Maya Read Performs at the Open Stage in Halifax and Night Kitchen in Wolfville

Maya Read will be performing at Open Stage on May 28 at the Carleton Music Bar & Grill in Halifax, and at Night Kitchen in Wolfville on June 2.

Maya won the Lieutenant Governor’s award in 2017 for musical theatre. She’s currently pursuing an Honours in Musical Theatre Performance at Sheridan College in Ontario.

She participated in a Creative Dance Project during her academic year, where students develop their own original movement. The work is further explored with classmates and put into a choreographed dance. Each student organized their own rehearsals, participated in the CDPs of their classmates, and played the role of choreographer.

Click here to see a video of her Creative Dance Project piece as well as a performance at Open Stage when Maya was in Halifax during Reading Week.

For more information on Maya’s May 28 appearance, visit the Open Stage Facebook page. 

Details on Wolfville’s Night Kitchen are available on their Facebook page.

Ballet dancer Hannah Mae Cruddas is performing in The Nutcracker Dec 9-18, 2016

Hannah Mae Cruddas (Screen Shot: Symphony NS website)

The Nutcracker is back in town from
December 9 - 18 

at the 

Rebbeca Cohn Auditorium in Halifax

Featuring
Bernhard Gueller, conductor
Halifax Dance
Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia
Dancers from Ballet Jörgen:
- Junior Gaspar Caballero
- Hannah Mae Cruddas (winner of the 2007 NSTT/Lieutenant Governor's Award)
- Adrián Ramírez Juarez
- Ayva Rossouw-Holland

Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker

You can purchase tickets at https://symphonynovascotia.ca/concerts-and-tickets/concerts/2016-2017/the-nutcracker-2/

Charley Young - Artist Talk at Art Gallery of NS, October 20, 2016 at 7 p.m.

TERROIR TALK WITH ARTISTS

'Macara Building' by Charley Young - Photo: courtesy of the artist

MARK BOVEY, MELANIE COLOSIMO, ANGELA GLANZMANN AND CHARLEY YOUNG

Thursday, 20 October 2016 

7:00pm to 8:30pm

at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax

Free access Thursday's at the AGNS!

In 2012, Charley Young received the Charlotte Wilson-Hammond/ Visual Arts Nova Scotia Award and the Lieutenants Governor Award presented by the Nova Scotia Talent Trust. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. Currently she works out of her studio, located in the North End of Halifax.

You can find more information about the artists at the AGNS website https://www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca/events-programs/terroir-talk-artists-mark-bovey-melanie-colosimo-angela-glanzmann-and-charley-young

CHARLEY YOUNG, New Drawings at Studio 21 Fine Art Gallery, Halifax

Art work by Charley Young

Charley Young, 2012 Charlotte Wilson-Hammond/Vans and Lieutenant Governor's Award winner will show New Drawings at Studio 21 Fine Art Gallery

June 10 - July 7, 2016

 Opening Reception  

Friday June 10th, 5–7pm 

All are welcome to attend!
1273 Hollis Street, Halifax, NS
http://www.studio21.ca/young2016.html

In June of 2014 Charley participated in the Arctic Circle Program—an expedition that led to the creation of site based work in the northern territory of Svalbard, Norway. Her new arctic drawings, influenced by this residency, engage with the relationship between landscape and artifact, and the intervention of human touch and visual perception.


This new collection of drawings indexically records unfixed and ancient sites. The Alberta Rockies and the Arctic glaciers of Svalbard are both contingent environments— their histories marked and visible. Mountains are monolithic tombs, their engraved rock faces illustrate their tectonic birth. Glaciers, with layers upon layers of visible accumulation and sedimentation, record travel. Both landscapes intersect in abrasion with one etching into the other. Their histories are presented like the lines of a hand—complex and intricate identifiers.

“As a child, the daughter of mountaineers, I traced the alpine landscape with my feet; traversing summits, glaciers, moraines, and rock faces. My approach to drawing mimics this direct, physical and exploratory interaction with site using frottage, transfers and inventive processes. Through drawn means of erasure, pressure and trace I mimic the reductive nature of the environment and draft tactile impressions of places in flux. “ - Charley Young

Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Charley Young holds an MFA from the Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine and a BFA from NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Charley has taught at NSCAD University and Mount Allison University. In June of 2014 Charley participated in the Arctic Circle Program—an expedition that led to the creation of site based work in the northern territory of Svalbard, Norway. Her new arctic drawings, influenced by this residency, engage with the relationship between landscape and artifact, and the intervention of human touch and visual perception.

Previous residencies include: The Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta; The Vermont Studio Centre in Johnson, Vermont; and Spark Box Studios in Picton County, Ontario in 2013. In 2012 Charley was an Artist-in-Residence at the Klondike Institute for Arts and Culture in Dawson City, Yukon Territory.

Charley has been fortunate to receive support from Arts Nova Scotia and has artwork in the collection of the Nova Scotia Art Bank. In 2012 she received the Charlotte Wilson-Hammond/ Visual Arts Nova Scotia Award and the Lieutenants Governor Award presented by the Nova Scotia Talent Trust. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
www.charleyyoung.com

Congratulations to Charley Young of being a part of 'Terroir: A Nova Scotia Survey Exhibition' at the AGNS

Charley Young with her work in 2013

It is with great pleasure to share with you that Charley Young, visual artist and 2012 NSTT Lieutenant Governor's Award winner has been selected as one of the artists for 
Terroir: A Nova Scotia Survey Exhibition 
at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. The Exhibition will open in the Fall and showcase the province's rich visual culture. 

We congratulate all selected artists.

You can find their names at: https://www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca/news-releases/gallery-announces-artists-upcoming-terroir-nova-scotia-survey-exhibition