BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//AGNS | Art Gallery of Nova Scotia - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:AGNS | Art Gallery of Nova Scotia X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://agns.ca X-WR-CALDESC:Events for AGNS | Art Gallery of Nova Scotia REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Halifax BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20250309T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20251102T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20260308T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20261101T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20270314T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20271107T050000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Halifax BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20220313T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20221106T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20230312T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20231105T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20240310T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20241103T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20250309T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20251102T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20260308T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20261101T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20270314T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20271107T050000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260416T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20260416T203000 DTSTAMP:20260508T130441 CREATED:20260302T203445Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260331T143023Z UID:10002052-1776366000-1776371400@agns.ca SUMMARY:Artist Talk with Hangama Amiri at the Halifax Central Library DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Halifax Central Library on Thursday\, April 16\, for conversation between artist Hangama Amiri and Elizabeth Diggon\, curator at Esker Foundation in Calgary. \n\n\n\nHangama Amiri works predominantly in textiles\, examining notions of home and how gender\, social norms and geopolitical conflict affect the daily lives of women in Afghanistan and the diaspora. Amiri holds an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Amiri was shortlisted for the 2025 Sobey Art Award. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nElizabeth Diggon is a curator at Esker Foundation\, Calgary. Recent curatorial projects have included Anthony Cudahy: metronome yawned (with Shauna Thompson)\, Leonard Suryajaya: Parting Gift for Quarantine Blues\, Farah Al Qasimi: Letters for Occasions\, and Hangama Amiri: PARTING/فراق\, which recently toured to the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Her writing has been published in catalogues including Veronika Pausova: Fast Moving Sun and Rebellious: Alberta Women Artists in the 1980s\, as well as in exhibition texts for galleries across Canada. Diggon holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies and an M.A. in Art History from Queen’s University\, Kingston. \n\n\n\nPhoto by Christina + Nathan Photography. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThis program is presented by the National Gallery of Canada\, the Sobey Art Foundation\, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia\, and Halifax Public Library. \n\n\n\nRegistration is encouraged. Walk-ins are welcome. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now URL:https://agns.ca/event/artist-talk-with-hangama-amiri-at-the-halifax-central-library/ LOCATION:Paul O’Regan Hall\, Halifax Central Library\, 5440 Spring Garden Road\, Halifax\, B3J 1E9\, Canada CATEGORIES:Artist Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/SAA_Hangama_talk_2026_1200x630.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260402T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20260402T203000 DTSTAMP:20260508T130441 CREATED:20260305T172333Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260312T125238Z UID:10002433-1775156400-1775161800@agns.ca SUMMARY:Creative Minds: A Conversation with Ryan Josey\, Joanna Close\, Sarah Mosher\, and Hannah GEnosko DESCRIPTION:Join us for an informal conversation in the Gallery with four artists featured in the exhibition Conversation Threads. Artists Joanna Close\, Ryan Josey\, Sarah Mosher\, and Hannah Genosko will explore the ways textile traditions have preserved and transformed culture through their material practices.   \n\n\n\nEach artist will speak about their work on view\, so visitors can expect to move between the artworks.   \n\n\n\nAdmission is free from 5-9pm during BMO Free Access Thursday\, however registration is encouraged as there are limited seats available. \n\n\n\n\nReserve Your Seat\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbout Creative Minds\n\n\n\nThe Creative Minds series hosts community leaders and creatives to respond to current events\, exhibitions on view\, or artworks in the Gallery. Through conversation\, music\, poetry\, or movement\, these events aim to provoke new ideas\, explore the unexpected and create more understanding for everyone involved. \n\n\n\nFeatured Image: Installation view of Conversation Threads\, 2026. Taken at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. URL:https://agns.ca/event/creative-minds-a-conversation-with-ryan-josey-joanna-close-sarah-mosher-and-hanna-genosko/ CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Creative Minds ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/20260304_151403364_iOS-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260122T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20260122T203000 DTSTAMP:20260508T130441 CREATED:20251215T154015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260122T133553Z UID:10002046-1769108400-1769113800@agns.ca SUMMARY:Creative Minds: Mi'Kmaw Lunar Calendar with Gerald Gloade DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with Dr. Gerald Gloade as he shares insight into the Mi’kmaw lunar calendar. Based on the 13 times the moon travels around the earth each year\, this calendar names each lunar phase according to what is happening locally on the land during that time. \n\n\n\nAn artist\, educator\, storyteller\, naturalist\, Elder and visionary\, Dr. Gloade’s career has been rooted in the ecological history of Mi’kma’ki.1 \n\n\n\nThis event is inspired by artist Jordan Bennett’s series of 13 moons\, which is currently featured in the exhibition From One to Many Natures. \n\n\n\n1Mi’kma’ki: The territory of the Mi’kmaq Nation. Provinces that stretch across Mi’kma’ki are Nova Scotia\, PEI\, and parts of New Brunswick\, Newfoundland and Labrador\, the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec\, and the northeastern region of Maine. \n\n\n\n\nReserve Your Seat\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAdmission is free from 5-9pm during BMO Free Access Thursday\, however registration is encouraged as there are limited seats available. \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Gerald Gloade is an artist\, educator\, storyteller\, naturalist\, Elder and visionary\, his efforts have been integral to expanding cultural understanding and contributing to healing in Mi’kma’ki. \nFrom Millbrook First Nation\, Gloade was raised by his grandmother. Because of a congenital heart condition\, he spent more time with her than with the other children and had a precious opportunity to learn traditional knowledge and skills through her stories. His grandmother imparted to Gloade the ways of the land\, the history of people and communities\, the skills to fish and weave\, and the legends of Kluskap\, whose seat at Cape Blomidon dominates the landscape of the Wolfville campus. \nA graduate of the Colchester Regional Vocational School (now part of the Nova Scotia Community College)\, Gloade began his government career with the Province of Nova Scotia at just 19\, working as a graphic designer and later public information officer for Nova Scotia’s Department of Natural Resources and Office of Aboriginal Affairs. \nGerald Gloade has recently retired as the Program Development Officer for the Mi’kmawey Debert Project. Since 2005\, Gloade has guided the project with the Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq\, where the land tells its own stories of Mi’kma’ki through 13\,000 years of archaeological information. With a Two-Eyed Seeing approach\, the Debert Project strengthens understandings of the history of the land to improve its present and future. \nLuckily for all of us who live in or visit this land\, Gloade is not only a keeper of legends but also a sharer of them. He has generously spread his deep knowledge of the Mi’kmaq worldview among audiences that ranged from small children to members of the Smithsonian Institute and to the late Queen Elizabeth and her husband Philip\, the Duke of Edinburgh. \nGloade was honoured at the Vancouver Olympics Aboriginal Art Pavilion with a design on a Canada 150 coin for the Royal Canadian Mint and as a nominee for the prestigious Portia White Prize. He is also a past member of the Creative Nova Scotia Leadership Council. Every October\, his striking and informative posters for Mi’kmaq History Month are a sought-after tool for teaching the Mi’kmaq language. Most recently\, he illustrated A Journey of Love and Hope\, the Inspirational Words of a Mi’kmaw Elder for Nimbus Publishing. Gloade joined Acadia University’s Class of 2023 as a Doctor of Humanities\, receiving an honorary degree in recognition of his many contributions over his ongoing career. \nGloade lives in Millbrook First Nation with his wife\, Natalie. The couple have two sons\, Kyle and Gerald\, and two grandchildren\, Nina Gloade-Raining Bird and Gerald Lydian Gloade Raining-Bird. \n \n \n\n\n\n\nFeatured image: Jordan Bennett\, “Spawn of Tom-Cod – Punamujuikús\,” 2020. Giclée print. 61.0 × 61.0 cm. \n\n\n\nAbout Creative Minds\n\n\n\nThe Creative Minds series hosts community leaders and creatives to respond to current events\, exhibitions on view\, or artworks in the Gallery. Through conversation\, music\, poetry\, or movement\, these events aim to provoke new ideas\, explore the unexpected and create more understanding for everyone involved. URL:https://agns.ca/event/creative-minds-mikmaw-lunar-calendar-with-gerald-gloade/ CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Creative Minds ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/9d2c7ad0ed5eb400f0cf104b352933fb.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260117T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20260117T153000 DTSTAMP:20260508T130441 CREATED:20251215T154114Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260107T145042Z UID:10002045-1768658400-1768663800@agns.ca SUMMARY:In Conversation: Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler with Christina Végh DESCRIPTION:Halifax Central Library\, Paul O’Regan Hall \n\n\n\nJoin us for an engaging discussion with artists Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler\, along with art historian Christina Végh. The conversation will explore Hubbard / Birchler’s exhibition No More Boring Art\, on view at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia until January 25\, 2026. The discussion will explore memory\, reconstruction\, and the poetics of the overlooked; the edges of the archival record: gaps\, absences and omissions\, and the historic conditions and links between NSCAD (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design) and CalArts (California Institute of the Arts).  \n\n\n\nNo More Boring Art is based on Hubbard / Birchler’s multi-faceted exploration of John Baldessari’s “Punishment Piece” which took place at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1971. Until now\, the participants\, mostly art students\, who repeatedly wrote “I will not make any more boring art” across the walls of NSCAD’s Mezzanine gallery\, have remained unknown. As visual artists\, Hubbard / Birchler seek engagement with adjacent fields of study that have more conventionally been considered the domain of the anthropologist\, archeologist or historian. The works in No More Boring Art lead the viewer on a journey exploring the connection between life and art.  \n\n\n\n\nReserve Your Seat\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nRegistration suggested due to limited seats\, but walk-ins are welcome. This program will be recorded and ASL interpretation will be available.  \n\n\n\nPresenter Bios\n\n\n\nHubbard and Birchler\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Teresa Hubbard (Irish/ American/ Swiss\, born in Dublin\, Ireland 1965) and Alexander Birchler (Swiss\, born in Baden\, Switzerland 1962) have been collaborating as an artist team since 1990. They began collaborating as artists-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts\, in Banff\, Canada and completed graduate degrees at NSCAD in 1992. Their work\, primarily grounded in time-based media\, aims to inspire sensorial interactions and explore connections between social life\, history and memory. Hubbard / Birchler often seek engagement with adjacent fields of study that have more conventionally been considered the domain of the anthropologist\, archeologist or historian. \nHubbard / Birchler represented Switzerland in the Swiss Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennial\, presenting Florain the exhibition “Women of Venice\,” curated by Philipp Kaiser. Hubbard / Birchler have also presented their work in the 48th Venice Biennial; Giacometti Institute Paris; Hamburger Bahnhof\, Museum für Gegenwart\, Berlin; Irish Museum of Modern Art\, Dublin; Kunsthaus Graz; Mori Museum Tokyo; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Reina Sofia Museum Madrid; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Tate Museum Liverpool and the Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York. \nTheir work is held in numerous permanent collections including the Art Institute of Chicago; Goetz Collection Munich; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden at the Smithsonian\, Washington\, D.C.; Kunsthaus Zurich; Kunstmuseum Basel; Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles MOCA; National Museum of Art Osaka and the Pinakothek der Moderne\, Munich. \nHubbard / Birchler are Professors in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. \n \n \n\n\n\n\nChristina Végh\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Art historian Christina Végh (*1970\, Zurich) has been Director of Kunsthalle Bielefeld since February 2020. Previously\, she was Director of the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hanover from 2015\, and of the Bonner Kunstverein from 2004 to 2014. She studied art history\, ethnology\, and philosophy at the University of Zurich and spent a period at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her professional career began at Kunsthalle Basel\, where she worked as a curator from 2000 to 2004. \nVégh has curated exhibitions with artists such as Monica Bonvicini\, Monika Baer\, John Baldessari\, Rita McBride\, Haegue Yang\, Charline von Heyl\, Annette Kelm\, James Richards\, Franz Erhard Walther\, and Christopher Williams. She has also overseen major group exhibitions\, including “Where Art Can Happen: The Early Years of CalArts” (co-curated with Philipp Kaiser) and “Made in Germany Three”\, and has contributed to the accompanying catalogues. \nVégh is active in numerous committees and juries. She served as guest juror for the Wolfgang Hahn Prize at the Museum Ludwig\, Cologne\, in 2017\, and was a member of the Pro Helvetia Art Biennial Jury from 2015 to 2018. Since 2018\, she has been part of the jury for the Justus Bier Prize. From 2008 to 2012\, she served on the board of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Kunstvereine (AdKV). In 2010\, Végh received an award for art and architecture education from the Swiss Art Commission of the Federal Office of Culture. \n \n \n\n\n\n\nFeatured Image: Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler\, No More Boring Art\, 2025. Five channel video installation with sound. Courtesy: Tanya Bonakdar Gallery\, New York. URL:https://agns.ca/event/in-conversation-teresa-hubbard-alexander-birchler-with-christina-vegh/ CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Creative Minds ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Hubbard_Birchler_portrait_w1200.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20251120T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20251120T201500 DTSTAMP:20260508T130441 CREATED:20251014T172415Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251120T115810Z UID:10002044-1763665200-1763669700@agns.ca SUMMARY:Creative Minds - Hidden Blackness: Uncovering the Art of Edward Mitchell Bannister DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation between Sylvia D. Hamilton and David Woods\, Curator\, painter\, and installation artist\, as he details the origins of his passion for art as well as his many adventures creating his newest exhibition Hidden Blackness\, the first ever Canadian exhibition of Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828-1901). Bannister was a St. Andrews\, New Brunswick born\, African American art pioneer who in 1865 became the first artist of African descent\, and first Canadian\, to win a major art prize in North America (The Philadelphia Centennial Exposition Art Exhibition First Place Medal).  \n\n\n\nFor the past quarter century\, David Woods has been the principal curator of African maritime art bringing to light long ignored artists such as Africville born pastoral painter Edith Macdonald-Brown (1886-1955) and sculptor and craft artist Audrey Dear Hesson (b. 1929-) the first graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art (1951). He also presented the first ever group exhibitions of Black maritime art traditions including In this Place: the first exhibition of Black Nova Scotian art (1998)\, and The Secret Codes: a touring exhibition of Black Nova Scotian quilts (2012 to present).  \n\n\n\n\nReserve Your Seat\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAdmission is free from 5-9pm during BMO Free Access Thursday\, however registration is encouraged as there are limited seats available. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Creative Minds\n\n\n\nThe Creative Minds series hosts community leaders and creatives to respond to current events\, exhibitions on view\, or artworks in the Gallery. Through conversation\, music\, poetry\, or movement\, these events aim to provoke new ideas\, explore the unexpected and create more understanding for everyone involved. \n\n\n\nHidden Blackness: Edward Mitchell Bannister is organized and circulated by the Owens Art Gallery\, Mount Allison University\, and the Black Artists Network of Nova Scotia (BANNS). Funded by the Government of Canada and Mount Allison University. PACART is the exclusive transportation provider of the exhibition.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artist\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828-1901) was born in Saint Andrews\, New Brunswick. His family lived in a segregated Black village at the eastern end of Saint Andrews colloquially referred to as Slabtown. Bannister was orphaned at age sixteen and left in the care of Harris Hatch\, a wealthy lawyer\, merchant\, and Registrar of Charlotte County\, for whom the artist’s mother had worked as a maid. Bannister’s interest in art emerged early and\, by his teens\, there are accounts of his drawings appearing on the barn doors and fences of Hatch’s farm. Much of his early life was overshadowed by the limited job opportunities and racism Black New Brunswickers faced. In 1850\, Bannister and his brother\, William\, moved to Boston\, where Edward worked as a barber ad eventually met Christiana Carteaux\, a hairdresser\, wigmaker\, and entrepreneur of mixed African American and Narragansett heritage. Bannister married Carteaux in 1857\, and she helped him become a successful professional artist in Boston and later Providence\, Rhode Island. \n \n \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Guests\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n David Woods is a multi-genre artist and performer. He is the author of Native Song a collection of paintings and poetry\, and has won national awards for his art\, drama and community arts organization including the Harry Jerome Award and Person’s Award. He was the organizer of the first ever Black History Month celebrations in Nova Scotia in 1984 and was instrumental in establishing Black maritime arts organizations including the Cultural Awareness Youth Group\, Black Artists Network of Nova Scotia (BANNS)\, Vale Quilters and the New Brunswick Black Artists Alliance.  \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Sylvia D. Hamilton is a Nova Scotian filmmaker\, writer and multidisciplinary artist. Her work has won the Governor General’s History Award for Popular Media. Her award-winning films include Black Mother Black Daughter\, Speak It! From the Heart of Black Nova Scotia\, Portia White: Think on Me and The Little Black School House\, among others.   \nExcavation\, her multi-media art installation\, examines the interrelationship of history\, memory\, race and place/space. This work has enjoyed multiple iterations and exhibitions\, both solo and group\, in Nova Scotia\, New Brunswick\, Ontario and Quebec between 2013-2018. One adaptation titled Here We Are Here\, gave its name to the 2018 Royal Ontario Museum’s National group exhibition titled\, Here We Are Here: Black Contemporary Art\, which later toured to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.   \nTender\, her poetry collection\, won the 2023 WFNS Maxine Tynes Poetry Award and was shortlisted for the 2023 League of Canadian Poets Pat Lowther Award. She is a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Nova Scotia. She is an Inglis Professor Emeritus at the University of King’s College in Halifax\, Nova Scotia (October 2025).   \nPhoto by Paul Adams Photography. \n \n \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFeatured image: Edward Bannister\, River Scene\, 1885. Purchased with funds provided by Sheldon and Marjorie Fountain\, 2006. URL:https://agns.ca/event/creative-minds-hidden-blackness-uncovering-the-art-of-edward-mitchell-bannister/ CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Creative Minds ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Bannister-Full.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20251108T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20251108T150000 DTSTAMP:20260508T130441 CREATED:20251003T164515Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251104T194216Z UID:10002043-1762610400-1762614000@agns.ca SUMMARY:Creative Minds: A Conversation with Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler and Melanie O'Brian DESCRIPTION:Join us for an engaging discussion with artists Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler\, and panelist Melanie O’Brian as they share insights about the exhibition No More Boring Art which will be on view from November 8 – January 25\, 2026. \n\n\n\nNo More Boring Art is based on Hubbard / Birchler’s multi-faceted exploration of John Baldessari’s “Punishment Piece” which took place at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1971. Until now\, the participants\, mostly art students\, who repeatedly wrote “I will not make any more boring art” across the walls of NSCAD’s Mezzanine gallery\, have remained unknown. As visual artists\, Hubbard / Birchler seek engagement with adjacent fields of study that have more conventionally been considered the domain of the anthropologist\, archeologist or historian. The works in No More Boring Art lead the viewer on a journey exploring the connection between life and art. \n\n\n\n\nReserve Your Seat\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nRegistration suggested due to limited seats\, but walk-ins are welcome. This event is included in the price of admission. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThis discussion will be moderated by exhibition curator\, David Diviney\, Chief Curator\, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. \n\n\n\nThis program will be recorded and ASL interpretation will be available.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Creative Minds\n\n\n\nThe Creative Minds series hosts community leaders and creatives to respond to current events\, exhibitions on view\, or artworks in the Gallery. Through conversation\, music\, poetry\, or movement\, these events aim to provoke new ideas\, explore the unexpected and create more understanding for everyone involved. \n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\n\n\n\nTeresa Hubbard (Irish/ American/ Swiss\, born in Dublin\, Ireland 1965) and Alexander Birchler (Swiss\, born in Baden\, Switzerland 1962) have been collaborating as an artist team since 1990. They began collaborating as artists-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts\, in Banff\, Canada and completed graduate degrees at NSCAD in 1992. Their work\, primarily grounded in time-based media\, aims to inspire sensorial interactions and explore connections between social life\, history and memory. Hubbard / Birchler often seek engagement with adjacent fields of study that have more conventionally been considered the domain of the anthropologist\, archeologist or historian.  \n\n\n\nHubbard / Birchler represented Switzerland in the Swiss Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennial\, presenting Florain the exhibition “Women of Venice\,” curated by Philipp Kaiser. Hubbard / Birchler have also presented their work in the 48th Venice Biennial; Giacometti Institute Paris; Hamburger Bahnhof\, Museum für Gegenwart\, Berlin; Irish Museum of Modern Art\, Dublin; Kunsthaus Graz; Mori Museum Tokyo; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Reina Sofia Museum Madrid; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Tate Museum Liverpool and the Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York. \n\n\n\nTheir work is held in numerous permanent collections including the Art Institute of Chicago; Goetz Collection Munich; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden at the Smithsonian\, Washington\, D.C.; Kunsthaus Zurich; Kunstmuseum Basel; Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles MOCA; National Museum of Art Osaka and the Pinakothek der Moderne\, Munich. \n\n\n\nHubbard / Birchler are Professors in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. \n\n\n\nAbout Melanie O’Brian\n\n\n\nMelanie O’Brian is Associate Director/Curator at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery\, University of British Columbia. As a curator of contemporary art\, she has an abiding interest in artist-led initiatives\, experimental forms\, the intersection between visual art and writing\, and the history of institutions. Past curatorial projects include work by artists such as Abbas Akhavan\, Stan Douglas\, Richard Ibghy/Marilou Lemmens\, Carole Itter\, Marianne Nicolson\, Walid Raad\, Hito Steyerl\, and Althea Thauberger. She has collaborated widely with other curators and institutions\, edited numerous publications and written for catalogues and magazines. Previously\, O’Brian was Director/Curator at Simon Fraser University Art Galleries\, Curator/Head of Programs at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto\, Director/Curator at Artspeak in Vancouver and Assistant Curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery\, and has taught at the University of British Columbia\, Emily Carr University and Simon Fraser University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured Image: Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler\, No More Boring Art\, 2025. Five channel video installation with sound. Courtesy: Tanya Bonakdar Gallery\, New York / Los Angeles. URL:https://agns.ca/event/creative-minds-a-conversation-with-teresa-hubbard-alexander-birchler/ CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Creative Minds ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Hubbard_Birchler_NMBA_02_300ppi_18x12in_srgb-scaled-e1750787500895.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20251030T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20251030T201500 DTSTAMP:20260508T130441 CREATED:20250827T170023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251010T153125Z UID:10002037-1761850800-1761855300@agns.ca SUMMARY:Creative Minds: Gordon Sparks and Jordan Bennett DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation between Mi’kmaw artists Gordon Sparks and Jordan Bennett! From different regions of Mi’kma’ki1\, Sparks and Bennett will speak to overlapping themes in their practices\, including land-based inspirations and traditional Indigenous tattoo culture.  \n\n\n\n\nReserve Your Seat\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nGordon Sparks’ hand-carved wooden masks is on view in the Mi’kma’ki Artists’ Spotlight within the exhibition Tan’sikatikl sipu’l | Confluence and Jordan Bennett’s work is on view in the exhibition From One to Many Natures.  \n\n\n\nAdmission is free from 5-9pm during BMO Free Access Thursday\, however registration is encouraged as there are limited seats available. \n\n\n\nThis event is in partnership with \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Creative Minds\n\n\n\nThe Creative Minds series hosts community leaders and creatives to respond to current events\, exhibitions on view\, or artworks in the Gallery. Through conversation\, music\, poetry\, or movement\, these events aim to provoke new ideas\, explore the unexpected and create more understanding for everyone involved. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Gordon Sparks is a Mi’kmaw artist from Pabineau First Nation\, now living in Rough Waters\, New Brunswick. Gordon harvests wood and animal materials through ceremony\, carving masks that embody the spirit of Mi’kmaw stories\, traditions\, and teachings. Each mask reflects a deeply personal journey—guided by the tree itself—and speaks to the lives of his people\, past and present. His work honours traditional knowledge\, ceremony\, and storytelling\, breathing life into Mi’kmaw characters through collaborations with dancers\, drummers\, and regalia makers. Also a skin artist with over 30 years of experience\, Gordon fuses tattoo design and carving to preserve and share cultural teachings. His work has been exhibited across Atlantic Canada and internationally\, including at London’s prestigious Collect Art Fair. Committed to mentorship and cultural preservation\, Gordon continues to guide and inspire Indigenous artists and communities across Mi’kma’ki.  \nPhoto by Toonasa Jordana Luggi. \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Jordan Bennett is L’nu (Mi’kmaq)\, from Stephenville Crossing\, Newfoundland. Having a methodology that is guided by the land of his ancestors\, his practice utilizes sculpture\, painting\, immersive installations\, and sound to explore land\, language\, the act of visiting and familial histories. Jordan has taken part in over 100 exhibitions nationally and internationally and has received accolades including the 2020 winner of the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award.  \nPhoto by Ritche Perez. \n \n \n\n\n\n\n1Mi’kma’ki: The territory of the Mi’kmaq Nation. Provinces that stretch across Mi’kma’ki are Nova Scotia\, PEI\, and parts of New Brunswick\, Newfoundland and Labrador\, the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec\, and the northeastern region of Maine.  \n\n\n\nFeatured image: Jordan Bennett\, “Fat Tame Animals – Wikewikús\,” 2020; Gordon Sparks\, “Octomuwin\,” 2023. Photo by Sasha Robichaud.  URL:https://agns.ca/event/creative-minds-gordon-sparks-and-jordan-bennett/ CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Creative Minds ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Gordon-Jordan_WebpageCover.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20251016T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20251016T203000 DTSTAMP:20260508T130441 CREATED:20250825T183044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251010T204755Z UID:10002035-1760641200-1760646600@agns.ca SUMMARY:Nocturne Artist Talk - Peter Morin & Leah Decter DESCRIPTION:Join Nocturne for a conversation between artists and collaborators Peter Morin (Tahltan\, French Canadian) and Leah Decter (Canadian Jewish white-settler) as they reflect on their collaborative project\, X: where our paths cross. \n\n\n\nAdmission is free from 5-9pm during BMO Free Access Thursday\, however registration is encouraged as there are limited seats available.  \n\n\n\n\nRegistration Encouraged – Save Your Seat\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout X: where our paths cross \n\n\n\nX: where our paths cross is a performance of visiting\, trust and otherwise possibilities. In it\, Peter Morin (Tahltan\, French Canadian) and Leah Decter (Canadian Jewish white-settler) mark the crossing of paths across time\, territories and ancestries through reading aloud as an assertion of Indigenous sovereignty and listening-while-drawing as a practice of white-setter accountability.   \n\n\n\nExperience X: where our paths cross live on Saturday\, October 18 from 6pm-midnight for Nocturne: Ground at the Halifax Central Library.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\n\n\n\n\nPeter Morin is a grandson of Tahltan Ancestor Artists. Morin’s artistic offerings can be organized around four themes: articulating Land/Knowing\, articulating Indigenous Grief/Loss\, articulating Community Knowing\, and understanding the Creative Agency/Power of the Indigenous body. The work takes place in galleries\, in community\, in collaboration\, and on the land. All of the work is informed by dreams\, Ancestors\, Family members\, and performance art as a research methodology. Morin completed his BFA at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver in 2001 and his MFA in 2010 at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan. Morin’s artistic practice moves from printmaking to poetry to installation to performance art. Morin’s first performance ‘I grieve too much’ took place at the Museum of Anthropology in 2005. Peter is the son of Janelle Morin (Crow Clan\, Tahltan Nation) and Pierre Morin (Quebecois). Throughout his exhibition and making history\, Morin has focused upon his matrilineal inheritances in homage to the matriarchal structuring of the Tahltan Nation\, and prioritizes Cross-Ancestral collaborations.  Morin was longlisted for the Brink and Sobey Awards\, in 2013 and 2014\, respectively. In 2016\, Morin received the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Canadian Mid-Career Artist. Morin is an member of artist collectives : BUSHgallery and O’kinādās.  Peter Morin currently holds a tenured appointment in the Faculty of Arts at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto\, and is the Graduate Program Director of the Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art\, Media and Design program at OCADU.  \n\n\n\n\n\nLeah Decter is a Canadian inter-media/performance artist and scholar who divides her time between Treaty 1 territory and Kjipuktuk/Halifax\, where she is a Canada Research Chair in Creative Technologies and Assistant Professor in Media Arts at NSCAD University. Holding an MFA in New Media from Transart Institute and a PhD in Cultural Studies from Queen’s University\, Decter creates work that straddles performance\, video and media arts\, textiles\, social practice and installation as well as academic and creative writing. Working from a critical white settler perspective her solo and collaborative artwork and research uncover and disturb social\, political\, relational and spatial dynamics of settler colonial whiteness in the everyday through practices of intergenerational accountability and non-colonial activation. Her artwork often calls into question dominant beliefs about\, and attachments to\, Canadian icons\, myths and visual/material culture. She has received numerous grants and awards for her artwork and research\, and has exhibited\, presented and screened her artwork widely in Canada\, and internationally in the US\, UK\, Germany\, Australia\, the Netherlands\, Malta and India. Decter’s artwork has appeared in publications including Fuse Magazine\, Studio\, Craft and Design in Canada\, C Magazine\, Journal of Canadian Art History and Border Crossings. Her recent published writing includes texts in Qualitative Inquiry and Performance Matters\, chapters in Making (Eco)Logical: Locating Canadian Arts in the Environmental Humanities\, and\, with Carla Taunton\, Unsettling Canadian Art History and Settler Responsibilities Towards Decolonisation as well as a special issue of PUBLIC Journal co-edited with Taunton titled “Beyond Unsettling: Methodologies for Decolonizing Futures.”   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured Image: Photo by Kelly Hussey-Smith. URL:https://agns.ca/event/nocturne-artist-talk-peter-morin-leah-decter/ CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/x-performance-at-Activating-Truth-public-program_melbourne-AUS_-photo-credit_Kelly-Hussey-Smith-size-reduced.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20250824T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20250824T150000 DTSTAMP:20260508T130441 CREATED:20250717T191802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250815T192355Z UID:10002030-1756044000-1756047600@agns.ca SUMMARY:In Conversation with Joan Jonas DESCRIPTION:Inverness County Centre For The Arts16080 Nova Scotia Trunk 19Inverness\, NS B0E 1N0 \n\n\n\nJoin us in Inverness\, Cape Breton for an engaging conversation with internationally acclaimed artist Joan Jonas. \n\n\n\nDiscover the stories behind her powerful exhibition We come from the sea\, delve into her work in video and performance art\, and hear reflections on her life living between New York City and Cape Breton. Joan will be joined by David Diviney\, Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia\, for this special event. \n\n\n\nAdmission is free\, and no registration is required. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbout the Artist\n\n\n\nJoan Jonas (b. 1936\, New York\, NY) is a world-renowned artist whose work encompasses a wide range of media including video\, performance\, installation\, sound\, text\, and sculpture. Jonas’ experiments and productions in the late 1960s and early 1970s continue to be crucial to the development of many contemporary art genres\, from performance and video to conceptual art and theatre. Since 1968\, her practice has explored ways of seeing\, the rhythms of rituals\, and the authority of objects and gestures. \n\n\n\nJonas has exhibited and performed extensively around the world. Her notable exhibition history includes Documenta 5\, 6\, 7\, 8\, 11\, and 13; the 28th Sao Paolo Biennial; the 5th Kochi-Muziris Biennale; and the 13th Shanghai Biennale. She has recently presented solo exhibitions at the United States Pavilion for the 56th Edition of the Venice Biennial; Tate Modern\, London; Museu Serralves\, Porto; Pinacoteca de São Paulo; Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza\, Madrid; Dia Beacon; Haus der Kunst\, Munich; The Drawing Center\, New York\, Gladstone Gallery\, New York and Galerie Gisela Capitain\, Naples\, Italy. The Museum of \n\n\n\nModern Art in New York hosted a retrospective of Jonas’s work in 2024. \n\n\n\nJonas is the recipient of many awards including The Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon (2016); the Maya Deren Award given by the American Film Institute (1989); and the Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2009). In 2018\, Jonas was awarded the prestigious Kyoto Prize\, given to those individuals who have contributed significantly to the scientific\, cultural and spiritual betterment of mankind\, and in 2024 she was presented with the Nam June Paik Prize\, awarded to artists who have contributed to the development of contemporary art\, mutual understanding\, and world peace. In 2025\, Jonas was selected as a medalist in the inaugural Art Basel Awards and received their distinguished Icon Award.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nImage: Moving Off the Land II\, Untitled\, 2019 © Joan Jonas / ARS New York / CARCC Ottawa 2025. URL:https://agns.ca/event/in-conversation-with-joan-jonas/ CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/JJ-talk-website-featured-image_948x580-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20241102T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20241102T150000 DTSTAMP:20260508T130441 CREATED:20240826T190000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241028T165201Z UID:10000124-1730556000-1730559600@agns.ca SUMMARY:Creative Minds: Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins - Another Dimension DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins explain the multi-faceted dimensions of their art practice and contextualize it within their exhibition Three Dimensions.  \n\n\n\nThey present an overview of a materials-focused approach\, combining conceptual art with visual appeal – to produce complex projects that tell stories\, often conceiving of exhibitions in an intertwined and narrative-based perspective. Their artworks\, often referring to popular culture\, examine questions of authenticity\, while simultaneously addressing aspects of both modern and recent history through speculative narratives and the effects of the digital age. \n\n\n\n\nReserve Your Seat\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nRegistration suggested due to limited seats\, but walk-ins are welcome. This event is included in the price of admission. URL:https://agns.ca/event/creative-minds-jennifer-marman-daniel-borins-another-dimension/ CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Creative Minds ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Balancing-Act-2-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20241018T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20241018T201500 DTSTAMP:20260508T130441 CREATED:20241002T143356Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241002T143357Z UID:10000125-1729278000-1729282500@agns.ca SUMMARY:Nocturne Artist Talk - Cheryl L’Hirondelle DESCRIPTION:Join Nocturne and AGNS for a special artist talk with interdisciplinary artist Cheryl L’Hirondelle. The talk will be followed by a participatory activation Light Tipi from 8:30-10:00 PM. \n\n\n\nCheryl L’Hirondelle (Cree/Half Breed; German/Polish) is an award-winning and community-engaged interdisciplinary artist\, singer/songwriter and critical thinker whose family is from Papaschase First Nation / amiskwaciy wâskahikan (Edmonton\, AB) and Kikino Metis Settlement. Her work investigates and attempts to articulate an intersection of nêhiyawin (Cree worldview) with contemporary time-place by incorporating sound\, Indigenous language(s)\, music\, plus old and new technologies. \n\n\n\n\nGet Your Free Ticket URL:https://agns.ca/event/nocturne-artist-talk-cheryl-lhirondelle/ CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Halifax Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Cheryl-LHirondelle.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20241017T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20241017T203000 DTSTAMP:20260508T130441 CREATED:20241002T143256Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241015T175401Z UID:10000126-1729191600-1729197000@agns.ca SUMMARY:Nocturne Artist Talk - Panel Discussion DESCRIPTION:Dawn Shepard\, Ryan Gray\, Lance Sampson(Aquakultre)\, Sonia Chow and Seamus Gallagher build worlds in their art and the communities around them. Curator Shuvanjan Karmaker brought them together as Nocturne 2024 Anchor Artists to create work that inspires us to build worlds of our own.  \n\n\n\nWe will be discussing the impact of matriarchs in African-Nova Scotian families\, the place of Circus in Atlantic Arts culture\, the concept of Crouching Tiger and\, the intersection of gender reveal and climate disasters. \n\n\n\n\nGet Your Free Ticket\n\n\n\n\nAquakultre: \n\n\n\nAquakultre is the artistic voice of Lance Sampson — an uncommonly versatile singer\, rapper\, composer and storyteller from Halifax\, Nova Scotia. He has released multiple singles\, eps\, collabs and two full albums\, 2020’s Legacy and 2022’s Don’t Trip\, both of which were long-listed for the Polaris Music Prize.Coming up in Uniacke Square\, Aquakultre traces his roots to Africville\, East Preston\, Weymouth Falls\, Liverpool & Delaps Cove; back two hundred years to the arrival of the Black Loyalists from the American colonies. Driven by his passion for history and culture\, Lance is currently developing a theatrical production in collaboration with the internationally acclaimed 2b Theatre Company. He recently delivered the first season of GeneratioNS: Black Memories\, a TV documentary series that he created\, directs\, and hosts (airing fall 2024). All the while\,he has been doing deep research and collecting oral histories from African Nova Scotian communities for his next record\, titled 1783 in homage to his Black Loyalist ancestry.Aquakultre’s installation for Nocturne is inspired by his deep love and respect for the elders\, their long memories and cherished stories of love\, loss\, hardship\, and triumph. Having grown up in a community that experienced so much loss of connection\, family lore\, and culture in the razing of Africville\, he is driven to make art that preserves and celebrates all that remains for the benefit of the next generations.Through all his works\, Aquakultre is on a mission to share his love for his unique and beautiful corner of the diaspora. Through his community work\, his recordings\, performances\, and collaborations\, Aquakultre delivers a poignant reflection of his personal evolution and his place in community as a Black Nova Scotian. \n\n\n\nBreaking Circus: \n\n\n\nBreaking Circus Collective (BCC) is a collection of contemporary circus artists working out of Kjipuktuk (Halifax\, NS). Breaking Circus sets and breaks their own rules in order to create\, explore and engage with the full spectrum of our human experience. The company reaches into the unknown and finds new ways to weave stories through cross-discipline experiments and integration of technology.The collective includes 3 core members plus a small roster of artists and new recruits/ interns. BCC is Black-led with at least half of its members being IBPOC-identified since its inception in 2016. The BCC is deeply committed to inclusion\, diversity\, equity and accessibility and was formed out of the desire to create a supportive ecosystem for IBPOC artists and artists from other underrepresented groups. \n\n\n\nDawn Shepherd (Co-Founder\, Breaking Circus): Dawn Shepherd is a multi-disciplinary aerialist and former elite trainer at the École nationale du cirque de Montréal. She is also a dancer\, rigger\, producer\, actor\, director\, and choreographer among other talents which are fully utilized at Breaking Circus. Dawn has also produced her own documentary\, Artist in the Black\, and recently danced in the upcoming streaming series\, Washington Black. \n\n\n\nRyan Gray (Co-Founder\, Breaking Circus): Ryan is an accomplished drummer\, percussionist\, composer\, music director and contemporary circus artist.Sonia Chow: \n\n\n\n“My practice blurs the imaginary boundaries between art\, craft and design. Whether investigating materials\, processes\, function\, or form – I let the work inform me\, both as mentor and muse. I am happiest when working with my hands\, and enjoy the challenge of transforming what has been overlooked and coaxing meaning from the undervalued. I am always on the lookout for crouching tigers within the discarded. (In Chinese culture\, a “crouching tiger” is one who is underestimated and denied opportunities to reach their full potential.)”Sonia Chow is a designer\, artist and educator. She lived in Tokyo and Hong Kong from 2002 to 2018 before moving to Halifax\, and now is focused on making art from textiles\, wood\, words\, salvaged materials and found objects. She has a BDes in Communication Design and a MFA in Studio (interdisciplinary art). Sonia was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts for Graphic Design in 2011 for a body of work spanning branding and identity\, publication\, packaging and interior graphics. Carving a 4-tonne ice sculpture in 2018 compelled her return to school to concentrate on making art. Sonia created three art suites of snow and ice for Icehotel Sweden with her partner (2016\, 2018\, 2022); was artist-inresidence at Centre for Craft Nova Scotia’s wood studio (2022-23) and at the Textile Museum of Canada (2024). She wasthe recipient of the \n\n\n\nSéamus Gallagher: \n\n\n\nSéamus Gallagher is a lens-based media artist living in Kjipuktuk (Halifax\, Nova Scotia). They use self-portraiture and performing for the camera to address gender performances within a digital/online context. Their work is heavily influenced by pop music\, video game aesthetics\, and writers like José Esteban Muñoz\, Ursula K. Le Guin\, and Mark Fisher. Outside of photography and video\, they generally work with the video game engine Unity to create virtual reality art projects. Gallagher is the recipient of the 2022 Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award\, the 2019 BMO 1st Art! Award\, and the 2017 AIMIA | AGO Photography Scholarship. They have exhibited at the Locarno Film Festival\, the Museum of Fine Art of Leipzig\, as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Toronto. They were recently the Atlantic finalist for the 2023 Sobey Art Award presented by the National Gallery of Canada. \n\n\n\nFestival Curator\, Shuvanjan Karmaker:Shuvanjan Karmaker is an inter-disciplinary artist\, curator and arts worker. Kjipuktuk has been their home for about 15 years and they have spent most of that working in its Arts community. Shuvanjan’s current work in arts examines the intersection of South Asian diaspora and Black American Music. \n\n\n\n“I’m a student of history\, development and art. I believe my job is to constantly be creative and facilitate creative spaces & processes for artists. The art created during\, is a by-product. Happy incidents!” \n\n\n\nShuvanjan is the festival curator for Nocturne 2024\, and Co-Director of Everyseeker Festival. \n\n\n\nThey volunteer their time as a Board member at SuddenlyListen\, an organization focused exclusively on exploratory\, improvised chamber music and creative art events. And Co-Chair(BOD) at Choirs for Change an organization that supports social change movements through innovative choral events. \n\n\n\nShuvanjan will be curating paintings by Christopher Webb this November! \n\n\n\nShuvanjan can also be found working in the book publishing industry as part of BookNet Canada\, developing technology\, standards\, and education to serve the Canadian book industry. URL:https://agns.ca/event/nocturne-artist-talk-panel-discussion/ CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Halifax Events,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Screen-Shot-2024-09-25-at-1.37.12-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20240813T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20240813T180000 DTSTAMP:20260508T130441 CREATED:20240625T115713Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240625T115714Z UID:10000091-1723568400-1723572000@agns.ca SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Sameer Farooq DESCRIPTION:Cape Breton born artist Sameer Farooq will share ideas about his practice over the past decade including building imaginary museums with the public\, the role of meditation/contemplative practice in his work\, and his recent foodways research\, specifically on the importance of building tandoor ovens and working with flatbread libraries as a lens on migration.  \n\n\n\nDuring the summer of 2024 he will be spending two weeks staying at MacKinnon’s Brook in Cape Breton\, making work that engages with Sight Point/Cape Mabou\, as part of a project organized by Outdoor School (Diane Borsato and Amish Morrell). \n\n\n\nLocation: Inverness County Centre for the Arts\, 16080 Hwy 19\, Inverness\, Nova Scotia \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbout the Artist\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Sameer Farooq is a Canadian artist of Pakistani and Ugandan Indian descent. With a versatile approach that shifts between sculpture\, photography\, documentary film\, and anthropological methods\, Farooq foregrounds community-based models of knowledge production and an array of contemplative practices in order to suggest new ways of narrating our cultural histories. The result is often a collaborative work which counterbalances how dominant institutions speak about our lives: a counter-archive\, new additions to a museum collection\, or a buried history made visible. Together with the public he works to redress the role of exhibition and collection-based practices by employing decolonial\, queer\, and critical race lenses. \nFarooq has held exhibitions at institutions around the world including the Venice Architecture Biennale (2023)\, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden\, Leiden (2023)\, Fonderie Darling\, Montréal (2022); Koffler Gallery\, Toronto (2021); Aga Khan Museum\, Toronto (2017); Institute of Islamic Culture\, Paris (2017); Contemporary Art Gallery\, Vancouver (2016); The British Library\, London (2015); Maquis Projects\, Izmir (2015); Artellewa\, Cairo (2014); and the Art Gallery of Ontario\, Toronto (2011). Reviews dedicated to his work have been published by Art Forum\, Canadian Art\, The Washington Post\, BBC Culture\, Hyperallergic\, Artnet\, The Huffington Post\, and C Magazine. Upcoming shows include the Toronto Biennial of Art (2024) and Jaou Tunis (2024). URL:https://agns.ca/event/artist-talk-sameer-farooq/ LOCATION:Inverness County Centre for the Arts\, 16080 Hwy-19\, Inverness\, B0E 1N0\, Canada CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/12heap15.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20240801T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20240801T200000 DTSTAMP:20260508T130441 CREATED:20240716T165149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240717T125217Z UID:10000103-1722535200-1722542400@agns.ca SUMMARY:Freedom Narratives: Emancipation Day Art Celebration DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Emancipation Day with a dynamic showcase featuring acclaimed artists and writers. This inspiring event will feature an array of spoken word performances\, film screenings\, and art presentations\, each reflecting the rich cultural heritage and resilient spirit of the African Nova Scotian community and beyond. Engage with the artists in an enlightening Q&A panel\, fostering meaningful discussions about freedom\, identity\, and creative expression. \n\n\n\nPresenters include: \n\n\n\n\n Oluseye – Nigerian Canadian/Toronto-based artist \n\n\n\nAndre Fenton – African Nova Scotian writer and poet\n\n\n\nGuyleigh Johnson – African Nova Scotia poet\, writer and filmmaker\n\n\n\nFrancesca Ekwuyasi – Nigerian-Canadian writer and artist/filmmaker\n\n\n\n\nLocation: Paul O’Regan Hall\, Halifax Public Library\, 5440 Spring Garden RoadThe event is free to the public. \n\n\n\nThis event is presented in partnership with the Dalhousie Art Gallery\, Dalhousie University Office of African Nova Scotian Engagement and the Office of Equity and Inclusion\, and Halifax Public Libraries.  URL:https://agns.ca/event/freedom-narratives-emancipation-day-art-celebration/ LOCATION:Paul O’Regan Hall\, Halifax Central Library\, 5440 Spring Garden Road\, Halifax\, B3J 1E9\, Canada CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/freedom-narratives_banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20240307T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20240307T200000 DTSTAMP:20260508T130441 CREATED:20240207T201037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240307T215659Z UID:10000076-1709838000-1709841600@agns.ca SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Séamus Gallagher DESCRIPTION:Join us as 2023 Sobey Art Award finalist Séamus Gallagher speaks about their art practice as it ranges through photo\, video\, virtual reality\, and sculpture. They will discuss their most recent exhibitions at the McCord Stewart Museum and the National Gallery of Canada. \n\n\n\nRegistration is closed for this event\, however walk-ins are welcome.Location: Light House Arts Centre\, 1800 Argyle St. \n\n\n\nASL services will be provided. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThis event is organized by the National Gallery of Canada\, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Sobey Art Foundation. URL:https://agns.ca/event/artist-talk-seamus-gallagher/ CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Halifax Events,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/SeamusGallaghe_photo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20240228T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20240228T200000 DTSTAMP:20260508T130441 CREATED:20240125T152959Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T165304Z UID:10000075-1709146800-1709150400@agns.ca SUMMARY:Creative Minds: Erasure Art Collective DESCRIPTION:BLACKOUT is an interdisciplinary art project that recreates historical slave ads using ‘erasure’ or ‘blackout’—a form of poetry created by erasing words from an existing text to create a visual poem. \n\n\n\nThe project uncovers messages in ads that appeared in local newspapers during slavery—a legal practice of buying and selling human beings that saw millions of Africans and people of African descent enslaved over hundreds of years. BLACKOUT reworks slaveholder’s texts to reveal new narratives honouring those who challenged one of history’s most inhumane systems\, and championing their bold acts of resistance. \n\n\n\nPresenting the art of erasure poetry in non-traditional form\, this presentation of BLACKOUT combines poetry with visual art\, short film\, and live performance collaboration with African Nova Scotian musicians. \n\n\n\nThis event is offered in recognition of African Heritage Month and is presented in partnership with Halifax Public Libraries.  \n\n\n\n\nGet Your Free Tickets\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nLocation: Paul O’Regan Hall\, Halifax Public Library\, 5440 Spring Garden RoadHosted by Portia Clark \n\n\n\nThis event is free to the public. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Erasure Art Collective:\n\n\n\nErasure Art Collective (EAC) is an interdisciplinary arts group committed to researching and reinterpreting archival texts using visual\, poetic\, and performative erasure. Co-founders Shauntay Grant and Tyshan Wright have been collaborating and exhibiting together since 2017 when they created the multimedia artwork ‘Abeng’ for Canada: Day 1\, a national group exhibition presented by the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. EAC’s inaugural project\, called BLACKOUT\, has been presented at Nocturne (2022)\, Atlantic Arts Symposium (2022)\, the Canadian Association for Theatre Research Conference (2023)\, and Nocturne (2023). As artists with ancestral ties to the arrival of Black Loyalists\, Jamaican Maroons\, and Black Refugees to Nova Scotia in the late 1700s and early 1800s\, creating art that illuminates African Nova Scotian and African diasporic histories and experiences is a vital part of EAC’s research and creative work. The collective’s work is multilayered and highlights a research-creation approach to interpreting archival texts\, with BLACKOUT championing a multidisciplinary creative approach to the study and presentation of slavery in Atlantic Canada and beyond.   erasureart.com \n\n\n\nAbout Creative Minds:\n\n\n\nThe Creative Minds series hosts community leaders and creatives to respond to current events\, exhibitions on view\, or artworks in the Gallery. Through conversation\, music\, poetry\, or movement\, these events aim to provoke new ideas\, explore the unexpected and create more understanding for everyone involved. \n\n\n\nIn partnership with   URL:https://agns.ca/event/creative-minds-erasure-art-collective/ LOCATION:Paul O’Regan Hall\, Halifax Central Library\, 5440 Spring Garden Road\, Halifax\, B3J 1E9\, Canada CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Creative Minds,Halifax Events,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-04-at-4.00.03-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20231026T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20231026T200000 DTSTAMP:20260508T130441 CREATED:20230914T121257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230914T121340Z UID:10000064-1698346800-1698350400@agns.ca SUMMARY:Creative Minds: Exploring Materials in Contemporary Art with Meagan Musseau DESCRIPTION:What is materiality and activation? Join us for an interactive talk with Mi’kmaw artist Meagan Musseau as she talks about her artwork and the ways she uses materials to explore different themes in her work. \n\n\n\nFrom constructed coats to photography and Mi’kmaw basketry\, Musseau’s work takes on a variety of forms using customary and contemporary materials. You can visit Musseau’s work in the exhibition Ta’n a’sikatikl sipu’l | Confluence\, in the Mi’kma’ki Artists’ Spotlight section\, beginning September 16th\, 2023. \n\n\n\n\nReserve Your Seat\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbout the Program \n\n\n\nCreative Minds hosts community leaders and creatives to respond to current events\, exhibitions on view\, or artworks in the Gallery. Through conversation\, music\, poetry\, or movement\, these events aim to provoke new ideas\, explore the unexpected and create more understanding for everyone involved. \n\n\n\nAbout the Artist \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeagan Musseau is an L’nu1 woman from Elmastukwek\, Ktaqmkuk2 currently living in Unama’kik3. She is an artist\, dancer\, and proud Aunty who works with artistic mediums such as basketry\, textiles\, land-based performance\, and video. Her works explore themes of kinship\, harvesting\, connection to territory and matriarchal empowerment through the use of customary and contemporary materials. Meagan is actively engaged in the arts on Mi’kma’ki and throughout her career she has won numerous awards and exhibited works nationally and internationally.  \n\n\n\n\nL’nu: Translates to “Mi’kmaw person\,” in the Mi’kmaw language. Plural form is L’nu’k.\n\n\n\nElmastukwek\, Ktaqmkuk: Bay of Islands\, West Coast Newfoundland. Translates to\, “going away from the river.” \n\n\n\nUnama’kik: Cape Breton Island\, Nova Scotia. Translates to\, “the land of the fog.” \n\n\n\n\nPhotograph by Candace Kennedy \n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured Image: Meagan Musseau\, Material Harvesting\, 2018. Fabric\, leather\, and ribbon. Installation documentation during the Emerging Atlantic Artist residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. URL:https://agns.ca/event/creative-minds-exploring-materials-in-contemporary-art-with-meagan-musseau/ CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Creative Minds,Halifax Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MeaganMusseau-Promo-Image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20231013T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20231013T180000 DTSTAMP:20260508T130441 CREATED:20231004T191013Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231004T191014Z UID:10000070-1697216400-1697220000@agns.ca SUMMARY:Nocturne Artist Talk - Roda Medhat DESCRIPTION:Roda Medhat is a Kurdish-Canadian artist\, currently based in Toronto\, Ontario. He obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from OCAD University\, where he specialized in video art\, photography\, and sculpture/installation work. He also honed his skills in film production at FAMU Film and Television School in Prague. \n\n\n\nRoda’s diverse body of work has been exhibited in galleries around the world\, including the Osaka University of Art in Japan (2017) and OFF_Festival in Bratislava\, Slovakia as part of the European Month of Photography (2017). He has also displayed his sculpture\, installation\, and film work in various galleries throughout Ontario. In 2022\, his sculpture FARSH was featured at Toronto’s Nuit Blanche\, a highly respected annual event\, receiving widespread acclaim in both local media. \n\n\n\nAs an artist who values accessibility\, Roda designs sculptures that everyone can appreciate\, transcending the confines of formal art institutions. His creative vision often centres on the experience of being a child of the 1.5 generation\, exploring the complexities of living between cultures. Through his art\, Roda seeks to bridge cultural divides and promote a sense of shared human experience. His dedication to creating socially impactful and visually stunning art underscores his commitment to advancing the boundaries of contemporary art. URL:https://agns.ca/event/nocturne-artist-talk-roda-medhat/ CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-04-at-4.08.11-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20231013T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20231013T160000 DTSTAMP:20260508T130441 CREATED:20231004T190741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231004T190742Z UID:10000069-1697209200-1697212800@agns.ca SUMMARY:Nocturne Artist Talk - Corrie Peters DESCRIPTION:Corrie Peters (she/her) is an artist in conversation with social practice\, fibre art and installation\, among other mediums. Her artwork is building relationships that teach her how to listen to and learn from those often silenced through current systems of power. In this she holds so much gratitude for all those who have\, and continue to\, teach her about empathy\, activism\, change and care. The publicly displayed pieces are the documentation of Corrie’s artwork – translating what she has learnt to a larger audience. These are often layered projects that involve time\, both as a medium\, and as a component of viewing. Corrie lives as an uninvited guest with her family\, on the unceded land of the lək̓ʷəŋən people. Her work has been supported by grants from The Canada Council for the Arts\, Social Science and Humanities Research\, among others\, as well as through residencies at the Santa Fe Art Institute and Salt Spring Arts Council. She also won the inaugural Salt Spring National Art Prize. URL:https://agns.ca/event/nocturne-artist-talk-corrie-peters/ CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-04-at-4.01.50-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20231013T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20231013T140000 DTSTAMP:20260508T130441 CREATED:20231004T190126Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231004T190127Z UID:10000068-1697202000-1697205600@agns.ca SUMMARY:Nocturne Artist Talk - Erasure Art Collective DESCRIPTION:Erasure Art Collective (EAC) is an interdisciplinary arts group committed to researching and reinterpreting archival texts using visual\, poetic\, and performative erasure. Co-founders Shauntay Grant and Tyshan Wright have been collaborating and exhibiting together since 2017 when they created the multimedia artwork ‘Abeng’ for Canada: Day 1\, a national group exhibition presented by the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. EAC’s inaugural project\, called BLACKOUT\, has been presented at Nocturne (2022)\, Atlantic Arts Symposium (2022)\, and the Canadian Association for Theatre Research Conference (2023). As artists with ancestral ties to the arrival of Black Loyalists\, Jamaican Maroons\, and Black Refugees to Nova Scotia in the late 1700s and early 1800s\, creating art that illuminates African Nova Scotian and African diasporic histories and experiences is a vital part of EAC’s research and creative work. The collective’s work is multilayered and highlights a research-creation approach to interpreting archival texts\, with BLACKOUT championing a multidisciplinary creative approach to the study and presentation of slavery in Atlantic Canada. URL:https://agns.ca/event/nocturne-artist-talk-erasure-art-collective/ CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-04-at-4.00.03-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230914T174500 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230914T200000 DTSTAMP:20260508T130441 CREATED:20230801T131301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230801T131302Z UID:10000044-1694713500-1694721600@agns.ca SUMMARY:Western Branch Exhibition Celebration DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special presentation by artists featured in Inner/Outer Space as we celebrate the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia – Western Branch.  \n\n\n\nDoors open at 5:45pm\, remarks and presentation at 6pmReception to followWestern Branch\, AGNS – 341 Main Street\, Yarmouth \n\n\n\nRSVP by September 11 to rsvp@agns.ca URL:https://agns.ca/event/western-branch-exhibition-celebration/ CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Special Events,Yarmouth Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/64107ec3-b71e-95c0-7034-487f8d95d7ad.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230511T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230511T200000 DTSTAMP:20260508T130441 CREATED:20230428T123303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231023T122615Z UID:10000034-1683831600-1683835200@agns.ca SUMMARY:Creative Minds: Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity DESCRIPTION:Join Lead Curator Gerald McMaster  (Plains Cree and member of the Siksika First Nation\, Saskatchewan\, Canada) in conversation with artists Sonya Kelliher-Combs (Iñupiaq and Athabascan\, Alaska\, United States) and Couzyn van Heuvelen (Inuk\, Nunavut\, Canada). \n\n\n\nArctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity explores the ways in which Indigenous contemporary artists take on issues of climate change\, globalized Indigeneity\, and contact zones in and about the Arctic and the Amazon during a time of crisis. The featured artists have their origins in these places\, and their works embody politics of resistance\, resurgence\, and ways of knowing and being in relation to the lands that are the source of their knowledge and creativity. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Today\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Presenters\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Couzyn van Heuvelen is an Inuk sculptor and installation artist originally from Iqaluit\, NU. Based in southern Ontario\, van Heuvelen’s artistic practice focuses on fusing Inuit art history and traditions with contemporary materials and technologies. Van Heuvelen’s use of unconventional materials and fabrication processes\, combined with elements of Inuit culture\, mirrors his own process of exploring how traditional practices continue to influence his everyday life. \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Kelliher Combs is an Iñupiaq and Athabascan multidisciplinary artist based out of Anchorage\, Alaska. Through visual art\, community engagement\, curation\, and advocacy\, Kelliher-Combs works to create opportunity and feature Indigenous voices and the work of contemporary artists who\, through their work\, inform and encourage social action. Her personal mixed-media visual art focuses on the changing North and our relationship to nature and each other. Traditional women’s work has taught her to appreciate the intimacy of intergenerational knowledge and material histories. \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gerald McMaster is a curator\, artist\, and professor\, and currently holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Visual Culture and Curatorial Practice at OCAD University (Toronto)\, where he is also Director of the Wapatah Centre for Indigenous Visual Knowledge. Widely published\, his awards and recognitions include the 2001 ICOM-Canada Prize for contributions to national and international museology; 2005 National Aboriginal Achievement Award; Officer of the Order of Canada; and Honorary Doctor of Letters from the Emily Carr College of Art and Design and the University of Saskatchewan. He was awarded the 2022 Governor General’s Arts Award in Visual and Media Arts for Outstanding Contribution. \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Creative Minds\n\n\n\nThe Creative Minds series hosts community leaders and creatives to respond to current events\, exhibitions on view\, or artworks in the Gallery. Through conversation\, music\, poetry\, or movement\, these events aim to provoke new ideas\, explore the unexpected and create more understanding for everyone involved. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAngie Reid URL:https://agns.ca/event/creative-minds-arctic-amazon/ CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Creative Minds,Halifax Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Sonya-work.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR