John Janigan-Mills

🎭️ EARLY STAGES 2026 🎭️⁠ SHAPEVILLE VR LOUNGE⁠ A Work-in-Progress Showing⁠ By Jacinte Armstrong & John Janigan-Mills with Gillian Seaward-Boone, SiNS (Sometimes in Nova Scotia) Dance & suddenlyLISTEN⁠ @jjananigans @gillianseawardboone @sinsdance @suddenlylisten ⁠ FEBRUARY 14 @ 11:00am & 1:00pm ⁠ ⁠ SHAPEVILLE VR Lounge is a playful, immersive work-in-progress that invites audiences into a world where colourful soft-sculpture landscapes and a weightless VR environment meet, centring embodied exploration through tactile lounging, expansive gestures, and movement-based interaction.⁠ ⁠ ⁠⁠ 🎭️ Early Stages Theatre Festival⁠ 📅 February 12 - 15, 2026⁠ 🎟️ /early-stages⁠ 📍 @alderneylanding in @downtowndartmouth ⁠ ⁠ [IMAGE DESCRIPTIONS: The first image is the poster for Early Stages Theatre Festival: a festival of new works-in-progress, from February 12 to 15 at Alderney Landing in Downtown Dartmouth. The next four images show the schedule for each day of Early Stages. Background resembles lined paper. Text is navy and in a hand-written style.]⁠ ⁠ #EasternFrontTheatre #Dartmouth #DowntownDartmouth #Halifax #HalifaxTheatre HalifaxLocal HalifaxNS NovaScotia AtlanticCanadianTheatre CanadianTheatre ArtsNS BringingTheArtsToLife VisitNovaScotia GoPlayNS FutureOfLIVE @theatrens @move100halifax @discoverhalifax

pittest pits peakest peaks so long, 2025 1 - nov - save the haunted pet cemetery gala 2 - ??? - AAAH 3 - mar - monophilia release show 4 - jan - probably playing all of me 5 - oct - eraserhead in the park 6 - jan - exquisite cryptid corpse 7 - feb - video game jazz at eastern edge 8 - apr - hot dawg party 9 - may - gourmet coffee foley 10 - june - programming radio towers 11 - july - mtl with the boys 12 - aug - day golfing 13 - aug - sun eater & the sheep 14 - sept - stevie wonder's optometrist 15 - oct - dogs 16 - oct - richie saves the day 17 - nov - moving the risograph 18 - dec - carpet hotel @ cfat 19 - aug - diy in the opera house 20 - aug - why do jazz hands when finger guns are cooler?

🎺👐🎷TN🎷👐🎺 Wed. Dec 17th - Jazz Spotlight at Gus’ Pub featuring…Bluebird, Janigan’s Jazz Shenanigans & Rodrigo Donoso Quartet @elilubell @bluebird.sound @jjananigans @donbluesman 7:30PM - $10/PWYC

I am thrilled to announce the lineup for the 9th edition of the Jazz Spotlight at @guspubandgrill ; it's going to be a festive treat! This event is a platform for Halifax's Jazz Community to share new music and projects. This 9th edition will put us on THE NICE LIST. Come out to hear some Jazz during the holiday season! @donbluesman @dkdrumsca @alien.riquez @jack.rpb @dreamboat.abbey @andrew.mackelvie @jdupuiscormier @elilubell

We’re excited to host our first Jazz Jam at Old Confidence Lodge, led by John Janigan-Mills! Bonus: we have so many pianos, and my dream is to have a multi-piano jazz jam… just sayin’. Tues, Dec 23, 7 pm Suggested $15

rocktober pt. 1

unhinged mullet summer pt. 1 ft. tech directing @ the national art centre wet cigarettes last minute trips to montreal and others

Rodrigo Donoso Trio live at Hydrostone Park @hfxjazzfest @donbluesman @jjananigans #livemusic #halifax #jazz #halifaxjazzfest

Been away in St John's making a game about being a barista in a post-capitalist dystopian mall coffee kiosk called "Americanotopia" with @catbluemke at @easternedge.arc this whole month of February and we are showing it off this Saturday (Feb 22) live in the studio with a local band of wonderful musicians I met while visiting (scroll to the end for clips). We'll be playing the original score to the game which I primarily wrote here in St John's whilst humming to myself maniacally at various locations across the city. It's been a wild and fun ride, with lots of code and music written; there is nothing quite like a deadline to blast away writers block! Also on the team is @pirates_of_the_care_of_iain to round out the @toughguymountain roster. Special shoutout to @centreforarttapes whose residency I've been doing since November that first got me involved in this project.

2024 BEACON ARTIST FEATURE! 𝘐𝘕𝘝𝘐𝘚𝘐𝘉𝘓𝘌 𝘹 𝘍𝘙𝘌𝘘𝘜𝘌𝘕𝘊𝘠 𝘹 𝘐𝘋𝘌𝘕𝘛𝘐𝘛𝘐𝘌𝘚 by North End Cymatic Society. For Nocturne 2024: Microcosm, curated by Shuvanjan Karmaker. As the era of Wi-Fi and 5G marches on, we (the squishy analog, ecological beings that use these technologies) are increasingly alienated from the mechanisms and machinations that drive the tech we use on a daily basis. In every pocket and street corner there lies a transmission vector into the omnipresent “cloud”, forever pinging out invisible data packets that encode little parts of ourselves, ready to be received and interpreted by any device that cares to listen. About the North End Cymatic Society: At the crossroads of art and science lives the friendship of Woochang Kim (@woo.made ) and John Janigan-Mills (@jjananigans ). Together they explore the existential realities of “current year” ™ and the far corners of their psyches’ by creating Rube Goldberg-esque contraptions intended to portray reality in distorted but illuminating ways. By interpreting the sum of both natural and artificial worlds through their individual expression, they aim to map out previously unknown links from one part of the artistic stratosphere to another. 🫶 Special thanks to NSCAD University (@nscaduniversity ) and Former Art Bar (FAB) for their generous support of this Beacon project 📍Saturday, October 19th, 2024 for the 17th annual Nocturne Art at Night Festival, curated by @shuvanjankarmaker . 📷 Images by Laurence Philomene (@laurencephilomene ) 🔗 Visit nocturnehalifax.ca for more information #nochfx24 #kjipuktuk #halifax #art #artatnight

my brain lately

I capped off my 28th year of life with a multimedia installation project and artist talk for @nocturnehalifax ! INVISIBLExFREQUENCIESxIDENTITIES is an interactive cymatic light+sound projection and soundscape that renders the invisible world of RF signals into visible light and audible sound using cellphone WIFI signals from the audience as the source of generation. Much of human interaction is carried in the RF (radio frequency) spectrum, which is invisible to humans on a perceptual level. Invisible packets of data are constantly being transmitted in this spectrum through air, structures, and flesh in quiet secrecy. Everything from commerce, to social interactions, to shadowy conspiracies are homogenized into these invisible packets, and it's only the consequences of those packets that we usually concern ourselves with; it's not often we think of the bits of wiggly air as part of "ourselves". But the data contained in those very real (and very fast) wiggles are absolutely a part of our essence, our identities; as you read this post, you are filling in more pieces of me (John) in your head even if I am not physically there. So @woo.made and I asked the question: how do we transform the invisible into visible? To answer this question, we incorporated just about every element of our respective artistic practices: sculptural & metal fabrication, mechanical design, lighting & optics, cymatic theory, DSP for spatialized sound + additive & FM synthesis, reactive & generative sound environment design, and web/microcontroller/desktop programming. Special shout out to @singed_biscuit and Grey Muldoon for creating the portal and blacking out the windows! They were both instrumental in *nailing* the vibe and feel of the environment that the piece lived in, and made the moment of entering the world so memorable and mysterious. Thanks also to @dlozanothornton and @maximilianflint for the fresnel light and fresnel lens respectively. And so much thanks to Nocturne for their support, and much love to all of the fine folks from that organization who we worked with to make this a reality! It was truly a dream come true (: Looking forward to what 29 has in store ✨