The AfterWords Literary Festival presents an afternoon of readings at The Carleton with bar service and light snacks. Madhur Anand (To Place a Rabbit), David Huebert (Oil People), Danica Roache (Five Seasons of Charlie Francis), and Elamin Abdelmahmoud (Son of Elsewhere) read from their recent works on Saturday, November 8th at 1:00 PM (doors at (more…)
Join us at 7:00 PM on Friday, November 7th when Avondale Sky Winery and Grand Pré Estate Winery go head-to-head on a wine twist to our usual Craft Draught Showdown! This is your classic wine-paired dinner with an edge! Enjoy 5 courses prepared by Chef Mathias Probst, each one paired with two wines selected by expert (more…)
The AfterWords Literary Festival presents It Pains Me To Say: A Panel Discussion with Gabrielle Drolet, Claire Cameron and Stephanie Domet at The Carleton on Friday, November 7th at 2:00 PM (doors at 1:30 PM). Please register through the Festival for this FREE event HERE. Life is pain, according to philosophers from the Buddha to Schoepenhauer to (more…)
The AfterWords Literary Festival presents Writing Resistance: How and why do we continue to make art in what feels like a time of total ungrounded chaos? Join francesca ekwuyasi and Cooper Lee Bombardier in a conversation that explores how it is vital to keep making art as resistance and response, as a way of understanding (more…)
The Piano Men is a full band production (and a great idea) of the music of two of the most celebrated songwriting pianists of all time: Elton John and Billy Joel. This show, starring starring Jeff Brewer & His Allstar Band, has been touring theatres to rave reviews and thanks to a hole in their (more…)
The Carleton is thrilled to welcome South African a cappella and dance legends Black Umfolosi International to its stage on Tuesday, November 4th. Show time is 7:00 PM and tickets are $34.20 + HST. Black Umfolosi International is one of the African continent’s most revered vocal groups, with more than three decades of international touring behind them. Their shows feature a (more…)
The AfterWords Literary Festival presents Minor Black Figures: In Conversation. We are thrilled to welcome Booker Prize finalist and bestselling author Brandon Taylor back to AfterWords. As he did so adeptly in Real Life and The Late Americans, Brandon brings to life in Minor Black Figures a fascinating set of characters, this time in the competitive (more…)
On Sunday, November 2nd, join AfterWords at The Carleton for readings with David A. Robertson in conversation with Jesse Wente, about Robertson’s powerful new book All the Little Monsters: How I Learned to Live with Anxiety. Wente (Unreconciled) and Robertson are two leading Indigenous writers/thinkers, and this conversation is sure to be rich and rewarding. (more…)
Folks of a certain age can remember back to a time when The Police were, quite simply, the biggest band in the world. Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland played a unique and irresistible brand of reggae-fied rock music that lit up stages around the world. FALLOUT, a Halifax-based tribute to The Police, brings the (more…)
Postponed from August and worth the wait… Musical Roots: An Afternoon of Song From Classical Elegance to Theatrical Flair! Join celebrated local sopranos Charise Pohl, Chloé Dionne, and Mary Austin, alongside baritone Stephen Deturbide and pianist Joseph Dowell, for a captivating musical journey at The Carleton on the afternoon of Saturday, November 1st. Doors open (more…)