Timeline Exhibitions and Events

Exhibitions and Events

Event

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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Film

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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Laurie Ljubojevic, News ( a conversation with Morita and Satake) 2006
Exhibition

Material Transfer

9 March – 22 April, 2007

Opening reception Thursday 8 March at 8 pm


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Exhibition

Affecting Presence

9 March – 22 April, 2007



Opening Reception Thursday 8 March at 8 pm

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Parks Shooting The Learning Tree.
Film

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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Event

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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Film

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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Film

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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Edward Burtynsky, Bao Steel #8, Shanghai, China, 2005
Exhibition

Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate

12 January – 25 February, 2007

Opening reception Thursday 11 January at 8 pm

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Still from Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure, 2006, 14min
Exhibition

Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure: Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby

12 January – 25 February, 2007

Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby’s latest video offers a moving yet relentless experience of contemporary life (human and biological) in the face of moral, physical and environmental degradation. As Emily Jones comments in her accompanying essay, the tape is a collage of snippets of nature, webcam-captured cityscapes, cartoon drawings and descriptions of supernatural creatures conceived in laboratories, pieced together with sweetly-sung hymns to dystopian realities.

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