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Wren Tian-Morris is a trans Chinese Canadian artist, facilitator, and organizer. Their creative practice is interdisciplinary and explores themes of pleasure, queerness, and the diaspora. Raised ...

https://visualartsnews.ca/2020/10/poc-resilience-resistance-brings-magic-to-the-world/

This event occurred on October 14th 2020, as an Anchor project of Nocturne Halifax. Meeting Waters: Cross-Cultural Collaborations on Environmental Racism with Ingrid Waldron was an online event c...

https://visualartsnews.ca/2020/10/transcript-meeting-waters-cross-cultural-collaboration-on-environmental-racism/

“Hometactics,” according to Latina philosopher Mariana Ortega, is a notion of everyday praxis as a way to feel comfortable in unwelcoming worlds, all the while remaining aware of the oppressi...

https://visualartsnews.ca/2020/09/memorial-work-by-venezuelan-diaspora-artists/

Nova Scotia was once home to Africville, one of the oldest Black settlements outside of the African Continent. Africville’s oral history supports its existence as far back as the 1700s. It was ...

https://visualartsnews.ca/2020/02/remembering-africville/

When I conducted a survey of 46 Halifax-based artists in October 2019, the number one reason they gave for leaving their North End studios was eviction/demolition. This staggering statistic comes...

https://visualartsnews.ca/2020/02/relocation-by-renoviction/

Another common thread linking this new wave of Atlantic architects is how they view their field. Whereas in big architectural firms the focus is on technique and functionality, everybody I spoke ...

https://visualartsnews.ca/2020/01/atlantic-art-chitecture/

Seawater churns white as the beginning of a storm throws waves into the cove far below my feet. I can’t see anything in the foam at first. Then a green kitchen chair appears, perfectly still on...

https://visualartsnews.ca/2019/08/flowing-into-bonavista-biennale/

Hosted at Parsons School of Art and Design in New York City as part of Project Anywhere, the “Elsewhere and Anywhere” conference presents art and research at “the outermost limit of site sp...

https://visualartsnews.ca/2019/02/appearance/

Unlike standard economic development, Cobb illustrates an arts-and community-centered approach can only move at the “speed of human trust,” which means that it presents unique barriers. When ...

https://visualartsnews.ca/2019/01/the-most-important-thing/

To “identify” is to name something and render it visible, even if it may have been present all along. Organized by Eastern Edge Gallery, the Identify festival facilitates the gathering and sh...

https://visualartsnews.ca/2018/11/re-discovering-indigenous-identities/