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  • Halifax Harbour 1918 / Le port d'Halifax 1918 by Anabelle Kienle Ponka

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    Two wartime artists, one bustling harbour, and a city ravaged by the Halifax Explosion. Two perspectives on Halifax one year after the Explosion. A...

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  • Meditation for Makers: Daily Affirmations for a Creative Life by Deanne Fitzpatrick

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    To lead a creative life is to experience dizzying highs and gloomy lows, and Deanne Fitzpatrick, a veteran textile artist and entrepreneur, has bee...

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  • How She Read by Chantal Gibson

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    How She Read is a collection of genre-blurring poems about the representation of Black women, their hearts, minds and bodies, across the Canadian c...

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  • Revision and Resistance: Kent Monkman and mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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    Kent Monkman (b. 1965) is Canada's most important and influential contemporary artist. His epic diptych commission for the Metropolitan Museum of A...

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  • Prime Suspects: Canada’s Prime Ministers in Caricature by Bruce MacKinnon

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    Halifax-based artist and editorial cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon presents his recent suite of caricature-portraits of Canada’s prime ministers past an...

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  • Historic Halifax Streetscapes: Then and Now. Three walking tours, V.1 by Barbara DeLory

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    This pocket-sized handbook contains 103 essays and 126 photos of historical structures: personal residences, iconic businesses and selected landmar...

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  • Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity

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    Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity offers a conversation between Indigenous Peoples of two regions in this time of political and environ...

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  • Mary Pratt: Still Light by Ray Cronin

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    A Gaspereau Field Guide to Canadian Artists: No. 1After studying Fine Art at Mount Allison University, Mary Pratt (1935–2018) settled in Newfoundla...

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  • Alicia Henry: Witnessing

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    This publication in the Power Plant Pages series was produced in collaboration with the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Nova Sc...

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  • Nova Scotia Folk Art Canada's Cultural Heritage

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    A catalogue based on the 1989 exhibition of the same name which took place in London, England and then travelled to six other U.K. locations. Follo...

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  • Autism Arts by Dale Sheppard, Cynthia Carroll, Melissa Marr

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    Art has the potential to bring us together and create lasting connections. As humans, we have a universal need to express ourselves, find meaning, ...

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  • The Thundermaker - Kaqtukowa'tekete'w by Alan Syliboy

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    Mi'kmaw artist Alan Syliboy's The Thundermaker is based on Alan's spectacular mixed-media exhibit of the same name. In the book, Big Thunder teache...

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  • Mary Pratt - English

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    Luminescent paintings form the visual focus of Mary Pratt, a career retrospective that examines every aspect of Pratt’s unique creative journey. Th...

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  • Black Loyalists

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    During the American Revolution (1775-1783), the British government offered freedom to slaves who would desert their rebel masters as a way of ruini...

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  • Alex Colville: A Rebellious Mind by Ray Cronin

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    A Gaspereau Field Guide to Canadian Artists: No. 3While serving as a Canadian war artist in Europe during the Second World War, Alex Colville (1920...

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  • Wolverine and Little Thunder: An Eel Fishing Story (PB) by Alan Syliboy

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      Celebrated Mi’kmaw artist behind The Thundermaker returns with a new story about friendship and the importance of traditional knowledge — now in...

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  • Arena: The Art of Hockey

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    Hockey and art may not seem like they have much in common; however, if you look closer, there are certain similarities they both share. From creati...

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  • Pop-up Halifax by Brad Hartman

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    A colourful pop-up book featuring 6 full-colour scenes of Halifax and area, suitable for all ages Nova Scotia is home to some of the most beautiful...

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  • Hook Me a Story by Deanne Fitzpatrick

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    A much-needed source book for anyone wanting to know the history and the craft of rug hooking. Includes illustrations of techniques and materials a...

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  • I’m Finding My Talk by Rebecca Thomas (Author) and Pauline Young (Artist)

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    I’m finding my talkAnd it may take some time,But I’m learning to speakIn a language that’s mine. A response to Rita Joe’s iconic poem “I Lost My Ta...

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  • I Lost My Talk by Rita Joe (Author) & Pauline Young (Artist)

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    I lost my talk The talk you took away When I was a little girl At Shubenacadie school. One of Rita Joe's most influential poems, "I Lost My Talk" t...

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  • The Last Art College: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1968-1978

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    How did a small art college in Nova Scotia become the epicenter of art education—and to a large extent of the postminimalism and conceptual a...

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  • Before the Parade: A History of Halifax's Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Communities, 1972-1984 by Rebecca Rose

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    In Before the Parade, journalist and activist Rebecca Rose brings her queer femme, feminist perspective to this compelling, and necessary, history ...

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  • Mi’kmaw Daily Drum: Mi'kmaw Culture for Every Day of the Week by Alan Syliboy

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    A baby board book from the bestselling artist behind Mi’kmaw Animals that teaches young readers Mi’kmaw concepts and a Mi’kmaw word for each day of...

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