2022-02-28 • Halifax

Queer Spirit Church returns to in-person services this Wednesday with a queer take on one of Christianity's most beautiful traditions: glitter ashes!

Every year, at the beginning of the contemplative season of Lent, Christians around the world have their foreheads marked with the traditional ashes of humility.

On Friday, March 4th, Halifax will see its first all-queer Jewish event.

In a workshop entitled, A Queer Welcoming of Shabbat & Adar II, Sof Kreidstein will explore creating rituals, modifying or reframing those we’ve carried through teachings and/or familial traditions, and considering what makes them personally meaningful to us, can be a radical and healing process.

Unison Choruses Canada has decided to postpone the 2022 Unison Festival to 2023.

Halifax Pride Festival running July 14-24, the Pride Parade is planned for Saturday, July 16, 2022, with a start time of 12:00 p.m., and the festival is launching a call for parade and project applications.

Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore author Jeanine LeBlanc is looking for new writers or published authors to share a voice on how they managed to overcome struggles on trauma such as abuse, loss, near-death experiences, mental illness, addiction, or discrimination for her next Healing Hearts book, expected to be published in 2022.

In November, Wayves interviewed one of the organizers of the nude swim group, "Halifax Drama Free All Welcome Skinny Dippers."

In a Heartbeat is a story about a 17-year-old transgender boy who wants to start fresh in a new place - where no one knows him.

The South Shore Pride Spiel is a fun curling spiel for the 2SLGBTQ+ community and their allies which has been expanded to two days, a drag show & dance for January 2022.

Living in Flow explores the relationship between water and well-being, and the Halifax project features local LGBTQ2SIA+ talent in front of and behind the camera.

John Yogis passed away on Tuesday, November 23rd. He is survived by his longtime partner and husband, Darrell Roy.