75th Anniversary Pop Up Series Continues with Down The Line

As part of the Nova Scotia Talent Trust's 75th Anniversary Pop-Up Event series KiDanCo and Nostos Collectives Dance, present Down the Line, featuring former scholarship recipients Georgia Skinner, Rebecca Wolfe and Lydia Zimmer. 

June 5-7, 2019 at 8:00PM 

Bus Stop Theatre, 
2203 Gottingen St., Halifax. 

Exploring grief and community, the new original work choreographed by Anastasia Wiebe with text by Rebecca Wolfe includes Nostos Collectives Dance members Jessica Lowe, Julie Robert, Georgia Skinner and Lydia Zimmer, and pre-professional KiDanCo members Sophia Farrah, Mackenzie Tomlin and Grace Skinner. 

"Through grief and anxiety we have the ability to get lost in our thoughts and forget that we are connected to a larger community. Down The Line studies that even though we may lose sight of our connections to these communities, they always exist, pulling us back to reality and a safe state of mind. There is a strong female energy in the work, focusing on the intergenerational bonds that hold us together and teach us that there are some lessons we learn over time and some lessons that we will never be prepared for." 

Tickets for Down The Line are available at BrownPaperTickets.com or cash at the door. 

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Take Part in the First 75th Anniversary Pop Up Event April 27, 2019.

In celebration of International Dance Day, we are pleased to be a part of the KiDanCo & Nostos Collectives Dance presentation of Studio Sightings an open public rehearsal of Down the Line, featuring Talent Trust recipients Rebecca Wolfe, Lydia Zimmer, and Georgia Skinner. 

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Saturday, April 27, 2019 

4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Leica Hardy School of Dance Studios, North Woodside Community Centre

230 Pleasant Street, Dartmouth.

This event is the first of the Talent Trust's pop ups. Throughout our 75th Anniversary year you will be treated to more dance, theatre, and music events that celebrate the artistic contributions of our past recipients and the aspiration of our future work.

About the Featured Artists:

Lydia Zimmer has pursued professional training at the Boston Conservatory, Canada's National Ballet School and Springboard Danse Montreal to emerge as an original and daring dancer and choreographer.

Georgia Skinner trained at Coastal Dance, graduated from The School of Toronto Dance Theatre’s and attended ImPulsTanz International Dance Festival 2015 in Vienna, Austria. She recently works with multiple dance companies in Nova Scotia.

Rebecca Wolfe studied theatre at George Brown College and Humber College and went on to perform both on stage and on screen with several Nova Scotian theatre companies, CBC and independent film.

Announcing the First 75th Anniversary Pop Up Event April 27, 2019.

In celebration of International Dance Day, we are pleased to be a part of the KiDanCo & Nostos Collectives Dance presentation of Studio Sightings an open public rehearsal of Down the Line, featuring Rebecca Wolfe, Lydia Zimmer, and Georgia Skinner. 

Saturday, April 27, 2019

4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Leica Hardy School of Dance Studios 

at the North Woodside Community Centre

230 Pleasant Street,

Dartmouth.

Throughout the 75th Anniversary year you will be treated to pop-ups of dance, theatre, and music events that celebrate the artistic contributions of our past recipients and the aspiration of our future work.

About the Featured Artists:

Lydia Zimmer has pursued professional training at the Boston Conservatory, Canada's National Ballet School and Springboard Danse Montreal to emerge as an original and daring dancer and choreographer.

Georgia Skinner trained at Coastal Dance, graduated from The School of Toronto Dance Theatre’s and attended ImPulsTanz International Dance Festival 2015 in Vienna, Austria. She recently works with multiple dance companies in Nova Scotia.

Rebecca Wolfe studied theatre at George Brown College and Humber College and went on to perform both on stage and on screen with several Nova Scotian theatre companies, CBC and independent film.

Celebrate with us the 49 Talent Trust Scholarship recipients of 2017!

The Talent Trust supports artists of all disciplines in their formative years with scholarships and special awards. In 2017 we were able to support 49 Nova Scotia emerging artists. Congratulations to all!

Scholarships make a significant difference in the lives of these emerging artists as Rebecca Wolfe from Dartmouth told us: 

I am honoured to receive a Talent Trust scholarship for the second time. Your continued support means the world to me. It is very difficult making ends meet living away from home and going to school. 

The scholarship I have received will ease my mind about financials during this upcoming school year and will allow me to focus on my studies at Humber College’s Theatre Performance Program.

Thank you!

Rebecca Wolfe is in her second year studying Theatre Performance at Humber College, Toronto. 

The Talent Trust has awarded $80,000 in scholarships to emerging Nova Scotian artists in the fields of dance, theatre, media (film) studies, music, visual and literary arts. This is a $5,000 increase from previous years. This increase is only possible because of supporters and individual donors like you. Thank you!

Donate today to support these wonderful Nova Scotian artists.
Thank you for believing in the Creativity of Nova Scotians.

NS Talent Trust, PO Box 575, Halifax, NS B3J 2R7

Congratulations to the 2017 Talent Trust 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

• Roland Smith, Windsor
• 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