Nocturne 2020: Echolocation

**** Info via Nocturne Nocturne: Art at Night celebrates contemporary professional art in K’jipuktuk/Halifax. Through our festival and additional programming, we use art as a catalyst for connection. The completely free annual event showcases and celebrates the visual arts scene in K'jipuktuk/Halifax. Nocturne is a not-for-profit organization that brings the city access to art and wonder with no barriers. While we do our part to adhere to COVID-19 regulations, we will be bringing you a week's worth of artistic experiences both online and on land. Nocturne 2020 is ECHOLOCATION curated by Lindsay Dobbin K'jipuktuk/Halifax and virtually everywhere Details and full schedule coming soon nocturnehalifax.ca Anchor Projects in partnership with Centre for Art Tapes and Halifax Regional Municipality: What Does the Earth Ask Of Us? Robin Wall Kimmerer Touched By the Tears of A Butterfly Mike MacDonald Elmi'knik ilkwija'lnoqtew ika'taqniktuk (In the future, who will ease your heart in the garden?) Michelle Sylliboy Returning Current Katy Payne and Daniela Gesundheit w/ Lindsay Dobbin Featuring Nicholas Dourado, Andrew Jackson, Jacques Mindreau, and Nicole Rampersaud Hydrophone radio transmission by Dr. David Barclay Sound engineering and technical wizardry by Johnny Spence Meeting Waters: Cross-Cultural Collaborations on Environmental Racism Ingrid Waldron Featuring collaborations: Africville - Irvine Carvery and Rebecca Thomas Pictou Landing First Nation - Michelle Francis-Denny and Kwento Sipekne'katik - Dorene Bernard and Liliona Quarmyne Shelburne - Vanessa Hartley and Leelee Oluwatoyosi Eko Davis Design and graphic recording by Bria Miller. Presented with additional support from Visual Arts Nova Scotia, Arts Nova Scotia, Canada Council for the Arts, Kairos, The Leap, and PSAC Thirteen Echoes of Kmətkinu Shalan Joudry in collab w/ Lukas Pearse Featuring Tamim Arabi (Arabic), Christina Sai Yin Chui (Cantonese), paulo da costa (Portuguese), Gurinder Dhillon (Punjabi), Andor Gjesdal (Norwegian - vocals), Leah Horwood (Norwegian - translation), Yuki Inoue (Japanese - translation), shalan joudry (original poem and vocals), Sabina Kasheke (Swahili), Irene Kasianov (Russian), Lodaidh MacFhionghain (Gaelic), André Muise (French), Opolahsomuwehs (Wolastoqey), Arlene Stevens (Mi’kmaw - translation and vocals), Barbara Sylliboy (Mi’kmaw - translation), and Atsuko Tomita (Japanese - translation and vocals) And projects from: Carly Butler and Hjalmer Wenstob Carley Mullally Carmel Farahbakhsh and Darcie Bernhardt Chloe Alexandra Thompson, DB Amorin and Johnny Ray Alt Francesca Ekwuyasi GLAM Collective (with support provided by Arts Nova Scotia) HEIST x Nocturne Takeover Party Illest Preacha and Rablin Intellect I’thandi Munro Kamille Cyr Kelly Markovich (with support provided by Centre for Art Tapes) Lara Lewis and Mark Foster Liliona Quarmyne and Mo Drescher Marie-Soleil Provençal Marla Benton and Andrea Puszkar Michael MacLean, Laure Nolte and Andrew Gilmour Mo Phùng The NSCAD Queer Collective Tania Willard Trophy The Woods Geographically, Nocturne takes place within Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. We also acknowledge the significant foundations that the infrastructure and culture of Black and African Nova Scotian communities have played in building this province and country. We continue to work to collaborate, amplify, and connect with the many art communities that live and work here in Mi'kma'ki. #NOCHFX20