Join India Gailey live online on May 6, 2020

Talent Trust alumna India Gailey

will be live online with her cello on Wednesday, May 6 at 9 p.m. (ADT)
In 2017, she won the Yue Lih and Marion Kuo Award through the Nova Scotia Talent Trust. Don't miss it.

India Gailey is an award-winning cellist who draws from many eras and genres. Originally from Halifax, things she has been up to recently include: releasing her first solo album, "Lucid"; earning her Master of Music degree under the tutelage of Matt Haimovitz at McGill’s Schulich School of Music; working with Philip Glass at Scotia Festival; receiving a Graduate Mobility Award from McGill to perform in Germany; and holding a fellowship at Garth Newel Music Center in Virginia. India also tours regularly with the acclaimed environmental improvisation quartet New Hermitage. https://indiayeshe.com/
Link to performance website: 
https://www.livingroomlive.ca/live-stream?fbclid=IwAR2OTSoGZO_l-oKqJRQOWQ3uXrrhUCbSWm6rcMniKWIIqbHlqLIFey-9OM0

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Pianist Vlad Chiriac wins Debut Atlantic's Award for Musical Excellence

Vlad Chiriac - photo Debut Atlantic website

Congratulations to former scholarship recipient Vlad Chiriac for winning the Debut Atlantic's Award for Musical Excellence!

From Debut Atlantic's website:

Vlad Chiriac is a grade 12 student at Charles P. Allen High School in Bedford, NS, where he attends the International Baccalaureate French Immersion Program. 

He has completed the level 10 practical examination with the Royal Conservatory of Music Certificate Program and is currently preparing for the ARCT exam.

Vlad started studying the piano at the age of seven, and will be continuing his piano studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS. He is honored to be the recipient for this year’s Debut Atlantic award, and stated that he is “very grateful that there are avenues like these to give hardworking musicians the chance to excel, piano performance is and will stay my passion.”

Read more on the Debut Atlantic website at 

https://www.debutatlantic.ca/debut/nova-scotian-pianist-vlad-chiriac-wins-debut-atlantics-award-for-musical-excellence

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Scholarship Applications for May 1 Deadline Now Accepted

Applications are now accepted for our May 1 at 5 p.m. ADT deadline for Fall/Winter studies between September 1, 2020 and April 31, 2021. 

Apply early so that we can help you improve your application and avoid last minute technical problems. Use Chrome as your browser. 

Please let the studying artists in your life know about our scholarship program.

Like you, the Talent Trust is taking measures to keep the curve of the COVID-19 infection as flat as possible.
Our staff is working from home and can be reached by email.

For questions about scholarships and applications please get in touch with our Scholarship Program Coordinator Jackie Dowling at scholarship(at)nstalenttrust.ns.ca 

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Talent Trust Alumna Ariella Pahlke's Documentary 'Conviction' is part of FIN Fridays at the AGNS

Alumna Ariella Pahlke is one

Ariella Pahlke (photo credit: goodpitch.org)

of the filmmakers of Conviction.

The Documentary will be shown at FIN Fridays at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

Friday, March 27, 2020
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Conviction by Nance Ackerman, Ariella Pahlke, Teresa MacInnes, 2019, 78 minutes

Three filmmakers collaborate with women on the inside to imagine what they would have needed in their lives to avoid incarceration.

Bianca, Treena, Laura, and Caitlin are a stark reflection of the troubling worldwide tendency to criminalize and imprison the most vulnerable in society—those most affected by poverty, addiction, childhood trauma, and mental illness. Together with long-time prisoners’ rights advocate Kim Pate and others, these women collaborate with the filmmakers to answer a deceptively simple question: What would you have needed to avoid incarceration? Through art, photography, filmmaking and poetry, the women inside ....

Read more at 
https://artgalleryofnovascotia.ca/events-programs/fin-fridays-conviction

FIN Fridays is part of the Atlantic Cinematheque, a new partnership by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia with FIN Atlantic International Film Festival that focuses on works by Atlantic Canadian filmmakers about Atlantic Canada that screens in the Windsor Foundation Theatre on the last Friday of every month.

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Congratulations To All Theatre NS Award Nominees Including Talent Trust Alumni

Congratulation to our Talent Trust alumnae for their nominations for a Theatre Nova Scotia 2020 Robert Merritt Award!

Veronique MacKenzie for Outstanding Choreography in Ben Hur with Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre and The Children with Keep Good [Theatre] Company.

Laura Vingoe-Cram for Outstanding Direction in The Children with Keep Good [Theatre] Company.

Eszther Horvath for Outstanding Musical Direction in Brundibar with Halifax Theatre for Young People. 

Shauntay Grant for Outstanding New Play by A Nova Scotian and Outstanding Production for The Bridge with 2b theatre and Neptune Theatre in association with Obsidian Theatre. 

Congratulations to all nominees! You can find the full list at Theatre Nova Scotia's website: 
https://www.theatrens.ca/robert-merritt-awards/nominations

photo credit: websites of all the mentioned artists above


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Reeny Smith in concert - Inspiring Women In Song - Hosted by CIOE 97.5 FM

Inspiring Women in Song

CELEBRATING INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Join CIOE 97.5 FM and the Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women as they launch a week of events and programs to celebrate International Women’s Day with this special concert.

Featuring East Coast Artist: Erin Costelo, Reeny Smith and the THR!VE Children’s Choir.

Saturday, February 29, 2020 at 6:30 p.m.

SPATZ THEATRE in HALIFAX

Tickets are on Sale Now: $25.00 Each

Order online or in person at the Studios of CIOE 97.5 FM
11 Glendale Ave, Lower Sackville – 902-252-7975

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Artist Talk with Shauntay Grant and Hope Masike (Zimbabwe)

Get a behind-the-scenes look

at the creative process as playwright and Talent Trust alumna Shauntay Grant workshops scenes from a new theatrical work-in-progress. 

February 27 at 7 p.m. 

at the Paul O'Regan Hall at the Halifax Central Library. 

She will be joined by Zimbabwean musician Hope Masike for this special event.

Admission is free.

Shauntay’s play The Bridge was produced at Neptune Theatre in 2019 in collaboration with 2b theatre company and Obsidian Theatre.

This event is part of TD presents: African Heritage Month at Halifax Public Libraries.

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