At This Hour presented by Zuppa
Sat, Mar 25
|The Osprey Arts Centre
Created by Zuppa in partnership with The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, CNIB, and Signs of the Maritimes Deaf Theatre Troupe.
Time & Location
Mar 25, 2023, 7:00 p.m. – Mar 26, 2023, 9:00 p.m.
The Osprey Arts Centre, 107 Water St, Shelburne, NS B0T 1W0, Canada
About the Event
AT THIS HOUR
On December 6, 1917, in the narrows of Halifax Harbour, Belgian Relief vessel IMO collided with an overloaded French munitions ship, Mont-Blanc. The resulting massive explosion wreaked havoc on both sides of the harbour and left approximately 2000 people dead. One in every fifty Haligonians suffered sight loss as a result of the explosion - it was the largest mass blinding in Canadian history. Within hours of the disaster Ottawa ordered a full investigation and the Wreck Commissioner’s Inquiry began the following week at the Halifax Provincial Court.
At This Hour is a documentary theatre lecture about the Halifax explosion created with and for the Blind/Partially Sighted and Deaf communities. Constructed like an open seminar, the performers are documentarians. Using verbatim text from the transcripts of the inquiry into the explosion, they explore how British imperialism permitted and encouraged the government mismanagement which led to the explosion…