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🗞 A weekend of festivals
Plus: This week's harbour report & Kinsella's unexpected exit.
Alyssa Goulart
September 08, 2023
Happy Friday,
It seems like the city is trying to get as much as it can out of the last few weeks (or days) of warm weather. Luckily for us, that means there’s tons to do over the next three days including four different festivals: The Halifax Lebanese Festival, Festa Italiano, LatinFax Festival and the Gottingen Street Festival.
If you want the deets on any of these fests scroll on down.
Have a good weekend!
Do you plan on attending any of the festivals happening this weekend? |
P.S. It’s your last chance to vote in the 2023 Best of Halifax Awards. Polls close on Sunday, September 10!
– Alyssa
☀️ Today’s weather: Sunny with a high of 30C (feeling like 38C) and a low of 20C.
💨 Here is Halifax’s Air Quality Index and the smoke report.
🚗 Driving in the city today? Check out the current traffic conditions and ongoing road closures.
SHIPPING NEWS
Julius Caesar meets Van Halen in Halifax Harbour this week—sort of
📸 Left: Screenshot from 'Gladiator.' Right: Anirudh Koul / Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0
The 4,260-passenger Norwegian Escape comes into port on Friday as one of the biggest ships to enter Halifax Harbour this week. At a whopping 326 metres long, it’s about the length of three NFL football fields.
The only ship bigger? That’d be the CMA CGM Panama, which can carry up to 15,128 20-foot steel containers—or roughly the equivalent, when laid end-to-end, of the distance from Halifax to Truro. Not too shabby for a ship whose name conjures images of Van Halen’s 1984.
Need to know
😷 Nova Scotia Health will no longer screen for COVID-19 at the entrances of health facilities.
🛏️ Nocturne is collecting gently-used blankets for a project exploring the intersection between grief and joy. For more information, please email [email protected].*
🚴♂️ Local parents who want their kids to ride bikes to school are looking for volunteers to help bring bike buses to Halifax. Interested in helping out? You can sign up here.
📖 AfterWords Literary Festival happens October 29 to November 5, featuring Emma Donoghue, Mona Awad, Alicia Elliott and more. Readers and writers meet at AfterWords.*
📞 MACPASS is having a customer service outage starting today at 3pm until Sept. 14. All online, phone and walk-in services will be unavailable.
✍️ Join us for four days of signature events as we celebrate world class authors, storytellers, comedians, and musicians! More information & REGISTER HERE!*
🥳 You're invited to the Gottingen Street Festival on Saturday, September 9, from 1-6pm! Gottingen Street's sidewalks will be animated with music, vendors, and activities for the whole family!*
*Sponsored Post
SPONSORED BY LIVE ART DANCE
Live Art Dance's 2023-24 Main Stage!
Live Art Dance’s season comprises of two series: the popular Main Stage series and the experimental Next Stage series.
The Main Stage series kicks off with Bboyizm, one of Canada’s premier street dance companies bringing dazzling hip-hop tricks with In My Body. Next up is the world premiere of The Devil’s Intervals by Halifax choreographer, Lydia Zimmer and the launch of her new company, Zimmerdans. In the new year Toronto-based absurdist dance-theatre company, Rock Bottom Movement brings their double bill An Immortal Kinda Love. The Main Stage closes with a mixed program from Ballet Edmonton, led by one of Canada’s most remarkable choreographers, Wen Wei Wang.
SPONSORED BY ROSEMARY PORTER
Real Estate Market Update
Summer is winding down, but the Real Estate Market is not! Listing numbers are up but this is still considered a strong seller’s market. There are more listings on the market now than last year at this time, which gives buyers an opportunity to view more options and prepare themselves. Are you ready to take the next step? I'm always happy to chat about this ever-changing market.
In other news
🏒 The Halifax Mooseheads have announced the team will be retiring NHL star, and former Moosehead, Nathan MacKinnon’s jersey.
🌱 Meet the Dartmouth couple attempting to live net zero as part of a new Canadian Geographic Magazine competition.
🌕 Nocturne in partnership with Build Nova Scotia is looking for Calls of Expression of Interest from community groups to participate in this year’s festival.
🍼 Officials are five new hires away from solving the midwife shortage in Halifax but a provincial shortage still looms.
🗳 Don’t forget to get your votes in for this year’s Best of Halifax Awards. Polls close on Sunday, September 10!
🎓 Nova Scotia Education Minister Becky Druhan spoke to Global News about potential school governance changes coming this year.
🏆 Emergency room physician, Beau Blois from Colchester County, has been named the 2023 recipient of the Woodland Owner of the Year award.
🦞 The provincial fisheries minister has announced his intention to increase the fine for buying out-of-season lobster to $1 million.
🧐 Canada has officially launched a public inquiry into foreign election interference. CTV has the story.
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The Gottingen Street Festival is back!
The Gottingen Street Festival is back again this Saturday, September 9 from 1-6pm! This annual event builds on the celebration of Gottingen Streets 250th Anniversary. With multiple sites animated with music, vendors, and activities; the festival is an opportunity to engage with the local community and celebrate the great diversity and legacy of the neighbourhood!
NEWS
Halifax police chief Dan Kinsella is retiring
📸 Matt Stickland/ The Coast
Halifax Regional Police chief Dan Kinsella is retiring at the age of 57. The move—announced right before Thursday’s Board of Police Commissioners meeting—comes four years into Kinsella’s reign as the city’s top cop, and his last day will be Sept. 15. It's a bit of an unexpected and abrupt exit for Kinsella, but if Chadwick Boseman taught us nothing else, it is likely unwise to speculate on why.
Sure things
Looking for something to do this week? Check out these Coast picks:
🗓 Festa Italiana Halifax: Immerse yourself in Italian culture this weekend at the annual Italian Festival happening at 2629 Agricola Street. Stop by on Friday for Gnocchi Night or Saturday for Tutto Italiano (or both!). | Sept. 8-9 | 6pm-9pm, noon-9pm | $2.
🗓 The Gottingen Street Festival: Celebrate the 250th anniversary of Gottingen Street with live music, vendors, food trucks and more. | Sept. 9 | 1-6pm | Free.
🗓 LatinFax Festival 2023: Visit the waterfront for an afternoon of celebrating Latin tradition with song, dance, vendors and more. | Sept. 10 | noon-5pm | Free.
Find more Halifax events in The Coast listings
Eat this
🍴 Introducing Cafe Goodluck’s new vegan breakfast sandwich: A chickpea patty on an English muffin topped with vegan mayo, housemade tomato jam, pickled shallots and pea shoots. You can also try pairing it with the cafe’s seasonal pumpkin spice latte.
Drink this
🍹 Try Tatamagouche Brewing Co.’s new Intertidal White IPA made with juicy hops, Belgian yeast and grapefruit peel for a pineapple, mango and mandarin flavour.
Shop this
🛍 Room 152 Clothing Boutique is having its 9th annual charity yard sale on Sept. 9 at the South End Baptist Church. Stop by between 9am and noon and help support Alice House. Don’t forget cash!
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