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HALIFAX – <\/strong>Take a wander past the long-vacant, burnt-out NFB building these days and you’ll noticed a new addition to Barrington’s fractured landscape.\u00a0 At Saturday’s 4FUNDS<\/a> event \u2014 hosted by the Pepsi Refresh Project<\/a>, DreamNow<\/a>, and the Hub Halifax<\/a> \u2014 a small team of Haligonians, challenged with the task of doing good in the community using only $100 and 100 minutes, alloted their time and money towards the creation of a participatory community board. With dry-erase supplies mounted to the door, and thought-provoking questions strategically posed, the community board invites downtown passersby to step into the enigmatic doorway and voice their reflections, ideas, and musings about Halifax.<\/p>\n

The unique event, which was piloted in Vancouver on last Thursday, pooled each participant’s $20 registration fee (with Pepsi Refresh kicking in an extra $20) to provide a collective project budget of $100 per team. Each team had to come to consensus as to the best and most creative use of their budget and then execute this idea in just 100 minutes.<\/p>\n

As discussed on CBC’s Information Morning on Monday, the idea for a community board sprung from the collective desire to do something engaging and community-oriented that would inspire people to think and converse about their city. It was well placed on the restoration-desperate<\/a> NFB building, whose fa\u00e7<\/em>ade masks an expansive skeletal frame, gutted by a 1991 fire. Nevertheless, the Hollywood-inspired\u00a0 portraits which decorate the fa\u00e7<\/em>ade’s windows have rooted the building as a kind of beacon of public art in the downtown.<\/p>\n

In addition to the community board, a second team decided to use their funds to support local art, purchasing five pieces from Argyle Fine Art<\/a>, and then distributing them among unsuspecting strangers. They roamed the downtown, asking those they came across to offer “advice” as to which piece would make the best gift for a friend. Upon choosing one of these Halifax originals, the helpful advice-giver would discover that they themselves would be the friendly recipient of their selected piece. A left-over sum was then put towards a gift certificate to The Jade W<\/a> bookstore, given to the attendant at the Ferry Terminal, a hesitant ally in the team’s activities.<\/p>\n

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photos by Kianoosh Yazdani<\/em>
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