Decoding Nature Through Sound: Close Listening and Bat Detecting

Bats use echolocation to move around in the darkness, navigating, hunting and identifying friends and enemies.This workshop will focus on close listening and bat detection and participants will have the chance to use specialized acoustic monitoring equipment and spend time listening for and detecting bats. ...

July 24

8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

MSVU campus

Halifax, NS

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Decoding Nature Through Sound: Acoustic Art and Bat House Building

In addition to learning about the relationship between facilitator Kelly Markovich's art practice and the ecology of bats, participants will also be guided through building their own bat house which they will be able to bring home. ...

July 10

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

MSVU campus

Halifax, NS

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Inside References

This online talk features visual artist and writer Cinthia Arias Auz, who will discuss connections between her art practice and literary references that she has been revisiting for the past eleven years. ...

April 10

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Online

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Hand-Building Pottery Workshop

Using air-dry clay, participants will learn a variety of techniques (wedging, coiling, pinching, slab building, modelling, slip and scoring) to create small sculptures or vessels. Many different styles and possibilities of surface design will also be explored in this hands-on workshop facilitated by artist Lux Habrich. ...

March 27

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Online

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Archive Dive: The Graphics of Feminist Movements

On International Women's Day, join facilitators Emily Davidson and Genevieve Flavelle for a unique online workshop looking at archival materials from local feminist organizing and movements from the 1970s to 1990s. ...

March 8

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Online

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Cultural Dishes + Bytes: A Virtual Food Story & Dinner

Hosted by Gurneet Dhami, Safura Syed and featuring artist Stephanie Yee, this online gathering for BIPOC students in Applied Human Nutrition will focus on discussions about cultural foods, professional journeys and how to apply arts-based perspectives to share stories. ...

March 4

5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Online

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Visual Narratives & Hand-Stitching

In this workshop, facilitated by artist Frances Dorsey, participants will learn several simple hand-stitching techniques and use textiles to carefully build a visual narrative, creating something meaningful from scraps ...

February 27

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Online

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Frottage & Monotype Workshop

Lead by artist Charley Young, participants will learn two printmaking techniques, frottage and monotype, to make a one-of-a-kind printed image. ...

February 6

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Online

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Connect to Protect

This workshop hosted by intermedia artist Sage Sidley strives to give participants the confidence and time to take small steps towards protecting their data online in an accessible and light-hearted manner. ...

December 5

2:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Online

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Queer Memoir Comics Workshop

In this workshop series, Fern Pellerin will give a short introductory course in queer memoir comics and technical skills in comic-making. Participants will then create short memoir comics about themselves, their lives, experiences and memories. ...

November 20

1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Online

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Dream House

With an attentiveness to varied experiences of home and housing, this online series of drawing workshops with artist Tee Kundu asks participants to imagine how the concept of home manifests itself in reality and fantasy. ...

November 5

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Online

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Navigating Connections

Navigating Connections is a series of collaborative conversations with artists and facilitators, led by Camila Salcedo and denirée isabel, with a focus on identifying, naming, and exploring individual and collective responses to, and relationships with, emotions and feelings. ...

November 1

8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Online

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