HALIFAX - Start Saturday night off right with Halifax Independent Film Festival's screening of Metropolis featuring live, local musical accompaniment by Lukas Pearse, Tim Crofts, Geordie Haley and D'Arcy Gray. Fritz Lang's 1927 expressionist, sci-fi film, Metropolis, is set in a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners; the plot further thickens when the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences. WHAT: Screening - Metropolis with live musical accompaniment WHEN: Saturday, April 2nd, 7pm - 10pm WHERE: Alumni Hall, King’s New Academic Building, 6350 Coburg Road HOW MUCH:  $5 Suggested Donation

HALIFAX - In conjunction with Aimée Brown's artist residency in Point Pleasant Park this season, she will be performing a Lamplighter's Invocation, Saturday, March 19, starting at 7:10 pm at the Gatekeeper's Lodge on Young and Point Pleasant Street. This performance will commemorate and illuminate the old and new sites for the Point Pleasant Park cast iron lamps, constructed by the Glasgow Corporation Lighting Department in 1900. The lamps, removed from the Tower Road entrance to be refinished and retrofitted with LED lights, are currently being placed near the Park Gates and the Gatekeeper's Lodge,establishing a distinct Victorian-era ...

HALIFAX - Join artist, Aimee Brown this Sunday, March 13 at 2:00 pm for the first of three performative excursions; these excursions will celebrate the ritual and survival skills necessary for travel to sacred sites. Participants will meet at the Gatekeeper's Lodge at Point Pleasant Park in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and be guided by foot to and from the only potable water source in the park, mysteriously referred to as "The Holy Well". WHAT: The Holy Well Excursions WHEN: Today - Sunday, March 13, 2011, 2pm WHERE: Gatekeeper's Lodge, Point Pleasant Park HOW MUCH: Free For more information ...

HALIFAX - According to NSCAD undergraduate exhibitors Leah Resnick and Jeremy Tsang, "SITE / CITE consists of a collection of large-scale photographs which show the creative potential of urban spaces." Is the creative potential of urban space related to how space is manipulated, perceived and occupied, as shown above in the work Mirror Sheet? I guess we will have to wait and see tonight at the opening reception from 5:30pm till 7pm at Anna Leonowens gallery in downtown Halifax. If you can't make it to ...

HALIFAX, MONCTON & MIRAMICHI - Listen to Karin Aurell, flutist and active performer in the region, play publicly at VIA Rail locations in Halifax, Moncton and Miramichi, March 3 - 11, 2011. Aurell will be performing Martin Kutnowski's 12 Tango Etudes. This is a great opportunity to get out of your regular zone and enjoy free music in a relatively public space. All shows start approximately one hour before the departure of the westbound train, and the performer is encouraging interested people to show up just to listen, joining the folks who are in the train station for travel. The VIA Rail shows are part of a larger national project titled New Music in New Places, the focus of which is to bring new Canadian music to a new audience by performing it in venues other than regular concert venues. The idea of performing in train stations is one that appeals to the flutist, partly because train stations tend to be good performance venues with good acoustics and exciting things going on, and also because they are places where people who are going from one place to another often end up spending a bit of time. It also evokes the performer's youth, when she spent many hours busking and one of her favourite performance spots was an underground walkway connecting the Stockholm Central Station with that city's subway system. WHAT: Public Performances at VIA Rail Stations in Atlantic Canada WHEN: March 3 at 11am, March 10 at 4pm and March 11 at 6pm WHERE: Halifax, Moncton, and Miramichi (in order of above dates and times) HOW MUCH: Free

HALIFAX -  Shake it up! Show your carnival flavour tonight at the Oval, while pumping your heart full of adrenaline and soul. Wear a mask, adorn yourself in body paint, wear bright colours, play your kazoo and show off your figure skating technique/dancing if you wish, all while getting some fresh air during the informal skating carnival event tonight at the Canada Games Oval - pre-celebration style for the 7th annual Brazilian Carnaval. WHAT: Skating Carnival WHEN: Tonight - Saturday, February 26th, 7pm-8:30pm WHERE: Canada Games Oval HOW ...

CHARLOTTETOWN - Collaborating with local artists from the film and music community, small town sessions have and will continue to be recorded in alternative venues around Charlottetown, including but not limited to abandoned buildings, churches and living rooms. On January 25th the project began, by documenting initial footage with artist John Connolly at the abandoned Kays Borthers Whole Sale building in downtown Charlottetown. “Small Town Sessions is a project aimed to celebrate the incredible artistic energy that is fostered by a small place, like Charlottetown. It isn’t ...

HALIFAX -  As part of the event programming for the Halifax 2011 Canada Games, taking place from February 11-27, 2011, there will be several free outdoor afternoon activities and night concerts, by over a dozen performers in Grand Parade Square in downtown Halifax. Given that activities and the concerts are outdoors in the middle of winter, make sure to bundle up or at least rock out to the live music, to stay warm. The schedule of activities for Celebration at Noon, includes: Feb. 17 - The Trips / Slow Cooking Cover Feb. 18 - Halifax Circus / Annapolis Valley Honour Choir Feb. 21 - The Mathieu Da Costa Challenge Awards Ceremony Feb. 22 - Blou Feb. 23 - Dance Zone / Conseil communautaire du Grand-Havre Feb. 24 - Kidzact Feb. 25 - Musquodoboit Valley Family of Schools' Choir WHAT: Celebration Square at Noon, Free Performances WHEN: February 11 -27, 2011, starts at Noon each day! WHERE: Grand Parade Square, Halifax, NS HOW MUCH: Free Concert line-up highlights include,  Hawksley Workman, Old Man Luedecke, Buck 65 and City and Colour. The full list of dates and performances, for what has been coined as  “Celebration Square at Night” is as follows: