Events & Entertainment

Mark your calendars! The 2025 Halifax Busker Festival is July 30 to August 4, 2025!

Repost The date is already set! **** Via Buskers Festival Mark your calendars! The 2025 Halifax Busker Festival is July 30 to August 4, 2025! More information coming in the spring –...

ST. PATRICK’S DAY POLAR DIP

**** Via Darkside Dippers 🍀ST. PATRICK’S DAY POLAR DIP🍀 Throw on your lucky bathing suit, flip flops and a touch of green and join us for a St. Patrick’s Day Community Polar Dip with @lakecitycider. WHEN/WHERE📍: Lion’s Beach Park (Lake Banook) this Sunday @ 11am. @lakecitycider will be serving up hot cider and drink vouchers...

Museum of Natural History would like to invite you to a special low sensory March Break visit

**** Via Museum of Natural History If you or someone you know has Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or sensory sensitivities, we would like to invite you to a special low sensory March Break visit. On Thursday March 13 from 8:30am to 9:30am, the museum will be opening early to give you the opportunity to see...

Back Issues Comicon – 3

Repost **** Info via event Back Issues Comicon – 3 Our first two events were so well received, we’re doing it again! Back Issues Comicon is holding our third comic book focused event on April 5, 2025 at the Parish Hall located at 61 Dundas Street in downtown Dartmouth. This is a curated comic book...

Join the 2025 Emera Blue Nose Marathon (May 16-18) and choose 5KM, 10KM, Half Marathon, or Full Marathon

**** Via Bluenise Marathon Celebrate health, community, and Halifax’s beauty!  Join the 2025 Emera Blue Nose Marathon (May 16-18) and choose 5KM, 10KM, Half Marathon, or Full Marathon. Your medal awaits! – Emera Blue Nose Marathon “The People’s Marathon” The Emera Blue Nose Marathon is the largest annual running and walking event in Atlantic Canada!...

DYK?  Today is World Wildlife Day! 

DYK?  Today is World Wildlife Day!  World Wildlife Day (WWD) is celebrated every year on 3 March to celebrate wild animals and plants. Every year, we recognize the unique roles and contributions of wildlife to people and the planet.  ...

DYK? Today is National Aviation Day

DYK? Today is National Aviation Day On National Aviation Day, we commemorate the past, celebrate the present and advance the future of aviation...

Lace up for Life! – the first ever Lace Up For Life skating event, hosted by the Canadian Transplant Association!

Repost **** Via Lace up for Life Lace up for Life! Join us for the first ever Lace Up For Life skating event, hosted by the Canadian Transplant Association! This entirely free to attend networking and community building event is an open skate for all people impacted by organ donation – recipients, donors, families, friends...

BACK TO DIPPIN’

**** Via Darkside Dippers BACK TO DIPPIN’ Excited to be back on the beach tomorrow for a good ol’ Darkside Community Polar Dip. Start time: 11am at Lion’s Beach Park. What to bring: warm layers of clothing (top and bottom) over a bathing suit with gloves. Bring an EXTRA set of sandals/footwear to walk to...

LEAD A JANE’S WALK – Jane’s Walk is an annual festival of free, community-led walking conversations inspired by Jane Jacobs

**** Via Downtown Dartmouth Business Commission LEAD A JANE’S WALK Jane’s Walk is an annual festival of free, community-led walking conversations inspired by Jane Jacobs. It takes place in hundreds of cities around the world during the first weekend in May (May 3rd-4th, 2025). You can sign up as a @janeswalkhfx Walk Lead to share...