdoor theatre is still happening. But first to indoor theatre. As you know I’ve played the Mamma Mia CD […]
Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre opened its 38th season with the world premiere of For Love Nor Money, an historical drama by Antigonish writer Laura Teasdale. Its eight-day run in a FAST/Mulgrave Road Theatre co-production wrapped up Saturday, with both a matinee and evening performance. Mulgrave Road Theatre commissioned Teasdale, who co-wrote FAST’s outdoor Robin Hood with FAST’s artistic director Andrea Boyd, and developed the script with a view to staging […]
Two Planks and a Passion Theatre’s playful, poignant take on Don Quixote is full of Spanish music, comic misadventure and awesome puppetry. Nobody will leave the lush green outdoor stage at the Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, near Canning, without loving the puppet incarnations of a donkey, a horse and a scene-stealing lion. The errant knight’s beloved steed, Rocinate, is a giant constructed horse’s head but so beautifully manipulated […]
Vanishing Half, earthenware, Andrea Puszkar, winner of best in show. (contributed) Both ceramic royalty and newcomers to the kingdom of clay exhibit in a Nova Scotia Potters Guild showcase at the Ice House Gallery, Tatamagouche, to Dec. 15. Triumphs in Clay is a great chance to see the huge variety of talent, technique and themes in ceramic art in Nova Scotia with work by over 50 artists. Some are some […]
Winter Moons is a mesmerizing, visually-stunning tale of four M’ikmaw fire keepers struggling to survive winter in a large wigwam far away from home due to conflict among their peoples. Three young Mi’kmaq must learn from the older, wiser woman, Nukumi, how to stay warm, how to eat and how to live within their souls over the three moons of winter. Produced by Nestuita’si Storytelling in partnership with the Prismatic […]
Standing in front of Janice Leonard’s landscapes and Mary Reardon’s still life paintings, on view at Secord Gallery to Nov. 22, I feel my shoulders drop and my breath regulate. In these turbulent, worrisome times, their exhibit, A Sense of Time, is a wonderfully relaxing show. These two artists, who are friends, have very different styles and genres but both create contemplative art about memory and time. The two give […]
There are two birthday party pictures in wildly different art shows this month: Brandt Eisner’s sad clown and balloon installation Best Wishes in My Name is Yours at The Chase Gallery in Halifax and Heather Sayeau’s hot, floral painting Happy Birthday in The Garden at the Lunenburg School of the Arts. Both shows have a lot of colour but their intentions couldn’t be further apart. My Name Is Yours, produced […]
Soil Body: Art Meets Science, co-curated by Doug Pope and Sue LeBlanc and a Robert Pope Foundation project, asks this question: “Is there a connection between human health and the environment?” The answer isn’t as simple as you might think in art by 11 Nova Scotian artists and one Japanese artist responding to this question in a wide range of expression, thought and media. Artists talk about the human body, […]
Nipped in the Bud is a beautiful, shattering, important and healing show about experiencing and surviving sexual assault. The exhibit, at the Chase Gallery, Nova Scotia Archives, Halifax, to June 28, should be widely seen and displayed for its message and artistry. Nova Scotia artist Gillian McCulloch brings her enormous skills at realism and multimedia techniques to over 42 works in a journey from darkness to light, from fear to […]
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