Exhibitions and Events
film still from Dear White People, 2014
African Heritage Month: First Films by Black Filmmakers
SCREENINGS TUESDAYS AT 5 PM. FREE ADMISSION
2 February - She’s Gotta Have It
Spike Lee, USA, 1986, 84 minutes. An independently minded 80s African-American female must choose between multiple suitors–one of them played by the director himself–in this precise and energetic debut feature from the now legendary filmmaker Spike Lee.
9 February - Dear White People
Postcard invitation to opening of Peggy’s Cove Syndrome group exhibition, November 30, 1974, Eyelevel Gallery fonds, MS-3-35, Box 40, Folder 4
“Why are we saving All these artist publications + Other Galleries stuffs?” The Emergence of Artist-Run Culture in Halifax
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Canadian artists began to self-organize and establish independent spaces for creating and presenting contemporary art. These spaces were called “parallel galleries” or “alternative spaces” and are now known as artist-run centres. Halifax is home to some of the oldest artist-run centres in the country: between 1970 and 1975, Charlotte Townsend-Gault organized the artist-run Mezzanine Gallery at NSCAD. In 1972, a group of female artists established the Inventions Gallery, but the gallery closed after a fire in 1973.
Lisa Lipton, video still from You can take my bicycle, 2011. Photo: CFAT
Gleaning a Song: The Singing Voice as Artifact in Media Art
Gleaning a Song: The Singing Voice as Artifact in Media Art is a compilation of CFAT members’ videos that distinctly incorporate, explore, conjure, or manipulate the singing voice in “song” as tenor for cultural production, existential memoire, conceptual and technical experimentation, and/or cultural communication. The program includes works by Lindsay Dobbin, Lisa Lipton, Tom Sherman and Jan Pottie, and Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby.
Michael Eddy, DJ Curtains, from ERI 6, 2014. Photo: Eyelevel Gallery
ERI 7: Eyelevel Reshelving Initiative
Eyelevel Reshelving Initiative is a biennial exhibition of artist’s books, multiples, and printed matter, refreshing Eyelevel Gallery’s Bookstore with works from established and emerging artists. Work on display will be available for purchase throughout the exhibition during regular gallery hours.
