The 2024 Nocturne Art-at-Night festival (October 17-20) features NSCAD students, alumni and faculty showing their work around the city. Out of nearly 100 Nocturne projects this year, nearly half involve NSCAD artists and performers.
Here is a capsule of seven Nocturne shows to watch out for during the four-day event. You can also find the full listing to NSCAD-related events below or you can download this handy NSCAD at Nocturne PDF to take with you.
Thursday, October 17 (7 – 8:30 p.m.)
Nocturne’s 2024 Festival Curator, Shuvanjan Karmaker, will sit down with Aquakultre, Breaking Circus (Dawn Shepherd & Ryan Gray), Sonia Chow, and Séamus Gallagher (BFA 2019) to discuss their projects for Nocturne, Microcosm, and provide a sneak peek of what’s to come throughout Nocturne weekend.
Location: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1723 Hollis St., Halifax
Friday, October 18 (7 – 10 p.m.)
NSCAD visiting artist Cheryl L’Hirondelle will speak about her work yahkāskwan mīhkiwap (Light Tipi) at AGNS at 7:00 p.m. Light Tipi urges people to come together and create a tipi as a community-engaged activity (while getting a good smudging from the cleansing sage smoke). There will be a participatory activation of Light Tipi from 8:30-10:00 PM at Collins Court.
Locations: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1723 Hollis St. and Collins Court, Historic Properties, 1883 Upper Water St, Halifax
Saturday, October 19 (6:00 p.m. – Midnight)
The Eye of the Tiger by Sonia Chow (MFA 2022, BFA 1995, faculty/staff) features a mysterious five-foot-tall tiger head made of wood and textiles that beckons viewers to peer into its glowing eyes and share its secret thoughts. The structure is a protective bubble, a place for reflecting our inner selves and experiences, who we are, and our dreams for the future.
Location: Canada Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, 1055 Marginal Rd., Halifax
Seamus Gallagher’s video installation on the ground, in the air, across the water touches on gender reveals, forest fires, and the ways technologies fail us. Gallagher’s video projection installation was created by scanning various botanical gardens around Turtle Island, creating a doubly artificial landscape that the video game camera moves through.
Location: 1521 Grafton St. back parking lot, Halifax
NSCAD student Woochang Kim and John Janigan-Mills will present INVISIBLE x FREQUENCIES x IDENTITIES. Are invisible frequencies part of your identity, your essence? Come decide for yourself as your digital data is rendered through a complex array of antennas and signal processors into the analog world of light and sound, generating cymatic patterns and soundscapes that mimic the complexity of the social ecosystems that these invisible frequencies secretly inhabit.
Location: Former Art Bar, 1873 Granville Street, Halifax
Lara Sturzenbaum (BFA 2023) contributed to the NOISEMakers’ (Newcomer Opportunities & Impactful Site-Specific Arts-Based Experiences) 2024 installation Symphony of Nests. This celebration of migration and belonging uses the universal language of storytelling to explore avian themes of homelands and histories. This immersive environment-focused installation experience includes multilingual performances, projection, costuming and live audio, all connected through the interactive project website.
Location: Alderney Landing Theatre, 2 Ochterloney Street, Dartmouth
Sunday, October 20 (Noon – 4 p.m.)
Quilted Canopies is an immersive installation by alumna Shayla Bond (BFA 2014) and Anne Kobayashi featuring three quilt-inspired parachutes made from up-cycled sailcloth, offering a serene, low-sensory retreat. The design of each parachute is inspired by traditional quilts, blending aesthetic beauty with functional shelter. These parachutes, much like quilts, symbolize warmth, comfort, and community.
Location: Halifax Public Gardens, Family Lawn, Spring Garden Rd.
More NSCAD Projects at Nocturne
Black to the Roots
Workshop/demo: Kwame Owusu Brobbey (current student) & Jean Serutoke (BFA 2022). Dalhousie Butterfly Garden, Studley Field, 1267 Henry St, Halifax.
To Be A Flamingo
Arjun Lal (BFA 2019, current MFA student). John W. Lindsay YMCA, 5640 Sackville St, Halifax.
Printing Bee
Andrea Rahal (BFA 2004) & Daniel MacDonald, Inkwell Modern Handmade Boutique & Letterpress Studio Inc. 1453 South Park Street
In(significant)
Melissa Boucher-Guilbert (current student). Museum of Natural History, 1747 Summer Street
Hands On Animation Studio
Becka Barker (BFA 2000), Faculty, Carbon Arc Cinema, 1747 Summer St.
G.L.A.M. Bats
Performance and drop-in lounge experience: Graeme Patterson (BFA 2003) & Mitchell Wiebe (MFA 1996). Dalhousie Art Gallery, 6101 University Ave.
A Touch of Calligraphy
Fran Ornstein (BFA 1975 & 1981) & Jim Xi (BDes 2018). Barat Spirituality Centre, 1455 Summer St.
Layers
Get inky and stinky with the NSCAD Print Club. Granville Mall, 1895 Granville Street
Colour Therapy
Jay Merriott (BFA 2019). Von Winkle Gallery, 1496 Lower Water St.
Night Life
Jack Ross (BFA 2012). Argyle Fine Art, 1559 Barrington Street
NSCAD Jewelry Department Exhibition
Yu Yo Craft Supply + Tea House, 1498 Lower Water St. Suite 1117
Through Our Eyes
I’thandi Munro (BFA 2020), Ralph and Rose Chiodo Gallery, Pier 21, 1055 Marginal Rd, Halifax
Re/collections
Community group installation: Arjun Lal (BFA 2019, current MFA student), Seamus Gallagher (BFA 2019), Lynn Rotin (BFA 2000), Fenn Martin (BFA 2006), Chris Joyce (BFA 1989), Rebecca Fisk (BFA 1993), David Dahms (BFA 2007), Sara Angelucci (MFA 1997), David Harper (BFA 2006), Gerard Collins (BFA 1981), Onni Nordman (1991 – 1995), Stephen Kelly (BFA 2001), Sarah Maloney (BFA 1998), Norma Jean MacLean (BFA 2011), Kim Morgan (Faculty), Craig Leonard (Faculty). Visual Arts Nova Scotia, the Corridor Gallery, 1113 Marginal Rd.
Soft Landing
Carrie Phillips Kieser (MFA 2022). Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Hotel, 1919 Upper Water St.
New Work
Geordan Moore (Bdes 2007). Frabjous Delights Specialty Foods, 5696 Roberts St.
Bound
Henry Lachance (BFA 2023). St. George’s Round Church, 2222 Brunswick St.
Atonement
Frances Dorsey (former faculty) & Peter Dykhuis (former faculty), HERMES Art Gallery Co-operative Limited, 5682 North Street
Macro to Micro Bookbinding Blast
Nova Scotia Book Arts Group, Artists’ Quarter, 2594 Agricola St.
Spheres
Derrick Dixon (2008 – 2013), Lost & Found, 2383 Agricola St.
Recycled Shadows
Frankie Macaulay (BFA 2015), Lake City Cider, 35 Portland St, Dartmouth.