Charley Young Mentors Emerging Nova Scotia Artist in Visual Arts Nova Scotia Mentorship Program

Charley Young will mentor an emerging Nova Scotia artist in VANS 2018-19 Mentorship Program

Visual Arts Nova Scotia has announced the participants of their 2018-19 Mentorship Program. 

The artists are Carrie Allison, Emily Lawrence, Jenny Yujia Shi, and Katharine Vingoe-Cram. The mentors are Ursula Johnson, Peter Dykhuis, Karin Cope, and Charley Young.

The 10-month program supports four dedicated emerging Nova Scotian artists who are individually paired with established artists and mentors. 

Born in Calgary, Alberta, Charley received a Talent Trust scholarship to help support her studies at NSCAD University as she pursued her BFA. In 2012 she received the Charlotte Wilson-Hammond/Visual Arts Nova Scotia Award and the Lieutenant Governor Award.

She holds an MFA from the Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine.

Installation by Charley Young

Charley has been Artist-in-Residence at the Klondike Institute for Arts and Culture in Dawson City, Yukon, the Vermont Studio Centre in Johnson Vermont, and Spark Box Studios in Picton County, Ontario and The Banff Centre, in Banff, Alberta. In 2014 she participated in the Arctic Circle Program Expedition to Svalbard, Norway.

Charley is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is primarily drawing, sculpture, and public installation. She teaches traditional and non-traditional approaches to drawing and printmaking at NSCAD University and Mount Allison University in New Brunswick.

To learn more about Charley Young and see her work, visit her website at charleyyoung.com.

Dance - Ballet Workshops with Hanna Mae Cruddas

Hannah Mae Cruddas will conduct Ballet Workshops on Thursday, June 28 at East Coast Dance Academy, 5665 St. Margaret's Bay Road. The sessions are open to all studios and dancers.

7-9yrs: 5-6pm $15
10-12yrs: 6-7:15pm $20
13+ yrs: 7:15pm-8:45pm $25 
Teacher Observation: $10 for any workshop

Pre-register to reserve your spot: info@ecda.ca

Born and raised in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Hannah Mae trained at the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts and The Leica Hardy School of Dance, before moving to Toronto at age 16 to graduate from Canada's National Ballet School. 

Upon graduation, she joined Canada's Ballet Jörgen and is currently in her seventh season with the company. She's danced in many of Jörgen's works including Anastasia (in the title role), Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, and Cinderella, and had the opportunity to create the role of the Lilac Fairy in Jörgen's Sleeping Beauty. 

During her time in Toronto, Hannah Mae has been privileged to work with many choreographers and repetiteurs including Bengt Jörgen, Svea Eklof, Robert Desrosier, Malgorzata Nowaka, Aszure Barton, Peggy Baker and Lindsay Fischer. 

She is honoured to have received various scholarships and awards, including the Janice and Brian Flemming scholarship and the NSTT Lieutenant Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. 

Heemin Choi, violin recital on Sunday, February 4, 2018 in Halifax

Cecilia Concerts presents violinist Heemin Choi on

https://www.ceciliaconcerts.ca/product/heemin-choi-recital/

Sunday, February 4, 2018
at 7 p.m.
Lilian Piercey Concert Hall
Maritime Conservatory of the Performing Arts
6199 Chebucto Road
Halifax, Nova Scotia

Multi-award-winning violinist Heemin Choi has performed extensively and has appeared as soloist with Symphony Nova Scotia. Presently on a full music scholarship in Texas, he brings a bit of southern warmth to this mid-winter recital.

Heemin Choi has received multiple scholarships from the Talent Trust and won the 2016 and 2010 Raymond Simpson Award and the 2014 NSTT's Lieutenant Governor's Award. 

For more information and tickets please visit the Cecilia Concert's website at https://www.ceciliaconcerts.ca/product/heemin-choi-recital/

Gwyneth Christoffel shows her short film 'Torture by Sound' at FIN Atlantic International Film Festival - September 17, 2017

Photo: FIN website

Gwyneth Christoffel's short film Torture of Sound will be shown on

Sunday, September 17 at 6:30 p.m.

 

Reel East Coast Shorts Gala

at Park Lane Cinemas, Halifax

From the FIN website:

For people with misophonia, everyday sounds can leave them in immense pain. Torture By Sound explores the emotional and psychological impact this condition has on the lives of its victims..

Tickets can be purchased at:

http://www.finfestival.ca/event/7ef84f83025171d2005fa3aed80b4d28

Gwyneth Christoffel won the 2013 NSTT Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Award and the 2013 Shelagh Mackenzie Award. 

Nova Sinfonia Presents Heemin Choi, Violin

Nova Sinfonia presents the final concert in its 2014-15 season on 

Monday, April 27 at 

Faith Tabernacle

(6225 Summit Street, Halifax) 

at 7:30 p.m.  

under the direction of guest conductor, Mark Shapiro, with special guest, Heemin Choi, Violin. 

Heemin Choi is the NSTT's 2014 Lieutenant Governor's Award and 2010 Raymond Simpson Award winner.

The program includes the Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77 and Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. 2 “A London Symphony”. 

Tickets are $15 regular and $10 for students with I.D. and are available online (www.novasinfonia.ca) and at the door. 

Hannah Mae Cruddas dances the Lead Fairy in 'Cinderella'

Photo Credit: Ballet Joergen

Hannah Mae Cruddas, (2007 NSTT Lieutenant Governor's Award) stars in Cinderella with Canada's Ballet Jörgen. She will be dancing the role of the Lead Fairy. 
Friday, April 17 and  
Saturday, April 18 at the  
Dalhousie Arts Centre in Halifax. 

More information can be found at: www.dal.ca

Heemin Choi to perform with Quartet La Corde, Sunday March 15, 2015

Cecilia Concerts presents :

Heemin Choi 2014 Lieutenant Governor's Award with His Honour
The Honourable J.J. Grant, CMM, ONS, CD (Ret'd) Lieutenant Governor of NS

Quartet La Corde

Heemin Choi, violin

Warda Limaye, viola

Artem Kolosov, violin

Ben Marmen, cello

Sunday, 15 March, 2:00 pm

Lilian Piercey Concert Hall,

Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts

In March of 2013, at the urging of Shimon Walt, the St. Cecilia Concert Society presented a group of four young Dalhousie music students. They had come back, a short time before, from a national competition with glowing reviews.

They wowed us!  We invited Quartet La Corde back to play again before they all go on to their individual careers. Heemin Choi and Artem Kolesov (violins), Warda Limaye (viola) and Benjamin Marmen (cello) demonstrate both technical prowess and a passion which imbues their playing with a tremendous emotional impact. In addition to Beethoven's “Razumovsky Quartet” and Claude Debussy's String Quartet in G minor, staples of the string quartet repertoire, Quartet La Corde will be presenting “Reel to Reel” by recent Dalhousie graduate, Jackson Fairfax-Perry.  

Come see the future of Canadian classical music!

Tickets: $25 Regular, $20 Senior, $12.50 Student

Available at:

Bookmark II Spring Garden Road

Alliance Française Halifax Hydrostone

Online : Eventbrite

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/quartet-lacorde-kolosov-choi-marmen-limaye-tickets-15106361534

Or at the door the day of the concert [cash or cheque only].

Artist's Talk & Workshop with Charley Young, Saturday, 28 February, 2-4 p.m.

Gwyneth Christoffel at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival

“I am traveling to Chicago this Friday to

Still of 'The Last Leaf'

attend the screening of my film The Last Leaf at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival. I've been invited to do a Q & A following the screening on Saturday afternoon Nov 1 and will also be able to see many films and meet filmmakers and film festival programmers from many different countries. This same festival screened Recipe for Love a couple of years ago and because of it, other film festivals around the world also chose to screen it.”

Gwyneth Christoffel, filmmaker
(2013 NSTT Shelagh MacKenzie and Lieutenant Governor Award)

The 31st Chicago International Children's Film Festival takes place from October 24 through November 2, 2014 and is considered the top film festival for kids ages 2 - 16 in the USA.  This year the Festival features 288 films from 43 countries, selected from over 3000 entries.

More information about the festival at: http://www.facets.org/kids/index.php