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May 27, 2024

We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Masuma Khan (@iamgeneralkhan) as the new Executive Director of the Bus Stop Theatre Co-op, starting June 1st!    Masuma is a local

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The mayoral race is heating up, and now it’s time for the candidates to fight it out on stage. Who will win the debate: Randy Filthmore, Spam Loveless, Gay Mason, or another surprise contender?! Come find out on Thursday, September 26th, 6:00pm at the Bus Stop Theatre! 6:00pm - doors 6:30pm - music by bing bong 7:15pm - drag show This show will be taking donations for Books Beyond Bars, a books-to-inmates program in Mi’kma’ki which has been providing reading materials to the east unit in the Nova Scotia Central Correctional Facility since 2009. 100% of additional funds past the cost of the venue rental and paying the performs will go to Books Beyond Bars in supporting their program. Tickets available now at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/halifaxs-mayoral-drag-race-tickets-1012484617747

The mayoral race is heating up, and now it’s time for the candidates to fight...

Halifax, ReBoot ReWind heard your call! See episodes 1 and 2 (and a sneak peek of the D1 footage) on the big screen! All ReBoot ReWind screenings have sold out across the country, so claim your tickets ASAP! #rebootrewind #reboot #reboot1994 #mainframe #ytv #retro #nostalgia #90s #canada #cgi #cartoon #canadiannostalgia #90skids #throwback #3D #nostalgiacore #memories #90skids #viral #vancouver #animation

Halifax, ReBoot ReWind heard your call! See episodes 1 and 2 (and a sneak peek...

We are back for another full moon party! Come dressed in your best white ‘fit to dance under the black lights for a great cause! This is a fundraiser/MA for community member who is in need of her community. Her and three kids need a safe space to call home. All donations can be made to Maggi.busstop@gmail.com Or Scan and copy email from the QR code! Please ~ like share, comment, donate ~ September 20th 9pm-1am

We are back for another full moon party! Come dressed in your best white ‘fit...

Re-inventing The Bus Stop Theatre - 15 Pole Performers bring it ALL to the stage...

@elle.lixir 📣 ꜱʜᴏᴡ ᴀɴɴᴏᴜɴᴄᴇᴍᴇɴᴛ: ᴄᴀʟʟɪɴɢ ᴀʟʟ ᴡᴇᴇʙꜱ 🌟 ✌️Aiya Xiaoxin and Elle Lixir have teamed...

Improvised theatre. Laugh your socks off with our talented Performance Teams! Spontaneity Improv Company will be presenting their monthly showcase. Our group of talented improvisers will be taking the stage and improvising based on your suggestions. Get your tickets now and take part in the show by calling out our inspiration. Ticket Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/792330380497?aff=oddtdtcreator

Improvised theatre. Laugh your socks off with our talented Performance Teams! Spontaneity Improv Company will...

Celebrate the quickening of the harvest and the coming of spectral fiends at the Bus Stop Theatre Co-operative this year. Spend October 30th-November 1st three haunting days watching spooky movies, shaking that booooty to spectral jams, and reaping a final harvest of membership talent over an evening of performances that will turn your hair white with fright! Ticketing information and details to follow! Keep you eyes open and watch our website, busstoptheatre.coop for updates, special spooky discounts, and more! Happy Halloween!

Celebrate the quickening of the harvest and the coming of spectral fiends at the Bus...

@crescent_moon_cabaret It’s officially 2 weeks until showtime! do you have your tickets yet? Crescent Moon Cabaret is back for our third show! Founded in 2022, Crescent Moon Cabaret is a production company based right here in Halifax, we produce shows that are unlike anything else happening in Halifax right now. Our shows are a contemporary take on the Vaudeville Reviews of the early 20th Century. September 14th at the Bus Stop Theatre Doors at 7:00, show at 7:30 under-waged, artists, students: $15 advanced, $20 at the door Regular: $20 advance $25 at the door Live stream: $15 suggested 2 Cabaret tables, seating for up to 4 people each, will be available for $150 each. These tables will be right in the action, so if you want to be up close, this is the place for you! Tables will come with a special party favour TBA If price is a barrier, please reach out through DM or email at crescentmooncabaret@gmail.com #halifaxevents #cabaret #varietyshow #burlesque #circus #livemusic #drag @busstoptheatre @halifaxevents.ca @hfxnoise @halifaxpresents

@crescent_moon_cabaret It’s officially 2 weeks until showtime! do you have your tickets yet? Crescent Moon...

Repost: 😎Summer is flying by, but never fear we’re here to keep things fun and exciting through the fall!🍁 🦞 @bluelobsterburlesque is proud to present Glamorous Ridiculousness ✨ 🗓️Saturday September 21st 🗺️Bus Stop Theatre -2203 Gottingen St, Halifax ⏱️Doors at 7 show at 7:30 🐣Early bird tickets on sale until Sept 1st only $20!!!!🐣 🎙️ Hosted by Anna Mona Pia @anna.monapia 🌟Special Guest: Jake Jockerson! @jake.jockerson 👏👏And Featuring: 💙Aiya Xiaoxin @ccdotca 💛The Lady Corbeau @theladycorbeau 💜Kay Licious @thekaylicious 💚Mike Hunt @mikeitreign ♥️Miss Magenta missmagentapinup 🧡Sin Amen sin.eh.men 💃🏿🕺🏽💃🏿🕺🏽💃🏿🕺🏽 Get ready for an exciting evening of some of your favourite local burlesque performers bringing out their favourite numbers! 🎟️Tickets available online 🎟️ https://GlamorousRidiculousness.eventbrite.ca Link in bio! 🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞

Repost: 😎Summer is flying by, but never fear we’re here to keep things fun and...

Halifax Fringe Festival is just around the corner! Do you have your tickets? The _____ Show | Leftover Comedy Aug 29 - Sept 8 Knight of the Bat 3 | Villains Theatre Aug 29 - Sept 2 Galaxy Pals: A Space (Odd)yssey | Hello City Aug 29 - Sept 7 Love, Sharks, and Frenching: A Hot Date with Lou Laurence Aug 29 - Sept 8 Horse Girls | Around-out Theatre Co. Aug 29 - Sept 7 Briane Nasimok: Recovering Romantic Aug 30 - Sept 8 Kyle Barnet Presents: Joke Into the Night Aug 30 - Sept 8 The Distance Between Newfoundland and Toronto | Theresa Molloy Aug 31 - Sept 7 A gentle kiss on the bruised cheek of god | A. Laurel Lawrence Sept 1 & Sept 4 Autobiographical Fiction | The Unnatural Disaster Theatre Sept 2 - Sept 8 Sisterhood of the Travelling Vowels | No Vowels Improv Sept 3 & Sept 5 VIBE CHECK! A silent disco dance party | Fringe Festival Fundraiser LOCATION: PACIFICO Sept 5 @ 10pm Get your tickets! https://www.halifaxfringefestival.ca/bus-stop-theatre-shows

Halifax Fringe Festival is just around the corner! Do you have your tickets? The _____...

Tonight The event is free and open to the public. Donations for “Walking for Peace Together’ are welcome. Event will include video clips, a panel presentation and Q & A.

Tonight The event is free and open to the public. Donations for “Walking for Peace...

All your armies All your fighters All your tanks And all your soldiers Against the boy holding a stone, Standing there all alone....and I wonder ... Ghassan Kanafani The event is free and open to the public. Donations for “Walking for Peace Together’ are welcome. Event will include video clips, a panel presentation and Q & A.

All your armies All your fighters All your tanks And all your soldiers Against the...

Come dressed in your best white ‘fit to dance under the black lights for a great cause . This is a fundraiser/MA for community member who is in need of her community. Her and three kids need a safe space to call home. All donations can be made to Maggi.busstop@gmail.com. . Scan and copy email from the qrcode . Please ~ like share comment donate ~ September 20th 9pm-1am

Come dressed in your best white ‘fit to dance under the black lights for a...

The Big Bee is BACK and BIGGER than ever!!! 🐝 Have you always dreamed of entering a Spelling Bee but you’re too old? Are you a childhood champ looking to reclaim a small taste of your former glory? Looking or a fun way to spend a Monday night? Tempted by a $100 grand prize? Look no further than the UDTCo. BIG BEE on August 12th at 8pm at The Bus Stop Theatre Co-op (2203 Gottingen Street)! This fundraiser will not only support the UDTCo. but this event is a word-lovers dream! In addition to the spelling bee there will be a smattering of additional, fun, games, and prizes that anyone can win + special musical guests (TBA soon)! 🎶 There are two ways to participate: as a speller or an audience member! To RSVP for either or for more information, check out the link in our bio or visit: https://forms.gle/NhdLymg386LLWJsWA 🌻 WHEN? Monday, August 12th, from 8:00-10:00pm (the lobby and bar open at 7pm). WHERE? The Bus Stop Theatre Co-op, 2203 Gottingen St, Halifax, NS. This space is accessible (and has AC)! WHO? The Unnatural Disaster Theatre Co. is an environmental focused indie theatre collective! We hope that this event (and hopefully many others yet to come) will offer inventive, fun, and affordable ways for our community to gather! All funds raised through this event will go to support UDTCo. in their mission to create bold new work and pay artists! If you have any questions or accessibility requests at all, please contact AD Logan Robins at: unnaturaldisastertheatre@gmail.com. We’ll see you at the BEE! 🐝 Ticket link in bio🔗

The Big Bee is BACK and BIGGER than ever!!! 🐝 Have you always dreamed of...

Improvised theatre. Laugh your socks off with our talented Performance Teams! (All Ages) Spontaneity Improv Company will be presenting their monthly showcase! Our group of talented improvisers will be taking the stage and improvising based on your suggestions. Get your tickets now and take part in the show by calling out our inspiration!

Improvised theatre. Laugh your socks off with our talented Performance Teams! (All Ages) Spontaneity Improv...

To celebrate the publication of the ten year anniversary edition of Hot, Wet & Shaking, we’re inviting you to a night of sex and death. It’s like a death salon with room for smut; storytelling exploring both grief & perversion. Expect to laugh and cry, but most importantly to feel alive. This is a free event!

To celebrate the publication of the ten year anniversary edition of Hot, Wet & Shaking,...

As seen on Penn and Teller: Fool Us, and winner of the Audience Choice Award at the 2023 Halifax Fringe Festival Actual wizard and Halifax magician Vincenzo Ravina brings his magic to the mysterious, enigmatic, haunted, and illustrious Bus Stop Theatre. In this unusual show, there will be: Potions! Ghosts! Playing cards! Murder! Actual Wizard is funny, mystifying, absurd, and experimental. Note: This event will be video recorded, audio recorded, and photographed. The audience may appear in these recordings. By entering the event premises, you consent to such recording media and its release, publication, exhibition or reproduction. Ticket Information: First Row Reserved: $30 General Admission: $25

As seen on Penn and Teller: Fool Us, and winner of the Audience Choice Award...

@halifaximprovfest Halifax we’ve heard your call, you’ve told us you love the improv in this city and gosh we’ve got an exciting announcement! Your favourite festival is putting on ANOTHER FESTIVAL! Halifax Improv Fest presented by Halifax Fringe Festival coming to the Bus Stop Theatre this summer! We’ll have all your favourite improvisers in the city and from out of town running workshops, shows, after parties and more! All based out of the wonderful Bus Stop Theatre July 11-14! Join us for the Halifax Improv Festival and keep your eyes on our socials and website for more exciting details to come! Poster by @brayowulf [I.D A purple/pink background with a cartoon purple and black raven screaming. Inside it’s mouth the words Halifax Improv Fest July 11-14. The Halifax Fringe logo in the corner]

@halifaximprovfest Halifax we’ve heard your call, you’ve told us you love the improv in this...

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!! We are excited to be throwing a Queer New Moon Party! Hosted by BST staff @inkdscotian and @trash_star 🫶 DJ’s @sp1nalflu1d and @mx.goldazz will be cooking up a delicious batch of grooves and moves to sweeten up your pride month. 🍭 🗓️July 5th 🕘9pm - 1am 📍The Bus Stop Theatre 💲$10/PWYC at the door ‼️Masks and covid testing recommended‼️ Please don’t hesitate to reach out with questions or concerns💫 Image Description: poster with rainbow background with new moon and blue gummy bear graphic on left side of poster. Original Illustration of Black Trans Queer being with dark skin, pink n blue hair, teal mini skirt n harness and platform heels busting a move in a lollipop pole to the right side of poster. Poster reads candy themed , hosted by Maggi and Lou, big title read QUEER NEW MOON PARTY, DJ GOLDAZZ N’ SP!NALFLU!D, July 5th 9pm-1am $10/PWYC 2203 GOTTINGEN, ST KJIPUKTUK

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!! We are excited to be throwing a Queer New Moon Party! Hosted...

Please keep mind that tonight’s show has a NO LATE COMERS Policy Repost: @miyamask LADDER 梯子 opens tonight to a SOLD OUT show!! Tickets are still available for Saturday matinee and evening as well! See you tonight at the Bus Stop Theatre (@busstoptheatre). We will give an artist talk after tonight’s show and after tomorrow’s matinee. We’ll also be happy to chat in the lobby afterwards! Collaboration: Tokyo based Butoh dancer, Emiko Agatsuma (@emiko.agatsuma) Halifax based Mask Artist, Miya Turnbull (@miyamask) Edmonton based Musician Gozu Mezu (Hitoshi Sugiyama, @gozu_mezu) Friday, June 28th at 7:30pm Saturday June 29th at 2:00pm and 7:30pm Bus Stop Theatre, Halifax, NS Purchase tickets: https://bit.ly/laddertickets ALSO EXCITING NEWS: Hitoshi is releasing a mini-album of the music from Ladder today. Check it out here: https://gozumezu.bandcamp.com/album/ladder Organized by AGAXART and Miya Turnbull LADDER 梯子 is Supported by Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture) Art Nova Scotia (Support4Culture) @artsnovascotia @support4culture Canada Council for the Arts/ Conseil des arts du Canada @canada.council Kinetic (Halifax) @kineticstudiodance Additional thanks to Prismatic Arts Festival, Dance Nova Scotia (DANSpace) and the Japanese Society of Halifax. Photo credits: Still images from our film shoot yesterday with the amazing Dario Lozano-Thornton (@dlozanothornton) #ladder #collaboration #butoh #masks #nstheatre #nsart #nsdance #busstoptheatre #emikoagatsuma #miyaturnbull #agaxart #miyamask #japancanadaexchange #artsns #nsarts #performance #hitoshisugiyama #gozumezu #butohperformance #maskperformance #dariolozanothornton #northwindowproductions

Please keep mind that tonight’s show has a NO LATE COMERS Policy Repost: @miyamask LADDER...

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