Exhibitions and Events

Richard Jack From Lord's Point, n.d.
Exhibition

Safe Passages and Welcome Harbours: Works from the Permanent Collection

21 May – 4 July, 2010

OPENING RECEPTION Thursday 20 May at 8 pm 2010 marks the 100th Anniversary of the Canadian Navy. During the spring and summer, Halifax will host a series of commemorative events including: the annual Sea Power and Maritime Security Conference organized by the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies; an international fleet review of visiting, foreign naval ships; and the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo whose program will honour the Navy’s place in Canadian history.

Film

Almodóvar Series

24 March – 21 April, 2010

Now considered one of Contemporary World Cinema's true masters, Spain's Pedro Almodóvar shed an early fascination with filmmakers such as John Waters an Luis Buñel to forge an original, intriguing style that blends elements of ripe Sirkian melodrama with devilish Hitchcockian plot twists, all against a bright colour palette or rich Iberian reds and yellows. This short series features five of Almodóvar's most important films, all in hope of ushering in an early Spring.

SCREENINGS WEDNESDAYS AT 8PM

March 24- Law of Desire

Exhibition

Disrupted Pictures: Dyan Marie and Bill Marshall

19 March – 9 May, 2010

OPENING RECEPTION: 18 March, 8 PM

Film

African History Month Films: Blaxploitation Classics

1 – 22 February, 2010

In the early 1970s African American filmmakers finally made their mark in the North American Cinema, with a series of stylish, violent and unapologetically entertaining movies that are still influential to today's popular culture. Referred to then as 'Blaxploitation' films -- and nowadays as 'Grindhouse' classics -- these low-budget, high-energy flicks sported sound-tracks (Issac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield) as memorable as the films themselves. This short series will revisit soe of those landmark features. Warning: adult content throughout.

Film

Jane Austen: Wit and Realism

19 January – 23 February, 2010

To accompany the exhibition Lord Dalhousie: Patron and Collector, the Gallery is featuring one of the most popular film sources of the 1990's, Jane Austen, who was a contemporary of Lord Dalhousie's.

Film versions of Austen's six major novels -- chosen to fit into feature length slots -- reveal a stratified English Society seen uniquely from a woman's point of view, with humour, wit and compassion, where manners count as much as character. 

SCREENINGS TUESDAYS AT 8PM

MacAloney Room, 4th floor, Dalhousie Arts Centre

William Douglas George 9th Earl of Dalhousie with His Dogs Bosto and Yarrow c.1816
Exhibition

Lord Dalhousie: Patron and Collector

14 January – 7 March, 2010

Opening Reception Wednesday 13 January at 8 pm

Exhibition

56th Annual SSFA Exhibition

11 – 20 December, 2009

Opening Reception Thursday 10 December at 8 pm Our annual celebration of the creativity of the students, staff, faculty and alumni of Dalhousie University and the University of King’s College, in painting, photography, mixed media, video, sculpture and crafts.

Film

Looking at Creativity

27 October – 15 December, 2009

This Fall the Gallery continues its program of films that focus on the arts in a new series of recently released feature length documentaries. From Gaudi to Glass, this series offers unique insights into several renowned cultural producers who have each pushed the boundaries in their respective fields of architecture, film, music and the visual arts.

Screenings Tuesdays at 5 pm. Admission is free. Seating is limited.

Steve Higgins, Urban #3, 2007, interior detail photo: Steve Farmer
Exhibition

Steve Higgins: All Things Considered: thoughts about cities and history, war and peace

23 October – 29 November, 2009

Over the past 30 years, Steve Higgins, a Halifax resident for the last decade, has worked at the intersection of sculpture, architecture and the urban environment. This exhibition presents four aspects of the artist’s body of work, each highlighting a different mode of enquiry. In his current body of work, titled Urban, the viewer is invited to peer into four table-sized constructions which house miniature models of imagined cities as seen through Higgins’ lens of history and life in the modern age.

Sara Graham, Department of Systems Oversight 1968-1973 installation detail, photo: Anuta Skrypnychenko
Exhibition

Sara Graham: Department of Systems Oversight 1968-1973

23 October – 29 November, 2009

OPENING RECEPTION: 22 October, 8 PM

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