Timeline Exhibitions and Events

Exhibitions and Events

Film

Art: 21 Art in the Twenty-First Century

29 January – 2 April, 2009

Now in its fifth season, the groundbreaking PBS series Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century provides a behind the scenes view of a diverse range of contemporary artists. Viewers observe intimate footage of artists at work in their homes, studios and communities and speaking in their own words about their practice.

The featured artists, including painters, photographers, sculptors, performance and video artists, represent the breadth of current artistic practice and demonstrate the relevance of contemporary art to everyday life. 

Season 2

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Agnès Varda: A Voice Beyond the New Wave

28 January – 8 April, 2009

French director Agnès Varda fiction and non-fiction work in the cinema has gone well past her French New Wave and Feminist beginnings to examine and portray a world of compassion, ambiguity and direct visual poetry. This retrospective will look at a combination of both her dramatic and documentary works, from features to shorts.

SCREENINGS WEDNESDAYS AT 8PM

January 28- La Pointe Courte

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John Everett, S.S. Sardinian (Allan Line), 1918
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Razzle Dazzle: The Uses of Abstraction

23 January – 8 March, 2009

Opening Reception Thursday 22 January at 8 pm As an Official Canadian War Artist working in Halifax during World War One, it was Arthur Lismer’s job to document the naval activity in and around the busy wartime harbour. But as is evidenced in numerous sketches, drawings, and paintings, his aesthetic attentions were especially drawn toward the intensely abstract blocks and swirls of patterns and colour that clad many warships and converted ocean liners moving tens of thousands of troops overseas.

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The 55th Annual SSFA Exhibition

5 – 21 December, 2008

Opening Reception Thursday 4 December at 8 pm

Our annual celebration of the creativity of students, staff, faculty and alumni of Dalhousie and King’s College, in painting, graphic art, photography, mixed media, video, sculpture and crafts.

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How Real Was Neorealism... And Just How Far Was its Reach?

6 November, 2008

Join film curator Ron Foley Macdonald for an illustrated presentation on Italian Neorealism, its precursors, practitioners and policy, and its long and still-lingering influence in both Hollywood and Canada, and around the world. 

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Neorealism's Reach: From Film Noir to Cinema Verité

22 October – 19 November, 2008

In conjunction with Photopolis: Halifax Festival of Photography taking place in and around the city this fall, the Dalhousie Art Gallery will present a series on the impact and reach of Italian Neorealism. This post-World War Two cinematic movement -- though brief, only twenty years or so-- had a worldwide impact on existing cinemas (Hollywood, for one) along with almost every new National Cinema that followed in its wake. All films are Italian with English subtitles.

SCREENINGS WEDNESDAYS AT 8PM

October 22 - Ossessione

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Film

Contemporary Issues in Art, Architecture & Design: Five Recent Noteworthy Feature Documentaries

21 October – 10 December, 2008

October 21 - Manufactured Landscapes

Jennifer Baichwal, Canada, 2006, 83 minutes.

Edward Burtynsky's monumental enivronmental photography is caught on motion picture film by cinematographer Peter Mettler and director Jennifer Baichwal. A multiple award-winning feature documentary.

October 28 - My Architect

Nathaniel Kahn, USA, 2003, 110 minutes.

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Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge, Fall of Water, 2007
Exhibition

Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge: Working Culture

17 October – 23 November, 2008
Opening Reception and Book Launch
Thursday 16 October at 8 pm
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Film

Tempest Fest: Three Takes On Shakespeare's The Tempest

17 September – 1 October, 2008

Tempest Fest: Three Takes On Shakespeare’s The Tempest In Honour Of the Fifth Anniversary Of Hurricane Juan

September 2003 saw Hurricane Juan make landfall in Nova Scotia. We have selected three very different film versions of the Bard’s late romance The Tempest to mark one of the most significant climatological events ever to happen in Halifax.

Screenings Wednesdays at 8 pm

September 17- The Tempest

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Fiesta at Five

12 – 19 September, 2008

September 12 - Black Orpheus

Marcel Camus, France/Brazil 1959, 103 minutes

The legendary retelling of the Orpheus/Eurydice myth during the Rio de Janiero's colourful and raucous Carnival, with music by Antonio Carlos Jobim that launched the worldwide bossa nova craze. Portugese with English subtitles.

September 13 - The Exterminating Angel

Luis Buñuel, Mexico, 1962, 95 mins.

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