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Jessica Scott Kerrin is an award-winning author of children's fiction, including the Martin Bridge series, published by Kids Can Press. She has also published fiction and non-fiction for magazines. Born and raised in Alberta, she holds a BA in political science and psychology from University of Calgary, a BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and an MPA from Dalhousie University. Before turning to writing as a profession, she worked for over 20 years as an arts administrator in government, post-secondary institutions, galleries and museums. She has taught writing workshops for universities, national associations and literary festivals across Canada and the United States, and has served on juries for national and regional writing competitions including the Governor General Literary Awards. Her own writing has received nominations and awards from the Canadian Children's Book Centre, Children's Library Association, American Library Association, The Horn Book Magazine and New York Public Library.
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Susan Kerslake was born in Chicago in 1943 and educated at the University of Montana and Beliot College, Wisconsin. In 1966 she emigrated to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she established herself as a creative writer. Her published work includes Middlewatch (1976), short-listed for a Books in Canada First Novel Award; The Book of Fears (1984), shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for English-language fiction; Blind Date (1989); and Seasoning Fever (2002). Her short stories have appeared in The Fiddlehead, Canadian Fiction Magazine, Grain and The Antigonish Review.
Kerslake worked at Dalhousie Libraries and the Dalhousie Medical School Archives, at St Joseph’s Children’s Centre, and with Child Life at the IWK Grace Hospital for Women and Children. She is also a long-time volunteer with children with cystic fibrosis and editorial board member of The Dalhousie Review.
Kerslake worked at Dalhousie Libraries and the Dalhousie Medical School Archives, at St Joseph’s Children’s Centre, and with Child Life at the IWK Grace Hospital for Women and Children. She is also a long-time volunteer with children with cystic fibrosis and editorial board member of The Dalhousie Review.
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Shawn Kerwin studied theatre design at the Sadlers Wells School in London, England. She also studied drawing and painting in New York at various institutions, including the New Brooklyn School, the Arts Students' League, and the New York Academy of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture. She has worked as a set and costume designer with several theatre companies, including the National Arts Centre, the Stratford Festival, Soulpepper, the Citadel, heatre New Brunswick, Neptune Theatre, Mirvish Productions, Factory Theatre, Canadian Stage Company, Pacific Opera, Blyth Festival, and many others. She has received two Dora Awards (Toronto) for outstanding design, a Harold Award (Toronto), the Tom Patterson Award (Stratford), and four Canada Council Awards. She has also designed over 250 windows for Tiffany & Co.'s flagship store in Toronto, Ontario. She is currently an associate professor of stage design at York University in Toronto.
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The Khyber Arts Society is a not-for-profit organization that administers the Khyber Centre for the Arts, an artist-run centre for non-commercial work. The centre was developed in 1994 by the No Money Down Cultural Society, headed by Bill Roberts, who negotiated an agreement with the City of Halifax to maintain an unoccupied three-storey heritage building known as the Church of England Institute for use as an art exhibit and live entertainment space. The society was incorporated on 10 March 1995 as the Halifax Arts Centre Project Society; in September 1995 it changed its name to the Khyber Arts Society. In the mid-2000s the Khyber Centre for the Arts became known as the Khyber Institute of Contemporary Art (Khyber ICA), but the name was changed back in 2012.
Lease negotiations between the Khyber Arts Society and Halifax Regional Municipality have formed a central role in the society's history. In 1995 a widespread campaign to keep the Khyber public and to secure a long-term lease was launched, resulting in the promise of a three-year lease. Structural renovations forced a temporary relocation. In 1996 the Khyber Arts Society signed a new five-year renewable lease and, after obtaining a liquor license, the Khyber Club was opened as a meeting place for visual artists and a venue for Halifax’s emerging music scene.
In 2006 the Khyber Arts Society ceased to be the primary property manager on behalf of the municipality and the Khyber Performance Arts Society was formed to run the club as a non-profit performance space. Musician Lukas Pearse proposed establishing a performing arts society to keep the Khyber Club open after tax issues compelled the Khyber Arts Society to close it. In 2007 the society again negotiated with the City of Halifax to renew its lease and were offered a month-to-month tenancy, which was accepted in April 2008. In 2015 the discovery of asbestos closed down the building, and in 2017 the Khyber Centre for the Arts relocated to Hollis Street.
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Gary Kibbins is a media artist and writer. Kibbins taught at the California Institute of the Arts until 2000. Kibbins became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2006 because their videos became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Eric Kickle became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1998 because their video recording "A Chance Encounter" became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Killam Brothers Limited was a fuel company based in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
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- 1900-1965
Dorothy Johnston Killam was born in St. Louis, MS in 1900. Her father was a wealthy banker. She met her husband in Montreal in 1921. Dorothy and Izaak were based primarily in Montreal but had houses around the world. She was known to be a very savvy business-minded person, and learnt much about the business world from her husband. When Izaak passed away in 1955, she took over the management of his estate. She doubled the Izaak Killam estate in the ten years before she passed away, and donated millions of dollars to create programs like the Canada Council for the Arts. When she died in 1965 her estate was $93 million dollars. Her fortune created the Killam Trusts for higher education, the Killam Memorial Library at Dalhousie, the IWK Health Centre, and $12M more for the Canada Council for the Arts. “As of 2015, more than 6000 scholars and researchers had benefited from Killam Trust awards.”
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- 1885-1955
Izaak Walton Killam was born July 23, 1885 in Yarmouth, NS. He worked as a banker with Union Bank in Halifax, eventually becoming in charge of Royal Securities. He got involved in banking, and pulp, paper, and hydroelectric projects. He created the Bowater Mersey Paper Company Ltd. in 1929 in Nova Scotia. He and his wife Dorothy had no children, so they dedicated their lives to philanthropic and business dealings. He was very private and was considered to be the richest man in Canada when he died on August 5, 1955 at his fishing lodge in Quebec. He received an honorary degree from Dalhousie.
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Elizabeth Kilpatrick was a 1915 graduate of Dalhousie Medical School and a psychiatrist. She was born in Nova Scotia on 17 February 1892 and received her early education in Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia. After graduating from Dalhousie, Dr. Kilpatrick earned a second medical degree from Long Island College Hospital in 1925. She worked at several institutions before settling in New York and starting a private psychiatry practice in 1928.
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Heesoo Kim became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2006 because their film “Let go” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Warwick Kimmins was a professor of biology and Dean of Dalhousie's Faculty of Science from 1990-2000. He was born in London, England to Charles Horace Kimmins and Eileen May Kimmins. He graduated with a PhD In biology from the University of London in 1965 and began teaching biology at Dalhousie the same year, where he focused on Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. From 1981 until 1990, he served as Chair of the Biology Department, then as Dean of the Faculty of Science from 1995 until 2000 and as Acting Vice-President from 1997-1998. After leaving Dalhousie University, Kimmins became a co-founder in the successful Halifax Biotechnology company Immunovaccine Technologies (IVT) for which he served as President and CEO from 2001-2006, then as Chairman on the Board of Directors. During these years, research by Kimmins and colleagues led to the development of a vaccine for marine mammals, and the possibility of a vaccine platform with health benefits for treatment of human diseases such as cancer and infectious diseases. Kimmins died on August 5, 2007 at the age of 66.
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Eleanor King is an artist who uses music, sound art, improvisation and other mediums to create her art. King has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her education includes a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in 2001. King became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2005 because their video recording “Soundroam” which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Gordon Barss Kinsman developed and introduced Nova Scotia's first wild blueberry extension program and encouraged the introduction of cultured wild blueberry methods. Born on 19 March 1927 in Lakeville, Kings County, he studied at Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Macdonald College at McGill University, and the University of New Hampshire. In 1949 he joined the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture as their first extension specialist for berry crops and was involved in developing a certified strawberry plant program. In 1962 he was appointed director of horticulture and biology services at the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Marketing, and in 1978 became director of marketing and economics, directing a change in emphasis from service-oriented to developmental marketing. After his retirement in 1986, he became an agricultural consultant.
He was a charter member of the Nova Scotia Institute of Agrologists and a member of the VON Truro Branch and the Golden K Truro club. In 1990 he received the Calyx award from the North American Blueberry Council. A founding member of the Westmount Park Garden Club, he was awarded a medal of appreciation from the Nova Scotia Garden Association and recognition from the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture. Kinsman was also active in cultural and heritage projects and was a life member of the Colchester Historical Society, chairman of the Nova Scotia Federation of Museums, Heritage and Historical Societies, and chairman of the Provincial Advisory Committee on Heritage Property. In 1978 he was awarded Nova Scotia's Cultural Life Award and in 1994 he received the President's Award from the Federation of Nova Scotian Heritage. He was chairman of the Truro Planning Advisory Committee and of the Joint Planning Advisory Committee for the Town of Truro, Town of Stewiacke and County of Colchester. He published nine agricultural historical papers and five genealogies. He died in 1999.
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Laura Kipnia is a cultural critic who focuses on sexual politics, aesthetics, emotion, acting out, and bad behaviour. She has published six books on these topics. Kipnis is currently a professor in the Department of Radio/TV/Film at Northwestern University, where she teaches filmmaking. She has also taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Michigan. She has been a visiting professor at New York University, Columbia University School of the Arts, University of British Columbia and the School of the Art Institute. Her education includes a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
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Kitpu Youth Centre is a part of the Mi’kmaq Native Friendship Centre on Gottingen Street in Halifax. The Kiptu Youth centre provides education and activities about aboriginal culture to youth aged 13 to 24. Kitpu Youth Centre became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes because their video recordings became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Knickle, Wilfred E., 1893-1964
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Wilfred E. Knickle (1893-1964) was the son of Captain Adam Knickle, who was the brother of Alexander Knickle, one of the founders of the ship chandler Adams and Knickle. He married Violet Barkhouse and had two sons, Lewis and Richard. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Knickle died in 1964 and is buried in Heckman's Island Cemetery.
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Katherine Knight was associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1977 because of her involvement with a video recording “Televizion Tapes” which featured Knight’s nighttime photography that became a part of their tape collection.
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Knowles, Florence Seeley, 1852-1940
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Florence Seeley Knowles was born in 1852 in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, to Caleb Seeley and Elizabeth Perkins Fairbanks. She was the great-grand-niece of the celebrated Nova Scotia painter Gilbert Stewart Newton (1794-1835). In 1927 she married widower Thomas Parkinson-Knowles. She died in 1940 in Cow Bay, Nova Scotia.
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Jon Knowles is a Montreal-based artist whose education includes studying at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, The Cooper Union and Concordia University. Olson became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2004 because their video recording “Share” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Marie Koehler-Wandergraaf is a Canadian artist currently based in the Halifax region. She became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1990s because her video, “Body Talk” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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David Kolber became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1990 because their audio recording “What Do I Do? Wheelchair” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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George Aqqigiq Koneak was born on January 3, 1931 near Quaqtaq, Quebec. In 1957, Koneak was one of four Inuit men to make a historic first appearance at an Eskimo Affairs committee meeting in Ottawa. After moving with his family to Kuujjuaq, Quebec in 1958, Koneak continued to advocate for Inuit people. Koneak was one of the signatories of the 1975 James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, a founding member of the Northern Quebec Inuit Association, and a governor of the Makivik Corporation. Koneak was honoured by the Makivik Corporation in 2006 for his work as a pioneer of relations between Inuit and non-Inuit people.
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Frank Koustrup is a recording artist who uses sound, writing, videographs and videographs became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1993 because their sound recording “PNO” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Seana Kozar is a Canadian folklorist, storyteller, artist and filmmaker who was born with cerebral palsy became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2003 because their video recording "Unotuched of God, Part 1" became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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Carol Krismer became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1987 because of her involvement as a student on the video recording “NSCAD Club Flamingo Party Tape- 4 student videos”, which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.
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