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: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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20240101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20251016T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20251016T203000 DTSTAMP:20260416T183249 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:20251018T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20251018T235900 DTSTAMP:20260416T183249 CREATED:20250918T214021Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250918T214023Z UID:10002042-1760810400-1760831940@agns.ca SUMMARY:Nocturne at AGNS! DESCRIPTION:In The Courtyard – Pleasure Prospects by New Mineral Collective \n\n\n\nPleasure Prospects is a video that follows the artists Tanya Busse & Emilija Škarnulytė (New Mineral Collective) as they acquire prospector licenses\, with which they aim to perturb the values of the mining industry by holding fast their self-described position as “the least productive mining company in the world”.  \n\n\n\nNew Mineral Collective is the world’s largest and least productive mining company. They are an open-source entity\, working to infiltrate and subvert extractive industries with more reparative and imaginative futures exploring alternative forces such as desire\, body mining and acts of counter prospecting. In their video installation Pleasure Prospects\, New Mineral Collective follows the process of acquiring prospecting licences for alternative values and takes a critical look at what they call “perforated landscapes” – land altered by extractive industries.  \n\n\n\nFilmed at the World’s Prospectors Convention\, Ontario Place\, Pleasure Prospects sources research from Ontario topographical maps (from the Ministry of Energy\, Northern Development and Mines) and Google Earth. The film addresses ecological urgencies brought on by large-scale extractive practices\, connections between land and body\, and the environmental impacts of mining. The work encourages an understanding of large-scale global impact through bringing the conversation closer to the viewer\, drawing on connections between industry and therapy. New Mineral Collective prioritizes healing on many levels\, through creating an environment of pleasure\, renewal\, and revitalization\, something that is explored through their broader artistic practice.  \n\n\n\nIn The Studio – Print\, Glow\, Grow – Hands-On Artmaking \n\n\n\nJoin us for a vibrant night of creativity and connection through hands-on artmaking\, hosted in collaboration with the Youth Project. This creative space dives into mycology (the study of fungi) to celebrate transformation\, networks\, and thriving. Craft your own glowing print or contribute to a luminous mural that grows our sense of community. All welcome!  \n\n\n\n*Please note the AGNS gallery spaces will not be open to the public during Nocturne.  \n\n\n\nFeatured Image: Pleasure Prospects\, 2019 Single-channel 4k video\, New Mineral Collective (Tanya Busse & Emilija Škarnulytė). URL:https://agns.ca/event/nocturne-at-agns-2025/ CATEGORIES:Halifax Events,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://agns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Nocturne-2025-Tanya-Busse-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251024T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251024T213000 DTSTAMP:20260416T183249 CREATED:20250825T181457Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250911T130246Z UID:10002036-1761332400-1761341400@agns.ca SUMMARY:Painting & Pints: Maud Lewis - Three Black Cats 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. \n\n\n\nThe cats came back\, by popular demand! This session looks to Maud’s adorable paintings of three black cats for inspiration. Surrounded by colourful tulips and apple blossoms\, the three black cats with their bright yellow eyes will bring a splash of colour to your canvas. \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\n\n\nAs painted by artist Meggie Richards. URL:https://agns.ca/event/painting-pints-maud-lewis-three-black-cats-2/ 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:20251030T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20251030T201500 DTSTAMP:20260416T183249 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 END:VCALENDAR