BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//AGNS | Art Gallery of Nova Scotia - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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: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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20230101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20241005T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20241005T130000 DTSTAMP:20260421T234657 CREATED:20240925T122723Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240925T122725Z UID:10000118-1728122400-1728133200@agns.ca SUMMARY:Rug Hooking with Hanna Eidson DESCRIPTION:Learn to rug hook in this beginner workshop which will cover all the basics of rug hooking and give you plenty of time to practice with the guidance of an experienced instructor. The morning workshop will focus on making bright and colourful fishies\, the afternoon workshop will rug hook a sweet summer fruit  – or get inspired with your own design! \n\n\n\nNo experience necessary\, and all materials provided.  \n\n\n\n\nGet Your Tickets!\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artist\n\n\n\nHanna Eidson is a fibre artist who specialises in hand hooked and machine tufted rugs. Originally from San Luis Obispo\, California\, Hanna grew up with a passion for knitting and a variety of other crafts. After moving to Nova Scotia in 2016 Hanna immediately fell in love with rug hooking and that passion has grown into a business where Hanna creates rugs\, kits\, and teaches workshops to get others as excited about rug hooking! URL:https://agns.ca/event/rug-hooking-with-hanna-eidson-2/ CATEGORIES:Adult-Only,Art-Making,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Rug-Hooking.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20241005T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20241005T170000 DTSTAMP:20260421T234657 CREATED:20240807T173548Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240813T185925Z UID:10000119-1728136800-1728147600@agns.ca SUMMARY:Rug Hooking with Hanna Eidson DESCRIPTION:Learn to rug hook in this beginner workshop which will cover all the basics of rug hooking and give you plenty of time to practice with the guidance of an experienced instructor. The morning workshop will focus on making bright and colourful fishies\, the afternoon workshop will rug hook a sweet summer fruit  – or get inspired with your own design! \n\n\n\nNo experience necessary\, and all materials provided.  \n\n\n\n\nGet Your Tickets!\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artist\n\n\n\nHanna Eidson is a fibre artist who specialises in hand hooked and machine tufted rugs. Originally from San Luis Obispo\, California\, Hanna grew up with a passion for knitting and a variety of other crafts. After moving to Nova Scotia in 2016 Hanna immediately fell in love with rug hooking and that passion has grown into a business where Hanna creates rugs\, kits\, and teaches workshops to get others as excited about rug hooking! URL:https://agns.ca/event/rug-hooking-with-hanna-eidson/ CATEGORIES:Adult-Only,Art-Making,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Rug-Hooking.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20241006T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20241006T160000 DTSTAMP:20260421T234657 CREATED:20240806T140056Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240809T174250Z UID:10000104-1728219600-1728230400@agns.ca SUMMARY:Make Day! Medicine is All Around Us DESCRIPTION:The history of a culture can be found within the language. Learn the Mi’kmaw names for some of the plant medicines or edible plants you walk by daily in Kjipuktuk (the Mi’kmaw name for Halifax)!  \n\n\n\nExplore a family-friendly block-printmaking experience about plants and bind your own mini journal to take with you on your adventures.  \n\n\n\nThe month of October is Mi’kmaw History. This year’s theme celebrates food and its significance in Mi’kmaw culture.  \n\n\n\nWork independently\, or with your small group\, this program is great for children ages 5+ with an adult. Drop-in\, included with the price of admission. \n\n\n\nAbout the program: \n\n\n\nMake Day is a studio program for emerging artists of all ages! Designed as an intergenerational art workshop\, these sessions lead participants in a short art lesson that introduces an art technique or process\, resulting in a fun art piece you can take home. A great way to get connected\, inspired\, and creative with friends or family. Each month’s activity is inspired by works in an exhibition currently on view. URL:https://agns.ca/event/make-day-medicine-is-all-around-us/ CATEGORIES:Drop-In Art Making,Make Day! ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Web-Image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20241010T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20241010T200000 DTSTAMP:20260421T234657 CREATED:20240702T123219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240724T172821Z UID:10000101-1728586800-1728590400@agns.ca SUMMARY:Creative Minds: Materiality and Indigenous Sovereignty DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with Mi’kmaw artist and lawyer\, Cheryl Simon! Learn about Simon’s approach to Indigenous material culture through her perspective as a Mi’kmaw e’pit [woman]\, and how traditional Mi’kmaw art forms relate to Indigenous and collective rights. \n\n\n\nThroughout the conversation\, Cheryl will be weaving a basket with techniques passed down to her by her uncle\, Elder Francis Jadis\, who has been making baskets for 60 years. As an artist with a deep connection to quillwork and basketry\, Simon sources and processes her own materials from start to finish\, exercising her Mi’kmaw rights of cultural material harvesting. \n\n\n\n\nGet Your Free Ticket\n\n\n\n\nLimited tickets available. \n\n\n\nAbout the Artist\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Cheryl Simon is a Mi’kmaq e’pit (woman) from Epekwitk (PEI)\, currently residing in Halifax\, who works with porcupine quills\, birchbark\, spruce root and sweetgrass. \nCheryl fell in love with Mi’kmaq quillwork as a little girl studying her mother’s collection of quill boxes. She started learning and studying the insertion technique and design upon moving back to Mi’kma’ki in 2007\, and launched her business\, Mi’kmaq Quill Art in 2011. Cheryl is committed to community education of the artform and has been teaching quillwork workshops for over ten years. She took on her first apprentice in 2015 and opened a short-term studio in Epekwitk in 2016 to begin a program of instruction for three more apprentices. \nWhile Cheryl focuses on traditional quillwork and construction\, she also developed a process for accurately depicting the petroglyphs (rock carvings) after visiting the petroglyph sites in Nova Scotia. Over the past two years\, she decided to incorporate both traditional designs and the petroglyph technique into the same quillwork pieces. This blending of styles lets her showcase the importance quill size can make in enhancing the detail of the design. \nCheryl was recently inspired by contemporary Mi’kmaq art to move beyond the quill box lids\, which influenced her early work to split the design into separate pieces\, adding a vibrancy to the designs. She has taught her children to harvest and quill and is excited to begin the process of teaching them the intricacies of designing in the traditional style. She feels that quillwork requires strong connections and is proud that the community of quillers is expanding to include the younger generations. \nImage and basket by Cheryl Simon. URL:https://agns.ca/event/creative-minds-materiality-and-indigenous-sovereignty/ CATEGORIES:Creative Minds ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Cheryl-Basket.jpg88.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20241017T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20241017T203000 DTSTAMP:20260421T234657 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:20241018T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20241018T201500 DTSTAMP:20260421T234657 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:20241019T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20241019T235900 DTSTAMP:20260421T234657 CREATED:20240925T164035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241002T181312Z UID:10000127-1729360800-1729382340@agns.ca SUMMARY:Nocturne - AGNS at Night DESCRIPTION:Visit exhibitions including Léopold L. Foulem: Reshaping Function\, Mike MacDonald’s Touched by the Tears of a Butterfly\, 2023 Nova Scotia Art Bank Purchases\, and the Maud Lewis Gallery\, plus join us in the studios for Make It Microcosmic: an immersive Nocturne experience for one night only! URL:https://agns.ca/event/nocturne-agns-at-night/ CATEGORIES:Halifax Events,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/6-2022-11-25-AGNS-DC_DTC6816-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241025T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241025T213000 DTSTAMP:20260421T234657 CREATED:20240807T170128Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240925T123014Z UID:10000110-1729882800-1729891800@agns.ca SUMMARY:Painting & Pints: Robert Anand - Truro\, N.S. DESCRIPTION: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 a favourite from the Gallery’s Permanent Collection\, a beautiful expressive landscape painting Truro\, N.S. by Robert Anand. With soft\, dynamic brush marks and a variety of bright colours\, this painting is sure inspired you to create you own work of art! \n\n\n\nDrinks will be available for purchase\, with ID. All materials provided- everything you need to create a one-of-a-kind painting. Bring your friends and come have a blast! 19+ \n\n\n\n\nGet Your Tickets!\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThis event takes place at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia\, 1723 Hollis Street\, Halifax. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs painted by artist Meggie Richards URL:https://agns.ca/event/painting-pints-robert-anand-truro-n-s/ CATEGORIES:Adult-Only,Halifax Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/painting-and-pints.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20241026T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20241026T110000 DTSTAMP:20260421T234657 CREATED:20241002T131707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241002T131709Z UID:10000128-1729935000-1729940400@agns.ca SUMMARY:Yarmouth Autism Arts DESCRIPTION: URL:https://agns.ca/event/yarmouth-autism-arts/ CATEGORIES:Autism Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/DSC_7084-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR