Lucas Porter Plays Concerts in Halifax & Mahone Bay on April 24 and April 26, 2019.

“The young lion of the keyboard” Lucas Porter, graces two stages with what Natasha Gauthier of the Ottawa Citizen describes as “staggering virtuosity and some of the old-school pyrotechnics and unabashed romanticism of early 20th-century legends." 

Photo from Lucas Porter's WebsiteGerman Masterworks Recital:

German Masterworks:

April 24, 2019. 7 pm.
Music Room

6181 Lady Hammond Road, Halifax

&

Musique Royal presents: Paris in the 1930's 

April 26, 2019. 6 pm.
Cecilia's Retreat
1199 Oakland Rd. RR2, Mahone Bay

For over ten years, composer and pianist Lucas Porter has performed with vocalists, string ensembles and orchestras, including the Kamloops Symphony Orchestra, the Oakville Symphony, Symphony Nova Scotia and the Bacau Orchestra in Italy.

Chosen to represent Canada at Expo 2005 in Nagoya, Japan, he took part in a series of concerts along with Canadian soprano, Measha Brueggergosman. At the invitation of the Honourable Peter McKay, he played for Condoleezza Rice at the Halifax 9/11 Ceremony in September of 2006. He won the 2008 Raymond Simpson Award and performed in the 2011 Canada Winter Games which were held in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 2013 he won the 2011 Canada Games Young Artist of Excellence Awards. 

A graduate of the Glenn Gould School’s Bachelors of Music Program, he is the youngest student to date to ever win the school’s Concerto Competition. Lucas was accepted into the International Mendelssohn Akademie that took place in in July of 2014, studying with world renowned pedagogues Jacques Rouvier and Arie Vardi. He received a Master of Music from the University of Montreal in May of 2015 under the tutelage of Prof. Durand before studying with Prof. Dang Thai Son, the gold medalist of the International Chopin Piano Competition in 1980.

Lucas began the Oberlin/Lake Como Fellow Program in September of 2017. He is currently in the studio of Prof. Stanislav Ioudenitch and will have masterclasses and lessons with many renowned pianists and pedagogues, including William Grant Naboré, Dang Thai Son, Martino Tirimo, Peter Frankl, and Paul Badura-Skoda. 

Biographical information was condensed from Lucas Porter's website. 

Craig Gallery shows Curtis Botham’s Effluents Exhibition April 3 – 28 2019

Curtis Botham, 2018 winner of the 2011 Canada Games Young Artist of Excellence and 2017 winner of the Charlotte Wilson-Hammond/VANS Award, returns from his one-year artist residency program in New Glasgow, to share Effluents, a body of large-scale charcoal artworks dealing the coal, lumber and steel industries in Pictou County. 

Opening Reception:

Wednesday April 3 2019 5-7pm

Artist talk on Sat April 6 2019 2pm 

Drawings on display until April 28

Craig Gallery

2 Ochterloney Street, Dartmouth 


The work alludes to the history of these industries on the province, as well as the effects on surrounding communities. The work stands as both a critical examination and a memorial to what was once considered the industrial heart of the Maritimes.

Read press coverage on Curtis in the New Glasgow News.

Gharrett Paon film to be screened at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival

Actor, producer filmmaker Gharrett Paon.

Gharrett Paon (with Bretten Hannam) will have his short film WILDFIRE screened at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in France as part of Telefilm Canada's "Not Short On Talent" showcase.

The screening takes place on February 6, 2019.

Gharrett is a Métis (Mi’kmaq/Acadian) actor, producer, and co-founder of Rebel Road Films. 

He received a Talent Trust film scholarship as well as the Shelagh Mackenzie Award and the 2011 Canada Games Young Artists of Excellence in 2017, the same year he graduated from Dalhousie University and completed a residency in the Canadian Film Centre’s Cineplex Entertainment Film Program.

The Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival is the world's largest film festival dedicated to short films, the second largest film festival in France after Cannes.

Founded in 1981, the first International Festival was presented in 1988. The 2017 Festival saw more than 160,000 entries and welcomed more than 3,500 professionals.

Theatre director Luciana Silvestre Fernandes returns to Halifax

Luciana Silvestre Fernandes is a theatre director who’s returning home to Halifax.

She’s here to participate in Neptune Theatre’s Chrysalis Project, which provides practical experience and mentorship to emerging artists within the structure of a professional theatre as well as exposure to the broader theatre community.

Luciana received the 2011 Canada Games Young Artist of Excellence Award in 2016. She was artistic director for Taboo Theatre as well as working with independent companies such as Villains Theatre, Child's Play and Doppler Effect. 

Luciana completed her undergrad education at Dalhousie University, then relocated to British Columbia to pursue her MFA in directing at UBC.

Her work “embraces the philosophy that artists are artisans of reality. In shaping how audiences perceive the world, we can shape how they interact with it. It is through our choices of representation, what we normalize and what we challenge, who we give a voice to, and what questions we deem worthy asking that we challenge unconscious or semi-conscious dogmas of our audiences”.

She brought this philosophy to her most recent work as director of French playwright Jean Anouilh's Antigone, a devised movement-based expressionist adaption of Sophocle's Classic titled Antigones, and Thomas Middleton's Jacobean era play A Yorkshire Tragedy.

Francesca Nardi, flamenco dancer performs in Toronto on November 10, 2017

Francesca Nardi will perform as part of the contemporary dance series Next Steps in Toronto. 

Photo: Maurey Loeffler website of Harbourfront Centre

Flamenco sín limites
B-sides

Friday, Nov 10, 2017 at 8 p.m.

Studio Theatre

Harbourfront Centre
235 Queens Quay West
Toronto, ON M5J 2G8

Francesca writes:
I have just started my first week of law school at McGill University, and plan to dance as much as I can throughout the course of my legal education at several Flamenco schools in Montreal. I am also preparing for a show in Toronto as part of a contemporary dance series called Next Steps. The show is called Flamenco sín limites, and will be comprised of local contemporary and Flamenco dancers. 
Thank you again for all of your support over the years!

Best, 
Francesca Nardi 

More information can be found at http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/nextsteps/flamenco-sin-limites-b-sides/

Lucas Porter - Debut Atlantic Concerts in Nova Scotia

Lucas Porter, pianist - 2013 NSTT 2011 Canada Games Young Artist of Excellence Award

March 22 at 2:00 p.m.
Garden Room - K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre, Wolfville, NS

March 25 at 7:00 p.m.
Yourmouth County Museum, Yarmouth, NS

March 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Chester Playhouse, Chester, NS
with featured guest Andrew Son 2015 winner of the Debut Atlantic Award for Musical Excellence. 

March 29 at 1:30 p.m.
Colouratura Fine Art Gallery, Indian Brook, Cabot Trail, NS

For more information please click through to Debut Atlantic at: http://www.debutatlantic.ca/artist/lucas-porter