Events

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Feasts at Five

14 – 21 September, 2007

Our annual collaboration with the Atlantic Film Festival this year is a mouth-watering mini-retrospective of films about food. These acclaimed and popular classics will whet your appetite for some of the Atlantic Film Festival’s other offerings, whether they by big screen adventures or more intimate receptions. Each film is screened at five o’clock at Dalhousie Art Gallery during the Festival. Admission is free, but donations are gratefully accepted. Seating is limited — and dinner arrangements must be made independently!

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Art at Home and All That Jazz

25 March, 2007

Our popular annual fund-raiser returns on Sunday, 25 March, from 1:30 pm to 6 pm. Enjoy fine art, architecture and craft in four notable private houses in Halifax, followed by a live jazz performance in the Gallery, accompanied by delicious refreshments. Only 200 tickets are sold for this event. Mark the date in your calendar now!

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Mediaeval to Renaissance: The Mid-Millenial Avant Garde

14 March – 18 April, 2007

This mini-series looks at the crucial cultural transformation in Europe that lead to the Renaissance and beyond. Beginning with a Medieval whodunnit, the series then works through some of Chaucer’s choicest Canterbury Tales and Rosselini’s magnificent three-part examination of the Medici family in Florence, to arrive at the High Renaissance with the sumptuous costume drama of Shakespeare’s The Merchant Of Venice, all cinematically exploring the rebirth of classical values and the emergence of European Humanism.

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Parks Shooting The Learning Tree.
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Hollywood's Double Take: The First Three Black Directors

6 – 20 February, 2007

In the late 1960s in a belated attempt to bring an African-American point of view to Hollywood filmmaking, the major studios hired three accomplished directors to helm Black-themed movies. While an independent Black Cinema had flourished right under Hollywood’s nose earlier in the century, and non-black filmmakers had directed African-American subjects such as Cabin In the Sky, Carmen Jones and Hallelujah!, this was the first time black filmmakers and African-American audiences could connect on a mass scale. The result was the birth of Soul Cinema.

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Art, Agency and Activism

3 February, 2007

Presentations by artists, activists and art historian/critics that question and elucidate the role of art in advocating social and environmental causes; followed by an open forum.

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Screening - Traumatic Landscape

2 February, 2007

An evening of short videos by contemporary Canadian artists on the theme Traumatic Landscape, curated and presented by the Centre For Art Tapes.

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Unexpected Outcomes: Cinema and the Environment

17 January – 21 February, 2007

In this selection of dramas, documentaries and animated films, the environment plays a central role, and human interaction with that environment often leads to unexpected outcomes. This series is intended compliment the exhibitions Imaging a Shattering Earth and Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure.

17 January The Red Desert

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Cronenberg Cocktail

27 September – 22 November, 2006

One of the most influential and internationally successful Canadian filmmakers, David Cronenberg has helped to revitalize several cinematic genres, examining the queasy contours of violence, sex and technological obsessions in modern (and future) societies. Whether working in horror (Rabid, Shivers), Science Fiction (The Fly, Videodrome) or in literary adaptations (Naked Lunch, M. Butterfly), the Toronto-based director has created films that continue to provoke, disturb and entertain audiences all over the world.

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Five O'Clock Docs

15 – 22 September, 2006

Documentaries are hot! This series, curated by AFF Senior Programmer and DAG Film Curator Ron Foley Macdonald, presents some of the best documentaries of the last decade. Screenings are at 5:00 pm. every day during the Festival.

Friday 15 September, 5 pm:  One Day In September

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Art at Home and All That Jazz

9 April, 2006

Our popular annual fund-raiser returns on Sunday, 9 April, from 1:30 pm to 6 pm. Enjoy fine art, architecture and craft in four notable private houses in Halifax, followed by a live jazz performance in the Gallery, accompanied by delicious refreshments. Only 200 tickets are sold for this event. Mark the date in your calendar now!

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