Exhibitions and Events

Exhibition

The 55th Annual SSFA Exhibition

5 – 21 December, 2008

Opening Reception Thursday 4 December at 8 pm

Our annual celebration of the creativity of students, staff, faculty and alumni of Dalhousie and King’s College, in painting, graphic art, photography, mixed media, video, sculpture and crafts.

Film

How Real Was Neorealism... And Just How Far Was its Reach?

6 November, 2008

Join film curator Ron Foley Macdonald for an illustrated presentation on Italian Neorealism, its precursors, practitioners and policy, and its long and still-lingering influence in both Hollywood and Canada, and around the world. 

Film

Neorealism's Reach: From Film Noir to Cinema Verité

22 October – 19 November, 2008

In conjunction with Photopolis: Halifax Festival of Photography taking place in and around the city this fall, the Dalhousie Art Gallery will present a series on the impact and reach of Italian Neorealism. This post-World War Two cinematic movement -- though brief, only twenty years or so-- had a worldwide impact on existing cinemas (Hollywood, for one) along with almost every new National Cinema that followed in its wake. All films are Italian with English subtitles.

SCREENINGS WEDNESDAYS AT 8PM

October 22 - Ossessione

Film

Contemporary Issues in Art, Architecture & Design: Five Recent Noteworthy Feature Documentaries

21 October – 10 December, 2008

October 21 - Manufactured Landscapes

Jennifer Baichwal, Canada, 2006, 83 minutes.

Edward Burtynsky's monumental enivronmental photography is caught on motion picture film by cinematographer Peter Mettler and director Jennifer Baichwal. A multiple award-winning feature documentary.

October 28 - My Architect

Nathaniel Kahn, USA, 2003, 110 minutes.

Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge, Fall of Water, 2007
Exhibition

Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge: Working Culture

17 October – 23 November, 2008
Opening Reception and Book Launch
Thursday 16 October at 8 pm
Film

Tempest Fest: Three Takes On Shakespeare's The Tempest

17 September – 1 October, 2008

Tempest Fest: Three Takes On Shakespeare’s The Tempest In Honour Of the Fifth Anniversary Of Hurricane Juan

September 2003 saw Hurricane Juan make landfall in Nova Scotia. We have selected three very different film versions of the Bard’s late romance The Tempest to mark one of the most significant climatological events ever to happen in Halifax.

Screenings Wednesdays at 8 pm

September 17The Tempest

Film

Fiesta at Five

12 – 19 September, 2008

September 12 - Black Orpheus

Marcel Camus, France/Brazil 1959, 103 minutes

The legendary retelling of the Orpheus/Eurydice myth during the Rio de Janiero's colourful and raucous Carnival, with music by Antonio Carlos Jobim that launched the worldwide bossa nova craze. Portugese with English subtitles.

September 13 - The Exterminating Angel

Luis Buñuel, Mexico, 1962, 95 mins.

Corinna Schnitt, video still from Once upon a time, 2005.
Exhibition

Exalted Beings: Animal Relationships

22 August – 5 October, 2008

Dogs and cats. Silly pet tricks versus animal intelligence. Domesticated animals, stuffed birds and talking parrots contrasted with Buddhist states of being, biogenetic engineering and tales of animals living in houses.

Louie Palu, untitled, 2007
Exhibition

Zhari-Panjwai: Dispatches from Afghanistan New Work by Louie Palu

9 May – 29 June, 2008

To complement Craig Barber’s work, award-winning Canadian photographer Louie Palu was invited by the Dalhousie Art Gallery to exhibit a suite of his photographic work produced in Afghanistan that profiles the activities of NATO-led Canadian military forces. Whereas Barber’s photographic project seeks redemption and reconciliation with a formative episode in American history, Palu’s images are a steely-eyed view of current Canadian engagements.

Craig J. Barber, Buddha and the Monks, 1995
Exhibition

Ghosts in the Landscape: Vietnam Revisited photographs by Craig J. Barber

9 May – 29 June, 2008

Organized and toured by George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY. Even amid the chaos of war Craig Barber, then an 18-year old combat Marine, appreciated the beauty of Vietnam. 1n 1995, some thirty years later and now a professional fine art photographer, Barber decided to return to Vietnam partly as a cathartic exercise for himself and partly to see whether time had healed a country and psyche once ravaged by war. Over a four-year period Barber traversed many of his former military routes making images with an 8” x 10” pinhole camera.

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