Talent Trust awards over $33,000 to the 2017 Special Award Recipients at today's Special Awards Ceremony

The Talent Trust (NSTT) recognized the 2017 Scholarship and Special Award recipients at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at Halifax Central Library in a ceremony attended by His Honour The Honourable Arthur J. LeBlanc, ONS, QC Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. Created to support the career of contralto Portia White 73 years ago, the Talent Trust has continued to support talented Nova Scotian artists as they pursue their studies toward establishing professional careers in the arts. One such gifted artist is Halifax' musical theatre performer Maya Read, who received the $1,500 Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Artistic Achievement, the NSTT’s highest honour for a student in any discipline. Read studies musical theatre at Sheridan College in Oakville, ON.  Presented for the first time in 2013, the two 2011 Canada Games Young Artist of Excellence Awards, valued at $10,000 each, will be awarded to any recipient, regardless of age, from any artistic discipline, who best exemplifies the qualities embraced by the Talent Trust, that of the utmost commitment, promise, exceptional technique, talent and the highest achievement of excellence, someone who demonstrates the passion and drive to become a professional Nova Scotia artist in their field of discipline. These two awards will be awarded every December until 2022 and are the legacy of the 2011 Canada Games Young Artists of Excellence Program. In 2017, the two $10,000 awards were received by Halifax film producer Gharrett Paon and type designer Lee Yuen-Rapati from Dartmouth.  Gharrett Paon (Halifax) is currently studying film production at the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto, ON.

Type designer Lee Yuen-Rapati(Dartmouth), is studying type design at the University of Reading in Reading, England. The other Special Award recipients, each of whom demonstrates exceptional potential to become professional artists, are: Scenographer Jodie Fox (Musquodoboit Harbour) is the recipient of the $1,500 RBC Emerging Artist Award for applied craft/design theatre. Fox studies scenography (stage design) at the Hochschule Hanover in Hanover, Germany. (Award supported by RBC Emerging Artist Program.) New Award - Given for the fist time in 2017: Cello player India Gailey (Wolfville) is the recipient of the $1000 Yue Lih and Marion Kuo Award for exceptional commitment and potential in music as an instrumentalist. Gailey is currently studying at McGill University in Montreal, QC. (Award supported by Marion Kuo and Earl Wadden.) Visual artist Curtis Botham (Bedford) is the recipient of the $1,000 Charlotte Wilson-Hammond/Visual Arts Nova Scotia Award. Botham graduated with a BFA from NSCAD. He is currently attending the NSCAD University Residency Program in New Glasgow. (Award supported by Charlotte Wilson-Hammond and Visual Arts Nova Scotia.) Opera singer Benjamin Shaw (Halifax) is the recipient of the $1,000 Portia White Awardfor voice. He studies at the University of Toronto, ON. (Award supported by the Music-in-Medicine and Humanities-HEALS Program, Dalhousie University.) Ballet dancer Maggie Oates-Johnson (Dartmouth) is the recipient of the$1,500 Robert George Jackson Award for dance. Maggie studied ballet at Canada's National Ballet School in Toronto this past summer. (Award supported by the Jackson family.) Rebecca Wolfe (Dartmouth) is the recipient of the $500 Theatre Nova Scotia Award for theatre. Wolfe is studying theatre performance at the Humber College in Toronto, ON. (Award supported by Theatre Nova Scotia.) Pianist Chantal Peng (Wolfville) is the recipient of the $1,000 Tietje Zonneveld Award and is studying privately with John Hansen in Wolfville. (Award supported by Tietje Zonneveld.) Choral conductor Thomas Burton (Wolfville) is the recipient of the $750 Kenneth Elloway Award for classical performance. He is studying choral conducting at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA. (Award supported by the Elloway family.) Ballet dancer Carrigan MacDonald (Hammonds Plains) is the recipient of the $1000 Janice Merritt Flemming Award and is currently studying at L'Ecole Superieure de Ballet du Québec in Montreal, QC. (Award supported by the Flemming family.) Euphonium player Ross Macintosh (Truro) is the recipient of the $1,000 Raymond Simpson Award for music and is studying at University of Toronto in Toronto, ON. (Award supported by the Simpson family.) Film Producer Gharrett Paon (Halifax) is the recipient of the $1,000 Shelagh Mackenziehe  Award and is currently studying film production at the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto, ON. In addition to the Special Awards announced today, the Nova Scotia Talent Trust gave out scholarships to 48 recipients earlier this year. You can find a list of the 2017 Nova Scotia Talent Trust scholarship recipients below. List of the 2017 NSTT Scholarship and Nova Scotia Arts Endowment Fund Scholarship Recipients Dance - Ballet               Julia Barkhouse, Dartmouth Kieron Harper, Halifax Claire Campbell, Head of St. Margaret's Bay Carrigan MacDonald, Hammonds Plains Olivia MacLean, Dartmouth Ellery Jackson, Dartmouth, NS Arts Endowment Fund Scholarship Katherine McDonald, Halifax Maggie Oates-Johnson, Dartmouth, NS Arts Endowment Fund Scholarship Mollie Oates-Johnson, Dartmouth Niamh Perrins, Wolfville - Modern/Contemporary Lucie Schmidt, Lakeview Stan Tonin, Windsor Junction Music - Keyboard - Piano Vlad Chiriac, Bedford Devin Huang, Bedford Lala Lee, Halifax Chantal Peng, Wolfville Dakota Scott-Digout, Barrington Andrew Son, Halifax Alex (Zixuan) Yang, Bedford - Strings - Cello India Gailey, Wolfville - Strings - Violin Lilith Richter-Stephenson, Dartmouth Heemin Choi, Bedford - Strings - Guitar Matthew Fraser, Inverness - Conducting Thomas Burton, Wolfville - Voice - Opera Nickolas Higgs, New Glasgow Breanna Miller, Halifax Morgan Reid, Sydney Benjamin Shaw, Vancouver,  NS Arts Endowment Fund Scholarship - Brass - French Horn Mimisu Lee, Halifax - Brass - Euphonium Ross Macintosh, Truro - Composition Adam Clarke, Antwerpen - Woodwind - Oboe Julia Millett, Lunenburg Film  - Production Gharrett Paon, Halifax Theatre  - Acting Rebecca Wolfe, Dartmouth - Music Theatre Ria Kapur, Bedford Emily Robertson, Oakville Maya Read, Dartmouth, NS Arts Endowment Fund Scholarship - Directing Luciana Silvestre Fernandes, Halifax Visual/Fine Arts  - Interdisciplinary Gabriel Soligo, Halifax, NS Arts Endowment Fund Scholarship - Design/Applied Craft Jodie Fox, Mosquadoboit Harbour Isaac Fresia, Halifax Andrew Gilmour, Halifax Lee Yuen-Rapati, Dartmouth - Painting Drawing Nat Chantel, Dartmouth Curtis Botham, Bedford Caterina Slamovits, Halifax - Printmaking Emma van Zeumeren, Dartmouth Literary Arts - Fiction Conor Martin, Dartmouth

Join us to celebrate the 2017 Special Award Recipients on December 12, 2017 at 2 p.m. at the Halifax Central Library

The Talent Trust will recognize the 2017 Scholarship and Special Award recipients at 

2:00 p.m. on 

Tuesday, December 12 

at Halifax Central Library 

We are looking forward to host the ceremony in a space that is open to the public and to celebrate the recipients' achievements with all Nova Scotians. 

We hope to see you there too. (smile)

This year’s Special Award winners were chosen from a field of 48 scholarship recipients representing the artistic disciplines of music, literary arts, visual arts, film, new media, design, dance, and theatre.

Come on out and meet these wonderful emerging artists. 

The Yue Lih "Lee" and Marion Kuo Award will be presented for the first time at the 2017 Special Awards Ceremony on Dec 12 in Halifax

The Talent Trust is proud to announce the creation of the Yue Lih “Lee” and Marion Kuo Award. The award will be given to a Talent Trust scholarship recipient who shows exceptional commitment and potential in music as an instrumentalist. The award is $1,000 and is made possible by Marion Kuo and Earl Wadden.

“This award will celebrate my father's life and his love for music. My husband and I are happy to help young musicians succeed in their formative years”, states Marion Kuo.

Marion Kuo has been a member of the Sackville Community Band Society for over ten years. She performs on a regular basis with the Sackville Concert Band at the Portia White Gala Concert. She has been an accompanist/band player for several choirs, orchestras and a community theatre; she volunteers with Seniors Groups regularly.

Marion Kuo’s father Lih Kuo was born in Swatow, China on January 6th, 1916 (as China became a Republic following the Last Emperor). He went to England n 1938 under a student exchange program as part of Britain’s reparation for the Opium Wars. However, when the 2nd World War broke out, he was unable to return home and stayed in England as a “Friendly Alien”. Although he was not a musician, he was interested in music and encouraged his daughter Marion in musical studies - mainly piano, but also cello and church organ. He died in 2011.

The Yue Lih and Marion Kuo award will be presented for the first time at the Special Awards Ceremony on December 12, 2017 from 2- 4 p.m. at the Halifax Central Library. The event is open to the public.

For more information about the special awards go to http://nstalenttrust.ns.ca/Awards/Special-Awards/

Wishing you all a great Nocturne art night in Halifax and Dartmouth

Congratulations Nocturne on your 10th anniversary. 

Tonight is the night to enjoy art on the street, on the water, and inside.

Have fun Dartmouth and Halifax! 

Thank you to all the organizers and artists that make this event happen. 

Visit the projects of former Talent Trust scholarship recipients:

Jason Skinner

Alexis Milligan

Ruth Ellen-Kroll

Sarah Mosher

Janice Jackson 

Mike Hirschbach

Lukas Pearse

Veronique Mackenzie

....

Jason Skinner presents 'Riding the Rails' at Nocturne Halifax October 14, 2017

Nocturne at the Museum

information and photo: nocturnehalifax.ca

Andrea Tsang Jackson, Jason Skinner

Nocturne October 14, 2017

6 PM - midnight

Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21,

1099 chemin Marginal Rd

"Nocturne at the Museum" highlights our tenuous connections to our past: our changing memories of our collective past as we move further away from it, and our reimagining and reframing of our past as we try to capture something that we can no longer quite grasp. Two artists and one organization will each provide unique interpretations of these themes in the context of the Museum’s unique position as a National Historical Site: a point of arrival for over a million immigrants, as well as a point of departure for many of these immigrants to other parts of Canada.

The two artists whose work considers these questions are Andrea Tsang Jackson and Jason Skinner. There will also be a project presented by Library and Archives Canada.

Andrea Tsang Jackson’s proposed work "Georges Island Quilted Over" is a participatory illuminated paper quilt project that becomes an opaque window.

Jason Skinner will animate the colonist car outside the Museum with his work "Riding the Rails" a series of portraits exploring the possible worlds and lives of immigrants who arrived to Canada by Pier 21, but left for other parts of Canada.

Library and Archives Canada will explore "Going Dark: Extinguished Lighthouses of Atlantic Canada," a presentation which exposes the importance of archives to understanding our changing landscape and our understanding of ourselves.

Still Images
Moving Images
Performance
Sculpture/3D
Audience Interaction
Family Friendly

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Alexis Milligan at Nocturne October 14, 2017 at Northwood Senior Care Centre in Halifax

NOCTURNE HALIFAX at NORTHWOOD:

Performances include Prism - a choose your own adventure theatre experience with Alexis Milligan.

October 14 from 6 p.m. - midnight


Where's the Funk?? - Dance, choreographed by Kendra Armstrong - featuring dancers from Leica Hardy School of dance (some Talent Trust scholarship recipients might be in that group too (smile)).

Lisa Cochrane presents: LaHave River Jamboree. Be part of the live audience of a fictitious radio program with cross dressing DJ Harold Anderson spinning vinyl from his private collection of Old Style Country tunes.

https://nocturnehalifax.ca/

Veronique MacKenzie and Lukas Pearse at Nocturne October 14, 2017 Central Library Halifax

Depths of Sorrow

Veronique MacKenzie FB screen shot

at Nocturne: Vanish at the Halifax Central Library on Saturday, October 14, 2017 from 6 p.m. - midnight.

Depths of Sorrow will be viewable from the exterior front courtyard (rear screen video projections against the windows of the 5th floor) with infrared capture of live dance, animation, and original sound score by Motion Activated: 
Lukas Pearse, Veronique MacKenzie, Susan Tooke.

https://nocturnehalifax.ca/

Dorothy Ro, violinist and Lala Lee, pianist are two of the '30 hot Canadian classical musicians under 30'

Congratulations! 

Dorothy Ro (photo by http://www.cbcmusic.ca)

Dorothy Ro, violinist and Lala Lee, pianist were selected for the 

30 hot Canadian classical musicians under 30 - 2017 edition.

You can read all about them at 
http://www.cbcmusic.ca/posts/18752/30-hot-canadian-classical-musicians-under-30-2017

Happy Canada Day!

We are wishing you a Happy Canada Day!

Summer office hours:

Our office will be closed during the summer. 

We will be back on September 5, 2017. 

Believe in the Creativity of Nova Scotians

Application Deadline May 1 at 5 p.m. (ADT) is approaching fast

Supporting Nova Scotians studying in the arts since 1944 with scholarships and special awards. 

We support theatre, dance, new media, visual arts, literary arts, circus arts, music, and film studies.

Application deadline for Fall/Winter studies is May 1, 2017 at 5 p.m. (ADT)

(no age restriction)

Open Waters Festival with Gina Burgess and Janice Jackson from January 6-10, 2017

Open Waters Festival

January 6-10, 2017

Saturday, Jan. 7: 

Gina Burgess Trio, 10:45 PM at the Company House.

Sunday, Jan. 8: 

Vocalypse Productions Janice Jackson, PROTEST, 7:30 PM at Dunn Theatre.

The Open Waters Festival of New and Improvised Music celebrates the confluence of musical traditions, the mixing of the spontaneous and the calculated, the spray between the traditional and experimental.

Dalhousie Arts Centre Box Office: https://kil-dacweb-3.cohn.dal.ca/online

Further information for all 14 events can found at: http://www.upstreammusic.org/