Events
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Prismatic Festival: BLACKOUT
Experience BLACKOUT on October 4th at Joseph Strug Hall at the Dalhousie Arts Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Presented as part of Harmonies and Hues, an event organized by Prismatic Arts Festival and featuring music by Mumu Fresh and artwork by Abe Ananaba.
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STAGES Theatre Festival: BLACKOUT
Experience BLACKOUT on June 7 at Alderney Landing on the Dartmouth waterfront. Presented by Eastern Front Theatre’s STAGES festival (Industry Series), this special presentation of Erasure Art Collective’s inaugural project takes BLACKOUT outside for a special presentation set against the Halifax Harbour city scape.
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Creative Minds: BLACKOUT
Experience BLACKOUT performance and artist talk with Erasure Art Collective on February 28 at Paul O'Regan Hall in Halifax. Presented by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Creative Minds program) and hosted by Portia Clark (CBC), this event features poetry with visual art, short film and live performance collaboration with African Nova Scotian musicians. Admission is free.
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Nocturne 2023
October 14, 2023
BLACKOUT 2.0 is an interdisciplinary project that recreates historical slave ads using ‘erasure’ or ‘blackout’—a form of poetry created by erasing words from an existing text to create a visual poem. Join Erasure Art Collective at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia for an intimate presentation featuring art installations, short films, and live performance collaborations with African Nova Scotian musicians working in a range of musical genres.
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BLACKOUT
October 13, 2023
Join Erasure Art Collective at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia’s Windsor Theatre from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. for a performance demo of their BLACKOUT project and an artist talk discussing their research and work. This program is presented as part of Nocturne 2023.
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Canadian Association for Theatre Research Conference
June 15 - 17, 2023
Erasure Art Collective brings BLACKOUT to the Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR) 2023 Conference, a hybrid conference hosted online by St. Francis Xavier University and the University of the Fraser Valley from June 10-12, 2023, and in person by Dalhousie University from June 15-17, 2023.
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Atlantic Arts Symposium
Oct. 21-23, 2022
Erasure Art Collective brings BLACKOUT to the Atlantic Arts Symposium, presenting a performance installation and artist talk at Jones Gallery Contemporary Art + Projects.
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Nocturne 2022
Oct. 13-15, 2022
Erasure Art Collective brings BLACKOUT to Nocturne, a free all-night contemporary art festival in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia). Multiple locations.