community

Not in my backyard

_stephanietaylor — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 15:15:20 +0000

Residents call for justice against 'environmental racism.'

(K'JIPUKTUK) HALIFAX - What comes to mind when Jonathan Beadle thinks of environmental justice are not visions of pristine lakes and lush green trees, but rather the death of his cousin. <

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Colouring the Concrete: PlaceMaking Halifax

Sarah Slaunwhite — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 19:13:20 +0000

PlaceMaking Halifax is a community arts project that aims to bring neighbours together and build community.

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Community Meeting in Support of Kitpu Youth Programs

scb — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:22:12 +0000

Titre secondaire:

Tuesday Evening at the George Dixon Centre

Ma Juin 19

ville:

Jipuktuk / Halifax

Lieu:

George Dixon Centre Multipurpose Room

Adresse:

2502 Brunswick Street

Coût:

Free / Donations

Lien de carte:

http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=george+dixon+centre+2502+brunswick+st&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&sa=N&tab=wl

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Lien:

http://www.facebook.com/events/285193418245320/

Federal cuts have forced the Kitpu Youth Programs at the Frienship Centre to close.

Concerned Haligonians are meeting to discuss emergency fundraising efforts to see if we can keep at least some of the programs running until funding can be restored.

Please join us. Donations and ideas will be welcomed.

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Mixing It Up

Natascia Lypny — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:25:36 +0000

Centre Line Studio makes music in Uniacke Square

Centre Line Studio has become a fixture for youth in Uniacke Square. Sixteen youth flock to the recording studio four evenings a week for the chance to belt out their favorite songs in the company of new friends and devoted volunteers.

“I like the people that come here and I like singing,” says Renea, 11, between spouting lines of a rap by Nicki Minaj.

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Nocturne

JustinL — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:08:48 +0000

"It's the one time of year that a lot of people experience visual art in...Halifax."

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Citizens denounce criminalization of black youth

david parker — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:30:11 +0000

Community urged to show support against racism

HALIFAX - On Tuesday, June 16, Operation Wake Up host Asaf Rashid interviewed Keslyn Adams and El Jones, both members of the Black Independence Network Nova Scotia (BINNS), a citizen's group that is organizing a march and rally against the criminalization of black youth.

BINNS cites numerous recent examples in the Halifax region of racism, including recent expulsions of black youth from local high schools, as well as an incident at the Dartmouth Sportsplex.

In these cases, numerous black youth were rounded up and sent to the police station. The reason for the police actions remain unclear.

Keslyn Adams is a mother of one of the expelled youth, and El Jones is a King’s College professor and poet. Asaf Rashid interviewed them about the march and rally. They discussed the racist treatment within the justice and the education system towards young black community members.

Jones and Adams also spoke about their hopes for the future, and how we can find inspiration in this situation.

The march and rally will take place on Saturday, June 20th, at 2 pm. Participants will gather in the Halifax Commons, then march down to Gottingen street, past the police station, and up to the George Dixon Centre, where there will be a community barbecue, including entertainment for the whole family.

The half hour program includes a poem by El Jones entitled 'War against Black Women'.

Music:
KRS-One - Sound of the Police
Dead Prez - Police State.

Operation Wake Up is the CKDU News Collective morning news and public affairs program. It airs Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 9:00 am on CKDU 88.1 fm. Check out our on-line archive of special features at news.ckdu.ca.

Seemore Green Community Garden Events

jean.steinberg — Sat, 02 May 2009 21:16:02 +0000

Titre secondaire:

open to all of the dalhousie and halifax community!

Ma Mai 5

ville:

Halifax

Lieu:

Seemore Green

Adresse:

1411 Seymour Street, between Coburg and University on the Dalhousie Campus

Coût:

FREE!

Lien:

http://seemoregreen.wordpress.com

Next Tuesday, May 5th, our ongoing planting of seedlings and garden prep work will continue. We'll start meeting in the early evening, between 5:30 and 6. We'll be planting seedlings, tending beds, watering tender shoots, and meeting vivacious people, until sunset. As with all of our spring gatherings, seeds will be available for exchange, and we encourage you to share with each other.

The following Thursday, May 7, and on Tuesdays and Thursdays until the end of May, we'll be meeting at about the same time, in the early evening, and continuing to care for the collective health of the Green's effervescent new life. As with all of our spring gatherings, seeds will be available for exchange, and we encourage you to share with each other.

All of our gatherings take place on an open schedule, so feel free to come and go as you will.

Seemore Green is located in the courtyard behind the DeMille House, 1411 Seymour Street, between Coburg and University on the Dalhousie Campus.

As always, updates, a schedule of upcoming growings-on, directions, and a cornucopia of information are available at http://seemoregreen.wordpress.com

Bethany Riordan-Butterworth, Storage Compartments

carey anne — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:53:06 +0000

Nick Blatchford Files — 001

This is the first in a series of features celebrating people in our community. It was inspired by my granddad (Nick Blatchford), a journalist who loved stories about people and their everyday lives. I’m excited to start the series off with Bethany Riordan-Butterworth and her recent project: Storage Compartments, an animated short that celebrates small things that lift us out of difficult times (the sparkling flags at a car dealership, a breath of fresh air, a special cat, cakes!).

The project came to be through the Centre for Art Tapes’ Media Arts Scholarship program (www.centreforarttapes.ca). Other scholars working alongside Bethany included: MJ Sakurai, Leslie Menagh, Kate McKenna, Bonita Hatcher, Leah Girado, François Gaudet, Suzi Cameron, and Jacinte Armstrong.

I tracked Bethany down for an interview after Storage Compartments had its debut at CFAT’s 20th Anniversary Media Arts Scholarship screening earlier this year:

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c: What inspired Storgage Compartments? How does it relate to your earlier work? (Can you remind me of the name of your book for the Eyelevel Gallery’s “If It Ain't Funny, It Ain’t Art” show?)

b: The animation was created through the New Media Scholarship Program at the Centre For Art Tapes. The idea for Storage Compartments comes from a series of daily drawings called Bends and Stretches that I created for a show at the eyelevel last spring. In both pieces I celebrate the mundane, the everyday, giving myself and others hope. The work is about realizing we're not alone and keeping our collective chins up, like "okay this is hard, to be alive, and it is scary, and no one is gonna do it for you so do your best and even though it may not seem like it's your best do it anyway. don't think too much, just do, do and do". Life was an inspiration for the animation. Documenting my reality in an imagined way.

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