Jane Austen: Wit and Realism

To accompany the exhibition Lord Dalhousie: Patron and Collector, the Gallery is featuring one of the most popular film sources of the 1990's, Jane Austen, who was a contemporary of Lord Dalhousie's.

Film versions of Austen's six major novels -- chosen to fit into feature length slots -- reveal a stratified English Society seen uniquely from a woman's point of view, with humour, wit and compassion, where manners count as much as character. 

SCREENINGS TUESDAYS AT 8PM

MacAloney Room, 4th floor, Dalhousie Arts Centre

56th Annual SSFA Exhibition

Opening Reception Thursday 10 December at 8 pm Our annual celebration of the creativity of the students, staff, faculty and alumni of Dalhousie University and the University of King’s College, in painting, photography, mixed media, video, sculpture and crafts.

Steve Higgins, Urban #3, 2007, interior detail photo: Steve Farmer

Steve Higgins: All Things Considered: thoughts about cities and history, war and peace

Over the past 30 years, Steve Higgins, a Halifax resident for the last decade, has worked at the intersection of sculpture, architecture and the urban environment. This exhibition presents four aspects of the artist’s body of work, each highlighting a different mode of enquiry. In his current body of work, titled Urban, the viewer is invited to peer into four table-sized constructions which house miniature models of imagined cities as seen through Higgins’ lens of history and life in the modern age.

Caustic Assets

OPENING RECEPTION: 22 October, 8 PM

This program presents video works, selected from an open call to Canadian artists, that examine the effects on society of the current economic crisis, threatened job security and the continuation of a capitalist ideology that does not guarantee freedom from want and violence. The videos will be screened in the Media Gallery as a looped, continuous program.