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Button Making – March Break with AGNS

Halifax North Memorial Library 2285 Gottingen St, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Join us at the library! We’ll help you create a masterpiece of art and turn it into a button you can take home. We’ll explore drawing materials, collage, and more and to make something unique to enjoy on the go! All materials provided. This free art experience is...

Button Making – March Break with AGNS

Dartmouth North Public Library 105 Highfield Park Dr, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Join us at the library! We’ll help you create a masterpiece of art and turn it into a button you can take home. We’ll explore drawing materials, collage, and more and to make something unique to enjoy on the go! All materials provided. This free art experience is...

Button Making – March Break with AGNS

Halifax North Memorial Library 2285 Gottingen St, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Join us at the library! We’ll help you create a masterpiece of art and turn it into a button you can take home. We’ll explore drawing materials, collage, and more and to make something unique to enjoy on the go! Sessions times:10am–12pm and 1–4pm All materials provided. This...

Button Making on the Ferry – March Break with AGNS

Dartmouth Ferry Terminal 88 Alderney Dr, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Find us at Alderney Ferry Terminal and Halifax Ferry terminal with a free pop-up art activity. We’ll be offering art kits to folks departing for the ferry, with a chance to turn your drawing into a button when you arrive in the terminal! From 10-11:30am, and 1-3:30pm we...

Book Launch for Halifax Art & Artists – An Illustrated History

Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library 5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax, Canada

Halifax Art & Artists presents the stories of the city’s creators from craftspeople and portrait painters to filmmakers and multidisciplinary makers from time immemorial to the present. The event will feature a panel discussion including the book’s author Ray Cronin; artist Alan Syliboy; Ann Kitz, daughter of Alex...

G.L.A.M. Bats at AGNS

A performance somewhere between burlesque and a musical about galleries, exists rock ballads by G.L.A.M. Bats, featuring Mitchell Wiebe, Graeme Patterson, and occasional special guests. G.L.A.M. you may wonder?  G – galleriesL – librariesA – archivesM – museums  They’ve played shows across the country, and now at the AGNS!...

Nocturne Artist Talk – Panel Discussion

Dawn Shepard, Ryan Gray, Lance Sampson(Aquakultre), Sonia Chow and Seamus Gallagher build worlds in their art and the communities around them. Curator Shuvanjan Karmaker brought them together as Nocturne 2024 Anchor Artists to create work that inspires us to build worlds of our own.  We will be discussing...

Nocturne Artist Talk – Cheryl L’Hirondelle

Join Nocturne and AGNS for a special artist talk with interdisciplinary artist Cheryl L’Hirondelle. The talk will be followed by a participatory activation Light Tipi from 8:30-10:00 PM. Cheryl L’Hirondelle (Cree/Half Breed; German/Polish) is an award-winning and community-engaged interdisciplinary artist, singer/songwriter and critical thinker whose family is from Papaschase First...

Painting & Pints: Maud Lewis – Tulips

Everyone is an artist at the AGNS’s adult paint night! Join artist Meggie Richards for a fun evening at the gallery, as she guides you through making a painting you’ll be proud to take home at the end of the evening. On this date you’ll be painting tulips,...

Painting & Pints: Robert Anand – Truro, N.S.

Everyone is an artist at the AGNS’s adult paint night! Join artist Meggie Richards for a fun evening at the gallery, as she guides you through making a painting you’ll be proud to take home at the end of the evening. On this date you’ll be painting a...

Nocturne – AGNS at Night

Visit exhibitions including Léopold L. Foulem: Reshaping Function, Mike MacDonald's Touched by the Tears of a Butterfly, 2023 Nova Scotia Art Bank Purchases, and the Maud Lewis Gallery, plus join us in the studios for Make It Microcosmic: an immersive Nocturne experience for one night only!

Painting & Pints: Maud Lewis – Three Black Cats

Everyone is an artist at the AGNS’s adult paint night! Join artist Meggie Richards for a fun evening at the gallery, as she guides you through making a painting you’ll be proud to take home at the end of the evening. The cats came back, by popular demand!...

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