Peter Coffman, St. John's, Latties Brook, from "The Goth's Tale".

Peter Coffman: Anglicana Tales: Stories of the Nova Scotian Church, Shown and Told

Halifax will host the 39th Session of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada from 3 – 11 June. Central to the activities will be the commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the first Anglican service in mainland Canada at Annapolis Royal in 1710. Peter Coffman, a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at Dalhousie University, is an architectural historian specializing in English medieval and Canadian Gothic Revival architecture.

Almodóvar Series

Now considered one of Contemporary World Cinema's true masters, Spain's Pedro Almodóvar shed an early fascination with filmmakers such as John Waters an Luis Buñel to forge an original, intriguing style that blends elements of ripe Sirkian melodrama with devilish Hitchcockian plot twists, all against a bright colour palette or rich Iberian reds and yellows. This short series features five of Almodóvar's most important films, all in hope of ushering in an early Spring.

SCREENINGS WEDNESDAYS AT 8PM

March 24- Law of Desire

African History Month Films: Blaxploitation Classics

In the early 1970s African American filmmakers finally made their mark in the North American Cinema, with a series of stylish, violent and unapologetically entertaining movies that are still influential to today's popular culture. Referred to then as 'Blaxploitation' films -- and nowadays as 'Grindhouse' classics -- these low-budget, high-energy flicks sported sound-tracks (Issac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield) as memorable as the films themselves. This short series will revisit soe of those landmark features. Warning: adult content throughout.

William Douglas George 9th Earl of Dalhousie with His Dogs Bosto and Yarrow c.1816

Lord Dalhousie: Patron and Collector

Opening Reception Wednesday 13 January at 8 pm