Item is a sound recording by Lisa MacDougall made for a 30 second television advertisement for the Canada Games. The recording was made in the 1990s at Solar Audio Recording Studio on Cunard Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The recording is held on an Ampex 456 audio reel.
Item is a list of the first directors of the Eye Level Gallery Society, created on November 21, 1974. The list identifies ten individuals who were to serve on the board until November 18, 1975: John Greer (artist), David Haigh (artist), Joyce Hanson (artist), Julia Schmitt Healy (artist), Mary Kenny (photographer), Keith Laws (accountant), Karl MacKeeman (artist), Hatti Prentiss (writer), Donald Purdy (businessman), and Roger Savage (artist).
Item consists of a video recording by Sobaz Benajmin entitled "Breaking the Cycle". North Preston boasts some of the most gifted singers in Atlantic Canada, if not in Canada. Yet few have been able to capture the international limelight. In this short documentary, it showcases some of the performers from North Preston, the oldest indigenous black community in Canada, who are working to break this cycle. This project was an outreach project organized by Moving Images Group in collaboration with CFAT. The aim was to bring video production to a community. The project was written, shot and directed collectively.
Item is memo for a general membership meeting that happened at the Eye Level Gallery on April 17, 1975. The letter identified agenda items, which included a discussion policy, the slide bank, a gallery newsletter and a new space for next year. The letter is from Julia Schmitt Healy.
Item is a glass plate lantern slide of an illustration of the Friends Almshouse in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Original source of the illustration is unknown. The photograph was taken by Byron Ulric Hatfield sometime in the early twentieth century.
Item is a hand coloured glass plate lantern slide of Halifax, Nova Scotia seen from Citadel Hill. The photograph shows Citadel Hill cannons in the foreground and the Halifax Town Clock in the middleground. The photograph was taken by Byron Ulric Hatfield sometime in the early twentieth century.
Item is a glass plate lantern slide of the harbour at Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia. The slide shows the harbour at low tide. The photograph was taken by Byron Ulric Hatfield sometime in the early twentieth century.
Item is a photograph of the toll operating room in the Maritime Telegraph and Telephone service centre building on Howe Avenue in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Photograph provides a view towards the South East of the room. Photograph taken by Wamboldt-Waterfield Photography Limited.
Item is a photograph of the toll operating room in the Maritime Telegraph and Telephone service centre building on Howe Avenue in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Photograph provides a view towards the South East of the room. Photograph taken by Wamboldt-Waterfield Photography Limited.
Item is an audio recording of 'In a Drunken Stupor,' a performance by Clive Robertson presented on February 29, 1984 at the Treasure Cove Lounge in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia as part of the 1984 Audio by Artists Festival. This solo performance about domestic violence and war premiered in 1983 for Syntax, Calgary and widely performed across the artist-run centre network between 1983 and 1985. The performance has a backing track of read texts, sound effects, and music ending with the song, "What Can A Man Say?." The texts are read by Janet Martin, Lisa Steele, Lisa Wyndels, Carole Conde, Joyce Mason and Lillian Allen.
Item is a photograph of Cathy Quinn’s presentation to the Arts and Culture Assembly on January 27, 1985. Image is of Cathy Quinn on stage at the Dalhousie Arts Centre talking into a microphone wearing a shirt that says Arms Length.
Item is a photograph of five photographs displayed as part of the Locations/National group exhibition. The photographs were made by Barbara Lounder or Cathy Quinn.
Item is a photograph of a photograph displayed as part of the Locations/National group exhibition. The photograph shows a mural with the phrases "Our government places corporate development and profit before people" and "Fight cutbacks" written next to a lion with the text "single mom" and a female gender symbol. The photograph was made by Barbara Lounder or Cathy Quinn.
Item is a photograph of a letter from John Murchie to the Eye Level Gallery Board of Directors, sent on June 7, 1983. In the letter, Murchie details his proposal for the Locations/National exhibition. Murchie proposed One Way Ticket, a work "intended to respond to some of Canada's political, social, and geographic specifics." Murchie proposed to send an invitation to John Bentley Mays, art critic for the Globe and Mail, to speak in Halifax during the opening of the Locations/National exhibition in Halifax. Murchie also proposed to send Mays a cheque for $99.00, "which is equivalent to the fare for a one-way ticket from Toronto to Halifax, or Halifax to Toronto, on a Via Rail Coach."
Item is a photograph of a silk screen by Mona K. Balcom. The silk screen is titled "Peggy's Cove" and was displayed during Peggy's Cove Syndrome, the first exhibition held at Eye Level Gallery.
Item is a photograph of a Peggy's Cove Scene by Joyce Hanson. The work was displayed in Peggy's Cove Syndrome, the first exhibition presented by Eye Level Gallery.
Item is a photograph of Cosmic Peggy by José Antonio Valverde when the painting was on display as part of Peggy's Cove Syndrome, the first exhibition presented by Eye Level Gallery.
Item is a photograph of a painting by Anneke Betlam when the painting was on display as part of Peggy's Cove Syndrome, the first exhibition presented by Eye Level Gallery.
Item is a photograph of a painting by Royce Porter when the painting was on display as part of Peggy's Cove Syndrome, the first exhibition presented by Eye Level Gallery.
Item is a photograph of The Nuclear Family by Wilma Needham. The photograph was taken when the assemblage piece was on display during the Satire as Discontent exhibition at Eye Level Gallery.
Item is a photograph of a text panel that formed part of the The Scientific Research Bureau of Canada exhibition by John Watt. The exhibition was presented by the Centre for Art Tapes from September 27, 1978 to October 6, 1978.
Item is a photograph of a wall-mounted photograph that formed part of the The Scientific Research Bureau of Canada exhibition by John Watt. The exhibition was presented by the Centre for Art Tapes from September 27, 1978 to October 6, 1978.
Item is a photograph of a text panel that formed part of the The Scientific Research Bureau of Canada exhibition by John Watt. The exhibition was presented by the Centre for Art Tapes from September 27, 1978 to October 6, 1978.
Item is a photograph of two text panels and a wall-mounted photograph that formed part of the The Scientific Research Bureau of Canada exhibition by John Watt. The exhibition was presented by the Centre for Art Tapes from September 27, 1978 to October 6, 1978.
Item is a photograph of a wall-mounted photograph that formed part of the The Scientific Research Bureau of Canada exhibition by John Watt. The exhibition was presented by the Centre for Art Tapes from September 27, 1978 to October 6, 1978.
Item is a photograph of a text panel that formed part of the The Scientific Research Bureau of Canada exhibition by John Watt. The exhibition was presented by the Centre for Art Tapes from September 27, 1978 to October 6, 1978.
Item is a photograph of an unidentified person viewing a wall-mounted photograph and text panel that formed part of the The Scientific Research Bureau of Canada exhibition by John Watt. The exhibition was presented by the Centre for Art Tapes from September 27, 1978 to October 6, 1978.
Item is a photograph of text panels and wall-mounted photographs that formed part of the The Scientific Research Bureau of Canada exhibition by John Watt. The exhibition was presented by the Centre for Art Tapes from September 27, 1978 to October 6, 1978.
Item is a photograph of a television on a table surrounded by chairs and a large wall-mounted photograph that formed part of the The Scientific Research Bureau of Canada exhibition by John Watt. Four copies of a report and one pamphlet are on the table, along with an ashtray, water jug, and two cups. The exhibition was presented by the Centre for Art Tapes from September 27, 1978 to October 6, 1978.
Item is a photograph of a television on a table surrounded by chairs and a large wall-mounted photograph that formed part of the The Scientific Research Bureau of Canada exhibition by John Watt. Four copies of a report and one pamphlet are on the table, along with an ashtray, water jug, and two cups. The exhibition was presented by the Centre for Art Tapes from September 27, 1978 to October 6, 1978.
Item is a photograph of a television on a table surrounded by chairs and a large wall-mounted photograph that formed part of the The Scientific Research Bureau of Canada exhibition by John Watt. Four copies of a report and one pamphlet are on the table, along with an ashtray, water jug, and two cups. The exhibition was presented by the Centre for Art Tapes from September 27, 1978 to October 6, 1978.
Item is a photograph of a television on a table surrounded by chairs and a large wall-mounted photograph that formed part of the The Scientific Research Bureau of Canada exhibition by John Watt. Four copies of a report and one pamphlet are on the table, along with an ashtray, water jug, and two cups. The exhibition was presented by the Centre for Art Tapes from September 27, 1978 to October 6, 1978.
Item is a photograph of a television on a table surrounded by chairs and a large wall-mounted photograph that formed part of the The Scientific Research Bureau of Canada exhibition by John Watt. Four copies of a report and one pamphlet are on the table, along with an ashtray, water jug, and two cups. The exhibition was presented by the Centre for Art Tapes from September 27, 1978 to October 6, 1978.
Item is a photograph of an unidentified person viewing a text panel that formed part of the The Scientific Research Bureau of Canada exhibition by John Watt. The exhibition was presented by the Centre for Art Tapes from September 27, 1978 to October 6, 1978.
Item is a photograph of an open briefcase that formed part of the The Scientific Research Bureau of Canada exhibition by John Watt. The exhibition was presented by the Centre for Art Tapes from September 27, 1978 to October 6, 1978. Invitations to the exhibition can be seen inside the briefcase.
Item is a photograph of W.A. Winfield and E.F. Halliwell of B.C. Tel, standing in front of delegates of the fifth annual Telephone Association of Canada convention in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Item is a photograph of W.A. Winfield greeting E.F. Halliwell of B.C. Tel. The pair are standing in front of delegates of the fifth annual Telephone Association of Canada convention in Halifax, Nova Scotia.