Congratulations Olivia MacLean for winning the Pat Richards Award in Choreography!

Olivia MacLean in the middle

Congratulations Olivia MacLean for your success at Taking Steps to Fly!

Olivia MacLean won the Pat Richards Award through Halifax Dance and the Individual Choreography Award for 18+. 

Taking Steps to Fly is a wonderful opportunity for young choreographers of Nova Scotia to showcase their talents. 

It is a joint project by Dance Nova Scotia and Kinetic Studios Halifax. Dance students are encouraged to create a work in any dance form. The work can be choreographed by one person or by a collective, and can be a solo or group performance. 

More information can be found at https://www.dancens.ca/what-we-do/taking-steps-to-fly/about-taking-steps-to-fly/

Emily Vey Duke's 'The Illumination Project' with Shary Boyle will open at the Art Gallery of NS on February 3, 2018

SHARY BOYLE & EMILY VEY DUKE: 

THE ILLUMINATIONS PROJECT

l-r: Emily Vey Duke and Shary Boyle (video still)

Opening 

February 3, 2018

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

1723 Hollis Street, Halifax, NS

The exhibition will continue until April 29, 2018

The AGNS notes:

Through their respective individual practices, artists Shary Boyle and Emily Vey Duke have long been committed to exploring the relationships between feelings, drives and fantasies and…read more

A video about their collaboration can be found on Youtube at: https://youtu.be/HwRH9kNVwD0

Shandi Mitchell, filmmaker wins two Film Prices at the 2015 Lunenburg Doc Fest

Shandi Mitchell - Photo credit: Alan MacLeod

Shandi Mitchell's Tell Me won the Best Short Film and the Best Atlantic Short Film prices at the Lunenburg Doc Fest. Tell Me explores a daughter and father relationship. 

In the Lunenburg Doc Fest's press release Shandi states: The Lunenburg Doc Festival has been an exceptional experience of extraordinary people, remarkable stories, and a town with a heart as big as the sea that pulses with art, culture, and heritage. 

Congratulations Shandi!

You can find more about Shandi at http://www.shandimitchell.com/

and more about the Lunenburg Doc Fest
at http://www.lunenburgdocfest.com/

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Congratulations Lukas Pearse for winning Best Atlantic Original Score at the 2015 Atlantic Film Festival

Lukas Pearse @ https://soundcloud.com/lukas-pearse

Former NSTT scholarship recipient Lukas Pearse with Mike Ritchie won the Best Atlantic Orginal Score at the 2015 Atlantic Film Festival for North Mountain.

This award is sponsored by Hideout Studios and entails $500 cash and $5,000 services.

Lukas Pearse is a Bassist/ Media Artist/ Composer / Sound Editor  in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Lukas is the musical director of Upstream Music and has done video and sound scores for dancers, theatre work, and film. http://lukaspearse.ca/

Lukas will perform with guitarist Geordie Haley and drummer Damien Moynihan for the delegates at the Canadian Art Therapy Association Conference held in Halifax from October 16-18.

Congratulations to all the Atlantic Film Festival winners. You can find them at: http://atlanticfilm.com/media/archive/winners-35th-atlantic-film-festival-announced#sthash.ulUwAkN0.dpuf

Jana Miller, soprano debuts with Symphony Nova Scotia

Jana Miller, 2009/2011 NSTT Portia White Award

Congratulations to Jana Miller for her debut with Symphony Nova Scotia and Vivien Shotwell, former NSTT scholarship recipient.

Händel's Messhia

Friday, December 19, 7:30 pm

Saturday, December 20, 7:30 pm

Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, Halifax

Featuring: 
Jordan de Souza, conductor
Jana Miller, soprano 
Vivien Shotwell, alto
Colin Ainsworth, tenor

Jon-Paul Décosse, bass

The Symphony Nova Scotia Chorus
with core choir the Halifax Camerata Singers

For more information please go to www.symphonynovascotia.ca

NSTT Scholarship Recipients perform with NS Youth Orchestra

Claire Ahern, flute

Claire Ahern

Lilith Richter-Stephenson, violin, and Andrew Son, violin will perform with the NS Youth Orchestra in

Wolfville, NS - Horton High School, 75 Greenwich Rd South
November 22, 2014, 
7:00 PM

Halifax: Saint Matthew’s United Church, 1479 Barrington St.
Due to a fire at St. Andrew's United Church, the location of this concert has changed.
November 23, 2014, 7:00 PM

Featuring Peter Allen, piano
Liszt Mephisto Waltz no. 1
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1
Haydn Symphony No. 104

More information can be found at http://novascotiayouthorchestra.com/concerts.html

Jana Miller, soprano at Église Saint-Pierre-Apôtre, Montreal

November 15 & 16, 7:30pm

Jana Miller, soprano (2009/2011 NSTT Portia White Award)

Soprano soloist in Monteverdi Vespers

Ensemble Orbium with Ensemble Caprice

Église Saint-Pierre-Apôtre, 2101 rue de la Visitation, Montreal, QC

In December, Jana will come home to Nova Scotia. Watch out for her debut with Symphonie Nova Scotia. 

For more information please visit Jana's website at http://www.janamillersoprano.com/schedule.html

Jana Miller, soprano at Salle Bourgie, Montreal

Sunday, October 26 • 2 p.m.

Jana Miller, soprano (2009/2011 NSTT Portia White Award)

Choir and Instrumental Ensemble of the CIOC

Jordan de Souza, conductor

Jonathan Oldengarm, organ 

Jana Miller, soprano soloist

Maude Brunet, mezzo-soprano 

Jacques-Olivier Chartier, tenor 

Nathaniel Watson, baritone 

Cantatas with organ obbligato

A production of the Canadian International Organ Competition 

(CIOC), in collaboration with the Arte Musica Foundation

Soprano soloist in Bach Cantatas BWV 48, 49, 188

Salle Bourgie, Montreal, QC

For more information please visit Jana's website at http://www.janamillersoprano.com/schedule.html

Congratulations to the 2014 NSTT Scholarship Recipients

Thank you to all our supporters:  The many individual donors and the 2011 Canada Games Legacy Fund, The Craig Foundation, RBC Foundation, Music Nova Scotia, Visual Arts Nova Scotia, Theatre Nova Scotia, Debut Atlantic, immediaC, the Creative Nova Scotia Leadership Council, Norex.ca, DocaittaDesign, NSTT Foundation, Dalhousie Music in Medicine HEALS Program, Alderney Landing Theatre, Support4Culture, Halifax Municipality, and Arts Nova Scotia.  The NSTT is pleased to work in partnership with the province to develop and promote our cultural resources for all Nova Scotians. The 2014 NSTT Scholarship and  Nova Scotia Arts Endowment Fund Scholarship Recipients Dance - Ballet               Shona Duggan, Stellarton Jaeda Alders-Pearl, Coldbrook Dominique D’Arnall, Mineville Andris Kundzins, Hubley Gabrielle Murray,New Glasgow Hilary Knee, Halifax - Modern/Choreography Aliah Schwartz, Canning - Modern/Contemporary Brian William Ross, Halifax Chloe Hart, Halifax - Flamenco Francesca Nardi, Halifax Music - Keyboard - Piano Willem Blois, Halifax LaLa Lee, Halifax Kathryn Wagner, Lunenburg Lucas Porter, Port Williams Julia Morrison, Halifax Emily MacDonald, Bedford Ria Kim, Halifax Pierre Riley, Antigonish - Strings - Double Bass Peter Bull, Halifax - Strings - Violin Heemin Choi, Hammonds Plains - Voice - Opera Marcel d’Entremont, Merigomish Brittany Cann, Halifax Rita Wood, Dartmouth Benjamin Shaw, Halifax Patrick Simms, Cole Harbour Jodie Alcorn, New Glasgow - Voice - Contemporary Andrew Machum, Halifax - Brass - Euphonium Claire Amiro, Dartmouth - Woodwinds - Flute Claire Ahern, Dartmouth Emery Van de Wiel, Antigonish -Composition Lucas Oickle, Lower Branch -Jazz Composition/Bass John Janigan-Mills, Mahone Bay Theatre - Acting Rachel Hastings, Hammonds Plains Katerina Bakolias, Halifax - Music Theatre Robyn Harrison, Truro Tia Andriani, Dartmouth Katherine Norris, Dartmouth Film/Media Arts  - Animation Gwyneth Christoffel, Halifax Sam deCoste, Halifax Visual/Fine Arts  - Interdisciplinary Matthis Grunsky, Halifax - Ceramics Susan McKinnon, Halifax Literary Arts - Prose Pearl Chan, Halifax Elisabeth (Lis) van Berkel, Canning - Fiction/Poetry David Flemming, Dartmouth - Poetry Andrew Patterson, Halifax Clay Everest, Halifax Nova Scotia Arts Endowment Fund Scholarship Recipients Music:  Julia Millett, Lunenburg Andrew Son, Halifax Lilith Richter-Stephenson, Dartmouth Visual Arts:  Cameron Roberts, Halifax Dance:  Erin Atkinson, Amherst

Sara Coffin, Rhonda Baker, and Lisa Phinney Langley, dancers (former NSTT scholarship recipients) at Improvathon

A Benefit for suddenlyLISTEN and Feed Nova Scotia

Saturday, September 20th

Sara Coffin - MoceanDance.com
Photo: Joshua Sugiyama 

12 PM – 12 AM
1313 Hollis in Halifax

$10 / $5 with non-perishable food item for Feed Nova Scotia. Tickets available at the door, and allow all-day access.

Celebrate Nova Scotia’s vibrant improvising community at the Improvathon! 

Featuring 12 hours of performances by Nova Scotian musicians and dancers.

Mocean takes the stage from 

7:00 to 7:45 PM featuring dancers Susanne Chui, Sara Coffin, Rhonda Baker, Gillian Seaward-Boone, Kathleen Doherty, Lisa Phinney Langley, Tammy McLeod, and Elise Vanderborght.

Also on the Roster: 

Members of the Creative Music Workshop, Andrews MacKelvie and Jackson, 

Students from Dalhousie Music’s jazz, and creative music programs, 

Ryan Veltmeyer from Mother of Girl, 

Lukas Pearse from the Crofts Adams Pearse Trio, 

Members of the suddenlyLISTEN Improvisation Workshop, 

Scott MacMillan and many more!

For more information and a schedule of events, go to: suddenlyLISTEN, or call  902.221.0428.

http://www.moceandance.com

Don Pentz and Wayne Bucher at Yarmouth County Museum & Archives

Don Pentz, visual artist and former NSTT scholarship recipient and Wayne Boucher, visual artist and former NSTT Scholarship Selection Committee member are showing their work at the Yarmouth County Museum & Archives from 
September 20 - November 18, 2014

If you are in the Yarmouth area you have the chance to meet the artists on 
September 20 at 2 p.m.

More about the artists you can find at:
Don Pentz: http://www.pentzgallery.ns.ca/
Wayne Boucher: http://www.wayneboucher.ca/

Sarah Burwash at Point Pleasant Park

GATES FOR SOJOURN Sarah Burwash, HRM’s artist-in-residence at Point Pleasant Park, will be spending the next several weeks creating a series of drawings, animations and park-based installations.

The narratives in Burwash’s drawings will come to life in various forms and mediums nestled in different corners of the parks for the public to encounter and uncover and will be presented at the end of June. OPEN STUDIO HOURS: Every Thursday from 4-7 pm for the month of May and June. GATEKEEPER’S LODGE SOCIAL CLUB: Burwash will be hosting ping-pong at the lodge every Wednesday from 7-9 pm until the end of June.
http://sarahburwash.com/

M.E. Sparks at VANS Corridor Gallery

Image: Google Images (detail), 2014, charcoal on paper, 24 x (8” x 15”)

VANS

corridor gallery Image M.E. Sparks June 5 - 26, 2014

Emerging New Glasgow based painter M.E. Sparks exhibits a series of drawings derived from Google Image searching a previous work, on view in the corridor gallery from June 5 – 26. Describing her process of abstraction, Sparks explains:

Google Images is created using Google’s reverse image search capabilities. The source image for each drawing is derived from googling a digital image of an existing drawing, resulting in a series of progressively disparate images (much like the game “Telephone”). While Google Images does not recognize the subject matter of each drawing, “visually similar images” are found through recurring formal and abstract qualities. Through the removal of original context and connotation, the images are further objectified and abstracted by Google Images’ search engine algorithms. This work explores the idea of instant and universal access to unlimited imagery, illustrating the ever-growing gap between past and present modes of image sourcing.

M.E. Sparks holds a BFA, 2013 from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in Halifax, NS. She is currently an artist in residence for the 2013-2014 NSCAD – New Glasgow Community Studio Residency Program. In September 2014 she will begin her Master of Applied Arts at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, BC. Sparks is a current recipient of Arts Nova Scotia Creation Grant and Nova Scotia Talent Trust Scholarship, as well as the Gordon Smith Painting Scholarship (Sept. 2014). Her recent work explores the categorical grey area between abstraction and representation. As a painter, she is interested in the relevance, persistence and variability of the medium.
www.mesparks.com

Located inside the Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS) office at the Halifax Seaport, since 2000, the Corridor Gallery is complimented by a historical legacy of Nova Scotia culture, simple yet modern architectural elements and an array of current cultural activity in the Cultural Federations of Nova Scotia office. The Corridor Gallery is located at 1113 Marginal Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia and is open Monday through Friday, 9am-5pm.

Visual Arts Nova Scotia advances the visual arts through leadership, education, and communication.

For further information regarding the exhibition, please contact:
Becky Welter-Nolan
Programming Coordinator
Visual Arts Nova Scotia
1113 Marginal Road, Halifax, NS B3H 4P7
902.423.4694    1.866.225.8267   f: 902.422.0881
communicate@visualarts.ns.ca 

Jean Archibald, soprano performs in Halifax on May 1st and May 4th

Thursday, May 1, 2014, 7:30 p.m.

Jane Archibald

Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, Halifax

Featuring:
Jane Archibald, soprano (NSTT scholarship recipient)

Bernhard Gueller, conductor

Mozart: Symphony no. 25 • Concert arias
Tchaikovsky: Mozartiana (Suite no. 4)
Strauss: “Grossmächtige Prinzessin” from Ariadne auf Naxos

Since her beginnings in Truro, Nova Scotia, Jane Archibald has emerged as one of the most in-demand sopranos of our time. Her stratospheric rise to fame and “brilliant vocal pyrotechnics” have enthralled both critics and audiences alike (The Globe and Mail). Now, Jane returns home for two very special performances with Symphony Nova Scotia. In this first festival concert, Jane will sing several of Mozart’s virtuoso concert arias, alongside “Grössmachtige Prinzessin” from Strauss’ beloved Ariadne auf Naxos. Our expanded orchestra also performs Tchaikovsky’s stunning “Mozartiana” and Mozart’s Symphony no. 25.

Tickets: $30-57 (HST included). Or, buy a ticket package to save up to 30% and receive special benefits and rewards.