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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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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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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