Halifax Fringe Festival

S T R E A M I N G N O W ✨✨✨Have you checked out the 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐄 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞?! Relive your favourite Fringe performances on the go or from the comfort of your own home. Rewatch last years 'Pick of The Fringe' WINNER 𝘌𝘭 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘰 𝘖𝘧 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴. Witness the extinction of the citizens of Hong Kong in unique and unexpected ways in Theatre du Poulet's 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘹𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘒𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴 (the Summerworks Festival 2018 Version). OR watch, fresh from a New Zealand Fringe Festival tour cut short by the pandemic, Halifax Fringe Festival darling, Gillian English in 𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘔𝘢𝘯, 𝘋𝘳. 𝘗𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦. Offering a variety of options for you to chose from, Neptune at Home provides a medley of entertainment for you to enjoy! 𝘚𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬, 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘹, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘶𝘴 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯. Streaming N O W NeptuneAtHome.com (link in bio)

#regram @neptunetheatre - Beneath Springhill is coming to Neptune at Home on Tuesday, Oct. 13! This award-winning 60-minute chamber musical chronicles the life of Maurice Ruddick, an African-Nova Scotian man who survived the historic mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia in 1958. This one-man show, starring Beau Dixon (“Ol’ Mister” – The Color Purple), is a story filled with tragedy, drama and comical – yet conflicting moments of hope and bravery. Only available for a limited time: Oct. 13-Oct. 20.

#regram @thorneyhfx - I have a new arts + culture podcast called THE TIDELINE. Subscribe via bio if you please! Producer: @halifaxexaminer Theme: @dancemovieband Logo: @littleonepaige Trailer voiceover: @alliesaysrelax Engineering: @goldenpalmstudio

Wow wow wow! How could we be more in love with @nocturnehalifax this year! They are also featuring our beloved @lara.j.lewis along with her collaborator @mmm0rk with @sinkingshiptheatre 🌊 swipe through for some of our fav pics of Lara at the Fringe. 💙🌊 #regram @nocturnehalifax - Your midday ✨ARTIST ANNOUNCEMENT ✨is right here! Welcome Lara Lewis (@lara.j.lewis) & Mark Foster (@mmm0rk) with their project Harbourtown as part of Nocturne 2020: ECHOLOCATION October 12-17 curated by @soft.power #nochfx20⠀ ⠀ ‣ Harbourtown is an audio experience of community sourced experiences with our bodies of water, echoed back at us in the form of free-form poetry. Through social media and google forms, Lara Lewis and Mark Foster will gather statements, stories, and anecdotes about Halifax residents’ experiences with our natural spaces, particularly the harbour and other bodies of water, as well as their hopes and fears for our future. The project will be heard through large speakers on the Waterfront on October 17th.⠀ ⠀ ‣ Lara Lewis is a theatre artist and member of the Mi’kmaw and trans communities. Lewis is a director, writer, and actor. Lara is the former youth representative of the eastern region for the Native Women’s Association of Canada. She is an assistant producer of the Halifax Fringe Festival. She is social media coordinator for The Bus Stop Theatre Co-op, of which she is also the Vice Chair of the Board, and Mayworks Festival of Working People in the Arts. In her spare time, she is a life drawing model and barista.⠀ ⠀ ‣ Mark Foster is a playwright living in K’jipuktuk, unceded and unsurrendered Mi’kmaw territory also known as Halifax, Nova Scotia. Mark is the Playwright-In Residence of Sinking Ship Theatre and has had plays produced through the company both independently and at Fringe Festivals.⠀ ⠀ Follow @mmm0rk @lara.j.lewis to see more of their work!

Yes! @nocturnehalifax Who isn’t in love with @f.ekwuyasi and her brilliant writing. Swipe through to see a piece she penned for @halifaxfringe we can’t wait to check out what’s she’s bringing to @nocturnehalifax 🌊💙 #regram @nocturnehalifax - Big news! We have another ✨ARTIST ANNOUNCEMENT ✨for this year’s festival! Welcome Francesca Ekwuyasi (@f.ekwuyasi) and her project Reverberations and the Sound of Our Voices as part of Nocturne 2020: ECHOLOCATION October 12-17 curated by @soft.power! We are so excited to welcome Francesca to the festival on the heels of the launch of their debut @gillerprize longlisted book Butter Honey Pig Bread (visit @venusenvyhfx to buy one now!)⠀ ⠀ ‣ Reverberations and the Sound of Our Voices is a virtual community story-telling project focused on themes of identity and belonging. Using an online platform, this project involves audio and text stories based on the social locations of my identities. It invites listeners/readers to participate anonymously by echoing or sharing their own stories based on the same or similar social locations of their own identities. These stories will be accompanied by sound (and written sound descriptions) created by musician and noise artist Carmel Farahbakhsh.⠀ ⠀ ‣ Francesca Ekwuyasi is a writer and multidisciplinary artist born in Lagos, Nigeria. Her work explores themes of faith, family, queerness, consumption, loneliness, and belonging.⠀ ⠀ ✨To Participate in Francescas Project Please Follow These Instructions ✨⠀ ⠀ ‣ There will be a call for participation and live website link announced through the Instagram @reverberations.and.our.voices. Participants will be invited to follow the link to the site. On the website there will be links to various stories (audio and text), participants are welcome to listen/read then reply anonymously via a record button (option for text box also available) with their own stories. These stories will be compiled and made available for listening/reading during Nocturne. The website link will be available on September 24th!!⠀ ⠀ Follow @f.ekwuyasi to see more from Francesca and don’t forget to follow @reverberations.and.our.voices to see the project unfold!⠀ ⠀ #nochfx2014

@nocturnehalifax Is looking sooo good this year and we are looking forward to it! Does Carmel look familiar? Among all the other amazing work they do, they have done facilitation, horoscope writing, and Love Actually defending for @halifaxfringe 🎭⭐️✨ check them out in @nocturnehalifax 🌊💙 #regram @nocturnehalifax - Happy Saturday! We are out here with another ✨ARTIST ANNOUNCEMENT ✨for this year’s festival! Welcome Carmel Farahbakhsh (@carjillionaire) & Darcie “Ouiyaghasiak’’ Bernhardt (@ouiyaghasiak) and their project Nanuk & Bibi as part of Nocturne 2020: ECHOLOCATION October 12-17 curated by @soft.power #nochfx20⠀ ⠀ ‣ This project imagines an alternate universe created through hand-drawn projections and sonic backdrop where the artists’ grandmothers are restored to explore a healing friendship through cultural and queered ritual.⠀ ⠀ ‣ Carmel Farahbakhsh aka Saydah Ruz is a sound artist, composer, violinist, performer - interested in the aural mystery of a queered prayer - forever examining how to create multidimensional calls to pleasure, self, ritual, healing that reverberates through their trans experience and echoes into their Iranian cultural reality. ⠀ ⠀ ‣ Darcie “Ouiyaghasiak’’ Bernhardt is an Inuvialuk/Gwich’in artist from Tuktoyaktuk, NT and alumna of NSCADU in 2019 (BFA). Raised in Tuktoyaktuk where the ocean’s harsh winds carve into the Western Arctic landscape. Her oil painting practice has primarily focused on the narrative of domestic life in the North stemming from memories of home.⠀ ⠀ To see more of their work visit @carjillionaire & @ouiyaghasiak

Today is a great day to download a play 🎭 Last day for solo show pods! They’re pay what you want and TODAY ONLY Bandcamp is waiving its fees so 100% of of your money goes to supporting the artist. Swipe through to see some of the plays that you can listen to forever with the click of a download ➡️ Link in Bio! #HalifaxFringe2020 #HalifaxTheatre

Today the curtain closes on our 30th Anniversary month long celebration of the Halifax Fringe Festival! 🎭 Thank you Halifax and beyond for helping fill these past 30 years with Fringe magic ✨ Hopefully next year we can fill up the theatres we know and love and be together again 💞 But before we put out the ghost light... We want to know what YOUR favourite Halifax Fringe memory is? ⬇️ Comment below ⬇️ To 30 more years of the Halifax Fringe! And remember to stay roughly 12 comedy and tragedy masks apart 🎭🎭🎭🎭🎭🎭🎭🎭🎭🎭🎭🎭 #HalifaxFringe2020 #takecaremakeartstaysixfeetapart

Today is the last day of our month long Halifax Fringe 30th Anniversary celebrations! There’s still so many Halifax Fringe memories to be told, but for now, here is one from 1993: 🎭 JOSH MACDONALD, “DEGREES” I had the first piece of theatre I’d ever written in my back pocket: my graduating project from theatre school, a one-man show called Degrees. At the time, I didn’t know anybody, but that Fringe introduced me to work from Thom Fitzgerald, Bernie Stapleton, Mark Critch, Ken Schwartz and Chris O’Neil. My venue was called The Bowels, and I guess I worked my way up from there, ha ha ha. The Bowels was in the back of the Soho Kitchen on Granville Street. When I look at that Guide now, most of the venues are gone: the CBC Radio Room, Café Ole, the Trade Mart, the North Street Church, Rumours. More importantly, some of the people are gone: Michael Weir, Lex Gigeroff, Clive Sweeney, Jean Morpurgo. I kept my stub from that year—the one that gave me discounts to other people’s shows. It called me an Artist, for the very first time. That’s a little thing, but it’s also powerful, and the Fringe validates new artists this way every year—naming them as such, in their growing diversity, inclusion, and daring—and saying to them, “here’s a place where you can stand.” For more Halifax Fringe memories visit halifaxfringe.ca 💫 #HalifaxFringe2020 #takecaremakeartstaysixfeetapart

We love our volunteers! Who knows where we’d be if it weren’t for every person who’s helped us over the past 30 years 💞From working the box office, to ushering the shows and managing large crowds - thank you for helping make the Halifax Fringe Festival happen ☀️ #HalifaxFringe2020 #takecaremakeartstaysixfeetapart

Halifax Fringe Memory from 1995: 🌎 WALTER BORDEN, “WORLD WITHOUT SHADOWS” Every journey begins with a baby step and this is true whether it’s a soul-refreshing stroll through a park on a lazy, hazy summer Sunday afternoon or the commencement of some life-altering event. In a way, the Fringe Festival experience has, for me, always embodied both of those possibilities. There is a unique energy charge that permeates the Fringe experience—anyone who has ever participated in a Fringe Festival will attest to that—and some of the results which have flowed from various Fringe Festivals have eventually taken their place among the most acclaimed successes in the theatrical canon. The collective motivation swirling through all Fringe Festivals is: it’s all or nuthin’ time! I have a poignant recall, on this 30 anniversary of the Halifax Fringe, of the fledgling first steps of World Without Shadows, Lance Woolaver’s beautiful homage to Maude Lewis. It was presented as a staged reading at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia during the early days of the Fringe. I took on the role of Ev, Maude’s husband and George Boyd, on a very rare occasion when he traded his playwright hat for that of an actor, read the part of Big Juny, the role which I subsequently assumed in the acclaimed Ship’s Company and Neptune Theatre productions led by the brilliant Niki Lipman in a definitive portrayal of Maude. Happy Happy Anniversary, Halifax Fringe, and thanks for the memories! For more fringe memories visit halifaxfringe.ca 💫 #HalifaxFringe2020

Only 3 more days to get your 50/50 tickets! Support the Halifax Fringe today (and maybe end up richer for it!) 💫 1 for $10 3 for $20 8 for $50 20 for $100 Head to ➡️ www.rafflebox.ca/raffle/fringe ⬅️ to grab your tickets now! #HalifaxFringe2020