These Halifax restaurants were voted among Canada’s best

FESTIVALS

Everyseeker 2023 announces first names for festival lineup

Everyseeker—the wild, weird, boundary-pushing music and art festival that always punches above its weight—announced a list of names that'll be performing at this year's event in a newsletter it sent out this week. While show details for the fest—which is slated to run from June 14-18—are still TBD, we're excited at the sight of some familiar names and can't wait to learn more in the coming weeks about new ones.

See the list of performers announced this week.

Need to know

☀️ Today's weather: Sunny with a high of 11C and a low of 3C.

🛣 The Highway 104 twinning project made progress this week. A new 10km four-lane stretch of highway through Picto and Atigonish Counties is now open. Read the official release here.

🛠 Construction has begun on 6 long-term care facilities planned for the Halifax area. The goal is to have all the facilities up and running by 2027.

🏅 It’s not too late to be a part of the 2023 North American Indigenous Games, Atlantic Canada’s largest-ever sport and culture event! Click here and sign up to volunteer.*

💪 Zuppa is bringing their high octane theatre/dance global economy workout spectacular The Movements to Mayworks and STAGES, May 25-June 6 at Alderney Landing Theatre.*

🎭 Let’s Dance! The Musical is a fun rock & roll musical for the whole family, coming to Neptune Theatre July 27-30. Get your tickets now!*

*Sponsored Post

SPONSORED BY SCOTIA FESTIVAL OF MUSIC 2023

Scotia Festival of Music 2023 kicks off May 29

Scotia Festival of Music is a legendary showcase for world-class musicians from across North America, with diverse, engaging, and innovative programming. Two action-packed weeks of chamber music await audiences, with daily mainstage concerts running from Monday, May 29 until Sunday, June 11 in the stunning new Joseph Strug Concert Hall at Dalhousie University.

Highlights include 2023 JUNO-winning pianist Philip Chiu; Atlantic Canada’s first gamelan ensemble; Copland's beloved "Appalachian Spring"; and a grand finale featuring a 60-piece orchestra conducted by Dinuk Wijeratne, including Vaughan Williams's swoon-worthy The Lark Ascending and Rimsky-Korsakov's epic Scheherazade. Scotia Festival of Music 2023 has something for everyone.

Click here to get your tickets today!

On The Coast

SPONSORED BY ART GALLERY OF NOVA SCOTIA

Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity at AGNS

Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity features 17 Indigenous artists from around the world and explores ways these contemporary artists take on issues of climate change, globalized Indigeneity, and political contact zones in the Arctic and Amazon. Now on view at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.

In other news

💵 One Halifax woman is sharing the realities of living with celiac disease at a time when inflation is making gluten-free options extremely unaffordable.

🎨 NSCAD students have brightened the days of hospital staff, patients and visitors with a new mural located at the entrance of Halifax’s Victoria General Hospital.

🧓 Hospitals are preparing to hire individuals for the rollout of the early maintenance mobilization project, an initiative that will work to get more elderly patients on their feet and prioritize movement.

📜 A new document, the Halifax Declaration for the Eradication of Racial Discrimination, was launched this Tuesday. The document is an overview of actions that can be taken in order to improve the lives of Black Canadians. CBC has the story.

🥉 The finale of Canada’s Got Talent was Tuesday night and Glace Bay duo, The Turnbull Brothers, took home third place! Quebec dance act, Conversion, won the grand prize.

🏀 The Eastern Canadian Basketball League, which features teams like the Truro Tide, Valley Vipers and Charlottetown Power, was forced to end its regular season midway due to financial issues.

🛳 New 3D scans of the Titanic are giving researchers more insight into how and why the ship actually sank.

🎥 The Atlantic International Film Festival (FIN) is now accepting applications for its Filmmaker Lab. Find more information here.

DINING OUT

These Halifax restaurants were voted among Canada’s best

Call your “from aways” friends and relatives and tell them there’s proof for what you’ve been saying for years: Halifax’s bar and restaurant scene is pretty damn good—and it’s not just oysters and lobster.

Halifax’s food scene is earning rave reviews in this year’s Canada’s 100 Best Restaurants list, an annual ranking of the top eateries and bars in the country, as voted by a panel of 130 food writers, critics, chefs and other industry professionals.

Four restaurants in our region cracked the top 100, and Halifax scored more Best New Restaurant entries than any other Canadian city, with three of the top 10.

Coast reporter Martin Bauman breaks down the winners and what it means for the region’s culinary scene.

🗓 Things to do: Weekend planner

Looking for something to do this weekend? Check out these Coast picks:

Thursday

• Bold, Beautiful Brass: Join the Scotia Brass and conductor Rod MacGillivray at St. Mark’s Anglican Church for a night of musical variety celebrating the beauty of brass instruments | $10-$15 | 7:30pm.

• Live at The Seahorse: The Seahorse Tavern has a Thursday lineup of live music ready for you. Stop by and listen to tunes from Touched, Postfun, Sophie Noel and Marc Mclaughlin | $8.15 | 9pm.

• Queer Karaoke Night: Unwind with a night of singing, food and drinks with East Coast Queers at The Hopyard’s Queer Karaoke Night | $5 | 8pm.

Friday

• Kelp Krawl: Join in on this year’s Kelp Fest and head to a list of participating restaurants like Dear Friend Bar, The Wooden Monkey and Drift, to try dishes made with Nova Scotian-grown kelp | Until May 21.

Saturday

• East Coast Cider Fest: Cider Fest is in town this weekend at the Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Hotel and there are a limited amount of tickets left! | 1pm-4pm, 6pm-9pm | $49.50.

• The Future of Funny: Who would win in a stand-up battle? Comedians or AI software developers? Find out at The Bus Stop Theatre’s special artificial intelligence-themed stand-up show | 8pm | $20.

• Songs of the Spring: Schedule an evening of music with family and friends at The Hopyard. The acoustic tunes will be provided by the NSCC Music Arts with performances from the NSCC Choir and the ensemble The YouKnoWho’s | $10 | 8pm.

Sunday

• Geoguessing Trivia: Have you been wanting to test out your geography skills? Serpent Brewing is mixing geography and trivia for the ultimate test. Form a team of 6 and trek on over to Spryfield | 6pm | Free.

• Don Ross and Pipo Romero: Help The Carelton celebrate its 15th anniversary with internationally known guitarist Don Ross and his partner Pipo Romero | $30 | 7pm.

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