Scholarship Applications for May 1 Deadline Now Accepted

Applications are now accepted for our May 1 at 5 p.m. ADT deadline for Fall/Winter studies between September 1, 2020 and April 31, 2021. 

Apply early so that we can help you improve your application and avoid last minute technical problems. Use Chrome as your browser. 

Please let the studying artists in your life know about our scholarship program.

Like you, the Talent Trust is taking measures to keep the curve of the COVID-19 infection as flat as possible.
Our staff is working from home and can be reached by email.

For questions about scholarships and applications please get in touch with our Scholarship Program Coordinator Jackie Dowling at scholarship(at)nstalenttrust.ns.ca 

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Talent Trust Alumna Ariella Pahlke's Documentary 'Conviction' is part of FIN Fridays at the AGNS

Alumna Ariella Pahlke is one

Ariella Pahlke (photo credit: goodpitch.org)

of the filmmakers of Conviction.

The Documentary will be shown at FIN Fridays at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

Friday, March 27, 2020
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Conviction by Nance Ackerman, Ariella Pahlke, Teresa MacInnes, 2019, 78 minutes

Three filmmakers collaborate with women on the inside to imagine what they would have needed in their lives to avoid incarceration.

Bianca, Treena, Laura, and Caitlin are a stark reflection of the troubling worldwide tendency to criminalize and imprison the most vulnerable in society—those most affected by poverty, addiction, childhood trauma, and mental illness. Together with long-time prisoners’ rights advocate Kim Pate and others, these women collaborate with the filmmakers to answer a deceptively simple question: What would you have needed to avoid incarceration? Through art, photography, filmmaking and poetry, the women inside ....

Read more at 
https://artgalleryofnovascotia.ca/events-programs/fin-fridays-conviction

FIN Fridays is part of the Atlantic Cinematheque, a new partnership by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia with FIN Atlantic International Film Festival that focuses on works by Atlantic Canadian filmmakers about Atlantic Canada that screens in the Windsor Foundation Theatre on the last Friday of every month.

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Congratulations To All Theatre NS Award Nominees Including Talent Trust Alumni

Congratulation to our Talent Trust alumnae for their nominations for a Theatre Nova Scotia 2020 Robert Merritt Award!

Veronique MacKenzie for Outstanding Choreography in Ben Hur with Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre and The Children with Keep Good [Theatre] Company.

Laura Vingoe-Cram for Outstanding Direction in The Children with Keep Good [Theatre] Company.

Eszther Horvath for Outstanding Musical Direction in Brundibar with Halifax Theatre for Young People. 

Shauntay Grant for Outstanding New Play by A Nova Scotian and Outstanding Production for The Bridge with 2b theatre and Neptune Theatre in association with Obsidian Theatre. 

Congratulations to all nominees! You can find the full list at Theatre Nova Scotia's website: 
https://www.theatrens.ca/robert-merritt-awards/nominations

photo credit: websites of all the mentioned artists above


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