Join us in the Studio this Sunday to honour African Heritage Month! Create your own felt portraits using bright colours and different shapes, while thinking about memory, legacy, identity, and community. We’ll use decorative stitching and felt scraps to make a textile artwork that shares our family, ourselves,...
Join us at Paul O'Regan Hall in celebrating African Heritage Month with a thought-provoking panel discussion featuring artists from Down Home, an exhibition at the Dalhousie Art Gallery curated by Fabiyino Germain-Bajowa. Through their unique works, these artists share layered stories that illuminate the strength and vibrancy of...
Everyone is an artist at the AGNS’s adult paint night! Join artist Meggie Richards for a fun evening at the gallery, as she guides you through making a painting you’ll be proud to take home at the end of the evening. On this date you’ll be painting your...
This African Heritage Month, Key Frames presents KIKI, a 2016 documentary film that explores the lives of LGBTQ+ youth-of-colour in New York City’s underground Ballroom scene. Following seven youths over four years, the film explores how challenges can be overcome through artistic exploration, producing a community scene that...
Let’s play with clay! Bringing back a crowd-favourite, we will kick off March Break with a clay-centric Make Day. Using your hands or clay tools, this is a chance to explore air dry clay and shape it into…. a dog, tiny house, pizza or more, before painting your...
Join media arts professor David Clark and curator and Queer activist Robin Metcalfe as they guide us through the art and practice of Séamus Gallagher. This conversation will address Gallagher’s varied use of image making techniques, the role of drag and camp in their work, and representations of...
Everyone is an artist at the AGNS’s adult paint night! Join artist Meggie Richards for a fun evening at the gallery, as she guides you through making a painting you’ll be proud to take home at the end of the evening. Take creative flight with this whimsical British...
Everyone is an artist at the AGNS’s adult paint night! Join artist Meggie Richards for a fun evening at the gallery, as she guides you through making a painting you’ll be proud to take home at the end of the evening. This winter we’ll focus on a work...
In partnership with Alliance Française Halifax, we invite you to join a guided tour of the exhibition Séamus Gallagher: OH BABY in French. Admission is free from 5-9pm during BMO Free Access Thursdays, however registration through AFH is encouraged. Please visit their website for more information about Alliance Française.
Join us for Speculative Fabulations: unfolding new narratives through research creation. In tandem with their newest exhibition, OH BABY, Séamus Gallagher will moderate a conversation between themself and artists Lou Sheppard, Marissa Sean Cruz, and Adrien Crossman. This talk will centre around the overlaps and differences between the...
Drop-in anytime during open hours for hands-on art-making and collaborative creation in Nipniku’s! In the Mi’kmaw lunar calendar, Nipniku’s (pronounced nib-nee-goos) marks the time of year when the trees are blooming. Inspired by the exhibition From One to Many Natures, visitors are invited to create their own piece...
Everyone is an artist at the AGNS’s adult paint night! Join artist Zara LeBlanc for a fun evening at the gallery, as she guides you through a Maud Lewis-inspired painting you’ll be proud to take home at the end of the evening. Perfect for the start of spring,...