October 18, 2015, 5:29 pm ASTLast Updated: November 18, 2015, 3:32 pm
Anna Sprague’s Ferris Wheel on Citadel Hill. Sarah Rae
With more than 80 official exhibits and many more unofficial ones, Nocturne: Art at Night had art-lovers trekking all over Halifax and Dartmouth. Thousands of people came out for the annual event Saturday night, despite rain early in the evening and cold weather.
Nocturne is a free annual event that showcases the local art scene by bringing it to the streets of Halifax and Dartmouth.
See some of the exhibits here:
The Beacon in the Dark, by Jeremy Tsang, stood on the waterfront
Singing at Sharon Stevens’ Digital Shrine at the Camp Hill cemetery. Participants were invited to write messages to the departed, which were projected onto a screen
The Coast’s Art Party invited people to colour past Coast covers and contribute to Love the Way We Bitch/Love walls
An aerial performer at Studio in Essence
Laura Dawe performs Poetic Mixology, a satire of cocktail culture
Creators of The Weather Maidens spent two hours in the rain hanging the clothes for this project, which is a comment on domestic labour and women’s work
At the Dawson Print Shop, participants were invited to make Nocturne prints and learn how the printing presses work
A recycling symbol made from plastic in the water on the Halifax waterfront
A performance from the Halifax Circus at St. Matthew’s Church
Two artists “confessing their art sins”
Lisa Lipton’s Hoop Dreams at Citadel High featured basketball, drumming, singing, and spoken word
Are We Really Strangers? at Halifax Central Library invited participants to explore hidden connections between Haligonians
Samba Nova, a Brazilian-style samba band, performed on Spring Garden Road
People flocked to see and ride on Anna Sprague’s Ferris Wheel on Citadel Hill, which ran in reverse and played carnival music backwards
