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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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- 1927-1999
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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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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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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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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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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- 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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- 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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Killam Brothers Limited was a fuel company based in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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- 1898-1974
Alexander E. Kerr was the sixth president of Dalhousie University, serving from 1945-1963. Born in 1898 in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, he served overseas with the Royal Air Force during World War One before completing a BA at Dalhousie and a diploma in theology from Pine Hill Divinity Hall. He was ordained in 1921 and completed his education at Union Seminary, from which he graduated magna cum laude.
Kerr served the church briefly in Sydney, Nova Scotia, and in Montreal before accepting a pastorate in Vancouver, where he spent five years, followed by ten years in Winnipeg. In 1939 he became principal and professor of systematic theology at Pine Hill. In 1945 Dr. Kerr was became the second Dalhousie graduate to be appointed president of his alma mater. During his tenure he declined nominations by the Maritime Conference, the Montreal-Ottawa Conference and the London Conference to become moderator of the General Council of the Church of Canada. In 1963, after retiring from the Dalhousie, Kerr became president of the Maritime Conference of the United Church of Canada and taught the Old Testament class at the Atlantic School of Theology (formerly Pine Hill).
Alexander Kerr was the only Canadian to receive an honorary doctorate of divinity at the 500th anniversary of the University of Glasgow. He held honorary degrees from most Maritime universities and the University of Winnipeg. He was a member of the North British Society and of the Canadian Mental Health Association, chairman of the building committee for the Abbie J. Lane Memorial Hospital, first honorary president of the Red Cross Society and honorary president of the Cape Breton Club. He died in Halifax on 30 November 1974 at the age of 76.
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- 1922-2011
Tom Kent was a journalist, public policy analyst, and Dean of Dalhousie's Faculty of Administrative Studies from 1980-1983. He was born in 1922 in Stafford, England. He studied at Oxford and worked as a code-breaker at the top-secret Bletchley Park facility during the Second World War. After that, he became a journalist in Britain and moved to Canada in 1954 to become editor of the Winnipeg Free Press. Kent served as a policy adviser to Liberal leader and prime minister Lester Pearson, becoming a deputy minister in the Pearson government. In 1980, he led an inquiry into newspaper ownership that was known as the Kent Commission. He was an advocate for medicare and the Canada Pension Plan. Kent died on November 15, 2011.
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Walter Kemp is a musicologist, organist, choir director and composer who taught at Dalhousie University from 1977-2004 and was appointed to the joint faculty at the University of King's College in 1985. Born in Montreal on 16 November 1938, he earned his ARCT (1955); FRCCO (1959); B Mus (Toronto, 1959); M Mus (Toronto, 1961); MA (Harvard, 1963); and PhD (Oxford, 1972). He became director of the Dalhousie Chorale in 1977 and the Dalhousie Chamber Choir in 1988, and served as music director of St Paul's Anglican church from 1977-1990, the St Paul's Singers from 1978-1990, and the Nova Scotia International Tattoo Choir in 1983. In 1991 he was appointed musical director of the Nova Scotia Gilbert & Sullivan Society and founded the Aquinas Choir of King's College Chapel, Halifax.
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Terry Kelly, born in Newfoundland, is an award-winning singer, songwriter, athlete, entertainer, and professional speaker. He attended the Halifax School for the Blind and, while still in his youth, had learned to play the accordion, clarinet, guitar and piano and was also a founding member of a very successful high school band, The Stringbusters. While studying psychology at Saint Mary’s University, Terry performed in clubs and bars with the popular rock group Janus.
Many of Terry's songs focus on subjects about which he is passionate including abilities and literacy, veterans, home and family, and cancer and poverty awareness. Throughout his career, he has shared the stage with such artists as Rita MacNeil, The Rankin Family, Faith Hill, and Ray Charles. Terry's music has gained international recognition and has won numerous awards including seven East Coast Music Awards and a Juno. He has also earned honourary degrees, an Order of Canada induction, and the Queen’s Silver and Diamond Jubilee Medals attained for “outstanding achievement and public service”.
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