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What a Stage The Mountain and the Valley has landed on!

Governor General’s award-winning playwright Catherine Banks’ fine adaptation of The Mountain and the Valley is set right on the land that inspired the novel. The two-hour and 20 minute play, co-produced by Halifax’s HomeFirst Theatre and Two Planks and a Passion Theatre, is a wonderful opportunity to experience Ernest Bucker’s 1952 classic with a stellar cast and within a gorgeous landscape. Buckler’s tale of a tormented, visionary, young writer and […]

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Nipped in the Bud: a powerful journey from darkness to light by Gillian McCulloch

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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