Halifax Design Festival: Call for Projects

The Halifax Design Festival celebrates the unique voices in our region, builds bridges across disciplines, and explores the role of design in our daily lives. They are looking for designers, architects, makers, curators, manufacturers and creative practitioners across Nova Scotia to bring it to life.

The inaugural festival takes place April 22–25, 2027 on the Halifax/Kjipuktuk Peninsula.

This is an open call for events, exhibitions, talks, tours, workshops, and installations that will be presented as official festival programming under the Halifax Design Festival umbrella.

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Green Shores Training Series

Free Training: Green Shores Level 1

Funded by the Government of New Brunswick, the Green Shores Level 1 training provides detail into the processes happening on shorelines and how the Green Shores program utilizes nature-based techniques to minimize the impacts of erosion and flooding. Learn more about training here.

The Government of New Brunswick's Department of Environment and Local Government is leading a Living Shorelines program, in which this training is offered. As an incentive, we are offering a $200 honorarium to each participant that takes training! Eligible participants include landscape architects, nursery staff, municipal staff, earthworks contractors, NGO and watershed groups that implement climate change adaptation projects on shorelines, and more.

Session dates:

Friday, September 18 - Parlee Beach - Register here

Friday, September 25 - New River Beach - Register here

Friday, October 30 - Miramichi - Register here

Cultivating Continuity: Honouring the Past, Enriching the Present, Growing the Future

Allan Summers , RLA, ASLA , LEED AP
Principal, RAS Landscape Architects

Date: October 5th, 2026
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History (1747 Summer St. Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Historic gardens are shaped as much by change as by continuity — raising a central question for their stewards: should a garden be preserved as a frozen moment in time, or allowed to evolve?

In this lecture, Allan presents a series of projects addressing the rejuvenation of historic gardens — work that honours the past while thoughtfully accommodating the needs of the present and anticipating the future. Rather than treating preservation and adaptation as opposing forces, these projects demonstrate how respectful, informed intervention can allow a garden to remain vital: a living landscape rather than a static relic.

Allan has a passion for horticulture and fine art and has over 30 years’ experience providing planning and design services through all phases of landscape architecture from conception through final construction phases. His interests are reflected in a wide variety of projects and his work in public and botanical gardens, residential estate design, hospital healing gardens, and restoration of historic landscapes enjoys national recognition. RAS’s work has been featured in numerous publications including Architectural Digest, and Elle Décor.

2026 APALA Annual General Meeting

Date: October 23rd, 2026
Location: Pier 21, Halifax (Ralph and Rose Chiodo Gallery)

Join us in Halifax for our annual general meeting. You will hear updates from the APALA board of directors and our committee chairs. There will also be plenty of time for networking, and a public lecture will be facilitated by Marc Ryan in the afternoon.

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