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Turret Arts Space
@turretarts.bsky.social
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Building an accessible, cooperative art space that:
🎨 fuels creativity
🎭 supports artists at every stage
🏳️‍🌈 ignites transformative change
1588 Barrington Street, Halifax, NS ✨ Kjipuktuk ✨ Mi'kma'ki
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Turret Arts Space @turretarts.bsky.social · 26d
The Turret needs urgent investment and you could help make the difference! Send your letter today 💌 💌 💌

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Support the Turret Arts Space with a letter!
I just wrote a letter to support the Turret Arts Space redevelopment of 1588 Barrington. Turret is gearing up to present at HRM's development committee on March 20. It's a quick and easy way to show t...
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turretarts.bsky.social
The Turret needs urgent investment and you could help make the difference! Send your letter today 💌 💌 💌

actionnetwork.org/letters/fund...
Support the Turret Arts Space with a letter!
I just wrote a letter to support the Turret Arts Space redevelopment of 1588 Barrington. Turret is gearing up to present at HRM's development committee on March 20. It's a quick and easy way to show t...
actionnetwork.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Free film screening of Making Space: A Halifax Story. This local documentary features Turret, Bus Stop Theatre & The Waiting Room. Thurs, Nov 13 at 6:30pm-8:30pm at Halifax Central Library, Panel feat. filmmaker Gareth Wasylynko with guest @seblabelle.bsky.social, Alexis Cormier & Kathryn MacLellan
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Proud to announce: LOVE Nova Scotia youth art exhibition feat. Khalil Hirtle, Madisyn Seward & Sidney Andrea. On view at The Khyber (1880 Hollis St) from Nov 7-15. Reception Fri, Nov 14, 6-8pm. Collab between Khyber, Turret, IOTA Studios & @lovenovascotia.bsky.social #youth #queer #halifaxart
November 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Tonight! Turret Arts Space has a chance to win up to $10K at the District 7 Capital Funds Vote. Halifax South Downtown residents (kids too!) come on down to the Halifax Central Library at 6pm to vote on projects in your community! #halifax #halifaxarts #halifaxdowntown
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Monday 5 May, 6-8 pm: District 7 Capital Funds Vote - Laura White, Councillor for District 7
Who: You! (District 7 residents of all ages) & local non-profit groups
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May 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Today Turret presented at HRM’s Community Planning and Economic Development Standing Committee. Great news: the committee passed motion for staff to create a report outlining options for municipal support, including funding, towards our project! Felt heard & that HRM appreciates the urgent timeline!
Photo of a group of 5 white and Black people in springtime outerwear. The group stands in a stairway bathed in the pastel light of a large stained glass window at Halifax City Hall.
March 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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We’ve launched a Letter Writing Campaign!

Securing funds is a crucial part of our work. We need you to show your support for bringing the arts back to downtown Halifax.

Help us bring attention to our urgent campaign by sending a letter via the link in our bio!
Various collaged images and textures: pink pamphlets, grid and ripped papers, archived photographs, and a black and white illustration of a keyboard. Cente red and on top of these images is white text on a red background that reads: “Letter Writing Drive.” Below a smaller text reads: “How to get Involved in 3 Steps:” Similar collaged background and materials, in the foreground the outline of a blue computer monitor. White text on a blue background reads: “1. Send a Letter!” Below this, inside of the monitor’s frame white text in on a red background reads: “help us send a message that arts & culture spaces are vital to community growth & survival!” Further below this is white text in a pink box that reads: “Link in our bio!” Another collage background with similar materials, this time a photograph of a past pride march sits on top, line art of envelopes fall to its left side. Towards the bottom of the image white text in a red box reads: 2. Invite 5 friends to send a letter!” Once again a collage background with a photograph of the Turret building: the building has drawn on pink windows and stars. A logo for the Turret Arts Space sits below the photograph. At the top of the image bold white text on a pink background reads: “3. Keep up to date with our work:”. The Turret’s social media are listed below on dark blue slices of paper, they read: for instagram: @turretarts.space, for bluesky: turretarts.bsky.social, and for facebook /turretarts.space.
February 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Turret Arts Space Society is looking for new members to join our board of directors! Send us an email with a short bio before February 22nd to turretarts.space@gmail.com
mostly white image with collaged elements of blue paper and grids. Thick black text overtop reads: “join our board!” Smaller text below it reads: “Turret Arts Space Society is looking for passionate folks to join our board of directors! Email us your interest and a short bio before February 22nd to: turret arts.space@gmail.com similar collage style creates a background for an archived photo of the first gay play in K’jipuktuk: The Night They Raided Truxx. The photo depicts folks gathered in a small room rehearsing. Text above this photo reads: “this could be you! this could be us!” Turquoise and red arrows are drawn to various people in the photo. similarly collaged imagery of ripped paper and pink grids creates a background for the a list of interests related to Turret organizing, it reads as a list: “Do you want to… keep the arts in our downtown? Preserve queer history? Create space for queer futures? Save a historic downtown property? Create community?” In the bottom right there is an invitation to an event at the previous Turret iteration in 1979, its text reads: “God Save The Queens, 1 July 1979, The TURRET.”
February 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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As we watch the US gov't attempt to erase trans people at one of the most significant landmarks of trans power & community, we're thinking about how Turret join the movement to mark & celebrate trans histories (presents & futures!) 🏳️‍⚧️ #stonewall #transhistory #fighttranserasure #transfutures
alchemistsstudio.bsky.social The Alchemist 🇨🇦 @alchemistsstudio.bsky.social · Feb 14
One of my great rights of passage when I was young was to visit Stonewall. This was well before it was a monument.
They can change a website, but most of us know the 'T' in LGBTQ should be at the front of the abbreviation in regards to Stonewall.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...
U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website
The “T” was removed in references to L.G.B.T.Q.+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights. Later, the Q+ also disappeared.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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NYC, we know what to do. Immediately add these back and fuck whoever took them down. Trump should stay the fuck away from Stonewall. Period.

www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/u...
‘Transgender’ and ‘queer’ erased from Stonewall Uprising national monument website | CNN
The National Park Service has removed references to transgender and queer people on its web page for the Stonewall National Monument, which marks the site of the New York City inn where LGBTQ rioters – including now-legendary transgender activists – galvanized a movement for LGBTQ rights.
www.cnn.com
February 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Cities need art. We’re keeping it alive in downtown Halifax. Learn more about our plans to enliven our city: www.turretartsspace.ca
#halifax #halifaxart #queerspace #culture #buildingculture
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February 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM