Nova Scotia awards $2.1 million in emergency funds to arts and culture groups | Local-Lifestyles | Lifestyles

The recipients of much-needed assist for Nova Scotia arts and tradition organizations affected by the COVID-19 pandemic have been introduced by the province.

A complete of $2.1 million in one-time grants has been awarded to 89 groups around the province by means of the COVID-19 Emergency Help Program for Arts and Tradition, which was launched on Nov. 5. This system is designed to assist those that obtain working or challenge funding from the Nova Scotia Division of Communities, Tradition and Heritage or Arts Nova Scotia, with every grant valued at as much as $75,000 per group.

Recipients from Yarmouth to Sydney embody theatre corporations, movie festivals, cultural and humanities organizations and particular annual occasions like Halifax Delight, Hal-Con and Digby’s Wharf Rat Rally. 

“This funding will assist arts and tradition organizations proceed to function, produce work and inform the tales of who we’re as Nova Scotians,” stated the province’s Minister of Communities, Tradition and Heritage, Suzanne Lohnes-Croft in Wednesday’s announcement. 

“These organizations make an essential financial and social contribution to communities throughout our province. They present up for us, and this can be a second when we have to present up for them.”

The worth of the grants ranges from $3,000 for Halifax Camerata Singers and $5,000 for the Acadia Regional Youth Orchestra to $25,000 for Mayworks Halifax Pageant Society and $35,000 for Pageant Antigonish Summer season Theatre.

Recipients of the total $75,000 grants embody the Atlantic Fringe Pageant, the Gaelic Faculty in St. Anns, Highland Arts Theatre, Mermaid Theatre, Neptune Theatre, New Daybreak Convent Society, Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, the Royal Nova Scotia Worldwide Tattoo and the Savoy Theatre.

Mary Harwell, supervisor of Wolfville’s cultural hub the Acadia Cinema’s Al Whittle Theatre, stated the emergency funding is significant to the longterm well being and viability of the power which hosts native theatre and concert events, repartory screenings and Devour! The Meals Movie Pageant.

“Having misplaced a big share of our rental earnings this previous 12 months, and going through an unclear future, these funds will help us as we plan for and work in direction of a brand new imaginative and prescient for the cultural and neighborhood hub that this constructing represents,” stated Harwell, whose theatre acquired a $19,715 grant. 

“These funds are serving to us to bridge the hole till we will welcome full audiences again into our theatre and as soon as once more be the cultural hub for lovers of movie, music and theatre in our neighborhood and past.”

The entire checklist of recipients is posted on the Nova Scotia Communities, Culture & Heritage website.

COVID -19 Emergency Help for Arts and Tradition Organizations Recipients- January 2021

• Acadia Regional Youth Orchestra Society – Annapolis ($5,000.00) 
• 2b Theatre Firm – Halifax ($20,000.00) 
• Acadia Cinema Cooperative – Kings ($19,715.00) 
• Africa Pageant of Arts and Tradition Society – Halifax ($10,000.00) 
• African Nova Scotian Music Affiliation – Halifax ($20,581.00) 
• Alderney Touchdown Facility Affiliation – Halifax ($25,000.00) 
• Anchor Archive Regional Zine Library – Halifax ($13,725.00) 
• Annapolis Valley Honour Choir – Kings ($19,938.00) 
• Astor Theatre Society – Queens ($8,630.00) 
• Atlantic Buskers Pageant Society  -Halifax ($43,500.00) 
• Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative  -Halifax ($20,000.00) 
• Atlantic Fringe Pageant Society – Halifax ($75,000.00) 
• Atlantic Presenters Affiliation – Halifax ($25,000.00) 
• Caravan Theatre Affiliation – Kings ($12,500.00) 
• Celtic Music Interpertative Centre Society – Inverness ($25,000.00) 
• Chedabucto Bay People Society – Guysborough ($25,000.00) 
• Chester Artwork Centre Affiliation – Lunenburg ($10,000.00) 
• Chester Theatre Council (Chester Playhouse) – Lunenburg ($7,500.00) 
• Choirs for Change Affiliation  -Halifax ($10,947.00) 
• Cobequid Arts Council Marigold Cultural Centre  -Colchester ($35,000.00) 
• Counseil des Arts de Cheticamp  -Inverness ($14,568.00) 
• Craft Nova Scotia – Halifax ($6,656.00) 
• Creamery Sq. Arts Society  -Colchester ($2,000.00) 
• Artistic Voices of Truro Society – Colchester ($3,659.00) 
• DaPoPo Theatre  -Halifax ($32,660.00) 
• deCoste Leisure Centre Society – Pictou ($45,000.00) 
• Jap Entrance Theatre  -Halifax ($5,000.00) 
• Pageant Antigonish Summer season Theatre  -Antigonish ($35,000.00) 
• Fundy People Affiliation  -Annapolis ($5,000.00) 
• Gaelic Faculty Basis  -Victoria ($75,000.00) 
• Grand Mira Neighborhood Society  -Cape Breton ($5,000.00) 
• Hal-Con Sci-Fi Fantasy Assoc. – Halifax ($10,000.00) 
• Halifax Black Movie Pageant – Halifax ($10,000.00) 
• Halifax Camerata Singers Halifax ($3,000.00) 
• Halifax Comedy Pageant Society -Halifax ($25,000.00) 
• Halifax Delight Committee – Halifax ($27,000.00) 
• Heist Society – Halifax ($36,273.00) 
• Highland Arts Theatre Affiliation – Cape Breton ($75,000.00) 
• Hope Blooms Youth Social Entrepreneurial Ventures Inc. – Halifax ($20,000.00) 
• Ink Storm Screenprinting Collective – Halifax ($34,558.00) 
• Inverness County Council of the Arts – Inverness ($25,000.00) 
• Preserve Good (Theatre) Firm Society – Halifax ($5,000.00) 
• Khyber Arts Society – Halifax ($4,500.00) 
• King’s Theatre Society – Annapolis ($45,000.00) 
• Kinship Performing Arts Centre Affiliation – Lunenburg ($7,000.00) 
• Lake Ainslie Weavers & Craft Guild (Scotsville Faculty of Craft) – Inverness ($6,000.00) 
• Lunenburg Doc Fest Affiliation – Lunenburg ($15,000.00) 
• Lunenburg People Harbour Society – Lunenburg ($10,000.00) 
• Mayworks Halifax Pageant Society – Halifax ($25,000.00) 
• Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia – Hants ($75,000.00) 
• Mocean Dance – Halifax ($13,000.00) 
• Mulgrave Highway Theatre – Halifax ($60,000.00) 
• Neptune Theatre Basis – Halifax ($75,000.00) 
• New Daybreak Convent Society – Cape Breton ($75,000.00) 
• Nocturne: Artwork at Evening Society – Halifax ($18,400.00) 
• Nostos Collectives Dance Affiliation – Halifax ($10,000.00) 
• Nova Scotia Faculty of Artwork and Design – Halifax ($2,685.00) 
• Nova Scotia Summer season Pageant Affiliation – Halifax ($10,000.00)
• Nova Scotia Expertise Belief – Halifax ($9,000.00) 
• Nova Seven Arts Council – Kings ($6,247.00) 
• Parrsboro Artistic Arts Affiliation – Cumberland ($22,665.00) 
• Ross Creek Centre for the Arts – Kings ($75,000.00) 
• Rossini Opera Pageant Nova Scotia – Lunenburg ($37,240.00) 
• Royal Nova Scotia Worldwide Tattoo – Halifax ($75,000.00) 
• Scotia Chamber Gamers – Halifax ($10,000.00) 
• Secret Theatre Society – Halifax ($2,500.00) 
• Shakespeare by the Sea Theatre Society – Halifax ($23,000.00) 
• Ship’s Firm Theatre – Cumberland ($45,000.00) 
• SINS-Generally In Nova Scotia Dance Society – Halifax ($6,093.00) 
• Sluggish Movement Meals Movie Fest Society – Kings ($31,000.00) 
• Societe Mi-Careme – Inverness ($7,258.00) 
• St. Cecilia Live performance Society (Collection) – Halifax ($15,000.00) 
• St. Josephs Prophets Society – Annapolis ($5,213.00) 
• The Aeolian Singers Affiliation – Halifax ($11,800.00) 
• The Bus Cease Theatre – Halifax ($25,000.00) 
• The CHART Society – Tradition, Heritage & Arts – Hants ($5,000.00) 
• The Electrical Metropolis/La Nouvelle France Society – Digby ($10,000.00) 
• The Savoy Theatre Society – Cape Breton ($75,000.00) 
• The Villain’s Theatre Affiliation – Halifax ($15,000.00) 
• The Wharf Rat Rally Motorbike Affiliation – Digby ($25,000.00) 
• Theatre Baddeck Society – Victoria ($15,000.00) 
• Theatre Nova Scotia – Halifax ($25,350.00) 
• Two Planks And A Ardour Theatre – Kings ($50,000.00) 
• Upstream Music Affiliation – Halifax ($12,390.00) 
• Votive Dance Society – Halifax ($6,500.00) 
• Marvel’neath Artwork Society – Halifax ($10,000.00) 
• Yarmouth Arts Regional Council – Yarmouth ($5,749.00) 
• Youth Artwork Connection – Halifax ($39,000.00) 
• Zuppa Theatre Firm – Halifax ($15,000.00)

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