Garth is an artist and musician who created a collaborative, improvised score for a the classic silent film "Man With a Movie Camera" that was performed during the city wide Sound Bites Festival. He assembled a cast of local musicians to participated in a workshop process to create the score, and taught an Improv Music Skillshare.
Henry Adam Svec worked on Folk Songs of Canada Now, a musical performance art piece that explores the possibility that Henry is a folksong collector. He gave a public performance of his work at the Company House, as well as SappyFest in Sackville NB. Henry also gave a workshop on Stage Banter for performance artists and musicians.
Alessandra Naccarato worked on transforming sections of her play, The Custom of Killing Rabbits, into an interactive spoken word performance that shared a story of immigration, combining auto/biography and historical fact with fantasy. A lovely one-woman candlelight performance was held in the garden at dusk.
Sarah and her lovely dog Logan came for the month, and worked on several projects. Sarah completed a short video with animation, called "This City is Falling Down." She also played a few shows singing with her mini ukulele, and decorated the shed with curtains and messy drawings and collages.
Dennis is using the Print Gocco to make invitations for the release of a scroll-like guided tour pamphlet for the Utopian Territory Sub-Scotia. This was an ongoing project, with John Mathews, that examined colonization and tourism through the refounding of Georges Island, which is in the Halifax harbour, and renaming it SubScotia.
Leah stayed in the shed for some time in July and August, working on setting up an art book & zine tour that took us to the Tatamagouche Free School and back. Leah injured herself and couldn't come biking! Super bummer! But she made awesome connections for future zine workshops all around the province.
Mariana will develop her performance music project Hunter Rapper which humourously and critically explores food politics and systems, while Ross will produce a zine of recipes from memory with hand drawn lettering. Both of them will look specifically at lobster and fisheries, celebrating and examining local food knowledge.
Coral will work on The Preserving Project (I Love You This Much), a participatory performance that uses traditional food preserving techniques to transform non-food stories and objects, providing a space to talk about food, nature, memory, nostalgia, and colonization.
Sorrel made a zine about his latest tour from Vancouver to Halifax with his bands Filthy Liars and Garish. Includes nice color photos and hand drawn comics, poems and stories! He also played 2 local shows with both electric & acoustic versions of his bands.
Kai will work on a storytelling zine titled Loving the Borderline while in residence. Loving the Borderline is a project rooted in Kai's own life.